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Performance and Production Arts

Study performance & production arts at Newcastle College

Our performing arts courses look to develop your technical ability as an actor, singer or dancer, whilst our production arts courses teach you the technical skills to support productions and performances. Students from both disciplines benefit from tutors who have experience in the industry meaning you benefit from learning from those who know what it takes to succeed.

Our courses offer a diverse range of pathways and include creative, performance and artistic aspects of your chosen subject, balanced with the required technical knowledge. You may decide to enter employment with the key employment skills you will have acquired whilst on the course or decide to progress academically to one of our Foundation Degrees.

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Facilities

Based in our Performance Academy, you have access to:

  • 250 seat theatre with retractable seats and fly tower
  • a studio theatre
  • nine dance and acting studios with sprung floors, barres and mirrors
  • experimental theatre hub.

Employer links

Our courses offer workshop opportunities with visiting practitioners and choreographers. You will also benefit from close links with local theatre and production companies. Our partners include Royal Shakespeare Company, Open Clasp Theatre Company, Ballet Lorent, Overcoming Theatre and Northern Stage. Previous students have also benefitted from workshops run by visiting choreographers including Celeste Hay, Lee Proud, Mark Stuart Hedges, Oliver Tompsett and Cynthia Erivo.

Level 1 Diploma in Performing Arts

Level 1 Diploma in Performing Arts
This one-year course is aimed at those wishing to gain an understanding of the performing arts. You will have an introduction to the performing arts and consider different job roles within this sector including performance and nonperformance employment. There will be classes to develop your confidence and communication skills as you develop
acting, voice, and movement techniques allowing you to decide which area you might like to specialise in. There will be classes in preparing for, and presenting performance work, as well as individual showcase and acting/dance skills.

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Level 2 Performing & Production Arts

Level 2 Diploma in Performing and Production Arts
This one-year course is aimed at those wishing to gain an understanding of the performing arts industry as well as those wishing to develop performance and production skills. You will be able to specialise in either dance or acting and work towards a number of subject specific units to develop these performance skills, as well as considering technical and production techniques. Dance students will study and develop a range of dance techniques whilst acting students will follow a programme of acting skills, voice and speech for performers and performing scripted plays. Throughout your course you will have the opportunity to showcase you work to your peers and to the public.

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Level 3 Extended Diploma Acting

Level 3 Extended Diploma Acting
This exciting course allows you the opportunity to specialise in your preferred field of acting as you explore key areas of skills development, technique and performance. As an acting student, you will look at subject specialisms including devising, improvisation, classical acting, voice, physical theatre, film and TV acting, audition techniques and performance. There are numerous performance opportunities during the course and students work on exciting projects that bring together their vocational skills and academic and subject knowledge.

You’ll benefit from acting workshops from renowned actors, practitioners and companies with national reputations. You are also given a number of performance opportunities at local theatres and alternative performance spaces.

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Level 3 Extended Diploma Dance

Level 3 Extended Diploma in Dance
This exciting course allows you to specialise in dance as you explore and develop a range of dance techniques and performance skills. You will gain experience and knowledge of jazz dance, classical ballet, contemporary techniques, urban dance and choreography. There are performance opportunities throughout the course and you will work on exciting projects that bring together your dance skills, academic work and creativity. Modules include historical context of performance, performance workshop and
performing to an audience.

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Level 3 Extended Diploma Musical Theatre

Level 3 Extended Diploma in Musical Theatre
As a student on our musical theatre course, you will explore key areas of skills development, technique and performance. The programme is designed to support you to make critical decisions related to your personal strengths, specialist skills, future progression and employment. There are a number of core units which you will work towards, including historical context of performance, performance workshop, performing to an audience and rehearsing for a performance. You will also study singing technique, various dance styles and techniques, acting technique, acting through song, whilst undertaking numerous performance opportunities during the course.

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