Free Performing Arts Foundation Degree in Poole. Classes run full-time at Bournemouth and Poole College of Further Education, based in the Jellicoe Theatre on site.
The course runs over two years. You'll study performance, acting technique, and production skills. Workshops with visiting professionals and work experience projects are built into the programme. Units draw on a wide range of performing arts disciplines, from stage performance to screen-based work.
You'll finish with a Foundation Degree in Performing Arts.
The course runs at our dedicated on site facility - the Jellicoe Theatre. Our tutors include a wide range of specialists from the College's large full-time Performing Arts team, supplemented by an intensive work experience project and a programme of workshops by visiting professionals.
If you are thinking of studying performing arts, you might be dreaming of taking to the stage to perform for a living. You may be thinking of gritty TV roles or comedy turns in ongoing series. You may even be thinking of re-inventing yourself as a superhero and going into battle with a fellow Marvel character.
However, the skills you will learn, will also prove to be valuable in a range of other careers, especially if you are able to effectively combine creative talent with the practical aspects of self-promotion and arts management. So many graduates from Bournemouth & Poole College have gone on to experience an array of roles within the creative industries as well as in careers that value and demand the skillsets fostered and supported within our HE courses.
In addition to teaching self-expression, critical thinking and creative application, performing arts helps society as a whole in supporting self-knowledge and understanding. Theatre and the performing arts teach society about itself, hoping to point out the attitudes and mindsets of the current cultural climates. It can be a tool used to educate people about the world in which they live and the role they play within it.
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