Performing Arts - Cornish College of the Arts

Performing Arts from Cornish College of the Arts is a Campus Bachelor Visual Arts degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. The Theater Department offers you a comprehensive curriculum that enables you to build the physical, vocal, intellectual, and imaginative skills to make a life for yourself as a theater artist. While you are studying, you put those skills to the test in a wide variety of performance opportunities, including productions of classical and contemporary plays, ensemble-generated productions, and a large number of new plays written by student authors. The department is designed to provide a safe learning environment where you can grow and challenge yourself, both as a human being and as a theater artist. Emphasis is placed on the ethics of theater as well as on the skills and crafts. You, your peers, and your instructors focus on supporting each other as individuals and as an ensemble. Through our Performing Arts track, you are introduced to a wide range of skills that allow you to explore different areas of performance, from classical work and music theater to on-camera acting. Performing Arts The Performing Arts emphasis integrates the exploration of heightened forms of acting with development of dance and singing skills applicable to contemporary musical theater. This course of study moves across disciplines, to include courses both in Music and in Dance. Freshmen and Sophomores can take a series of classes and private voice lessons in the Music Department, as well as Arts Elective dance classes. Placement in singing classes is determined by audition. Junior and Senior Performing Arts majors participate in a yearlong class in Music-Theater performance techniques in the Theater Department, and perform in productions of both original and established musical theater works. View more details on Cornish College of the Arts . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Visual Arts courses.