Course description
Dance and Musical Theatre (Performing and Production Arts) Level 3 Extended Diploma
Ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary - whatever your dance style, you can learn and develop yourself to gear towards your dream job with us.
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
At least four GCSEs at Grade 4 (C) or above, including maths and English Language.
All applicants will need to provide evidence of their previous musical experience, either with recorded examples (MP3, YouTube and Soundcloud are all acceptable examples) or an audition, as well as providing their most recent school report.
Training Course Content
What you'll learn
- Jazz
- Contemporary
- Commercial
- Ballet
- Integrated Performance
- Acting
- Choreography
- Group/Solo Singing
- Audition Preparation
- Healthier Performer
- MT History
- Arts Business Study
Guildford College is partnered with the University of the Arts London (UAL), a university solely focused on the creative arts. At the end of this two-year programme, you will achieve a UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Performing and Production Arts, which is equivalent to three A-levels.
Working with the UAL allows us to offer our students a bespoke, pre-university course.
In the first year of this course, you will study for the Diploma. Once that Diploma is successfully achieved, you will be invited to continue on to complete the full Extended Diploma in the second year of the course.
Continuing Studies
On completion of the Extended Diploma, students could move into a variety of different pathways.
The following are examples of what our past Guildford College Performing Arts students are doing now:
- Studying for a dance/ musical theatre degree at either a university or a vocational dance school.
- Training to be a musical theatre performer at vocational schools such as Bird College, Urdang, London Studio Centre, Performance Preparation Academy and Millennium, or to be a contemporary dancer and choreographer at places such as London Contemporary Dance School, Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and Northern School of Contemporary Dance.
- Studying for an Acting Degree or Performance Diploma at Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, Mountview and Guildford School of Acting.
- Performing and teaching after further training at universities including Middlesex, Kingston and Chichester.
- Many students have performed in music videos, as actors, extras, backing dancers for live concerts, on cruise ships and in touring musical and dance productions.
- Training and working in the fitness industry.
- Modelling.
- Freelance education work in UK and abroad.
- Directing their own company, such as Guildford Fringe.
- Arts administration.
- Dance development worker or community dance artist.
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