Performing Arts Level 2

You will have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to work with a range of The­atre Com­pa­nies and Prac­ti­tion­ers. You will have oppor­tu­ni­ties to watch live the­atre. We pre­pare you for the next step, cre­at­ing or devel­op­ing your CV, cre­at­ing an online port­fo­lio, prepar­ing for agents and auditions.

4 GCSEs at grades 3/D or above includ­ing Eng­lish and maths, or a rel­e­vant Lev­el 1 qualification.

In order to be offered a place on the course, you must also suc­cess­ful­ly com­plete an audi­tion and inter­view. For the audi­tion, you may choose to per­form a piece of music or a mono­logue from a pub­lished play. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion will be sent to you when you are offered an inter­view date.

There are no exams for this course. You will build a port­fo­lio of work for each of the units and com­plete a mix­ture of per­for­mance based prac­ti­cal assess­ments along with ongo­ing log books, research and evaluations.

You will be required to wear plain black clothes that you can move freely in for all prac­ti­cal per­form­ing arts lessons.

On suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of this course you will be able to audi­tion for, Per­form­ing Arts Act­ing, Musi­cal The­atre or Dance path­ways, Lev­el 3 cours­es. This course also aims to build con­fi­dence and com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills that are trans­fer­able to and desir­able for a num­ber of dif­fer­ent indus­tries and vocations.

You will study the fol­low­ing units:

• Intro­duc­tion to performance
• Intro­duc­tion to production
• Com­mu­ni­cat­ing with an audience
• Stag­ing a performance
• Con­tex­tu­al research for per­for­mance and production
• Per­for­mance skills and practice
• Pro­duc­tion skills and practice
• Per­son­al project and presentation
• Pro­duc­ing and per­form­ing to an audience