Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre) course offers intensive studio-based actor training that produces industry-ready, professional performers with a strong sense of individual expression. VCA Music Theatre has a strong connection to Melbourne’s thriving music theatre profession. Students participate in daily studio-based training with working artists, and in industry…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre) course offers intensive studio-based actor training that produces industry-ready, professional performers with a strong sense of individual expression.
VCA Music Theatre has a strong connection to Melbourne’s thriving music theatre profession. Students participate in daily studio-based training with working artists, and in industry master classes with international guest teachers. We take a highly personalised approach to our training, supporting your unique qualities while developing your artistic and technical capacity. The program offers extensive practical training in music theatre’s three principal disciplines – singing, acting and dancing – with specialist staff in each area. A fourth core subject explores the practice of these skills in combination for music theatre performance. Breadth subjects at each year level enable you to explore cross disciplinary studies from the wider University community, accessing multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills that will build on existing knowledge or present opportunities for you to investigate and develop new interests. You will: Develop technical skills and knowledge required in acting, singing, and dancing for professional music theatre and the performing arts fields; Learn to implement style and character through the performer’s {DQ}instrument of expression{DQ} to the demands of text and choreography; Work collaboratively within a creative process to create professional performance outcomes; Contribute to musical theatre productions that create pathways to prospective employment and professional networks within the music theatre industry.
Careers: Graduates will develop a rich and variable set of approaches and practices that can be applied across a diverse range of contexts including professional music theatre, theatre, television, film and cabaret, covering acting, singing, and dancing skills and knowledge to contribute to musical theatre productions that create pathways to prospective employment. Roles: A specialisation in musical theatre could lead to a number of roles – both on and off stage, including: Music theatre performer; Creator of new music theatre work; Dancer; Singer; Actor
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Established in 1853, the University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings, consistently being placed as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and is one of the world’s top 50 (as per Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015). There are over 80 different undergraduate study areas and over 270 graduate courses at Melbourne for students to choose from. The University has extensive global networks and has seven campus locations across Melbourne and rural Victoria.
