IBCP: Performance and Production Arts

Why Choose This Course?

Do you love to perform? Do you enjoy being creative? Or do you prefer to support others from behind the scenes?  This course is the ultimate exploration of all things performing arts, giving you both an understanding of all elements of performance, as well as providing the structure and opportunity to allow you specialise in your area of passion.

About the Course

The course with the University of the Arts London (UAL) Level 3 Executive Diploma in Performance and Production Arts is designed to develop the skills and knowledge needed to progress to higher education or employment in the performing arts.  The course will be delivered by our dedicated and inspiring staff at DCSG; from a range of backgrounds including theatre, movement, acting for both screen and stage as well as design.

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Curriculum

Introduction to the Performing Arts

This unit will provide the student with an introduction to a range of activities essential to the development and delivery of a performance. It will introduce the basic elements of drama, dance and music, the process of rehearsal, production and delivery of a performance, and impart an understanding of performing arts as a collaborative activity. Students will be provided with an introduction to oral, written and visual communication as integral to activities in the performing arts. The student will explore and analyse meaning and how to convey a message to an audience through voice and performance. Students will get an introduction to the diversity of roles, responsibilities, employment and progression opportunities available within the sector.

Development of Performance and Production skills

This unit will provide the student with an introduction to oral, written and visual communication as integral to activities in the performing arts. The student will explore and analyse meaning and how to convey a message to an audience through voice and performance.  Students will explore a range of workshops to develop skills in the performing arts in the roles of: actor, dancer, choreographer, director and designer and a range of activities such as exploration and interpretation of narrative and script writing, casting and rehearsal, exploration and interpretation of narrative, staging, design and direction, costume and set design

Collaborative Performance Project

This unit will provide the student with an introduction to the diversity of roles, responsibilities, employment and progression opportunities available within the sector. It will also introduce the student to the importance of health and safety as integral to the performer and production, and an understanding of the personal and professional characteristics needed for a career in the performing arts.  The unit will provide students with a measure of self-directed learning and enable them to clarify their longer-term goals through their choice of an activity to explore in greater depth. 

Developing Performance Production Skills

This unit will provide the student with an opportunity to enter into a more formal dialogue of personal interrogation and diagnosis designed to identify strengths, enthusiasms and ambitions within a specific pathway, and to develop the requisite artistic, professional and vocational skills necessary for progression within their chosen discipline.  This unit is designed to further develop the student’s understanding of the particular artistic, professional and vocational skills necessary for progression within a chosen discipline. The unit provides an opportunity for the student to critically examine their own strengths and capabilities in relation to a range of performing and production arts activities, and to define their emerging ambitions and longer term goals, either within employment or higher education

Preparing for Progression

The aim of this unit is to prepare students, through a process of research, dialogue, reflection and evaluation, to identify and prepare for specific higher education or employment progression routes appropriate to their ambitions. The unit will enable the student to demonstrate the requisite practical, intellectual and communication skills necessary for progression.

Exploration of Specialist Study and Context

This unit will provide the student with an opportunity to integrate knowledge and understanding acquired in Units 1–4, and to understand a range of critical and contextual perspectives and approaches influencing performing and production arts. Students will demonstrate their understanding through a personal research project in an area of interest, preparing them for the direction of their final project. This unit is designed to provide an opportunity for students to take greater control of their own learning by independently researching and presenting an investigation into an area of a personal interest within performing and production arts

Extended Project

This unit will provide the student with an opportunity to integrate knowledge and understanding acquired in Units 1–4, and to explore the specific skills and attributes required for their own personal practice.  The unit will enable students to take responsibility for their learning by responding positively to the greater opportunities for individual expression and creativity afforded, and to demonstrate their achievement through proposing and realising a project which integrates the skills, knowledge and understanding acquired throughout the course.

Diploma Programme Courses

Students following the Performance and Production Arts would take 2 Diploma Courses.  It is expected that one of these would be from Group 6, for example theatre, dance or film studies and would be at a Higher Level and one would be from Group 1, for example English literature or English language and literature and would be at a Standard Level. 

Possible Career Pathways

In addition to the sector-specific content available in this qualification, the requirements mean that learners develop the transferable and higher-order skills that are highly regarded by higher education and employers, for example communication, project management and problem solving.

These qualifications offer learners the opportunity to develop their technical performing arts skills over their course of study through a process of critical evaluation, practice and review, which are key skills for progression to higher education and in innovative and dynamic careers, such as:

• Actor
• Director
• Choreographer
• Dancer
• Musical Theatre performer
• Broadcast presenter
• Film director
• Fight Director
• Special Effects Director
• Special Effects technician
• Casting Agent
• Set Designer
• Sound Designer
• Stage Manager
• Costume Designer
• Script writer (stage and screen)
• Marketing
• Accent and Dialect Coach
• Make-up Designer
• Theatre stage manager
• Film production
• Playwright
• Dramatherapist
• Performance Artist
• Music producer
• Music therapist
• Producer (stage and screen)
• Community arts worker
• Arts administrator
• Performing Arts Teacher
• Theatre Manager