- Code: PA
- Certification: QQI Level 5 Award in Performing Arts (5M5151)
- Duration: One Year
Description
This one year course provides an intensive production-led study in theatre performance. It enables learners to develop the personal qualities and performance skills essential to an actor/performer,self-confidence, focus, concentration, flexibility, trust, imagination and co-operation. Training prepares students to perform in a range of Media.
- Programme of Study
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- Alexander Technique
- Physical Theatre
- Improvisation
- Devising
- Voice/Singing
- Acting Skills
- Dance
- Stage Combat
- Fencing
- Puppets/Masks
- Stage Management
- Communications
- Set Design & Construction
- Lighting
- TV/Film
- Audition
Components subject to change - Entry Requirements
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- Leaving Certificate or Equivalent
- Leaving Certificate Applied
- Full QQI Level 4 Award
- Mature students – experience will be considered in lieu of formal qualifications
Places are offered following successful interview and successful participation in a workshop/audition. - Career Opportunities
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This course provides skills and training which will enable learners to identify and seek employment in the ever expanding Performing Arts/Entertainment industry. All auditions are performed on stage and filmed in the studio.
- Higher Education Progression*
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BIFE:
- Performing Arts –Theatre (BTEC Higher National Diploma Level 6+)
DIT:
- Drama (Performance) (DT529)
TCD:
- Drama and Theatre Studies (TR025)
NUI Galway:
- Arts (Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies): (GY118)
- Course Co-Ordinator
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Mary Kelly-Borgatta
- Where are they now?
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Meet BIFE students who have graduated from this course...
"Drama has been my biggest passion since I was ten. Thanks to Bray Institute of further education I had a chance to start a Performing Arts course, which l always wanted. In three years I achieved a FETAC level 5 and a Higher National Diploma which entitled me to study one more year at the Swansea Metropolitan University where I got a second class, upper division (2.1) Honours Degree in Performing arts. I am now completing my MA in Drama-therapy at NUI Maynooth." - Paolo Trente