Foundation Drama: Professional Acting

Training

In Cambridge

£ 14,550 VAT exempt

Description

  • Type

    Training

  • Location

    Cambridge

  • Duration

    1 Year

Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts (CSVPA) is acknowledged to be one of the best drama schools offering foundation drama in the UK. Our longstanding association with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) provides us with a unique opportunity to offer our students an intensive three term theatre training programme in Cambridge

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Location

Start date

Cambridge (Cambridgeshire )
Cambridge School Of Visual & Performing Arts Bridge House Bridge Street, CB2 1UA

Start date

On request

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Foundation Drama: professional actor training
Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts (CSVPA) is acknowledged to be one of the best drama schools offering foundation drama in the UK. Our longstanding association with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) provides us with a unique opportunity to offer our students an intensive three term theatre training programme in Cambridge.

The ONLY drama school associated with RADA
Under the mentorship and guidance of our RADA accredited lecturing staff, who are themselves practicing theatre professionals, our students train in a variety of disciplines and are challenged to grow both professionally and personally.
CSVPA is the only foundation drama programme in the UK to be associated with RADA.

  • Why train at CSVPA?
  • The programme
  • Lecturing staff
  • Our success rate
  • The audition process
  • Gallery
  • RADA Shakespeare Certificates
  • The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)

Why train at CSVPA?

  • Dynamic teaching which aims to develop skilled performance artistry in the students undertaking training.
  • Direct connections to the professional theatre industry through both RADA and our lecturing staff.
  • High drama school acceptance rate.
  • Maximum of 16-20 students per academic year.
  • Substantial one-to-one tuition in voice, movement, acting, singing and dance.
  • Opportunities in each of the three academic terms to apply training to audience attended performances which include devised theatre, cabaret and a full scale production.


The programme The CSVPA / RADA foundation programme consists of 35 - 40 hours per week of lecturer driven practical tuition and is divided as follows:

Discipline Content Weekly time allocation Acting Acting theory, monologue work, scene study, improvisation, devised theatre, group and individual coaching 12 hours Voice Developmental vocal technique, classical text work, articulation, r.p. 6 hours plus on-to-one tuition Movement Body work, exporatory movement and applied movment theory (eg. Laban, lecoq, oida) 5 hours Dance Dance technique (jazz, tap, ballet) and dance for musical theatre 4 hours Singing Musical theatre singing training 2 hours plus one-to-one tuition (optional) Professional Preparation Audtition technique, presentation skills, theatre industry information 1 hour Practical Theatre History The study and practical exploration of theatre history 2 hours Open Studio Sessions Independent and group studio sessions focusing on projects and assignments 5 - 7 hours

In addition to the above, students are also provided with the following:

  • drama school audition preparation
  • a fully staged third term production (past productions include: The Threepenny Opera, The Government Inspector, The Merry Wives of Windsor and A Midsummer Night's Dream)
  • coaching for RADA Shakespeare Certificates
  • RADA master classes (at CSVPA and RADA's London campus)
  • external master classes (past sessions include: Frantic Assembly, Jeremy Stockwell, Hoipolloi)
  • lectures with RADA alumni (*new for 2008/09 students

Lecturing staff Jean Stewart
Head of Drama & Performing Arts

Jean manages and teaches on the Drama Foundation bringing with her more than 20 years of professional experience.
Rebecca Cuthbertson
Voice Lecturer

Voice coaching includes: John & Jen (Finborough Theatre), A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer (London premiere), A Devilish Exercise (The Rose Theatre Trust), Timon and Beckett's Shorts (Central School of Speech and Drama), Comedy of Errors (Creation Theatre, Oxford), Full Frontal Diva (Finborough Theatre). Lecturing: Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts and East 15 school of acting. Private coaching includes: developmental voice, text for audition and dialect/dialect-reduction. Education: MA in Voice Studies from Central School of Speech and Drama, Bachelors degree in Education, BA (Hons) English Literature and Theatre Arts.
Christopher Lane
Movement Lecturer
Theatre directing includes: John & Jen (UK premiere. Finborough Theatre, London), A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer by Eve Ensler (London premiere), A Devilish Exercise: Conjuring Marlowe at the Rose (Into The Breach Theatre and The Rose Theatre Trust), Timon (a site-specific adaptation of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens), Beckett's Shorts (an anthology of Samuel Beckett: play, not i, rough for theatre i). Lecturing UK: movement studies for CSVPA and Central School of Speech and Drama. Lecturing Canada: Brock University, Theatre Aquarius, the Hamilton Wentworth board of education. Education: MA in Directing with distinction from Central School of Speech and Drama, Bachelor's degree in Education, BA (Hons) in History.

Foundation Drama: Professional Acting

£ 14,550 VAT exempt