Professional Diploma:
Musical Theatre
The Level 6 Trinity Diploma courses in Professional Dance and Musical Theatre provide the highest standards of education, training and guidance required for a career in both professional dance and musical theatre performance.
Professional Diploma: Musical Theatre
Our three-year, full-time, Level 6 Trinity Diploma programs equip dancers and musical theatre performers with the essential artistic, technical, and professional skills for a successful career in the performing arts industry.
Both Dance and Musical Theatre courses combine jazz technique including Luigi and Mattox with varied styles of Fossé, lyrical, MT-jazz and commercial dance. Within the field of contemporary dance, we cover Limon, Graham, Cunningham and release-based work, encouraging students to build confidence in improvisation and choreographic skills.
Further Course Information
Dance students take a daily ballet class and MT students take ballet three times weekly, which include pointe-work and virtuosity. Tap is offered twice weekly in five streamed-ability classes across the three year groups.
As part of both courses, further options are available including early morning ballet where students can choose to work towards RAD exams (up to advanced 2). We also encourage students to take extra syllabus exams in both ISTD Tap and Modern (up to advanced 2). In addition, some students choose our excellent A-level options whilst others opt for the Michael King Pilates Teacher training programme. With the addition of Latin & Ballroom in the final year, these elements alone constitute a highly challenging and exciting programme.
The Musical Theatre course is an exciting blend of dance, vocals and acting. It is directed at training strong, versatile dancers with a high standard of vocal and acting skills for ensemble performance work within the musical theatre industry. The programme includes one-to-one vocal technical sessions, vocal repertoire and style, ensemble work and training in harmonies. Acting classes cover analysis of text, creation of character, acting through song, as well as exploring a range of materials including plays. Each week students participate in a specially designed integrated musical theatre class combining all three disciplines simultaneously. The classes are led by a director, musical director and choreographer in a professional rehearsal environment.
Assessment and Progress:
In addition to formative and summative assessments in all core disciplines and in live performance, students are encouraged to take responsibility for their learning through regular discussion, tutorials, reflective practice, self-assessment and target setting.
Performance and Workshops:
Each year students are led by a professional creative team to showcase their skills in a full-book musical theatre production in The Hammond Theatre. Throughout their training students will also benefit from an eclectic programme of workshops and masterclasses led by external artists in the profession, providing a vast wealth knowledge and experience from the outside world.
Contextual Studies:
Student’s practical training is supported and expanded through a robust programme of research projects, reflective practice and technique logs.
Graduate Year:
As students transition into their third year there is strong emphasis on employment preparation and audition technique that motivate students towards their career goals. In daily classes they focus more on establishing their identity, artistic skills and performance qualities alongside refining their technical vocabulary. Students work with staff and visiting professionals to create a tailor-made showcase attended by the county's’ top agencies that can provide students with a stepping-stone into the industry. Students graduate from the musical theatre course as technically strong and versatile performers who can adapt with ease, exhibit self-confidence and demonstrate a unique and artistic skill base.