Acting

UCAS code: W320

Here's what Leeds Conservatoire says about its Acting course.

Our BA (Hons) Acting programme offers rigorous, practical, conservatoire training for a career as a professional actor. Through practical skills training and individualised artistic development, you'll acquire the skills to sustain a career as a working artist in theatre, television, film and recorded media - serving the performance industry now and in shaping its future.

Over three years, you'll develop your skills in acting, movement, voice and performance-based research. Training will be practical, physical and intensive. You'll be required to be fearless, as you acquire new skills and challenge those you arrived with. Training will include ensemble skills classes, one-to-one coaching, skills in context, seminars and rehearsals; culminating in a final year season of performance that will serve as an industry introduction.

Storytelling is a collaborative artform and collaboration is at the core of all we do at Leeds Conservatoire. As an Acting student, you'll spend your first weeks of training developing an ensemble practice that will transform a cohort into a collaborative theatre company. Throughout training, you'll be given the opportunity to collaborate with theatres, creative partners and leading artists in the region.

We actively encourage cross-programme collaboration with artists from other disciplines. Our ambition is for you to establish a creative network in training, originate live performance and take both with you into the the theatre and creative industries.

This course is a full-time, high-contact, vocational training programme which is taught in six academic terms over three years. Contact time averages 30 hours a week, across 30 teaching weeks. The course has two core strands; Skills Training and Artistic Development. Time assigned to each adjusts each year to promote the transition from learner to independent artist.

All modules on the programme have been developed around key themes at each level:

Self and other (Level 4) Style and Character (Level 5) Public performance and transition to the industry (Level 6)

Year 1 (Level 4) Compulsory modules: Acting Skills: Acting Technique Acting Skills: Spoken and Sung Voice Acting Skills: Movement Acting Skills: Research for Performance Artistic Development: Self as an Artist

Year 2 (Level 5) Compulsory modules: Acting Skills: Rehearsal Practices Acting Skills: Voice in Context Acting Skills: Movement in Context Artistic Development: Arts industry Project 1: New Work and Adaptation Project 2: Established Repertoire

Year 3 (Level 6) Compulsory Modules: Artistic Development: Live Performance Artistic Development: Recorded Performance Artistic Development: Self in the Industry

Module specifications can be found via the Leeds Conservatoire website: http://bit.ly/LC-Acting-UCAS

The course is assessed via practical assessments and performances, coursework, portfolios, technical tests, presentations and written work. Formal assessments tend to take place over a period at the end of each semester or the end of the year. There are a handful of assignments with deadlines halfway through a semester.