This full-time, four-year programme trains you to be a creative agent of change and use your artistry to reveal and nurture the artistry in others.
You will not take separate subjects but instead work on a project basis; everything you learn is meaningful, with a direct connection to artistic practice and theoretical relevance. This deliberate learning structure helps you develop into an educated and critical creator. You will spend a lot of time on the floor and learn to work with different communities in society.
Theater is a place where people share stories and reflect on vital questions and social issues. As a creator and educator, you will inevitably be working with others often, and during the programme, you will acquire the relevant skills to do so, such as acting, design and theater making.
During the programme, there are five central themes:
Over the course of your future career, you will, without a doubt, be presented with different cultural contexts, so you are encouraged to complete part of your programme abroad. For instance, this coming year we will be going to Belfast, Northern Ireland for an 8-week elective module to experience its unique cultural context and work in different communities. Sometimes, a student may choose to study abroad for six months (such as in Suriname or Uganda). We encourage students to develop and maintain international contacts.
Your lecturers work in teams rather than individually. Interestingly, this means you will not receive any grades. We test and assess you during your modules; there is no single lecturer individually responsible for an assessment, and the team of lecturers assesses your portfolio of completed assignments together. This results in a more reliable and useful form of assessment.
We don’t tell our students what to do. We give them plenty of room to find out for themselves what they want to develop, and question them on it. We take our students and their goals very seriously.