Performing Arts

A passion for performance!

The Career Field

By earning a degree in performing arts, you can offer yourself professional opportunities for stage acting, work in movies, working with musicians and teaching. The performance arts industry is a huge and diverse field, offering many different opportunities for individuals looking to make a living through their creativity. From acting, to dancing, and broadcasting, there are a ton of career options for people who love to be on stage. Performing arts are an integral part of society. Whether you're a big fan of musical theater, opera, ballet, or jazz, the arts form part of our culture and add an enormous amount to it. A performing artist has a normal working week and normal working hours with regular breaks. The only difference from an office job is that the workplace changes each time that they perform for an audience at the very top of their field.

Employment of Performing Arts occupations is projected to grow 14% from 2020 - 2030.

The Program

Students in our program will work in a professional environment and have opportunities to perform in the historic, fully renovated Lincoln Auditorium. Students will build their technical and expressive skills in the elements of music as applied to a band or orchestra instrument. They will develop their skills in both small group lessons and ensemble rehearsals. Students will learn the Eight Elements of Theater: participants, scenario, time, place, movement, costumes, sound and purpose. Through this framework, students explore theater through games improvisations, acting, design and playwriting. Students can focus on Dance. This will include modern dance, jazz, African, tap, Flamenco, ballet, hip hop and the basic elements of choreography. Choral music will be offered to students. These performing ensembles allow students to create, perform, respond to and connect with the variety of vocal.

In this program, you will

• Perform and showcase work in the historic Lincoln Auditorium
• Compose and improvise melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives that reflect characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal
• Select varied repertoire to study based on interest, music reading skills, and an understanding of the structure of the music, context, and the technical skill of the individual or ensemble
• Perform with expression and technical accuracy in individual performances of a varied repertoire of music