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Our Drama Foundation programme is the only one in the world in association with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), Britain’s best-known theatre school. It is a three-term intensive actor training programme designed for students intending on a career in the performing arts. It will develop your acting and audition skills as well as build your confidence before auditioning to drama school. This programme is also an excellent route if you would like to explore actor training before making a commitment to a three-year degree.

It is a two strand programme that allows students to train as actors in either Classical & Contemporary Theatre or Musical Theatre. You will receive intensive one-on-one preparation for auditions, and you should expect to devote a considerable amount of personal time to studying scripts, researching theatre history, planning productions and learning lines. Throughout the year you will benefit from master classes by visiting RADA tutors and you will visit several RADA productions as well as completing the RADA Shakespeare Certificate.

RADA CertificatesThe RADA Shakespeare Certificates, at Bronze, Silver and Gold levels, provide a benchmark for you if you want to improve your technique, and thus your confidence, in delivering complex language. During each term, there will be opportunities to prepare for and take these highly regarded qualifications. The certificates are awarded following a successful presentation before RADA examiners.

The training here is very personalised, not like any other drama school. The students get the full focus of the teachers and you use that focus in your work. The School and Cambridge have such a young atmosphere, you feel connected and part of something special. It has been amazing this year.Maria Penella Gomez · mexico drama foundation

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i am consistently impressed by the enthusiasm and dedication of the staff at csVPa and by the standard of their students at audition. i believe the course is a valuable introduction not only for those who know they want to train as an actor, but for anyone with an interest in drama or performance.Edward Kemp director rada

Key fActs

Age 17 years +

Educational Level Completed A levels

Language Level IELTS 5.5+

Audition Requirements 2 monologues (contemporary and classical) 2 minutes each, delivered from memory

Start September

Course Length 3 terms

Taught Contact Time Up to 40 hours per week

Progression Entry into drama school or university

teAching & AssessmentThroughout the course students will benefit from master classes run by specialist visiting lecturers. You will visit several RADA productions and during the year be required to complete the RADA Shakespeare Certificate examinations. The certificates are awarded following a successful presentation before RADA examiners in Cambridge.

sUbjects stUDieD

Voice Developmental

Text Classical, Oratory, Story Telling

Pure Movement

Applied Movement

Body Work

Ballet

Contemporary Dance

Ensemble Singing

Scene Study

Theatre in Context

Shakespeare Intensive/RADA Certificates

One-on-one acting coaching

End-of-Year Production

sAmPLe timetAbLe

09.00 10.00–11.30 11.45–13.15 14.15

Mon Body work Acting Theatre in

contextTheatre in context

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es Body work Voice Scene study Group singing

Wed Body work Applied

movementText Voice into text

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urs Body work Voice Contemporary

danceOne-to-one

Fri Body work Text Scene study Group singing

15.45 17.15 17.30–19.00

Mon Contemporary

danceBreak Dance club

Tu

es Phonetics Break Ballet

Wed Acting Break Ballet

Th

urs One-to-one One-to-one One-to-one

Fri Theatre in

contextFree time Free time

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Key fActs

Age 17 years +

Educational Level Completed A levels

Language Level IELTS 5.5+

Audition Requirements

1 monologue (classical or contemporary), 2 minutes delivered from memory2 songs taken from the musical theatre repertoire (1 traditional and 1 contemporary)

Start September

Course Length 3 terms

Taught Contact Time Up to 40 hours per week

Progression Entry into drama school or university

teAching & AssessmentThroughout the course students will benefit from master classes run by specialist visiting lecturers. You will visit several RADA productions and during the year be required to complete the RADA Shakespeare Certificate examinations. The certificates are awarded following a successful presentation before RADA examiners in Cambridge.

sUbjects stUDieD

Voice Developmental Musical Theatre in Context

Text Classical, Oratory, Story Telling Music Theory

Pure Movement Dance Musical Theatre

Applied Movement Aural Skills

Body Work Performance Skills

Ballet RADA Shakespeare Certificates

Contemporary Dance One-on-one acting coaching

Ensemble Singing End-of-Year Production

Musical Theatre Scene Study

sAmPLe timetAbLe

09.00 10.00–11.30 11.45–13.15 14.15

Mon Body work Acting Text Phonetics

Tu

es Body work Dance for musical theatre

Voice Group singing

Wed Body work Dance for

musical theatre

Music theory and aural skills

Musical theatre history

Th

urs Body work Scene study

for musical theatre

Scene study for musical theatre

One-to-one

Fri Body work Dance for

musical theatre

Text (Shakespeare)

Group singing

15.45 17.15 17.30–19.00

Mon Pure

movementBreak Dance club

Tu

es Repertoire Break Ballet

Wed Acting Break Ballet

Th

urs One-to-one One-to-one One-to-one

Fri Theatre in

contextFree time Free time

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DestinAtions

Bristol Old Vic East 15

RADA Goldsmiths College (University of London)

LAMDA Guildhall

Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts

American Academy of Dramatic Art (New York)

Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama

The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts

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mUsicfoUnDAtionwww.csvpa.com/music

If you are looking to achieve a place at a university music department or conservatoire, the Music Foundation course will prepare you for this progression. The programme will enable you to refine your skills (composition, theory, performance and recording) and broaden your musical knowledge and understanding. It is designed to give you unrivalled breadth of content and flexibility, allowing you to focus on particular areas of passion as well as developing your skills and creating well-rounded, confident musicians. You will benefit from very small classes as well as one-to-one tutoring.

If you are looking for a place at a university music department you will be well prepared for higher education, having undertaken aural training, music research and performance. At a music university department your study will be more academically based; you will study a broader range of content of which performance is one element. If you are looking for a place at a conservatoire, you will be given the opportunity to undertake extensive preparation for entrance examinations and auditions. At a conservatoire there will be much more focus on performance.

You will be encouraged to build links with the music industry through course projects and key units throughout the year.

The Music Foundation really prepares you for the next steps, for university or conservatoire. The staff are really flexible and supportive. Cambridge feels like home, it is safe, friendly and not scary.hyuk namkoong · south Korea accepted a place at royal academy of music

teAching & AssessmentAssessment is by a variety of methods, including exams, research essays, public performances, presentations and composition portfolios.

Key fActs

Age 17 years +

Educational Level A levels, background information

Language Level IELTS 4.5+

Audition Requirements 2 contrasting pieces, scales and a technical piece such as an etudeMusic theory test

Start September

Course Length 3 terms

Taught Contact Time Up to 30 hours per week

Instrumental Tuition 2 hours one-to-one per week

English Language Support may be offered if required

Progression Entry to university music department, conservatoire or music technology college

mUsic throUgh time

Score reading

Performance of works

Research skills

Compositional study

AUrAL sKiLLs

Acoustics

Sound production

Production effects

Classical aural perception

Field Research

mUsic in the reAL worLD

Careers in music

Copyright laws

Government incentives

Community music

PerformAnce

Master classes: improvisation, performance techniques

Guest artist/tutor lessons

Alexander technique (the health of performance)

One-to-one instrumentals

Audition technique

comPosing

Learning how to compose with technology

Film scoring (film music and compilation of a folio of composition)

Pastiche (composing techniques)

Logic

Sequencing from a written score

Audio tracks: creating backing tracks

Manipulating and editing sound

recorDing

Microphone techniques

Mixing techniques

Learning the physics of sound

reseArch Project

Development of research skills

Major project

sUbjectsmusic foundation

sAmPLe timetAbLe

10.00–11.30 11.45–13.15 14.15 15.45–17.15

Mon Aural skills*

Music analysis**Aural skills ** Music analysis*

Music theory I/II

Music theory

Tu

es Music in the real world

Orchestration Sequencing Pop history

Wed Ensemble class*

Aural skills**Ensemble class**Aural skills*

Lessons Lessons

Th

urs Recording Recording Classical

music historyClassical music history

Fri Composition Composition 20th century

composition and technique

20th century composition and technique

* Pop Stream** Classical Stream

DestinAtions

Royal Academy of Music

Birmingham Conservatoire

Royal northern College of Music

Trinity College of Music

Anglia Ruskin university

university of hertfordshire

SAE Institute

Middlesex university

City university London

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