Performing Arts (Stella Mann

Performing Arts is a discipline that encompasses the skills, knowledge and professional sensibility needed to work as a performer across theatre, dance, musical theatre and related live arts contexts. It combines technical training in the craft of performance with an understanding of the industry into which graduates are entering, developing performers who are not only skilled in their practice but adaptable, self-directed and equipped to build careers in a competitive and varied professional landscape. The discipline recognises that a modern performing arts career often requires versatility across different forms and the ability to manage the practical realities of professional life as well as the artistic ones.

At Stella Mann College, delivered through the University of Northampton, this three-year full-time degree programme is designed to produce versatile professional performers of high quality. Training spans a range of performance disciplines, building a broad and adaptable skill base alongside the knowledge of the industry that students will be entering. All three years of study lead to the Stella Mann College Performer's Diploma in addition to the degree itself, providing an additional professional credential that reflects the vocational emphasis of the programme.

The curriculum is built around developing transferable skills as well as performance excellence, recognising that careers in the performing arts are rarely linear.

Graduates from Performing Arts degrees pursue careers as performers across theatre, musical theatre, dance, television, film and community arts. Many work in a portfolio model, combining performance work with teaching, workshop facilitation, community engagement and other creative roles. The programme's emphasis on professional self-management and transferable skills also prepares graduates for roles in arts administration, theatre production, performing arts education and related creative industries contexts.

For those wishing to continue their studies, the degree provides a foundation for postgraduate work in performance practice, theatre making, dance or arts education.