This course seeks to prepare the next generation of passionate and skilled theatre-makers that are going to change the world. Our focus is on creating new performances and projects with a purpose. Everyone who teaches on the Applied Performance course is an experienced professional practitioner, and throughout our programme you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and artistic practice as well as specialise within your own area of interest, giving you the chance to craft your future. You will regularly work away from the Conservatoire, with young people, community groups and a wide range of participants.  The best way of developing those skills is to be out there using them. You will collaborate with your course mates by forming a professional company in which you will work collectively. Within this company you will be expected to undertake individual roles and responsibilities, developing your professional abilities. As an emerging practitioner we will supply you with artistic space, autonomy and choice. With a primary focus on performance you will also explore the reasons behind the work looking at its history and theories while developing an understanding of the need for constant research, discussion, reflection and development of your practice. The course embraces students from a wide variety of performance backgrounds and actively encourages you to develop your own areas of interest and practice. Recent students have included spoken word artists, musicians/singers, dancers and those with interests as diverse as puppetry and arts administration.  If you are passionate about the power of theatre, and you want to make your voice heard, this is definitely a course to consider. Throughout the programme you will develop both personally and professionally, graduating as a fully-trained applied performance practitioner. You will develop the necessary knowledge, understanding and skill to develop a career within applied performance, and further afield. This course will give you the space to nurture and develop your talent, providing you with the skill to operate with reflective, specialist awareness.