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This programme aims to graduate expressive and imaginative dancers who can confidently fulfil the dance demands made of them in local and regional dance companies, dance events, and in musical theatre companies. Upon graduation, you should be qualified to dance on television, in corporate/commercial performance events, and large-scale cultural celebrations.
You will learn dance techniques and expressions in a wide range of styles, periods and genres, including Pop, Social, Jazz, Ballroom, Ballet, and Contemporary Dance. Contextual studies support the necessary understanding of distinct stylistic features, supplementing dance practice, and dance skills. You will be trained to become versatile and flexible dancers, at ease with any choreographic requirements for popular, social, and musical theatre dancing.
Essentials of classical ballet, contemporary dance, and physical theatre are introduced. These technical skills are further complemented with management classes to understand career paths and options, audition techniques, and employment contracts.
Music training will enhance your knowledge of style, rhythm, and cultural sources. Cross-disciplinary collaborations on projects with Acting, Film, and Technical and Production Management students broaden your creative and choreographic perspective and enhance your understanding of the current arts scene.
The Diploma provides professional engagement and training in a range of on-stage, management and behind-the-scenes positions, equipping you with professional employment qualifications and a solid foundation for future specialisations in choreography, education, management, and research.
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About Lasalle College Of The Arts
LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore is a leading tertiary institution in cutting edge contemporary arts and design education and practice. The college offers 30 undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in art design, film, animation, fashion, dance, music, theatre, arts management, arts education, art therapy, and art history.
RESEARCH BY PRACTICE: A 21ST CENTURY APPROACH
All research starts with ideas. More than two decades after its humble beginnings, LASALLE can look back on a long tradition of practice-led research in art and design. The impressive list of successful LASALLE alumni, who were prominently involved in shaping Singapore’s arts scene, attests to the institution’s strength in providing an appropriate academic environment for the creation of novel ideas and new knowledge.
LASALLE values the professional practice of all fulltime and part-time staff as one of its most important assets. Our unique college environment is formed by a faculty of Singaporean and international artists and educators, originating from more than 20 countries worldwide, many are renowned experts in their areas and actively involved in exhibitions, conferences, and performances. The incorporation of their respective expertise in course delivery closely relates teaching and learning to a broad range of theoretical and intellectual concerns in contemporary art and design practice.
Hence, students are constantly exposed to firsthand experience in current research practices, leading to the acquiring of a wide set of knowledge and skills by the time they graduate. These skills enable them to successfully adjust to the multifaceted demands of the creative industries. As a Singaporean institution for tertiary arts education, positioned at the crossroads of perse cultures within a multi-ethnic society, LASALLE aims to add a distinctive Singaporean viewpoint to the ongoing debate on repositioning artistic practice in a post-industrialised society.
CONSTITUTION
As a private, non-profit arts institution, LASALLE College of the Arts is a registered Institute of Public Character, approved by the Commissioner of Charities, and operates autonomously under the constitution of LASALLE College of the Arts Limited.
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