Acting & Dance

Adelaide College of the Arts is a centre of excellence in the performing arts, offering performance-based acting and dance courses in a modern facility that includes purpose-built theatres, rehearsal spaces and production studios.

AC Arts caters to students who wish to pursue careers as performers in the disciplines of dance or acting.
Teaching appointments are made on the basis of qualifications, professional experience, industry profile and reputation. Every year AC Arts employs many highly respected specialist industry professionals to work with students on productions and performances.

Courses

Award Courses

International Courses

Short Courses

Facilities

AC Arts has public performance spaces used for teaching, rehearsals and performances, including a 220-seat proscenium arch theatre and a 110-seat experimental theatre. Other purpose-built spaces include the David Kendall rehearsal studio, four dance studios and two acting rehearsal spaces with modern sound systems, image projectors to enhance performance training, and industry-standard flooring.

AC Arts is located in Adelaide’s West End Precinct, giving students access to a vibrant arts community. AC Arts offers access to café, specialist arts library and student learning support in a secure and friendly environment.

Employment

AC Arts provides curriculum-based training in career management. Students are encouraged to establish contacts within industry and AC Arts provides opportunities to form networks by hosting national and international festivals, workshops and conferences

Graduates are provided ongoing support through the Performing Arts Graduates’ Program, which gives priority access to rehearsal spaces, performance facilities, equipment, master classes and employment within the College.

Staff Profile

Principal Acting Lecturer

Student Testimonial

Acting Student

Industry endorsement

When I am in the privileged position of teaching or directing a young actor at AC Arts I am always reminded of the enormous effort it takes to not only teach a craft but to craft a talent.

A great actor is created by the same forces that create any great artist, that is, a combination of a raw and vital talent matched by the most rigorous training and then the right opportunities all lining up at the right time beyond that training.

The greatest testament to the success of any performing arts training is the ultimate success of those emerging young performers and their ability to amaze, enrapture and thrill an audience.

That is the impulse I believe drives the performing arts training at AC Arts: to create such performers.

—Rosalba Clemente, Chair, Theatre Board, Australia Council of the Arts

Industry Partners

AC Arts has partners including sponsors, teachers and other arts-related bodies. Partnerships can be in the form of co-assessment, joint productions, curriculum advisory panels, industry reference groups, student work experience and staff industry placements. These provide improved student learning outcomes and graduated opportunities.

For information on establishing a partnership through AC Arts, contact:
Ian Grant
Educational Manager
ian.grant@tafesa.edu.au