Performing Arts

In the one-year Performing Arts Ontario College Certificate program, you enjoy the thrill of performing and are committed to pursuing your craft to industry standards. You learn how to advance your craft while developing live and digital performance skills.

Learn the artistry of the stage and how to shine in front of an audience. Through collaboration with other performers, create unique performance pieces and perform to audiences. Learn how to audition and prepare for live and digital performances in professional studio settings.

In professional studio settings, you acquire vocal skills, audition, stage presence, production and on-camera techniques. This certificate will help you discover where you fit as an artist and introduce you to new and creative ways to express yourself.

Through collaborative activities, you experience various forms of basic performance, including the development of stage presence and audience interaction.

Learn the essentials of proper breathing and voice production, as well as movement workshops, along with exercises that cultivate physical self-awareness and enable you to make better creative and enduring choices in the performing arts.

Benefit from the college experience while developing confidence in your performance skills. We work with industry to make connections that can help you achieve your future goals. You can choose to prepare for an audition, pursue a career path or apply for further education in the arts.

What You’ll Learn

• Identify key components of the performing arts industry including live and digital genres, production processes, careers and work environments.
• Reflect on one`s own performance and production skills.
• Contribute to the creation and management of performing art productions.
• Work independently and within a team to prepare and execute live performances.
• Archive and distribute digital performance materials.
• Identify and apply discipline-specific practices that contribute to the local and global community through social responsibility, economic commitment and environmental stewardship.