ABOUT THE ACADEMY
The Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava is the oldest educational institution in Slovakia specialised in training students in the performing arts and artistic creation as well as arts management and production. Its three faculties (Music and Dance, Film and Television, THEATRE) provide theoretical and practical training in the performing arts and film. The school was founded in Bratislava in 1949.
The Academy of Performing Arts (VŠMU) is a present-day-oriented school open to students from the entire world. VŠMU is fully accredited as university within the Slovak education system, providing complex bachelor’s and master’s study programmes in the fields of Performing Arts.
International students wishing to study temporarily at VŠMU have a wide range of possibilities to choose from – one-semester or full-year study stays within the framework of various European and non-European mobility programmes, specially created study-abroad programmes, cooperation arrangements between university networks, summer schools and so on.
The THEATRE FACULTY independently and freely enhances the development of educational, artistic and scientific activities and creates favourable conditions for artistic creation. The school cooperates with art schools, and cultural and social institutions in Slovakia and abroad. Its graduates are among the leading theatre artists at home and abroad. Currently, the Theatre Faculty has the following accredited programmes: acting, stage directing and dramaturgy, theatre management, puppetry, puppetry directing and dramaturgy, PUPPETRY SCENOGRAPHY AND TECHNOLOGY, theatre studies, SCENOGRAPHY.
Artistic activities of the Theatre Faculty are parts of the educational process and various artistic projects. The school produces 10 to 16 plays or alternative productions annually and presents them in its studio theatre – Theatre Lab – where the students perform their productions from the 2010 / 2011 season.
The THEATRE FACULTY of the Bratislava Academy of Performing Arts presents its theatre productions and projects on domestic stages and also enables its students to perform on foreign stages at various festivals of theatre schools. Its productions successfully represented Slovakia at festivals in Nancy (France), Rome (Italy), Saint Petersburg (Russia). The school annually participates in the following festivals: Zlomvaz in Prague, Encounter in Brno, international festivals in Warsaw, Vienna, Subotica and many other meetings of young artists (Turkey, Slovenia, Poland, Moldova among others).
THE ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS IS LOCATED IN THE FOLLOWING FOUR BUILDINGS:
V3 – the main buliding in the heart of historical center of Bratislava, on Ventúrska 3. It accomommodates the Rector´s Office, Administration Offices, classrooms of Language Department and some Theatre Faculty rehearsal rooms.
Z1 – the building of Music and Dance Faculty is located on Zochova 1 and also host the Dean´s Office and Puppetry Department of the Theare Faculty in the spaces under the roof.
S2 – the building of Film and Television Faculty is located on Svoradova 2
S4 – the building of Theatre Faculty is located on Svoradova 4
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