- Acting for the Screen
- Intermediate Ballet
- Introduction to Acting
- Introduction to Ballet
- Introduction to Music Production
- Moving Bodies: Perceptions of Beauty in Ballet and Indian Classical Dance
- Music and Film
- Music and Film: Understanding Soundtracks and Scores
- Romeo and Juliet: a Love story across the Arts
- The Marriage of Opera and Cinema
- Voices of an Artist: The Creative Universe of Franco Zeffirelli
Performing Arts
The LdM Performing Arts Department’s mission is to cultivate creative artists, performers and storytellers, whose diverse, innovative voices inspire change for a better world. LdM offers a comparative approach that breaks down boundaries and removes barriers by giving students a strong foundation in theory and performance skills. Students receive training from dedicated faculty that prepares them for a career in the performing arts, while developing the critical thinking and communication skills that are the cornerstone to a liberal arts education.
Along with the theoretical courses, the Performing Arts department curriculum offers a variety of classes providing students with a comprehensive view of the world of performing arts. The professional faculty, through academic discourse and performance art, teach students the critical skills necessary to reflect on the personal creative process while defining their own style. Students examine the intersection and influence of performance art today, from dance genres such as flamenco and ballet to the theatrical culture in Italy, which looks at the birth of this genre as well as the history of opera from its inception at the Court of the Medici in Florence to the present.
Subjects such as European theatrical and choreographic traditions, and set design are studied from a cultural, artistic and social context, in order to give students an inclusive educational experience.
LdM has formed a special partnership with Fondazione Franco Zeffirelli Center for the Arts and Entertainment, located in the heart of the historical city center of Florence. The Fondazione’s archives include Zeffirelli’s works of drama, opera, ballet and film productions. This collaboration adds new courses in the Department giving students the chance to delve into the magic of the visual and performing arts, and the diverse professional paths that are available for creative minds.
From stage direction, to bodywork to group dynamics, Performing Arts allows students from all fields to acquire the organizational, non-verbal and leadership skills necessary for their future endeavors.
The LdM Performing Arts Department’s mission is to cultivate creative artists, performers and storytellers, whose diverse, innovative voices inspire change for a better world. LdM offers a comparative approach that breaks down boundaries and removes barriers by giving students a strong foundation in theory and performance skills. Students receive training from dedicated faculty that prepares them for a career in the performing arts, while developing the critical thinking and communication skills that are the cornerstone to a liberal arts education.
Along with the theoretical courses, the Performing Arts department curriculum offers a variety of classes providing students with a comprehensive view of the world of performing arts. The professional faculty, through academic discourse and performance art, teach students the critical skills necessary to reflect on the personal creative process while defining their own style. Students examine the intersection and influence of performance art today, from dance genres such as flamenco and ballet to the theatrical culture in Italy, which looks at the birth of this genre as well as the history of opera from its inception at the Court of the Medici in Florence to the present.
Subjects such as European theatrical and choreographic traditions, and set design are studied from a cultural, artistic and social context, in order to give students an inclusive educational experience.
LdM has formed a special partnership with Fondazione Franco Zeffirelli Center for the Arts and Entertainment, located in the heart of the historical city center of Florence. The Fondazione’s archives include Zeffirelli’s works of drama, opera, ballet and film productions. This collaboration adds new courses in the Department giving students the chance to delve into the magic of the visual and performing arts, and the diverse professional paths that are available for creative minds.
From stage direction, to bodywork to group dynamics, Performing Arts allows students from all fields to acquire the organizational, non-verbal and leadership skills necessary for their future endeavors.