Acting Østfold University College

Overview

Acting students at Østfold University College aim to be independent performers and creators throughout the education. As an applicant, you are interested in both diverse approaches to acting training and expanding or challenging artistic boundaries in theatre and beyond. You will create original work exploring new methods including collaborative risk, raw musicality and social inquiry. Values informing this education rely on listening, staying with failure, re-imagining material relations, excavation and play.

Quick Facts:

• Your daily life at NTA consists of intensive studio-based laboratory activities, group and individual tutoring and artistic direction in longer term projects with internationally practicing directors, choreographers and artists as well as NTA faculty. Critical thinking and self-reflection around the intersection of different bodies and voices, spaces and cultural roots inform our notions of training and making.
• This is an intensive international programme with students from all over the world. We encourage an ethical and conscious learning environment where different bodies, perspectives and experiences are honored and welcomed. Collaboration and critical reflection are core to the study.
• NTA students have close contact with teachers, researchers, staff and guest artists. Continual assessment is an important part of the student's individual education plan.
• As a student at NTA you will have access to updated technical equipment, a 300 m2 Black Box, 250 m2 dance studio and a 200 m2 theatre studio for use in practice related to the studies.
• During your three years of study at NTA you develop an artistic network that puts you in contact with the expanded field of performance and theatre within and beyond Norway. Norwegian Theatre Academy also offers student exchange within an extensive international network of institutions.