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• Students concentrate in ballet or contemporary dance; however, they study in both areas.
• Renowned faculty have danced with the finest ballet and contemporary dance companies in the world, from American Ballet Theatre to the Limón Dance Company.
• Guest artists have included Lar Lubovitch,Alonzo King, Jacques d’Amboise and Alvin Ailey, among others.
• Highly competitive, the school accepts fewer than half (35 percent) of its applicants.
• Students have more than 40 performance opportunities a year, including fully mounted productions such as “The Nutcracker.”
• Exemplary facilities for dancers include nine air-conditioned dance studios with sprung floors and two performance spaces (1,380-seat Stevens Center and the more intimate Agnes de Mille Theatre).
• Dance students and alumni have won awards and recognition from the Prix de Lausanne, International Ballet Competitions and the Princess Grace Foundation.
• Majority of Dance alumni are performing or have performed in most major dance companies in the United States and many throughout the world. They include Gillian Murphy, principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre; Dwana Smallwood of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Katita Waldo, principal dancer with San Francisco Ballet; and Manelich Minnifee, Pilobolus.
• Offers a Preparatory Dance Program for about 60 elementary and middle school students in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.

• The only independent, degree-granting school of theatrical design and production in the country.

• Concentrations offered in costume design, costume technology, lighting design and technology, performing arts management, scene design, scenic painting, sound design, stage automation, stage management, stage properties, technical direction and wig and makeup design.

• Curriculum emphasizes hands-on instruction. Students work on more than 20 productions a year – plays, musicals, operas, ballets and contemporary dance concerts, as well as student films.

• Distinguished faculty of professionals who have designed for or worked in theatre, dance, film and opera around the world, from Broadway to Norway. 24 full-time Design and Production faculty members.

• Facilities are among the most extensive and sophisticated of any school or professional company in the country. More than 80,000 square feet of production facilities.

• Almost 100 percent of students find employment in their field after graduation. Many are assisted by the school’s annual Job Fair.

• Alumni can be found working on Broadway, in national touring companies and regional theatre, and with dance and opera companies across the country, as well as with well-known organizations such as Disney, Universal Studios and Cirque du Soleil.

• Guest artists have included: Shawn Gresser, Stage Manager – Blue Man Group; Brad Fields, Lighting Designer – American Ballet Theatre; Jose Varona – international opera and ballet Scenic and Costume Designer; Donald Holder, Lighting Designer and two-time Tony Award winner – The Lion King, South Pacific; Curtis Kasefang, Producer – Cirque de Soleil;  Lynne Pectal, author of “Drawing and Painting for the Theatre”; Susan Crabtree, scenic artist and author of “Scenic Art for the Theatre”; Paul Tazewell – two-time winner of the  Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Costume Design - The African Company Presents Richard III and Peer Gynt; John McKernon, Lighting Designer and creator of Lightwright and Terry Ganley, Stage Manager – Metropolitan Opera in NY and many more…

• High school program of the School of Design and Production,open to 11th- and 12th-grade students with artistic interests and the discipline needed to pursue a structured course of study.
• The carefully planned curriculum promotes intellectual, aesthetic and emotional growth. Studio art classes offered cover a broad range of drawing, color theory, two-dimensional design, and sculpture techniques. A year-long survey class in art history in the second year of the program traces the visual arts from prehistory to contemporary philosophies.
• Exceptional facilities include two art studios with clerestory lighting, a gallery, and a separate sculpture studio.
• Alumni are currently working in the fields of animation, architecture, art education (primary through college levels), art therapy, fashion design, film and video production, graphic design, illustration, jewelry, painting, photography, sculpture, toy design, and other arts-related fields.

• Undergraduate actor conservatory providing professional training in acting, voice and speech, Shakespeare text, movement, singing, period and style, stage combat, improvisation, masks. Meisner technique, acting for the camera, audition techniques and other skills, as well as business practices in the profession.
• Classical values affirmed in the training process, while recognizing 21st centruy demands such as film, television and other burgeoning media performing arts.
• Students receive broad performing experience through workshops and major productions from the classical repertory through the 21st century.
• College students may be admitted to the directing option in their third and fourth years of study.
• Professional faculty has acted, directed, taught and coached nationally and internationally, from LA to Broadway and from London to Moscow. Guest artists have included actors Olympia Dukakis, Mandy Patinkin, Marsha Gay Harden, alumni Chris Parnell (“Saturday Night Live”, “30 Rock”) and Missi Pyle (CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, DODGEBALL, BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE).
• The pursuit of courses in the Division of Academics are supported in order to provide an artistically and culturally diverse environment that nurtures and develops the whole person.
• Offers a high school drama program for 12th-grade students
• Sends its graduating college seniors to LA and New York City each spring to present a showcase for agents, managers casting directors and other entertainment industry professionals. Many students secure jobs and/or agents through this process.
• State-of-the-art facilities include Performance Place, which features proscenium, arena and black box theatres; a drama gym; and a movement studio.
• Drama alumni have received five Tony Awards and 13 Tony nominations in recent years.
• In addition to Broadway, drama alumni can be found working in national touring companies, regional theatre, and film and television. They include Mary-Louise Parker, Tony for “Proof” on Broadway, Showtime series “Weeds”; Anna Camp, Broadway revival of "Equus" opp. Daniel Radcliffe, “True Blood”, “Mad Men”; Bridget Regan, ABC mini-series LEGENDS OF THE SEEKER; Billy Magnussen, Casey Hughes on “As the World Turns”, TWELVE; Wesley Taylor, “Rock of Ages”, “The Addams Family”; and Joe Mantello, director of "Wicked" with Tony Awards for "Assassins" and "Take Me Out."

• Curriculum stresses hands-on experience in film and digital video, to prepare students for careers in the film and television industries.
• Offers concentrations in animation, cinematography, directing, editing and sound, producing, production design, screenwriting, and film music composition.
• Credits of the faculty include BEETLE JUICE, 21, MYSTIC PIZZA, A WALK TO REMEMBER, JUMANJI, STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION, SISTER ACT 2, SHREK, SHREK 2 and SHREK 3, STAR SHIP TROOPERS, MYSTIC RIVER, GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE, MRS. WINTERBOURNE, COCOON, THE FIFTH ELEMENT, MADAGASCAR, VALLEY GIRL, SET IT OFF, SCOOBY DOO, THE BLUES BROTHERS, FRIED GREEN TOMATOES, HOFFA, STAR TREK IV, DEAD MAN WALKING, GRAND CANYON, ANACONDA, SINGLE WHITE FEMALE, VALLEY GIRL, THE WOMAN IN RED, ELF, WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN, LONELY HEARTS, SERPICO, and CHARLOTTE’S WEB as well as many more. Credits also include television series such as "Beverly Hills 90210" to all manner of media including commercials, documentaries and music videos. Faculty includes members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
• Guest artists have included directors Spike Lee, David Gordon Green, Jodi Hill and Saul Zaentz; editors Steve Mirrione, Zene Baker and Michael Tronick; sound designer Charles Maynes; production designer Jim Bissell and visual effects producer Helen Elswit; screenwriters Matthew Carnahan and Nevin Shreiner; cinematographers Robert Elswit and Dean Cundey; animator Rob Koo; as well as studio executives Richard Cook from Walt Disney Pictures, Michael Flaherty from Walden Media and John Tarnoff from Dreamworks.
• We are the only undergraduate program in the country that provides 100% of funding to make your films AND lets you begin directing, shooting, editing, animating, producing, designing, and writing your films in your first term.
• Create your films in our “Studio Village,” which was built to resemble and functions like a Hollywood studio “back lot,” featuring state-of-the-art production, post-production, and exhibition facilities and equipment.
• Has the 5th largest educational film archives in the world.
• Fourth-year productions are screened for the industry in Los Angeles, where graduating students have a week of meetings and workshops designed to develop contacts in the profession.
• Students have had production internships on feature films including MICHAEL CLAYTON, LEATHERHEADS, GET LOW, THE LAST SONG,  ALL THE REAL GIRLS, THE FOOT FIST WAY, DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA YA SISTERHOOD, and television shows including “The Closer”, “One Tree Hill”, “Dawson’s Creek”, and “Army Wives”.
• Approximately 80 percent of students find employment in their field after graduation.
• Already, students and alumni have distinguished themselves in all areas of the film and television industries. They include David Gordon Green, writer/director of the critically acclaimed independent features UNDERTOW GEORGE WASHINGTON, ALL THE REAL GIRLS, SNOW ANGELS, as well as PINEAPPLE EXPRESS and the HBO series “Eastbound and Down” ; actors Danny McBride TROPIC THUNDER, THE FOOT FIST WAY, LAND OF THE LOST, “Eastbound and Down”, UP IN THE AIR: and Paul Schneider ALL THE REAL GIRLS, BRIGHT STAR, LARS AND THE REAL GIRL, “Parks and Recreation”; Randolph Benson, director of the Student Academy Award-winning film MAN AND DOG; Mel Robertson, producer of Student Academy Award-winning film CHRISTMAS WISH LIST, Anna Dudley, winner of the SHOWTIME Black Filmmaker Showcase; AMPAS member and two-time Independent Spirit Award nominee cinematographer Tim Orr, RAISING VICTOR VARGAS, DANDELION, GEORGE WASHINGTON; Will Files Sound Designer, Sound Effects Editor, Supervising Sound Editor on many animated films like 9, CORALINE, MADAGASCAR 2: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA, BEE MOVIE, ENCHANTED, THE SIMPSONS MOVIE, POLAR EXPRESS, THE INCREDIBLES; Composer Atli Orvarsson, a four time ACSAP honoree, and winner of the Park City Film Music Gold Award, has provided compositions for SEASON OF THE WITCH, ANGELS AND DEMONS, IRON MAN, THE SIMPSONS MOVIE, PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN: AT WORLD’S END, and “Six Degrees”, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” and more. Academy Award® nominee assistant editor, Kevin Hickman, SEABISCUIT, COLLATERAL; Production Designers/Art Directors Elliott Glick UNREQUIETED, HANNAH MONTANTA, CHOP SHOP, and “Eastbound and Down”; “The Closer” production coordinator Jen Haire and Producer Sheelin Choksey.  Indie film production manager/supervisor Mike Sledd , HANDSOME HARRY, LYMELIFE, TRANSAMERICA . Screenwriter/directors Jeff Nichols SHOTGUN STORIES; Craig Zobel THE GREAT WORLD OF SOUND; Aaron Katz QUIET CITY, DANCE PARTY USA, Jody Hill THE FOOT FIST WAY; OBSERVE AND REPORT; Travis Beacham CLASH OF THE TITANS and novelist Lynne Hinton.

• The only music school in the nation that offers residential high school and college programs as well as graduate studies in performance.
• Offers concentrations in instrumental performance, vocal performance, composition, and conducting.
• Curriculum is designed to provide the broadest possible performance opportunities for each student, from Symphony Orchestra to Contemporary Ensemble to Opera.
• The basis of student instruction is studio work with the major teacher. Music faculty members are distinguished artists who maintain active careers, from the Meadowmount School of Music to the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont to the recording studios of 20th Century Fox to the North Carolina Symphony.
• The A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute, based in the School of Music, provides world-class training for emerging opera professionals.
• Endowed professorships in organ and opera.
• Guest artists have included composer Bernard Rands, violinist Itzhak Perlman, Frederica von Stade and the Emerson String Quartet.
• Performance venues include the 1,380-seat Stevens Center; the 590-seat Crawford Hall, with a 35-stop C.B. Fisk organ; the 300-seat Watson Chamber Music Hall; and the 38-seat Hood Recital Hall.
• Music alumni are performing with symphony orchestras, opera companies, chamber music ensembles and in solo careers throughout the world. They include violinist Lisa Kim of the New York Philharmonic, soprano Jennifer Welch-Babidge of the Metropolitan Opera, and hornist Stefan Jezierski of the Berlin Philharmonic.
• UNCSA’s Community Music School provides private and group music lessons to more than 300 Triad students, from toddlers (Kidsbeat and Suzuki programs) to senior citizens.

• Established because the School’s founders believed in the importance of a broad, liberal arts education to the development of the professional artist.
• Courses in languages and literature, mathematics, the humanities, and the natural and social sciences are offered at the high school and college levels.
• The School’s academic program is specially tailored to the intellectual and cultural needs of the artist in society, and is carefully integrated with the study of each arts discipline.
• Compared to most universities and high schools, UNCSA’s academic classes are small, allowing for extensive student-teacher interaction.
• All faculty members have master’s degrees, and many have doctorates. They maintain not only active academic careers,publications, presenting papers and winning grants but artistic careers as well.
• SAT scores of high school seniors and incoming college freshmen consistently rank UNCSA among the highest in academic achievement among the state’s public high schools and the UNC system.
• More than 80 percent of the School’s high school graduates go on to four-year colleges, universities and conservatories.

• UNCSA is a residential community with separate housing for high school and college students, as well as two on-campus apartment complex for college-age students.
• Students of all arts disciplines live together, generating a creative, interdisciplinary dynamic.
• Professional staff members provide high school and college students with the appropriate level of support and supervision for their age groups.
• The center of student life is the renovated Hanes Student Commons, which includes a dining hall, snack bar, mail center, campus store, computer lab and wellness center.
• Licensed health care providers (including two athletic trainers and a nutritionist) and counselors are available to students on campus at the Wellness Center.
• A separate Fitness Center features an aerobics room, a weight room with Cybex equipment, a cardiovascular workout area, and a full-court gymnasium.
• UNCSA is a safe and secure environment with its own campus police force of commissioned officers, who provide community-based policing.