Performing arts
Performing arts courses offer innovative practice-based education. Our degrees in performance and dance prepare you for work in today’s arts, education and entertainment industries and offer valuable skills for all areas of future employment.
Debut performance for Mercuria The University’s newly-refurbished Mercuria Building celebrated its opening with a series of inspiring performances. (3mins)
Working in performing arts
In the creative industries Britain ranks among the best in the world. British artists, performers, writers, directors, choreographers, musicians, technicians, designers and teachers are admired across the globe.
How do you prepare for a career in these fields?
Here is a great place to start. Our courses are taught by people who have been there and done it, people who know the realities of the industries today and have earned their living as industry professionals at all levels.
Our degree courses can help you achieve your goal of breaking into the creative industries, which are among the most competitive in the world.
Access to state-of-the-art facilities
Due to our unique partnership with Middlesbrough College, our students have access to the excellent facilities of both Teesside and Middlehaven campuses.
Our top-up and foundation degrees in performance and events production are delivered by Stockton Riverside College and Middlesbrough College and validated by the University.
Teesside campus offers excellent studio and production facilities. You can take advantage of state-of-the-art television and radio studios, six editing suites - including a multi-format edit suite enabling projects to be mastered onto DV, Digibeta and HDV - separate audio post-production facilities and radio post-production space with 20 Apple Mac workstations.
Middlehaven campus is a new state-of-the-art development just across from the Riverside Football Stadium. The 250-acre site is the focus of an inspiring and exciting initiative driven by Tees Valley Regeneration.
The campus has a fully equipped theatre space, blackbox performance studio, purpose built dance studios with sprung floors and multimedia teaching labs.
Stockton Riverside Campus - the college's School of Arts and Media holds the prestigious CoVE (Centre of Vocational Excellence) status and has excellent facilities such as a dance studio complete with sprung floor and wall of eight foot high mirrors, air conditioning, portable dance bars, plasma screen and music sound system.
Performing arts staff
Ronan Paterson
Subject Division Head
T: 01642 384057 | E: r.paterson@tees.ac.uk
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Heike Salzer
Programme leader for Dance
T: 01642 738150 | E: h.salzer@tees.ac.uk
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Dr Sarah O'Brien
Programme leader for Live and Recorded Media
T: 01642 738150 | E: s.obrien@tees.ac.uk
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Helge Musial
Senior lecturer in Dance
T: 01642 738260 | E: h.musial@tees.ac.uk
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