Founded in August 2005, the Graduate Institute of Performing Arts has three sub-disciplines: theater performance, collaborative piano, arts marketing and industries.
The primary objective of the graduate institute and bachelor degree program is to provide high quality training for theater musicians, design artists, performing arts management administrators, collaborative pianists, and to establish the platform for cross-sectors collaboration in cultural creative Industries. With equal emphasis placed on theory and practice, this institute endeavors to provide fine-quality training for on-stage and backstage performing artists, hoping to catapult Taiwan’s performing arts to the world stage.
In the coming years, the graduate institute and its Performing Arts Center will hold international performing arts conferences and seminars on a regular basis as well as host intercollegiate performing arts festivals and exhibitions. In addition, the institute will establish partnership with local performing arts groups and relative industries.
Undergraduate Program:
In December 2009, the government passed the first reading of the “Cultural and Creative Industry Development Act (draft)”. The act will be listed as a national priority policy project, in which “performance art” will be a key project.
Undergraduate Program of Performing Arts continues the missions of the Graduate Institute of Performing Arts─ not only dedicating to teaching and studying of professional knowledge, but also maintaining a good, close relationship with other industries. Therefore, this course of study aims to effectively integrate arts, business, production sectors, and academic resources with high-quality professional teachers. The integration with the profound humane arts and aesthetics of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) will cultivate students’ ability of innovative thinking and the skills of implementation. It will become the core of Taiwan´s performing arts education, fostering Taiwan´s performing arts, creative industry-related professionals, and excellent teachers.
The Programm integrates teachers from relevant apartments at NTNU to design professional and cross-practice courses of performing arts. With the creative and professional teaching, there will be an integration of science and technology, humanities, arts, management at NTNU. This will show the best benefit of performing arts in the relevant fields and industries.
The Programm is the first-established program in Taiwan which provides students with both teaching ability and degree of "performance arts" after graduation. Since it is difficult to get a teaching position now, having this degree will be a great advantage in job market.
