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2022 Course Guide WAAPA - Aboriginal Performance - Music - Acting - Music Theatre - Arts Management - Performing Arts - Costume - Props & Scenery - Dance - Screen Performance - Design - Sound - Lighting - Stage Management WORLD READy IF ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE, THIS ONE IS YOURS. Become world ready at ECU. Contents WAAPA at ECU 3 Executive Dean’s Message 3 The Wonderful World of WAAPA 4 Graduate Highlights 6 Aboriginal Performance 8 Acting & Screen Performance 9 Arts Management 10 Dance 11 Music 12 Music Theatre 14 Performing Arts 15 Production & Design 16 Applications & Admissions 18 Worldwide WAAPA Stars 19 ECU is committed to reconciliation and recognises and respects the significance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ communities, cultures and histories. ECU acknowledges and respects the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as the traditional custodians of the land. ECU acknowledges and respects its continuing association with Nyoongar people, the traditional custodians of the land upon which its campuses stand. WAAPA at ECU Be World Ready. The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) at ECU is one of the world’s most celebrated performing arts academies. WAAPA is recognised nationally and internationally for the quality of its graduates. It provides the most comprehensive range of performing arts training in Australia – both on stage and behind the scenes. Course entry is competitive, with an audition and/or an interview required as part of the application process. ‘Orpheus in the Underworld’ The Rechabite Hall, 2020 EXECUTIVE DEAN’S MESSAGE Welcome to the Western Australian Academy of Performing With a focus on hands-on training Arts. For over forty years, WAAPA at Edith Cowan University delivered by outstanding world-class has been entirely committed to enabling talented students practitioners, WAAPA’s acclaimed to realise their artistic and creative ambitions, and prepare teaching staff are committed for highly rewarding careers in the global entertainment, to helping all students realise arts and culture industries. their artistic potential through Much celebrated for helping to launch the careers of intensive practice-based training. many world class entertainers – including Hugh Jackman, Successful pedagogy in the Emma Matthews, Tim Minchin, Lucy Durack, Jessica Gethin, performing arts is only useful when Karl Thomas (ShockOne) and Dacre Montgomery – WAAPA it is informed by strong partnerships is also the place where hundreds of musicians, designers, and connections to the industry itself. technicians and performers have taken their first ambitious Continually fostering its relationships steps towards fulfilling careers throughout the workplace. with institutions, organisations and companies across the arts and entertainment sectors, both nationally and internationally; As soon as one steps foot inside WAAPA, it is impossible WAAPA continues to be at the cutting edge of new not to tune into the energy and vibrancy of this remarkable developments in training, education and professional practice. School. It is a special place where artistry, creativity, self-expression and collaboration are encouraged. All of our As we help to influence and shape training and professional students are possessed of extraordinary gifts and with the practice across the world, WAAPA’s international influence dedicated support of WAAPA’s skilled and passionate staff, continues to be enhanced as do the extraordinary we enable you to sharpen your skills, master your chosen achievements of our many outstanding graduates. discipline and prepare you to meet the ever-changing Professor David Shirley creative demands of an immensely challenging, but hugely Executive Dean rewarding industry. WAAPA 3 THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF WAAPA ECU EXCELLENCE AWARDS FOR MUSIC THEATRE STAFF Three WAAPA staff members, Nicole Stinton, Crispin Taylor and Craig Dalton have been recognised at the Vice-Chancellor’s 2020 Learning and Teaching Awards. Nicole was recognised for future-proofing music theatre students for employment through innovation, positivity and initiative. Crispin received recognition for devising a program that engages and inspires students, and connects them directly with industry professionals. Music Theatre Course Coordinator, Craig (pictured below), was recognised for improving graduate employability outcomes for students by increasing their engagement through targeted innovations to curriculum and assessment. A SOLUTION TO ISOLATION HAS GIVEN WAAPA ITS BIGGEST AUDIENCE YET When COVID-19 hit in 2020, WAAPA had to move entirely to online teaching and learning within the space of a week. It was unusual to replace the physical experience of playing in an ensemble and creating music together in group scenarios. So that’s when Coordinator of Classical Music, Tim White, immediately thought of student composer, Jonathon Jie Hong Yang, as the potential writer of the score for a virtual piece for multiple musicians. Recorded entirely on students’ phones, 124 performers came together from across WAAPA’s classical music department to create the musical piece, Brave The Wave. STAR GRADUATES This included guitars, saxophones, voice and composition. WAAPA graduates are in high demand and excel Within a fortnight the video had attracted over 120,000 in their chosen professions, making a significant views indicating that Brave The Wave was needed in these contribution to the performing arts and allied isolated, self-distanced times. industries. Highly celebrated graduates include actors Hugh Jackman, Frances O’Connor, Rachael Maza and Jai Courtney; comedians Jim Jeffries and Tim Minchin; opera singers Emma Matthews, Duncan Rock and WAAPA VET courses overcome Rochelle Durkin; music theatre stars Lisa McCune, barriers to performing Eddie Perfect and Lucy Durack; musicians Troy Roberts, arts training Linda Oh, Jessica Gethin and Meg Mac. WAAPA’s Arts WAAPA is the perfect place to study for Management, and Production and Design professionals anyone seeking a career in the performing arts, can also be found working in arts organisations and entertainment, film and television industries. companies around the world. WAAPA offers nationally-recognised training for Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma CULTURAL COLLABORATION WITH courses across disciplines including Aboriginal LEADING LOCALS Performance, Acting, Dance, Costume, Design, Lighting, Music, Musical Theatre, Props and WAAPA is proud to be working in close collaboration with Scenery, Screen Performance, Sound, and Stage many of Western Australia’s leading cultural organisations, Management. No ATAR is required and entry is including Perth Theatre Trust, Black Swan State Theatre, based on a successful audition and/or interview West Australian Ballet, West Australian Symphony or folio submission. VET Student Loans (VSL) are Orchestra, West Australian Opera, Perth Symphony also available for eligible Diploma and Advanced Orchestra, Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, The Blue Room Diploma students. Theatre, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, Perth Festival, Fringe World Festival and Co: 3 Contemporary Dance Company. 4 FRINGE FESTIVAL FEVER Perth’s most popular annual festival, and the third largest Fringe in the world, Fringe World Festival 2021 hosted more than 500 events at over 100 venues. The festival featured almost 300 WAAPA graduates, staff and students who were involved on stage and backstage, as well as writing, producing, devising, designing and directing. In addition to helping produce outstanding home-grown talent, ECU is also a proud supporter of the Fringe World Festival. As a major partner, ECU and WAAPA provides it’s Edith Spiegeltent as a unique performance venue. The Edith Spiegeltent at FRINGE WORLD Festival. Photo by Tenae Francis New City Campus in 2025- ECU’s new campus is an exciting development that will transform the City of Perth, delivering a world-class Creative Industries, Business and Technology precinct that’s alive with thousands of students. From its opening in 2025 the ECU City Campus will be ‘For example, the new campus will enable us to have home to: classes delivered by world-class practitioners in New York, Germany or in the UK. WAAPA will also be able to work y The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts collaboratively with students across the world, in digital (WAAPA) spaces,’ he said. y Arts, Design and Communications To follow future developments, please visit y WA Screen Academy www.citycampus.ecu.edu.au y Broadcasting and Digital Journalism y Kurongkurl Katitjin, our Centre for Indigenous Australian Education and Research y Business and Law y Technology and Cyber Security ‘This is the future of university education — urban, connected, integrated with business and community — part of a thriving city,’ said ECU Vice-Chancellor Professor Steve Chapman. Describing the move from the current Edith Cowan University (ECU) campus at Mount Lawley, to the heart of Perth’s arts and cultural precinct between the CBD and Northbridge, as ‘putting WAAPA centre stage,’ WAAPA’s Executive Dean, David Shirley, said the new city campus would position the Academy as an innovative digital adaptor globally. ‘It’s going to be a university for the 21st century, taking advantage of emerging digital technologies.’ Image courtesy of Tourism Western Australia. 5 GRADUATE Highlights GLOBAL PHENOMENON, HAMILTON, ANNOUNCES AUSTRALIAN CAST WAAPA Music Theatre graduate, Jason Arrow, has been hand-picked by Hamilton’s award-winning creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, to