Performing Arts Courses & Classes in London and Online
City Lit offers performing arts courses in the heart of Covent Garden in Central London during the evening, daytime and at weekends. Explore our range of subjects including acting, (including accredited acting courses), dance, radio and screen, and voice, speech and communication as well as a full range of music courses, such as piano, singing, strings and wind instruments to jazz and pop, music technology, music theory and history
Our courses are labelled clearly for beginners or those with previous experience and you can speak to a specialist advisor to help you choose the right level. If you would you like some help or advice:
For music courses email music@citylit.ac.uk. You can also view our music auditions and advice page.
For drama, dance and speech courses email drama@citylit.ac.uk
- Piano workshop 8Course start date: Thu 27 Apr 2023 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gisela MeyerIf you play piano at around grade 8 standard, join one of these workshops to develop your playing by studying a wide repertoire, learning to make your own stylistic and interpretive decision under your tutor's guidance.Full fee £239.00 - Piano workshop 7Course start date: Thu 27 Apr 2023 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ricardo GosalboIf you play piano at around grade 7 standard, join one of these lively workshops to develop your playing by studying a wide range of piano repertoire, with a focus on technique, tone production, pedalling and performance skills.Full fee £239.00 - Acting improvers: creating characterCourse start date: Thu 21 Sep 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Laura BaggaleyDevelop your acting skills and build confidence on this improvers course. Using both improvisation and text, we will explore various techniques for building distinctive characters, with an emphasis on playful discovery and fun!Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Handel: politics & patronageCourse start date: Thu 21 Sep 2023
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Karen Betley'Why do not British trees and forests throng To hear the sweeter notes of Handel's song?' so wrote a poet in 1740, comparing Handel to Orpheus. Come and explore the rise of Handel to classic status that took place here in London in the early 18th century. Break week: 26 Oct 2023.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Improve your singingCourse start date: Thu 21 Sep 2023
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Colette MeuryThis lively online course teaches technique and songs in popular music styles of folk, jazz, pop, rock, and musical theatre. Develop your vocal technique and musicianship in this group class, interract with the tutor and classmates, add new songs to your repertoire. New students with experience of solo singing and some formal training are welcome to come on board.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £167.00 - Music theory: grade 5Course start date: Thu 21 Sep 2023
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Selena KayLearn about irregular metre, tenor clef, major and minor keys to six flats/sharps, primary triads, cadences, and standard expression signs. Essential for anyone taking higher grade practical exams. *Scheduled break weeks: 26 Oct 2024.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Exploring music for stage and screen 1Course start date: Thu 21 Sep 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Pauline GreeneExplore and connect the history of opera to other works for stage and screen over three enjoyable terms. Ideal for those who have already studied our popular Exploring Opera courses. NB: break week 26 Oct 2024.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Piano workshop 6Course start date: Thu 27 Apr 2023 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ricardo GosalboIf you play piano at around grade 6 standard, join one of these workshops to develop your playing by studying a wide range of piano repertoire, with focus on technique, textural awareness, practice and performance skills.Full fee £239.00 - Piano workshop 5Course start date: Thu 27 Apr 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ricardo GosalboIf you play piano at around grade 5 standard, join one of these workshops to develop your playing by studying a wide range of piano repertoire, with focus on technique, practice and performance skills.Full fee £239.00 - Exploring opera 1Course start date: Thu 21 Sep 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Pauline GreeneJoin us to explore the history of opera over three enjoyable terms. In this first term we’ll explore the ideas that fuelled origins of opera and the wonderful world of Baroque opera seria. NB: break week 26 Oct 2024.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - English pronunciation: stage 3Course start date: Thu 28 Sep 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: David John GwillimDesigned for students who have completed 'English Pronunciation' stages 1 and 2, and those who have near native placement. Conversation and the reading aloud of a variety of texts will help to pinpoint those pronunciation worries still to be addressed when speaking English as a non-native speaker. This course will be taught in the college.Full fee £219.00 - English pronunciation: stage 2Course start date: Thu 27 Apr 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: David John GwillimDesigned for people who have completed ‘English Pronunciation: stage 1’ although new students with sufficient skills can join. Develop confidence and clarity, explore diphthongs and triphthongs, inflection and the rhythms of Standard English. This term the course will be taught in the college.Full fee £219.00 - Music theory: grade 3Course start date: Thu 18 Jan 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sarha MooreDevelop your understanding of musical language by learning to read and write rhythm and melody in compound time, phrase structure and anacrusis (upbeat/pickup), transposing between clefs, major and minor keys up to four
sharps/flats. NB: this course does not have a break week.Full fee £229.00
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