About the Performing Arts Department

CONSERVATORY DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING ARTS
 
The fundamental aim of university education is to develop universal awareness, problem-solving skills and critical thinking. Guided by the motto of universality and flexibility, our university aims for its students not only to become performing artists who meet international standards, but also to become leading, entrepreneurial, productive, creative, conciliatory, expert and pioneering individuals in the field of culture and arts.
 
 
MISSION AND VISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING ARTS
 
Our country and the world need artists who have trained themselves, grasped the relationships between the subfields of the performing arts discipline, acquired practical competencies, gained a perspective from the local to the universal and received an integrated education. The Department of Performing Arts at Bahçeşehir University aims to train professional artists who specialize in all dimensions of the performing arts. With this program, in which theatre, musicals and performance disciplines are taught together, the department aims to train performers, theorists and educators in the field of performing arts.
 
Drawing on the innovative dynamics in contemporary performance arts in Türkiye and around the world, the BAU Conservatory Department of Performing Arts acts with the vision of equipping its students with 21st-century artist training skills that integrate practice and theory. Within this scope, the BAU Conservatory Department of Performing Arts aims to provide its students with 21st-century artist training skills that integrate practice and theory.
 
The Department of Performing Arts of Bahçeşehir University Conservatory implements an interdisciplinary program that synthesizes acting and musical theatre programs and draws on dance-movement training, acting for the camera, creative drama in education and digital arts. The language of instruction of the program is 30 percent English.
 
In addition to courses taught by expert academics and professional artists, students are offered a rich program through workshops, seminars and certificate programs conducted at national and international levels. Alongside their core departmental and elective courses, our students develop their practical skills in the creative industries through the national and international workshops and projects in the performing arts in which they take part. Thanks to our connections in the sector, our students are given the opportunity to meet, get to know and engage in discussion with the leading experts in their field.