Career perspective

The Scenography study programme is primarily directed at developing  your skills to become a scenographer for the performing arts. A scenographer focuses on contemporary visual culture, iconography and the quality of imagery itself. Because you have been trained to work with spatial images, characterized by time and time elapse, you are qualified as young designer to find employment in the exhibition world, television or film. Currently there seems to be an international trend in working for museums. There the ‘experience’ of a spatial image, pre-eminently the domain of the scenographer, is becoming increasingly important.

Already during your study you will regularly interact with the professional field. Not only will you attend productions, you will also make a tour of inspection behind the scenes to form an impression of how a stage set is constructed and the quality of the costume ateliers. What’s more, during the last year of your study you will be designing a stage set or costumes for a production yourself, in collaboration with a director and a production team consisting of students from different Theaterschool study programmes. Outside school you will present your work together with that of your fellow students in a museum and a gallery.

Due to the large amount of practical experience you gain during your study via intensive collaboration with other study programmes in the Theaterschool and the many (guest) lecturers active in the professional field, you have access to a broad network of relevant contacts after graduating. In the final phase of your study you will be supervised in your switch to professional practice, or alternatively an advanced study programme: a master.