Internships

During the Technical Theatre Arts study programme, you regularly gain on-the-job experience in order to prepare adequately for your future career. Internships are essential for testing and developing your competencies in practical situations, and to gain insight in an organization. You also learn to see how various occupations interrelate, the function of your own team  and its position within an organization and how your individual role relates to the whole.   

During your first year you collaborate in small Theaterschool productions. You are responsible for the technical realization of dance and theatre performances. In the second year you contribute to a large-scale theatre or opera project. Your purpose is to participate in productions which utilize high-level technology and have a complex organizational structure. In this way you learn to recognize the competencies you need to function as technique manager in practice. During internships students usually work at a subordinate level in an organization. Here they become acquainted with the complex nature of technology, management and organization.

In the third year there are two internships. Each student follows a ten-week internship with a theatre- or dance company. Another ten weeks are spent working at a theatre. In the second year you are supervised in choosing your internship. During the third semester you must formulate your internship goals and secure an internship with a theatre. Deciding upon an internship at such an early stage of the curriculum forces you to clearly formulate your own ambitions.

During the fourth year you will participate in final productions staged by  various performance art study programmes at the Theaterschool. Together with your fellow students you are responsible for the technical realization of performances presented at the Theaterschool. One of these productions will be your graduation project.