BIRD Conservatoire
performing arts college in London, England
BIRD Conservatoire is an independent performing arts college, located in Sidcup, South East London, in the London Borough of Bexley.
The college was founded as a dance school by Doreen Bird in 1946 and now provides specialist vocational training in dance and musical theatre, at further and higher education level. The college is one of many providers of vocational performing arts training in the United Kingdom. In addition, the college also receives a grant from Bexley Council to provide music services to schools in the borough.
The college prepares students for a professional career in the performing arts and has a reputation of feeding artists into West End and Broadway theatre, dance companies, television, film, pop music and other high-profile areas of the entertainments industry. Key areas of study include ballet, tap, jazz and contemporary dance, musical theatre, singing, voice and acting.
BIRD Conservatoire is an accredited college of the Council for Dance Education and Training. Full-time students at the college study for either the BA Hons in Professional Dance and Musical Theatre or BA Hons in Professional Dance and Performance, validated by the University of Greenwich. The college is also an approved dance centre of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD), and students can study towards the ISTD dance teaching qualifications.
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Doreen Bird first founded the Doreen Bird School of Dance in Sidcup in 1946.
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