Thank you for making The UWI, Faculty of Culture, Creative and Performing Arts your choice for your undergraduate degree!  This page provides need-to-know information relating to your application.

CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS:

All qualified applicants to the BFA Programmes (Dance, Film, Music, Theatre) will be invited to an interview and/or audition which forms part of the assessment of eligibility to enter the Faculty. You will also be requested to submit your own creative work prior to the interview/audition. The guidelines for submission of creative work and for attending interviews/auditions are presented below.   You may also download a copy of the Applicant Brief here.

INTERVIEW/AUDITION

As a part of the application process, you will be invited to an Interview and/or Audition.   The primary aim at the interview/audition is to find out about your creative approach and imagination, rather than your existing technical skills—though any existing aptitudes and experience will be taken into account. Applicants to the BFA Creative Arts programme should choose one major area in which to be accessed from Dance, Film, Theatre, or Music. 

Please note that an invitation to interview/audition is another step in the application process and is not an acceptance to UWI.

SUBMISSION OF CREATIVE WORK
Prepare to submit your creative work prior to your interview/audition.  Please refer to your specific area of concentration below to learn more about this. You are requested not to submit your creative work until you have received the email notification from the Faculty. 

How to Submit you Work
Your work may be submitted by email or YOUTube link to <fccpa@cavehill.uwi.edu>. Large files exceeding 8MB may be shared via wetransfer.com, Google Drive, OneDrive or YouTube link to <fccpa@cavehill.uwi.edu>.  Please check your links and files to make sure that they do in fact function before submitting.

Deadline
The deadline for submission of work for review by the Faculty will be included in your email notification. Please do not submit your creative work until you have received the email notification. 

All interviews/auditions will be scheduled following submission and you will be notified of your precise date, time and venue. 

GUIDELINES FOR CREATIVE WORK

Prior to Interview/Audition you are required to submit the following via email:

- Dance applicants

1. a new piece of work that YOU have created in any medium (e.g. film, poetry, prose, music, visual art etc.).   You choose the theme for this piece.
2. a formal resume OR a brief summary of Dance Study.
3. a written Goals Statement narrative. 
4. a Dance Reel featuring you or a piece you choreographed. 

- Film applicants

1. a new piece of work that YOU have created in any medium (e.g. film, poetry, prose music, visual art etc.).   You choose the theme for this piecee.
2. a piece of creative work (film/video), of between one to three minutes in length, in which you played a key creative role (writer, director, editor). Alternatively, you may submit three film clips which have inspired you, with brief notes as to why you have selected each clip.  
3. A written statement of your creative interests, aspirations and aims.  

Please also note that the FCCPA would accept a photo-essay, a photo-story and/or a portfolio of photographs as part of your submission for Film.  

- Theatre applicants

1. a new piece of work that YOU have created in any medium (e.g. film, poetry, prose, music, visual art etc.).   You choose the theme for this piece.

- Music applicants

1. a new piece of work that YOU have created in any medium (e.g. film, poetry, prose, music, visual art etc.).   You choose the theme for this piece.
2. A one-page personal statement  on your background in Music, musical interests,  goals 

GUIDELINES FOR INTERVIEW/AUDITION

- Dance applicants
In addition to submission of creative work as outlined above, each prospective student for the Dance programme will be invited to an interview and an audition, scheduled for the same date and time.

Applicants will be asked to execute the following in order to assess their readiness for the Dance programme (i) an Afro-Contemporary dance class: a warm-up, movement across the floor, a repertory phrase and (ii) a two-minute self-choreographed or repertory solo. All dance genres are welcomed.

International students: Prospective international applicants will be asked to submit a web link to a recording of (i) a dance class of approximately thirty minutes, led by someone other than the applicant and (ii) a two-minute self-choreographed or repertory solo. All dance genres are welcomed.

Candidates must wear close-fitting dancewear (Women: leotard and convertible tights; Men: solid T-shirt with tights or gym shorts - no required color code). Hair must be tied back, no jewelry. Ballet shoes with the elastic sewn on and tie strings tucked for ballet and bare feet for modern dance. Applicants should arrive at least 30 minutes prior to their appointments to allow for warm up. 

- Film applicants
In addition to submission of creative work as outlined above, all applicants intending to specialize in Film are required to attend an interview only.

- Theatre applicants
Applicants intending to specialize in Theatre are required to audition and attend an interview on the same day. For the audition, applicants are asked to arrive prepared to present the following: 

1. two (2) prepared actor’s pieces, one of which must be a monologue. Each piece must be no longer than two minutes. Note carefully that one of the pieces must be from the work of an author/playwright/poet etc., whether published or unpublished, other than the applicant.
2. A song or a segment of a song of no more than two minutes. 

- Music applicants (forthcoming programme)

Applicants entering the Music programme are required to audition and attend an interview scheduled on the same day. The audition includes: ·

1. Performance of two contrasting pieces; “contrasting” can be defined in different ways (e.g., lyrical vs. technical, early music vs. twentieth century, self-composed vs. a cover tune, etc.). 
2. Demonstration of technical competence including scales, chords, rhythms, arpeggios, etc. 
3. Sight-reading: Performing a piece of music at sight.

Download a copy of the Applicant Brief containing the above guidelines.