The Charles Sturt University School of Visual and Performing Arts, one of seven Schools within the CSU Faculty of Arts, fosters an environment of innovation, creativity and critical thinking in teaching, research and professional practice so as to enhance society and culture.
To achieve this mission, the School continually review course offerings to assure the currency of the content and to afford students the opportunity to achieve their professional career pathways; ensuring graduates possess the necessary understanding to undertake and participate in the process of continuous learning.
Postgraduate courses are offered both on campus and by distance education at Masters and Doctoral levels by Coursework and Research.
The area of CSU's Wagga Wagga campus that is home to the Performing Arts courses is affectionately referred to by students as 'TV Land'.
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“More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.”
—Uta Hagen (b. 1919)
“To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labour. You must in some way or other graft upon the man’s nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine.”
—William Booth (1829–1912)
“It was Mabbie without the grammar school gates.
And Mabbie was all of seven.
And Mabbie was cut from a chocolate bar.
And Mabbie thought life was heaven.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“For women ... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can’t possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman’s body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
“Bottom. What is Pyramus? A lover or a tyrant?
Quince. A lover that kills himself, most gallant, for love.
Bottom. That will ask some tears in the true performing of it. If I do it, let the audience look to their eyes.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)