Choosing a Master in Performing Arts Management, Master in Music and Performing Arts Administration, Master in Stage and Performing Arts at the university of your choice or a Master in Performing Arts means, above all, choosing to specialize and then enter the professions of producing music, theater, dance and circus shows as well as street arts.
Alternating theory and practice through numerous group or individual projects, the 2-year Master’s in Performing Arts enables you to master the management, administration, and production of performances.
Are you torn between a Master’s in Performing Arts Management, a Master’s in Music and Performing Arts Administration, or a Master’s in Stage and Performing Arts taught at a university, and the Master’s in Performing Arts Production offered by IESA arts&culture?
Acquiring Knowledge and Skills in Performing Arts
The first year allows you to acquire a methodology for producing a performing arts show. It gives you the skills to run a performance venue, from design to programming, from production to management, including financing, communication, marketing and cultural mediation.
The second year gives you the keys to approach cultural entrepreneurship, communication and marketing, with an emphasis on digital so that you can evolve in step with the times. During this 2nd year you will work on case studies around current topics: the distribution of performing arts in France and internationally, funding methods, cultural development of regions, artistic residencies, artistic direction, the economics of the performing arts… You work in small groups and are supervised by a professional who will pass on a cultural project engineering methodology specific to their field of expertise in performing arts (theater, music, street art, dance, puppetry…).
Optimal Employability in the Performing Arts Sector
The versatility of the skills and experience gained during the Master in Performing Arts leads to 85% of our graduates finding a job within 6 months in a wide variety of sectors: theaters and companies, festivals, state-approved venues, publishers, tour promoters, record labels, event agencies or artistic agencies, local government cultural departments, concert halls, SMAC venues, copyright societies, foundations, specialized press.
By following our performing arts program, you will be able to pursue careers as theater / concert hall / festival administrator, programming manager, music publisher, cultural project officer, artist manager, sponsorship officer, production manager, communications manager…
A performing arts program led by renowned professionals
The speakers are mainly working professionals who pass on their know-how and share with you their experience and expertise in the performing arts. Some classes, within public and private organizations, immerse you in the performing arts sector and let you exchange with all its players in order to master how it works.
Gradual career entry, supported by internships
With an alternating schedule, IESA arts&culture lets you carry out one-off assignments at partner cultural events (MaMA festivals, Classique au vert, Floréales théâtrales…) as well as short or long internships in companies or theaters (Compagnie Mélodrames, théâtre Falguière…). In the 1st year, an alternating schedule is offered until April, then a long internship must be completed between May and September. In the 2nd year, an alternating schedule is offered until March. A long full-time internship is completed starting in April for a maximum of 6 months.
A strong performing arts experience through designing and organizing real projects
In the 1st year of the Master Performing Arts, over two semesters you carry out, from A to Z, a collective project with your whole class, coached by a professional. This year, our students were in charge of the Tremplin Play it Indie. In a smaller group (15 students on average), you carry out one of the seven cultural projects offered by the school. In the 2nd year, you carry out a PGR (Real-Scale Project). Supported by a coach, you individually design, organize and run an event (festival, concert, play, street performance… ). It can be based on an original idea such as a festival or a concert, or co-produced with an existing organization.