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TOKYO ANNOUNCE GAKUIN Professional Training College of Performing Arts

TOKYO ANNOUNCE GAKUIN Professional Training College of Performing Arts

Broadcasting Personality Department

Anchorman・Reporter: This course aims for students to master correct Japanese pronunciation. It also develops their skills to draw out comments and attitudes as a chairperson in an interview situation, in a fashionable and entertaining style, developing their powers of expression acquired by practical experiences in a simulated class.
Radio Personality・Narrator: This course cultivates the art of storytelling centering on shared class experiences, personal knowledge, life-curiosities and conversation topics as sources, as well as developing their pronunciation and enunciation skills. Also the basic knowledge of radio program-making, music knowledge and selection, news coverage and interview are developed.

Broadcasting Voice Actor Department

Animation Voice Actor: In this course the vocal skills necessary for enunciation and pronunciation are developed, as well as how to create feeling, how to express feeling, and how to add character are individually learned. Also, the opportunity to publicly debut is offered while attending the course via an audition process.
Foreign Voice Actors: This is a two-year curriculum to thoroughly train and prepare the radio actor in a broad range of performance situations. It is also a flexible curriculum where students can select material according to the specific cultural direction in which they are aiming.

Broadcasting Actor Department

Stage Actor: The course gives the basic training techniques of professionals active in stage work and vocal work etc, performance work with a focus on developing pantomime skills; improvisatorial performance and communications skills are also developed. Study into sensitivity and the power of expression - indispensable tools of the stage actor are also developed and performed.
TV Actor: These lessons are conducted in front of TV cameras to study and understand the television frame, including learning the basic performance techniques which specifically work for the TV performance style. Many practical aspects of the pro-TV performer are included in the curriculum for preparing the student for TV image work on completion of the course.
Action Star: These lessons use experts in the field of historical action dramas including the martial arts coaches invited from China to develop actors who can understand both the intrinsic style through studying the performance methods at the center of this art form as well as thoroughly master every rule of performance action.
Musical Performer: In addition to learning the basic techniques of the classics, such as a classic dance and vocal music, hip-hop, jazz, pop, etc. the course aims to assist students master the skills of a rich variety of performance styles.Skill development is achieved in lessons through practical performances of selected scenes from a musical with the graduation class being a public performance reproducing a famous musical, etc.

Variety Show Department

Variety Talk Show Talent: The basic factors of comedy are studied in detail. The lecturer teaching the program is an active member of the industry. The techniques for developing multi-skilled abilities for auditioning and future employment are delivered. Students studying to be talk-show hosts are trained by professionals actively involved. A wide range of skills are studied including basic lessons in impromptu talk topics and performance expression as well as training and experiences in variety program shows in front of a camera.

Dance&Performing Art Department

Stage Dance: This focuses on street dance, which is the current trend, in order to play an active part in the dance entertainment industry, as well as an indispensable foundation course for covering all genres. As well as dance technique, the attitudes and spiritualism for living and working in the pro-dancer's world will be studied.
Street Dance: While focusing on the street dance style, this course offers substantial lessons which develop and expand the genre further to understand more deeply the present dance entertainment industry. With dedication students can master the basic technique to become an active member of the pro-dancer’s world.

Practical equipment available

In "BN1 Studio" with its digital mixing console is currently used extensively by professionals as well as for a lesson studio, dance studio, rehearsal space extensive, with recording and narration possible. There are an impressive radio studio "Studio U" actually used as a mini FM station.