Hooray! We are celebrating our 10-year anniversary in 2023! The celebrations will be themed around the future of arts.
We are a reformer of the performing arts and offer the highest education in theatre, dance and writing in Finland.
Uniarts Helsinki’s Theatre Academy offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programmes in performing arts. Our graduates pursue careers as lighting and sound designers, dancers, choreographers, dance and theatre pedagogues, actors, directors, dramaturges and performance artists. We also offer a Degree Programme in Acting in Swedish.
Art, performances, education and research are in constant interaction with each other at the Theatre Academy. Acquiring a set of skills is the foundation to build off of, but the ultimate goal is to develop students’ thinking and help them grow into artists.
Performances are a significant part of the core of the teaching and research at Uniarts Helsinki’s Theatre Academy, which is why they are also included in the degree requirements. For students, performances are an instrument for producing art, a research tool and an opportunity for hands-on learning.
The Theatre Academy hosts about 50 premiers per year, and the majority of them are open to the public. Anyone can join the audience by purchasing a ticket from the Theatre Academy ticket sales.
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Our 14 degree programmes and centre for joint studies offer a variety of options. Find out more about our studies and admissions.
Learn more about our study options that lead to a bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree in the arts (dance, or theatre and drama).
See our study guide for courses provided by Theatre Academy’s Centre for Joint Studies.
Find out how we rank as a university and read more about the excellent quality of our education and research.
We are a forerunner in artistic research in performing arts. Our research activities are run by The Performing Arts Research Centre Tutke.
The internationally networked research centre promotes artistic research in performing arts and their pedagogy.
Deepen your expertise and become an artist-researcher at the Theatre Academy.
Our publication series include research publications, reports, topical pamphlets, and support materials for teaching performing arts.
The special nature of our research is based on direct and rich interaction between research and art.
Through performance, our students get to make and explore art and learn by doing. Learn more about performances and events.
Learn about upcoming events in performance, theatre and dance.
Build your networks, improve your skills and discover fresh perspectives into art and arts education.
Discover graduates and students of Uniarts Helsinki’s Theatre Academy. You can find profiles from all our different programmes by changing the site language.
By actively participating in international networks and collaboration projects we develop our education, artistic activity and research.
Uniarts Helsinki offers exchange students an excellent range of study options.
The University of the Arts Helsinki (Uniarts Helsinki) has been nominated as a best practice university when it comes to mobility. There has been a significant increase in the number of exchange students applying to study music, in particular.
Application information for the academic year 2023-24. Find out if you can apply and how is it done.
The two-year Master’s studies are organised with four European universities.
Starting in autumn 2020, we offer master’s studies in directing also in English.
In its Visiting Experts lecture series Theatre Academy invites international experts in the arts and sciences. The lectures are open for the public.
Challenges for the Contemporary Arts: How to be an artist in times of decoloniality?
Readings from An [Interrupted] Bestiary.
The lecture series was launched in 2019. Past visitors include Paul O’Neill, David Burrows and Simon O’Sullivan, Jaana Parviainen, André Lepecki, Nora Sternfeld and Adrian Heathfield, Konstantina Georgelou and Efrosini Protopapa, Susanna Lindberg, and Nikolaus Müller-Schöll.
Learn about the Theatre Academy’s history and how three academies merged to become Uniarts Helsinki.
The three Uniarts Helsinki academies have roots deep in Finnish art education and the history of art. Read our story.
Read about the Theatre Academy’s important years and rectors from the time before Uniarts Helsinki.
