Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
It was not easy, but then, as McCartney reminds Featherstone-Witty from time to time, if it were easy, everyone would be doing it . LIPA awards companionships to individuals in recognition of their contributions to the world of art and entertainment, particularly within the sectors to which LIPA is linked. Prospective companions usually attend the Institute at least once before they are invited to become companions in order to give masterclasses to students, or to participate in Conversation with type question and answer sessions.Some then revisit the Institute at later dates. Lipa s 2009 Graduation took place on Friday July 24th where the following people became companions: 2009 As of July 2008, LIPA s companions are: 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 + denotes a Companion who is also a LIPA Patron. History section adapted from the LIPA History Page Arts Educational Schools, London · The Hammond School · Sylvia Young Theatre School · Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts · Tring Park School for the Performing Arts · BRIT School · Bird College · Central School of Ballet · Elmhurst School for Dance · English National Ballet School · The Hammond School · Laine Theatre Arts · Laban · London Contemporary Dance School · London Studio Centre · Northern Ballet School · Northern School of Contemporary Dance · Performers College · Royal Ballet School · Scottish School of Contemporary Dance · Tring Park School for the Performing Arts · Academy of Live and Recorded Arts · Arts Educational Schools, London · Birmingham School of Acting · Bristol Old Vic Theatre School · Central School of Speech and Drama · Drama Centre London · Drama Studio London · East 15 Acting School · Guildford School of Acting · Guildhall School of Music & Drama · Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts · Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts · London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art · The Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre · Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts · Oxford School of Drama · Rose Bruford College · Royal Academy of Dramatic Art · Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama · Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama · Tring Park School for the Performing Arts · Arts Educational Schools, London · Bird College · Cambridge Performing Arts · Guildford School of Acting · Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts · Laine Theatre Arts · Leicester Performing Arts · Liverpool Theatre School and College · Masters Performing Arts College · Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts · Performers College · Stella Mann College · SLP College · The Urdang Academy · Tring Park School for the Performing Arts · Bush Davies School of Theatre Arts · . The final solution was to offer higher education courses to achieve excellence and a range of open and flexible learning courses to achieve access.
Performers were a fraction of the employment. By 1985 he had nearly 50 artists, directors, choreographers and entrepreneurs backing him. Record producer Sir George Martin knew that Featherstone-Witty was looking for somewhere to develop a school, and that McCartney was looking for someone who could save the building, and so introduced them to each other.
The film inspired him to think about what training would have best prepared him and others for a lasting career in the arts and entertainment industry. To this day, both embody the heart of the Institute. LIPA celebrated its tenth Birthday on 30 January 2006 at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall with a performance designed to celebrate the past, present and future, alongside the launch of a new book: Diplomas are validated by LIPA, and are offered mainly as a course which will allow entry into higher education, either in LIPA or elsewhere.
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) is a university in the English city of Liverpool that offers training in Acting, Community Drama, Dance, Music, Sound Technology, Arts Management, Technical Theatre, and Theatre Design. It offers nine full-time BA (Hons) degrees, as well as Post Graduate Diplomas and Master of Arts (postgraduate) programmes of study. LIPA also offers weekend performing arts classes for 4 to 19-year-olds both within Liverpool and further afield via official franchises. The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts was started by Sir Paul McCartney and Mark Featherstone-Witty. It was a meeting of two ideas: McCartney had known since 1985 that the building which had housed his old school — the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys — was becoming increasingly derelict after the school s closure, and wished to find a productive use for it; Mark Featherstone-Witty had set up the Brit School in London, and wanted to try his ideas on a bigger scale. Featherstone-Witty had been fired up by Alan Parker’s 1980 film Fame, about the New York High School for the Performing Arts. From the start, the desire and so the challenge was to achieve excellence with access.
From these basic concepts, he created a blueprint for a new type of training and then spent three years quizzing the industry and refining his philosophy. It took £20m for the facility, the curriculum and the support to maintain and develop all three. LIPA was opened by Her Majesty The Queen on 7 June 1996, and since then its range of courses has expanded with each new academic year.
The film gave him the idea that performing artists needed to train in all three performing arts (acting, dance and music) at the same time. The struggle to create the facility and the school took seven years and is described in more detail on LIPA s website, and in a book by Featherstone-Witty.
Then he read a book about musicians who had failed to understand they were entering a business, despite the phrase show business . These courses are also popular among certain students who want to improve their skills and abilities, but who do not wish to undertake a full three-year course. Degree programmes are all validated by Liverpool John Moores University LIPA does not want to issue its own degrees, so rather than issuing Honorary Degrees like other British Universities, it awards Companionships .
He also took on board the idea that performers formed the tip of an arts and entertainment employment iceberg.
