Akademie múzických umění v Praze branches

The department provides undergraduate and graduate level study in acting, directing, dramaturgy, and theatre production with emphasis on specifically interdisciplinary components of puppetry and object theatre including their overlap and feedback to the performing arts. It also provides a study of scenic design.

The department provides instruction in the playing of stringed instruments. Offers instruction in harp, violin, guitar, bass, cello and other instruments.

The Department of Composition provides artistic training for composers to enable them to work professionally in the field of contemporary classical music. Applied composition, complementary compositional disciplines and theoretical foundation are taught here.

The cabinet deals with subjects such as film and television technology, photoprocessing theory, laboratory film processing and trick and digital technology. It provides instruction in film and television image theory and technique in English for international students.

The institute is engaged in the research of dance in terms of the history of dance culture and issues of dance analysis and notation. It is also engaged in publishing activities.

The department provides four-year bachelor's and three-year master's degrees in full-time or combined form. It is also dedicated to the training of future professionals working in the fields of drama education with a focus on theatre performed by children and young people and children's performance.

The department offers an alternative, psychosomatic approach to the practical and theoretical study of dramatic culture, production and so-called theatricality. The study focuses on the search for and deepening of an authorial approach to study, the ability to communicate creatively and to reflect on one's own work.

The Foundation provides support for the artistic and educational activities of members of the academic community of the Faculty of Music and activities related to these activities. This includes support to underwrite specific artistic and pedagogical projects, to cover expenses associated with student participation in competitions.

The department provides a three-year Bachelor's degree and a follow-up two-year Master's degree with a focus on music theory, directing and management. Graduates of the academy later work as modern producers, artist managers, and intendants in theatre, opera, and orchestra.

The library collection consists of books, scripts, theses and periodicals. We provide the opportunity to watch study videotapes and work on computers. Copying, printing and scanning services are offered.

The Cabinet provides graduate studies in teaching speaking technique, stage speech, singing, artistic delivery, melodrama, dubbing and radio acting. It develops the psychosomatic prerequisites of vocal and speech expression.