Music, dance and drama

Do you want to be on stage and use your body, voice and creativity to express something for an audience? In Music, Dance and Drama, you can explore singing, movement, working with text, improvisation and interaction. You learn to develop your own forms of expression, listen to others, work together and perform for an audience. Through the work leading up to performances, you get to try out how music, dance and drama can work together in a show.

You learn

music performance, individually and in interplay with others
dance expression, dance techniques and choreography
acting techniques, direction and theatre production
to develop your creative abilities further
theoretical subjects

Suits you if you are

musical and good at singing or playing an instrument
being good at a dance style
interested in playing roles and being on a stage
prepared to practice a lot, alone and with others, during and outside school hours
creative Up to one half of the pupils on Vg1 may be admitted on the basis of an admission test or documented skills.

If you take higher education, you can, among other things, become

a dancer, a choreographer or a dance teacher

a singer, a music teacher or a music therapist

an actor, a set designer or a dramaturg You can also take an education for other professions – with general university admissions certification you can apply to most studies at university colleges and universities.

Relevant workplaces

theatres or opera housesorchestras, concert halls or bandsnursing homes or schools

Further education

Admission tests

Some studies require a practical admission test. Examples of such studies are creative or sports studies.

Science requirements

Some studies require you to have certain science subjects. Examples of such studies are engineering, science and medical studies. You will find the admission requirements for university colleges and universities at samordnaopptak.no. In some education programmes it may be difficult to find room on the timetable to choose all the sciences you need. If you take specialization in general studies with natural science and mathematics at Vg2 and Vg3 you stand the best chance of being able to take the sciences you need.

Subject choices

Three programme subjects you can choose yourself, one at Vg1, one at Vg2 and one on Vg3. The optional programme subjects may be further specialization in music, dance and drama and/or subjects from another programme area in an education programme with specialization in general studies (for instance sciences or foreign languages).
It is up to the school to decide which programme subjects they offer.
Did you not have a foreign language in the lower secondary school? In this case, you must take a foreign language as a common core subject on Vg3 instead of the optional programme subject on Vg3.
Do you have special dreams for the future? If so, you should check the admission requirements for the study programme before you choose subjects.
Programme subjects in foreign languages and sciences award bonus points for admission to higher education.