Storytelling Across Disciplines
Students in the Tech and Performance CoLab bring together principles of interactive design, storytelling, and performance.
Discover a Place Where Drama, Jazz, and Classical Music Thrive Together
College Of Performing Arts
The College of Performing Arts is a progressive artistic center, housed within The New School, where you can hone your craft, collaborate across disciplines, and become a ground-breaking artist.
Surround yourself with legendary teachers and mentors, faculty who will guide your development as a performer and train you to be a 21st-century artist. Find yourself integrated into New York City's vibrant artistic community, gaining hands-on experience performing across the city, as well as around the world.
Performances every year
Part-time and full-time faculty
International students
Mannes School of Music
We've transformed the traditional music conservatory by integrating rigorous classical training with hands-on experience and opportunities to collaborate across disciplines. Get the training to win positions in the world's best orchestras, the skills needed to start your own label, manage your publicity, and learn to create your own groundbreaking opportunities and collaborations.
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Considered the most innovative school of its kind, we offer students an artist-as-mentor approach to learning. Work one-on-one with the world's leading contemporary and jazz musicians to produce groundbreaking sounds and music. Develop the confidence and knowledge to experiment, take risks, fail, take more risks, and find your own authentic style of self-expression.
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Here, rigor and creative experimentation combine. Our drama programs focus on authenticity of expression, pushing students to confront today's most pressing societal issues through the making of theater, film, and emerging media. Through our programs, students embrace civic awareness across performance disciplines to create work that exemplifies imagination and social consciousness.
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These masters of their disciplines help students hone their craft and develop who they are as performers and artists.
Artists & Work
Students and faculty at the College of Performing Arts break new ground with their cross-disciplinary and innovative performances and work.
Collaborate with Artists from the Past
The New York Public Library Archives opens its doors to Performing Arts composition students.Opera at The New School
Mannes School of Music and Parsons School of Design collaborate to create the opera Il Postino.
Artist life in NYC
Imagine living in the center of the world's most creative community, New York City. Find limitless opportunities to perform across the city and engage with premier artists.
