Transferring to Canada

[deserted]

Hey all. Although I'm very happy here at my current school, I'm looking into transferring to a university in Canada for personal reasons. I've been researching on my own, but I seem to get lost under the heaps of information available online. I was wondering if anyone here could help out with some questions I had, since my knowledge of Canadian universities is severely lacking.

1) Are there any big universities in Canada with a theatre design & production program? I'm hoping to find a program that's specific to theatre production, but not a sole SM degree, and also has a liberal arts component to it. The only major university I could find was UBC. Anyone know anything about UBC's theatre design & production program?

2) I want to go into SM-ing dance primarily, although I would still love to do opera, musical, and plays. Are there places in Canada where dance is specially strong?

Thanks!

[cprted]

Take a look at the National Theatre School http://www.ent-nts.ca/en/.  I would argue that it is the best production program in the country (and no, I didn't go there).

If you're looking for a university based program as opposed to the conservatory style at NTS, the University of Toronto, McGill University and the University of Alberta would be the schools I would look at.

[On_Headset]

The "best" theatre schools (this is, of course, subjective) would be NTS, York, UBC, McGill, Alberta and (for tech, perhaps not for acting) Ryerson. You might also wish to consider the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria, Dalhousie or Ottawa.

It bears noting that all of Canada's mainline undergraduate universities are large and public: with the exception of NTS, all the ones I've listed have at least 10 000 undergraduate students and full Liberal Arts and Science faculties in addition to their Fine Arts programming.

My understanding is that York has the strongest dance program in the country, but--again--this is somewhat subjective.

[Jlong]

Im Canadian, and have had a few of my friends go through some of the programs, and the main ones i would suggest for tech are Alberta, NTS, Ryerson.

[ambrosialx]

Ucalgary I've heard is good. Alberta was in the midst of a departmental overhaul when I applied and it was like pulling teeth out of a tiger to get anything done (although Paul Gross went there so *sigh*). Ryerson doesn't have a Grad tech course as far as I know and has a...mixed reputation for their tech program. Also I know for sure neither Ryerson or NTS accept credits from any other universities.