Cours Florent
The Cours Florent is a famous school for individuals who plan on becoming actors and performers. Established by François Florent the University is located in Paris and began its work in 1967. The Cours Florent aims to prepare students prior to them entering an art school and nurtures them to developing their own unique style In essence. Cours Florent has a culture, where creativity runs wild and students are not restricted in any manner.
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Courses Offered
** Fees mentioned here are approximate and are per year, Unless specified otherwise
Reasons to Choose Cours Florent
Cours Florent is not only a University but a platform that lays foundation for everybody to set out for the world of entertainment. Cours Florent empowers students with competency, knowledge, professional network and confidence to be all they can and want to be.
This school is designed to develop young talents through inventive courses, valuable internships, and cheerful student life of Cours Florent.
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Innovative Teaching Methods: It is always progressing to respond to the current nature of the entertainment business.
Global Reach: Taught courses; Students have the opportunity to learn in English and German to set them ready for the International Markets.
Multiple Campuses: Branches in Paris, Brussels, Montpellier, and Bordeaux for the success of developments of talent across a region.
Supportive Environment: Concentration on reemphasizing the role of women in entertainment and creating equal opportunities for every solitary student to thrive.
Community Engagement: Periodic sponsored conferences, master-classes and events aimed at students’ communication with professionals.
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Programs Offered by Cours Florent
The Cours Florent offers many programs with the intention of focusing on the different areas of performing arts. The programs are designed in ways to train the students in every aspect of the student’s choice of specialization.
Theatre and Cinema
Explore the specifics of theatrical performance and cinematography with the help of courses available in four languages (French, English, Spanish, and German).
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The Theatre Course
This course is available at all campuses and is a 3-year vocational training program. The curriculum involves workshops and extra classes to achieve mastery.
The Cinema Course
This course is offered mostly in Paris and can be taken as an option in other campuses as well. It involves a three year professional training program in acting specifically channelized in cinema acting and technical aspects.
Theatre and Camera Course of 3 years is also provided where both theatre skills for acting and motion picture skills are trained to strengthen acting skills. This course is available in Paris.
Specialized Programs at Cours Florent
Stand-up Course
The course is comprised of professional training that takes 1 year in Paris. This course concentrates on dramatic composition, performance and other related aspects of freelance performances.
Improvisation and Interpretation
This specialization course is available in Paris providing a three year vocational course on mastering the art of improvisation on the theatre stage. This course teaches the students about spontaneity and creativity.
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PLANT and INTERPRET with CLCF
In collaboration with the Conservatory of Cinema and Fiction, Three years of training is provided focusing on the acting and directing skills.
Acting in English
The professional training course is a flexible 3 year training program that enables the student to pick specialized area they want to master in.
Internships of Cours Florent
It is possible to join the University through internships placed within companies or in the University itself.
About 90% of the students get into Cours Florent through internships, which gives the students a first feel of the tough trainings offered in the University. Internships offered can range from theatre, cinema as well as stand up.
Getting into an internship program at Cours Florent helps the student to learn first-hand and experience the campus life as well as the teaching and decide where the student’s expertise lie. The University determines the eligible position qualified by the student and prepare them for professional training depending on the duration of the internship.
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The duration of the internship may vary from 3 to 8 days depending on the specialization of the internship chosen.
The themes of the internships include: Theatre, film acting and scenes, improvisation, stand-up comedy. The cities selected for the internship themes are Paris, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Brussels, and others.
Admission through internship
The Admission Process can depend on the student as these internships give the students the opportunities to join the professional training in the University after passing the end internship audition.
Student Life at Cours Florent
Cours Florent assures an intensive student’s life full of various activities that are aimed to complement the learning process like:
- Meetings to plan out various performances and auditions
- Masterclasses for student that include extra classes for practice which are supervised by the best faculty
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- Regular interaction and guest lectures with people from the relevant industries like Vincent Lindon and Cédric Klapisch
- Holding conferences on loose topics like scenography and entertainment law
Scholarship Offered by Course Florent
Free Scholarship in English
In the English Scholarship the student is granted the freedom in English courses in acting in English class and an opportunity for French language courses. The scholarship is very selective with the processes taking two rounds and is carried out on a yearly basis.
Scholarship Rules
The First Round comprises presentation of monologues in English. The Second Round consists of preparation of set scene with high school students of Cours Florent.
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Annual Events
- The Olga Horstig Prize is a Beauty contest where talent is demonstrated to other individuals especially to those in the commerce industry.
- La Nuit Florent is a special event that mainly focuses on the best final projects done by the students.
- The Florent Image Prize is an annual competition held by the station on the basis of a short film.
- The Florent Impro Tour is an Inter collegiate event of planned and unplanned improvisation for students.
- The Eloquence Competition is held to check on the student’s effective speaking skills in front of a jury.
