National Performing Arts School: The Pride of Dublin

NPAS is the acronym for National Performing Arts School. Located in Dublin, Ireland, it is the school for students aged 2 to 20 and 20+, who have the serious inclination to learn and build a future in the performance arts.

The school has been founded and run by Jill Doyle and Eamon Farrell, who happens to be actor Collin Farrell’s brother. For 16 years now NPAS has been offering various art courses in drama, all types of dance, singing, musical theater, and ballet. The school also renders training and courses on more contemporary types of dance and genres like tango, salsa, film production, bollywood, which is now gaining a large international audience, and musical theatre. NPAS should be credited for the first ever course on the revolutionary salsercise, which is a solid combination of salsa, dance, and exercise.

It has been said that the popular dance classes offered by NPAS have integrated themselves into the adult’s social life. Some of these world-renowned dances are street dance, tap dance, acting for camera, singing, and general ballet for adults.

Students of NPAS are also meant to perform every two years in Olympia Theatre. They are also popular for the workshops that they run all throughout the year. NPAS is also encouraging performance art groups such local art groups or a drama group. This openness that NPAS exuded for the whole community of dancers, artists, and singers has made them great in the eyes of art enthusiasts and professional artists.

This relatively young art school has just recently opened The Studios, the state-of-the-art rehearsal, performance, and educational facility which has been used for NPAS’ photo and TV shoots and many other performing art related activities. Located in Dublin’s Docklands, this massive structure houses nine studios that are 200 sq. ft. to 400 sq. ft. in size.

NPAS has a promising future and with it is the support of the many people whose lives it has touched.