Performance Facilities

AMATA

The Academy of Music and Theatre Arts (AMATA) is a purpose-built live venue on the Penryn Campus housing an assembly of flexible theatre spaces, performance, rehearsal and recording studios, a box office and exhibition areas. As an AMATA student you'll be sharing performance facilities with the likes of Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, Forced Entertainment, A Blaze of Feather, Avalon Entertainment, Neil Halstead, Rei Nakamura and Graham Fitkin.

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Exterior of the AMATA building on Penryn Campus with grass and blue sky

Our facilities

Performance facilities

As we're a public venue, you'll be working within facilities that are made for industry, including:

Multiple licensed performance spaces
200-capacity flexible theatre space
11 high-specification performance and rehearsal studios
13 specialist studio spaces licensed for public performance
Digital box office system to support your professional practice
A public performance programme, which complements your learning through opportunities to volunteer and devise events
High-specification performance studios for both acoustic and electronic music
Automated performance lighting systems using ETC and Avolites control

Social spaces

As well as practice rooms and breakout areas ripe for collaboration and socialising, AMATA also has its own cafe which serves up hot drinks, delicious homemade cakes, salads, toasted sandwiches and hot food as well as a range of non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages.

Actor in yellow dress dancing on stage in front of childlike portrait projected behind her.

Falmouth University dance students raising their arms in a dance studio

Students in a stage fighting workshop in AMATA studio

Rehearsal spaces

From dance to music to acting, our rehearsal spaces provide professional-standard facilities and equipment. Key features include:

12 practice rooms
700m2 of fully sprung dance floors
Seminar, exhibition and display spaces

Audio / recording equipment

From enhancing live performances to creating immersive music recordings, you'll be working with professional-standard audio equipment, including:

Purpose built sound studios incorporating high quality analogue and digital technologies, including SSL, Audient, Digico and Allen & Heath consoles
Classic and contemporary synthesizers and outboard equipment
Professional software and one of the UK's largest collections of microphones in higher education
0.2 Genelec surround system for mixing and performance