The Performing & Communication Arts Division provides comprehensive and challenging courses in the performing arts. The Division is broken into six areas of study: Dance, Music, Speech Communication, and Theater Arts.


We provide transfer programs for majors in Music, Theater Arts, Speech Communication, and Dance; performance opportunities in a wide variety of musical ensembles, theater productions and dance ensembles; and certificate programs in commercial music, television and radio, and theater technology.

The Performing & Communication Arts Division is housed in Pasadena City College’s Center for the Arts. The facility includes state-of-the art classrooms, labs, studios, rehearsal spaces and practice rooms. The Center for the Arts moreover features four stellar performance and exhibition venues: The Robert and Adrienne Westerbeck Recital Hall, The Boone Family Art Gallery, The Center for the Arts Theater, and the George and MaryLou Boone Sculpture Garden.

Music individual instruction class

Center for the Arts HallwayThe Choir Performs at PCC