BA (Hons) Performing Arts

Bachelor's degree

In Ormskirk

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Ormskirk

  • Duration

    3 Years

Our Performing Arts degree captures elements of performance which fall outside of the traditional disciplines of acting, dance and song, instead bringing visual, physical and multimedia performance into the limelight. The programme offers a thorough, broad-based education for the multidisciplinary performance makers of the future and provides the opportunity to work on collaborative ensemble productions in our professional theatre spaces. You should have a curious mind and want to develop your own distinctive voice as a creative and experimental performer, prepared to push boundaries and break away from the concepts of traditional theatre. Immersed in practical creativity, technique enhancement and theoretical study in contemporary performance, you will develop into a reflective and articulate practitioner equipped with the graduate skills which are highly sought after in the creative industries.

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Location

Start date

Ormskirk (Lancashire)
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St Helens Road, L39 4QP

Start date

On request

About this course

You will be qualified to seek a career in the theatre, research, media, teaching (further training required), community or social work, professional companies, theatre administration, community arts and postgraduate study. Some of our graduates have set up their own independent performance companies in fringe and community arts.

120 UCAS Tariff points on the new UCAS Tariff, preferably to include Performing Arts, Drama, Theatre Studies or a related subject.

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Subjects

  • Theatre
  • Dance
  • Multimedia
  • Full Time
  • Art
  • Acting
  • Performing arts
  • Visual Theatres
  • Physical Theatres
  • Multimedia Performance
  • Performance Production
  • Clown
  • Contemporary Circus
  • Aerial Dance
  • Visual Dramaturgy
  • Musicals
  • Jazz Dance

Course programme

Level 4 (Year 1 of Full-Time Programme)

PAR1101 Introducing Performance (20 credits)

PAR1103 Introducing Visual Theatres (20 credits)

PAR1105 Devising Performance: Imagining, Improvising, Creating (20 credits)

PFA1102 Physical Theatres: The Body Speaks (20 credits)

PFA1104 Introduction to Multimedia Performance (20 credits)

You will select one of the following modules:

PFA1106 Performance Skills Workshops 1 (20 credits)

TEC1100 Introduction to Technical Theatre (20 credits)

Language modules in French, Spanish or Mandarin, delivered at the Edge Hill Language Centre, are available to study as an integral part of this degree. A single Language module can be studied instead of either PFA1106 Performance Skills Workshop 1 or TEC1100 Introduction to Technical Theatre.

Level 5 (Year 2 of Full-Time Programme)

PAR2101 Approaches to Performance (20 credits)

PAR2104 Performance Production (20 credits)

PFA2102 Physical Theatres: Practitioners (20 credits)

PFA2103 Multimedia Performance 2 (20 credits)

You will select two of the following modules:

CIR2102 Clown (20 credits)

CIR2103 Contemporary Circus (20 credits)

CIR2104 Aerial Dance: Breaking Ground (20 credits)

CIR2105 Aerial Circus Performance (20 credits)

DAN2107 Dance Theatre Performance (20 credits)

DAN2108 Movement for the Singing Actor (20 credits)

DES2101 Visual Dramaturgy (20 credits)

DES2104 Costume for Performance (20 credits)

DES2105 The Body in Costume (20 credits)

DES2107 Introduction to Prosthetic Make Up (20 credits)

DRA2105 Imagining Better Worlds: Theatre, Learning and Development (20 credits)

DRA2107 The Art and Craft of the Playwright (20 credits)

DRA2108 The Art of the Actor and Rise of the Director (20 credits)

DRA2109 English Renaissance Tragedy: The Theatre of Sweet Violence and Wild Justice (20 credits)

DRA2110 The Dramatic Art of Comedy: Making Purposeful Laughter in the Theatre (20 credits)

MUS2105 Popular Musicals (20 credits)

PFA2101 Site Specific Performance (20 credits)

PFA2104 Light and Projection in Performance (20 credits)

PFA2105 Nineteenth Century Popular Performance (20 credits)

PFA2106 Performance Skills Workshop 2 (20 credits)

PFA2107 Multimedia Shakespeare (20 credits)

TEC2100 Developing Technical Theatre Skills (20 credits)

If you studied a Language module in Year 1, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 2. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of one of the optional modules above.

Level 6 (Year 3 of Full-Time Programme)

PAR3101 Researching Performance (20 credits)

PAR3103 Ensemble Production Project (20 credits)

PAR3104 Dissertation (20 credits)

PFA3102 Interdisciplinary Ensembles (20 credits)

You will select two of the following modules:

CIR3102 Applied Circus (20 credits)

CIR3103 Circus and Silent Movies (20 credits)

CIR3104 Independent Aerial Projects (20 credits)

DAN3104 Jazz Dance (20 credits)

DES3101 The Scenographic Space (20 credits)

DES3103 Scenographic Costumes (20 credits)

DES3104 Advanced Prosthetic Make Up and Special Effects (20 credits)

DES3105 Practice as Research in Costume (20 credits)

DRA3103 Acting and Directing Reconsidered (20 credits)

DRA3104 Theatre, Gender and Sexual Politics (20 credits)

DRA3105 Theatre of War: Ideological Conflict and Political Commitment in Drama (20 credits)

DRA3106 Postcolonial Theatres (20 credits)

DRA3107 On the Road: Enabling Better Worlds (20 credits)

DRA3108 Event Planning and Management (20 credits)

MUS3103 American Musicals (20 credits)

PAR3106 Arts and Enterprise (20 credits)

PFA3103 Installation and Immersive Performance (20 credits)

PFA3104 Drag Kings and Drag Queens (20 credits)

PFA3106 Autobiographical Performance (20 credits)

PFA3107 Contemporary Popular Performance (20 credits)

PFA3108 Dancing Anarchy (20 credits)

TEC3100 Advanced Technical Theatre Skills (20 credits)

If you studied Language modules in Years 1 and 2, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 3. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of one of the optional modules above.

Optional modules provide an element of choice within the programme curriculum. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by timetabling requirements.

Additional information

International students enrolling on the programme in academic year 2017/18 are £11,575 per annum.

How will I be assessed?

Assessment is through a mixture of practical and written work, including essays, portfolios, seminar presentations, workshop performances and full productions. All practice demands theoretical justification, so most modules will require either a piece of writing or an oral presentation. Students are required to reflect on your learning in each assessment and summarise their development regularly.

Who will be teaching me?

The Performing Arts team works closely together in an acknowledgement of the collaborative nature of performance. Our academics, practitioners and technical staff, together with visiting industry professionals, offer a wide range of expert learning experiences.

Course Length:3 Years Full-Time, 6 Years Part-Time

BA (Hons) Performing Arts

£ 9,250 + VAT