Experimental Performance - MMus
Postgraduate
In Birmingham
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Birmingham
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Duration
2 Years
Designed for emerging arts practitioners, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s brand new PgCert, PgDip and MMus courses in Experimental Performance provide you with a unique opportunity to undertake independent artistic projects in a fully supportive environment.
Available for the first time in September 2019, they enable practitioners from a variety of disciplines (including, but not limited to, instrumental/vocal performance, composition, dance, choreography, theatre, visual and performance art, creative writing) to come together with likeminded people. This course doesn’t ask you to justify yourself against the background of tradition, but gives you agency. People from every discipline are treated equally with emphasis placed on rigorous conceptual thought and idea-development. By focusing on these non-discipline-specific aspects of performance you will contribute to a collaborative, discursive and interdisciplinary working environment.
The core of your study will be formed by your own artistic ideas, which are developed, through research and dialogue, into professional practical projects.
You will be allocated a mentoring team comprising a personal tutor who has experience in collaborative and conceptual approaches alongside additional specialist support according to your individual needs. Your mentoring team is there to help you realise your ideas into fully developed performances in the best possible way.
Our Experimental Performance courses will equip you with the skills you need to engage successfully with diverse contemporary creative practice. While our PgCert focuses exclusively on Experimental Performance work, complementary modules on the PgDip and MMus are intended to enhance your wider professional development. These will be chosen, in discussion with your personal tutor, from a varied list shared with other postgraduate Principal Study disciplines.
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In depth examination of your current artistic practice.
Development of your ability to turn artistic ideas into effective performance material.
Mentoring from specialist practitioners.
Study within an interdisciplinary working environment that promotes collaboration and discussion.
Regular group critique sessions.
Using the wide range of spaces offered by BCU with privileged use of our new experimental performance space called The Lab.
Understanding the context of your work and placing it in artistic and socio-political discourses.
OpportUNIty: Student Jobs on Campus ensures that our students are given a first opportunity to fill many part-time temporary positions within the University. This allows you to work while you study with us, fitting the job around your course commitments. By taking part in the scheme, you will gain valuable experiences and employability skills, enhancing your prospects in the job market.
UK students should normally hold an honours degree.
Non-UK students should hold a Bachelor's degree or a similar degree-equivalent diploma.
This course has been created by artists who actively work with an interdisciplinary mind-set. Working in an interdisciplinary way to us means that you don’t settle for a particular artistic genre but you are interested in finding the best way of expressing an artistic idea. What form your realisation takes, what genres it borrows from would always depend on the particular idea.
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- Mentoring
- Team Training
- Successfully
- Development
- Professional
- Guaranteed
- Published
- Indicative
- MMus
- MMus optional
Course programme
In order to complete this course a student must successfully complete THREE CORE modules (totalling 140 credits):
- Career Development
- Principal Study 1: Experimental Performance
- Principal Study 2: Experimental Performance
- THREE Professional Development modules (20 credits each), and
- ONE MMus optional module (40 credits)
- Optional modules
Additional information
UK students
Award: MMus Starting: Sep 2021
Mode - Full Time
Duration - 2 years
Fees - £11,000 per year
Mode - Part Time
Duration - 3 years
Fees - £7,400 per year
International students
Award: MMus Starting: Sep 2021
Mode - Full Time
Duration - 2 years
Fees - £23,600 per year
Experimental Performance - MMus