Foundation (FdA) in Contemporary Circus and Physical Performance - Level 2

September 2010

This course will concentrate on expanding a student's repertoire, broadening their range of skills and styles, learning to create work for different markets and within different environments. Students will continue to study the wider contexts in which these sit, understanding the diversity of the sector and how to promote their work within that market.

Over the year students will create a broad portfolio of work whilst simultaneously concentrating on a specific project of their own devising which they will develop across both semesters. In addition to creating and performing, students will learn how to sell their work professionally and manage themselves as performers, as well as looking into marketing, legal, financial/funding, logistical and insurance aspects of producing and staging work.

Students will also learn the basic elements of teacher training, giving them a grounding in the principles required for delivering workshops within their chosen field.