MA Historical Costume
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Academy of Art College
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Description
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Master
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Poole
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Duration
Flexible
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Historical Costume supports and develops advanced practitioners who have the ambition to explore, challenge and redefine the relationship between a historical artefact and the redesigned and interpreted costume in a contemporary context.
MA Historical Costume engages you in the potential of performance design and garment construction to explore complex ideas; some of which could stray into other areas of artistic experimentation. Students may come to the course with a background in costume, fashion, textiles or theatre/performance design or you may have studied subjects from across the humanities including arts and performance.
This master’s programme supports and encourages you to investigate individual practice within an interdisciplinary framework, whilst developing a critical theoretical context for your work. The very special and unique nature of course delivery, through shared lectures, seminars, critiques and tutorials encourages both a ‘freewheeling’ atmosphere as well as an intense immersion in creative practice.
Whether you are interested in looking at historical influences or current socio-political issues related to dress, you will challenge the context of your study in design or historical costume construction within the broader framework of contemporary practice.
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About this course
The course is supported by lectures and seminars in areas of dress history, construction and design to enable you to critically reflect on, and to consider the place of your practice within the discipline. Seminar discussion with a diverse range of artists will invite critique of students’ work. The intense testing of work and practice in a challenging but safe arena is a particular element of the MA programme and an innate strength of the learning process that is engendered at the Graduate School.
Areas of expertise within the course team include: Historical Costume Construction, Costume Design Skills, Scenography and Dress History.
The exciting potential of this course is the ability to experiment and innovate whilst you hone your skills as a maker or designer. It fosters originality and creativity in the application of techniques of enquiry, research and making. It locates your practice in the interdisciplinary and global context, be it theoretically based in historical research and analysis or on a live production involving the transformation of costume design from page to stage.
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Subjects
- Research
- Historical
- Costume construction
- Performance design
- Identification
- Professional
- Design
- Lecture theatre
- Creative
- Development
Course programme
MA Historical Costume is designed to enable you to follow your research interests at Postgraduate level whether that interest lies in historical costume construction or performance design. Working with students and staff from across a breadth of MA disciplines you will enrich the wider Postgraduate dynamic with the individual experience and graduate expertise you bring with you.
The first unit of study Strategies for Practice: Identification allows for investigation into the specific area of study, which will involve research in the area of costume history that will be the focus of the following units of study.
As you progress through the Strategies for Practice: Identification unit you will be expected to choose and connect with a theme and exploit its interpretation and potential to inform the direction of your Masters’ Project 1 and 2.
Areas of expertise and engagement with external professionals
The Undergraduate BA (Hons) Costume and Performance Design course is one of the leading courses in the UK specialising in costume construction, set and costume design (Scenography) and film costume design skills. These specialist areas of study contribute to the quality and breadth of practitioners that Masters students in MA Historical Costume have the opportunity to meet and engage with within the studio, seminar and lecture theatre.
All staff within the course team act as senior members of practice led societies including the Performance Design Educators Collective (PDEC) and The Society of British Theatre Design (SBTD) as well as OISTAT and USITT. All Masters students are invited to contribute to the course Industry Liaison Group (ILG) which will always include members from both the theatre and film industries.
The MA Historical costume course enjoys the company of leading academics including emeritus professor scenographer Professor Pamela Howard OBE, author of What is Scenography? (2002, 2009 and 2019), Oscar winning designer and AUB Honorary Fellows Jenny Beavan OBE (designer of The Kings Speech, Sherlock Holmes and The Chronicles of Cranford) as well as leading costume maker and Honorary fellow Jane Law. The course also regularly invites leading TV costume designer Claire Collins, designer for the BBC studios production Father Brown, to talk to our students. There may also be the opportunity to learn from work-placement opportunities once the pandemic restrictions are lifted.
MA Historical Costume
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Academy of Art College
Master OnlinePrice on request -
Neath Port Talbot College
Vocational qualification Classroom-basedPrice on request -
DLP India Edutech Private Limited
Master OnlinePrice on request -
Academy of Art College
Master OnlinePrice on request -
The Media School - Bournemouth Uni
Master Distance LearningPrice on request -
University of Hertfordshire
Master OnlinePrice on request -
Academy of Art College
Master OnlinePrice on request
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