MA in Performance Making

What you'll study This is a praxis programme on which you gain 180 CATS (credits). Core modules Module title Credits. Practical Study: Scenography Practical Study: Scenography 30 credits (Autumn and spring terms) This module includes: Studio work: methodological training in a range of physical and vocal disciplines, developing into workshop experimentation. Technical production skills: hands-on introduction to lighting, sound and video. 30 credits. Performance Making (A and B) Performance Making (A and B) 60 credits (Autumn and spring terms) Composition is taught in intensive workshops, leading to applied exercises in the spring term. 60 credits. MA in Performance Making Dissertation MA in Performance Making Dissertation 60 credits (Summer term and summer break) Comprises Final Show, Essay and viva voce examination. The summer term is entirely devoted to researching, developing and producing the Final Production, which operates as a student-run festival of works for the public. A self-reflective Evaluative Essay is delivered at the end of the summer, and a viva voce examination takes place in September. 60 credits. Contextual Theory Contextual Theory 30 credits Theory (autumn term) This lecture-seminar module is designed to strengthen and broaden your critical, analytic and theoretical skills in relation to performance culture(s). Professional orientation (summer term) Short intensive workshops in articulating, promoting, and funding your own professional practice with the convenor, the Live Art Development Agency (LADA) and the College’s Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE). 30 credits. Download the programme specification for the 2018-19 intake. If you would like an earlier version of the programme specification, please contact the Quality Office. Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.