Theatre and Performance

Leeds University Business School

Postgraduate

In Leeds

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Leeds

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This degree offers you a unique opportunity to blend practice and theory, rooted in real-world experience and the wider context of the cultural industries.
You’ll develop your own practice in our professional theatre, stage@leeds, and have the chance to work outside the theatre with particular external partners and community groups. You’ll also explore the role of theatre and performance in society over time, innovations in practice, performance design, arts management, cultural theory, performance technologies, composition and devising and impact of the cultural industries.
Core modules will introduce you to key thinkers and approaches in theatre and performance studies, as well as enabling you to explore them through practical work. You’ll also choose from a range of optional modules offering specialist knowledge in the topics that suit your interests. It’s a challenging and rewarding opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of performance and how it relates to the world around it.
Specialist facilities
The School is based in stage@leeds, a purpose-built, landmark building that sits at the heart of the campus.
It houses two professional standard, publicly licensed theatres. The main space seats 180 and is equipped with the latest technologies. It hosts a range of work by students and visiting theatre companies. The other theatre studio provides a technically advanced performance research facility. The building also contains a dance studio, dressing rooms, box office and meeting rooms.
Other facilities in the School include rehearsal rooms, two black-box studios, costume construction and wardrobe stores, design studio, scenic workshop, computer aided design and video-editing and sound recording suites.

Facilities

Location

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Leeds (North Yorkshire)
Maurice Keyworth Building, The University Of Leeds, LS2 9JT

Start date

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About this course

Entry requirements
A-level: AAA-ABB
This should normally include at least 2 arts and humanities subjects e.g. Drama, English, Performing Arts, Theatre Studies, History. We don’t accept General Studies.
Other course specific tests:

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Subjects

  • Theatre
  • Design
  • School
  • Project
  • Dance

Course programme

Your first year will lay the foundations of the degree, with core modules introducing you to theories and approaches in theatre and performance and allowing you to explore them through different modes of practice. You’ll develop your performance and devising skills and look at the relationship between text and performance.

In the following year you’ll continue with your creative practice, devising performances and workshops for an external organisation such as a school, museum, hospital or prison. You’ll also learn to apply different research methods and think about the political, historical, social and cultural contexts of performance practitioners. You’ll choose from a range of optional modules to explore your interests, from dance to arts marketing or cultural history.

By your third year you’ll have more independence in your practice and research, producing a self-directed independent project and choosing how you’ll be assessed. You’ll either take part in a collaborative, large-scale public performance or try your hand at an enterprise project. A core module will allow you to explore important issues in the contemporary arts and cultural sector, and you’ll demonstrate your knowledge and skills with an independent research project on a topic of your choice.

Course structure

These are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.

Modules Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Studio Practices 30 credits
  • Performance Project 1: From Text to Performance 20 credits
  • Exploring Performance: Cultures and Contexts 20 credits
  • Performance Perspectives 20 credits
  • Studying in the Digital Age 5 credits
  • Studying Theatre and Performance 5 credits
Optional modules
  • Making Dance Theatre 20 credits
  • Managing Festivals and Events 20 credits
  • Exploring the Performing Arts 20 credits
  • Exploring the Musical 20 credits

Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Creative Practice and Performance Contexts 20 credits
  • Researching Theatre and Performance 20 credits
  • Performance Project 2: Collaborative Project 20 credits
  • Interpreting Theatre and Performance Histories 20 credits
Optional modules
  • Theatre Directing 20 credits
  • Cultural Flashpoints in the Performing Arts 20 credits
  • Arts Marketing 20 credits
  • Exploring Musical Theatre 20 credits
  • Performance Design 20 credits
  • Industry Study 20 credits
  • Somatic Practices in the 20th and 21st Centuries 20 credits
  • Performer Training in the C20th and C21st 20 credits
  • Politics, Identity and Performance 20 credits

Year 3

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  • Design Postgraduate Degrees
  • Theatre Postgraduate Degrees
  • Distance learning Theatre Postgraduate Degrees
  • Postgraduate Degrees in North Yorkshire
  • Leeds University Business School Postgraduate Degrees

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