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University of the Arts London: Performance: Theatre Making

Institution University of the Arts London View institution profile
Department Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London
Web arts.ac.uk
Email info@wimbledon.arts.ac.uk
Telephone 020 7514 9641
Study type Taught

Summary

MA Performance: Theatre Making will enable you to develop your creative and critical practice. It will encourage you to become a confident and articulate theatre maker and researcher.

Performance at Wimbledon is approached through questions of politics and ethics as well as aesthetics and practice. The course asks you to examine them through practical investigation and experimentation in a studio context.

You will think critically about your theatre making. You will want to place it in the context of contemporary performance and visual culture.

The course focuses on:

  • Theatre-making as an integrated, multi-disciplinary practice. Combining, for example, writing, design, acting and dramaturgy.

  • Developing innovative compositional strategies for performance-making as a studio-based, embodied and material practice.

  • The creation of post-dramatic and politically engaged performance.

  • Collaboration.

What to expect

  • To investigate the opportunities and challenges posed by the development of new theatre and performance practices, technologies, histories and critical perspectives.

  • To consider performance as a mode and form of enquiry, as well as a way of acquiring a set of dramaturgical skills and compositional strategies.

  • To be part of a learning environment which emphasises the importance of integrated working across postgraduate courses at Wimbledon.

  • To learn about research methods through practical workshops, lectures and seminars.

  • To enhance your understanding of the collaborative nature of performance. This will further enable you to build ideas, proposals, and events with other theatre makers.

  • To undertake peer and self-directed learning.

  • To develop a final project based on an area of personal research that will be presented as a public performance or similar output.

  • To produce a research dissertation.

  • To have access to Wimbledon's shared workshops.

Key elements introduced on the course are:

  • collaborative making

  • compositional practices

  • dramaturgical practices

  • engaging audiences and publics

  • ensemble formation, support and sustainability

  • interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary methods

  • physical and vocal performance skills

  • practice-based performance research

  • project conceptualisation, design and development

  • researching partnerships and collaborations needed for effective project delivery.

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