MA Creative Performance Practice
Overview
This innovative MA programme combines a range of diverse approaches to making performance, drawing on devising, physical theatre, directing, socially engaged practice, solo work and live art.
The course is delivered in partnership with the Lyric Hammersmith, where you’ll take part in a low-residency intensive program of work at their impressive facilities.
The course is offered through intense residency modules that make it unique in the country, and particularly attractive if you wish to further your studies and enhance your career opportunities but cannot commit to a traditional full-time offering.
The course entails:
- theoretical and critical learning modules that run throughout the year
- intensive practical modules, masterclasses and workshops led by industry professionals and delivered during residency weeks, when all the cohort comes together as a community.
Modules
Methods of assessment are both practical and written. They reflect professional working methods (e.g. professional performance outcomes) as well as critical responses to the course content (e.g. through essays, reflective journals and research).
Structure of the full-time course
Semester 1 |
Semester 2 |
Summer |
| Survival Toolkit for the Creative Industries 1 (10 credits)
(2 hours weekly contact time) CPD |
Survival Toolkit for the Creative Industries 2 (10 credits)
(2 hours weekly contact time) CPD |
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| Low Residency: Theatre Making (40 credits)
(3-week intensive block with preparation before /reflection after) CPD |
Low Residency: Directing (20 credits)
(2-week intensive block with preparation before /reflection after) CPD |
Low Residency: Working with Communities (40 credits)
(3-week intensive block with preparation before /reflection after) CPD |
| Creative Practical Project (60 credits)
(student-led practical project supervised through weekly or bi-weekly tutorials, rehearsals and business support as required; offered as collaborative or solo option) |
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Structure of the part-time course
Year 1 |
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Semester 1 |
Semester 2 |
Summer |
| Survival Toolkit for the Creative Industries 1 (10 credits)
(2 hours weekly contact time) CPD |
Survival Toolkit for the Creative Industries 2 (10 credits)
(2 hours weekly contact time) CPD |
Low Residency: Working with Communities (40 credits)
(3-week intensive block with preparation before /reflection after) CPD |
| Low Residency: Theatre Making (40 credits)
(3-week intensive block with preparation before /reflection after) CPD |
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Year 2 |
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Semester 1 |
Semester 2 |
Summer |
| Low Residency: Directing (20 credits)
(2-week intensive block with preparation before /reflection after) CPD |
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| Creative Practical Project (60 credits)
(student-led practical project supervised through weekly or bi-weekly tutorials, rehearsals and business support as required; offered as collaborative or solo option) |
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Module descriptions
- Residency: Directing
- Residency: Theatre Making
- Residency: Working with Communities
- Creative Practical Project
- Survival Toolkit for the Creative Industries 1
- Survival Toolkit for the Creative Industries 2
Entry requirements
- 2:2 BA (Hons) in relevant subject, or
- equivalent qualification, or
- professional practice equivalence