BA (Hons) Contemporary Theatre and Performance (Applied Acting and Devising)

This practice-focused course aims to equip you with the skills you need to be an applied arts professional. Taught predominantly through practical activities, you will learn skills in performing, creating, facilitating and producing your own performance projects. 

The modules are designed to nurture your creative potential and individual artistic identity. You will explore performing arts practices from a wide range of global and local contexts and learn inclusive and diverse approaches to theatre-making.

Across the modules, you will engage with processes of acting, movement, storytelling and writing for performance.

Additionally, you will learn how to use new technologies in performance as well as stage performances in unconventional places and digital spaces.

This course enables you to consider and gain experience in curating performance events for a wide range of audiences, particularly within community settings.

Each level of the programme has a project that involves creating and staging a performance.

By the end of the course, you will have set up your own company, staged your own theatrical performances, gained an LCME-accredited certificate in teaching performing arts and prepared a professional portfolio in preparation for entering the arts industry.

Facilities

During your course, you will have access to:

·        flexible performance spaces with lighting and sound equipment

·        a dance studio

·        rehearsal rooms

·        professional theatre venues beyond the university.

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