Performing Arts course

‘Discovery and Transformation through Performance’

The Performing Arts (Contemporary Performance) course attracts students interested in:

New ways of making, performing and thinking about Performance
Devised Group and Solo Performance
Physical Performance
Writing for Performance
Voice and Sound in Performance
Puppetry and Object Performance
Digital Technology and Performance
Site Specific and Durational Performance
Experimentation and Innovation
The Cutting Edge of Creative and Performing Arts

We enable our students to discover their full potential and to invest in a future where they can engage with, contribute to and transform the world around them. We achieve this through the study and practice of the visionary approaches underpinning the creation of contemporary performance arts, drawn from the history of innovation in performance making across the last century.

Through this, our students develop strong transferable skills:

To be creative and innovative problem-solvers
To debate and articulate their points of view
To work constructively in teams
To have confidence and be articulate when presenting themselves in public
To explore complex challenges in a way that seeks innovative answers through both thought and action

Our students find ways to re-imagine the future.

This exciting degree will suit you if you are interested in making performances that are challenging, interdisciplinary, and innovative and that explore and develop new ways of creating work.

You will become a professionally trained Performing Arts graduate capable of working as Performance maker and Performer, a creative producer, a workshop leader or teacher, or an arts administrator, capable of working with new media, theatres and arts centres, festivals and events in response to a wide variety of contemporary demands