BA (Hons) Performing Arts (Contemporary Performance)

This Performing Arts course encourages student development supported by critical, reflective reading, writing and thinking.  

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BA (Hons) Performing Arts (Contemporary Performance) at University of Winchester

Performing Arts (Contemporary Performance) at Winchester is an innovative programme that is an exciting and dynamic departure from traditional performing arts courses. It offers a programme of study that is geared towards the making of devised group and solo performances. It incorporates all the performing and creative arts disciplines in a practical and reflective exploration of contemporary practice.

Fact File

SINGLE/COMBINED HONOURS

UCAS codes: W431 BA/PA

Typical offer: 280-320 points

International Baccalaureate:
26 points

Degree duration:
3 years full-time 6 years part-time

If English is not your first language:
IELTS 6.0 (including 6.0 in writing) or a TOEFL iBT score of 87 or equivalent

Selection process: Suitable Single Honours applicants are required to attend an interview and/or a group workshop

Course Enquiries and Applications
Telephone: +44 (0) 1962 827234
Email: course.enquiries@winchester.ac.uk

For Combined Honours UCAS codes and entry requirements

 

Programme Content

The programme encourages student development by allowing them to focus on making practice-based contemporary work in an environment that is supported by critical, reflective reading, writing and thinking. Students are challenged to consider what a contemporary performance could be for the new audiences of the twenty-first century.

Year 1 is foundational and explores a range of practical and critical approaches to performing arts. Year 2 is tutor-led, and students experience a wide range of performance elements, combining both theory and practice. Year 3 is almost entirely self-directed as it encourages choices between independent study, individual artistic practice, and professional work experience.

Facilities
The University is equipped with a new state-of-the-art performance building on campus, as well as dance studios and other performance spaces, and rehearsal studios. There is also a new TV studio, a Multimedia Centre containing music composition and video editing software. Depending on the options they select, students sometimes work in offcampus spaces or with streaming digital technologies.

 

Modules

Year 1
• Approaches to Performance
• Devised Performance
• Performance Histories and Concepts
• Performance Contexts

Year 2
• Contemporary Performance Histories
and Dramaturgy
• Bodies, Sounds and Objects
• Language, Text and Writing
• Time, Space and Technology

Year 3
• Current Debates and Practices
• Directed Performance
• Ensemble Performance
• Internship

 

Careers

Graduates have set up their own production companies, developed a solo performance practice, entered arts organisations or moved into other creative industries. Others undertake postgraduate study in the field and train to become teachers. The confidence and strong transferable skills gained on the programme have enabled students to enter variety of other fields such as media, public relations, sales and marketing and public service.

Combinations

BA (Hons) Choreography and Dance
BA (Hons) Drama
BA (Hons) Film Production
BA (Hons) Modern Liberal Arts
BA (Hons) Vocal and Choral Studies

Combined Honours programmes enable you to study two subjects, jointly (50% / 50%) and it is possible to transfer to a Single Honours programme at the end of Year 1.