Queer Performance MA

**Please apply directly to the College.**<br/><br/>**Full time (15 months) and part time (28 months) routes.**<br/><br/>The first and only MA of its kind to focus on queer performance, this course offers broad training in a range of queer performance practice, delivered by renowned queer artists, theatre-makers, academics, and researchers.<br/><br/>Fiercely socially engaged, political, experimental, and interdisciplinary, the course provides an in-depth, comprehensive examination of queer performance practice, studying its themes, methodologies, and untapped possibilities.<br/><br/>By collaborating closely with other queers in a supportive context, the course develops and expands your individual practice by offering opportunities to contextualise your work while collaborating with others.<br/><br/>We welcome all students with an interest in engaging with queer performance, whether primarily as maker (in theatre, live art, drag, cabaret, writing, video and moving image, sound art, digital arts), researcher, critic, facilitator or producer.<br/><br/>**Why choose this course?** <br/><br/><br/>- Experimentation and innovation: Be part of the worlds first postgraduate training in queer performance practice, building on important histories you will innovate approaches to making theatre, live art, cabaret, digital work and new writing for contemporary audiences.<br/><br/><br/>- Unique approach: Through in-depth training and study in both intensive in-person residencies and online sessions, you will develop your artistic and academic expertise within established contexts alongside dynamic opportunities for making solo and collaborative performance work.<br/><br/><br/>- Expert training: You will be taught, guided and mentored by experienced world-leading queer staff and queer performance practitioners as you explore different processes and develop new skills.<br/><br/><br/>- Research: This course creates a pedagogical culture dedicated to providing advanced, rigorous and challenging learning and development opportunities. Develop key skills in researching and thinking through queer methodologies and articulate how queer approaches inform the creation and reception of performance.<br/><br/><br/>- Sharing work: You will be encouraged to share work with audiences beyond Rose Bruford, including online, in club spaces, galleries, theatres and festivals. You will create and share an original work in any form, supported by a professional mentor.<br/><br/><br/>- Industry contacts and networking: Development of a professional network of creative relationships.<br/>