Performance: Theatre Making MA

MA Performance: Theatre Making will enable you to develop your creative and critical practice. It will encourage you to become a confident and articulate theatre maker and researcher. <br/><br/>Performance at Wimbledon is approached through questions of politics and ethics as well as aesthetics and practice. The course asks you to examine them through practical investigation and experimentation in a studio context. <br/><br/>You will think critically about your theatre making. You will want to place it in the context of contemporary performance and visual culture. <br/><br/>The course focuses on:<br/><br/><br/>• Theatre-making as an integrated, multi-disciplinary practice. Combining, for example, writing, design, acting and dramaturgy.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Developing innovative compositional strategies for performance-making as a studio-based, embodied and material practice.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• The creation of post-dramatic and politically engaged performance.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Collaboration.<br/><br/><br/><br/>What to expect<br/><br/><br/>• To investigate the opportunities and challenges posed by the development of new theatre and performance practices, technologies, histories and critical perspectives.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• To consider performance as a mode and form of enquiry, as well as a way of acquiring a set of dramaturgical skills and compositional strategies.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• To be part of a learning environment which emphasises the importance of integrated working across postgraduate courses at Wimbledon.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• To learn about research methods through practical workshops, lectures and seminars.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• To enhance your understanding of the collaborative nature of performance. This will further enable you to build ideas, proposals, and events with other theatre makers.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• To undertake peer and self-directed learning.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• To develop a final project based on an area of personal research that will be presented as a public performance or similar output. <br/><br/><br/><br/>• To produce a research dissertation. <br/><br/><br/><br/>• To have access to Wimbledons shared workshops.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Key elements introduced on the course are:<br/><br/><br/>- collaborative making<br/><br/><br/>- compositional practices <br/><br/><br/>- dramaturgical practices <br/><br/><br/>- engaging audiences and publics <br/><br/><br/>- ensemble formation, support and sustainability <br/><br/><br/>- interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary methods <br/><br/><br/>- physical and vocal performance skills <br/><br/><br/>- practice-based performance research <br/><br/><br/>- project conceptualisation, design and development <br/><br/><br/>- researching partnerships and collaborations needed for effective project delivery.<br/>