Performing Arts: Performance, Production & Industry

Elevate your craft with a focus on the skills and versatility demanded by today’s performing arts industry. From honing acting techniques and voice expression to exploring the dynamic realms of dance and movement, this course sharpens your abilities while nurturing your creative potential. Expect hands-on workshops, group performances, and opportunities to collaborate with industry professionals, building a robust portfolio. Modules in areas such as naturalism, playwriting, and collaborative performance challenge you to explore new dimensions of your artistry. Alongside performances, reflective journals and presentations allow you to grow as a self-aware practitioner. With strong industry links and practical experience, you’ll develop the confidence and adaptability to navigate a competitive field. Whether pursuing acting, teaching, or arts administration, you’ll graduate ready to shape your career or progress to further study, equipped with the expertise to produce meaningful, impactful work on stage or behind the scenes.

In year 1, you will study the following modules:
• Creating Atmosphere: Devising Through Movement (20 credits)
• Playwriting: From Concept to Stage (20 credits)
• Naturalism: Techniques for Theatre (20 credits)
• Screen Acting: Film and Television (20 credits)
• Contemporary Performance: Movement, Dance and Expression (20 credits)
• Working as an Ensemble: Collaborative Process and Performance (20 credits)
In year 2, you will study the following modules:
• Immersive Theatre: Community Project (20 credits)
• Absurdism and Epic Theatre: Post-War Innovations and Theory (20 credits)
• Individual Performance: Finding and Shaping Repertoire (20 credits)
• Musical Theatre: Collaborative Performance (20 credits)
• Stagecraft: Role and Responsibility (20 credits)
• Performance Project: Developing Character (20 credits)

Students on the course benefit from extensive academic support and pastoral care, with a focus on the individual aspirations and the needs of every student. This will be assured through a range of teaching strategies and engagement opportunities.
Teaching on modules is active and learning will be done in a supportive studio/classroom space, with clear intent and progression, delivered by an experienced teaching team. All sessions aim to enhance knowledge, skills and behaviours for lifelong learning. Methods used will encourage both independent and collaborative learning through use of:
• Practical workshops/rehearsals
• Interactive lectures
• Group seminars
• Resource-based Learning
• Self-directed study and group work
• Tutorials
Each module seeks to include engagement outside of the classroom and within the community; acknowledging that networking should be a consistent factor throughout your learning journey. There will be course related companies and practitioners that you will work alongside. In addition to this, attendance of performances and residences will be used to broaden learners’ concepts and practice.
Assessments are contextualised and carefully sequenced to allow for the continual progression of students via a ‘feed forward’ approach that challenges students to consistently set and maintain high standards. Verbal and written formative feedback are given at regular intervals. Assessment methods differ depending on the module however typical assessment methods used may include practical demonstrations and presentations, portfolios, viva-voces, performances, events, reflective journals/online blogs, essays and evaluations.
Individual or group projects for each unit will always culminate in public performance (when achievable). During your time studying with us, you will be introduced to numerous industry professionals and given the opportunity to have your work seen across numerous platforms including internal/external venues.