Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 12 months
MA Costume for Performance has an established legacy of responding to and thriving on change. It seeks to include, embrace and respond to the changes in society, culture, politics, environment, technology and business by keeping the curriculum flexible and updated.
Situated within a wider fashion education context, the course profits from and contributes to wider cultural debates around the body as platform of expression of individual and universal concerns. It promotes London College of Fashion’s principles of sustainability, inclusivity and diversity and engages with technological advancements in the fashion industry, which are adapted and utilised for the performance context.
The aim of the course is to develop confident, agile and experimental practitioners who will push the boundaries of the discipline, offer new directions and challenge traditional costume practices. You will explore situations and narratives that raise attention to ethical, social, political and ecological issues. Through conceptual development and, specialised design realisation, the role of costume is explored within contemporary live performance, and screen -based and digital media.
The course encourages thinking and making as intrinsically linked processes where theoretical and practice-based research methods are taught to underpin the development of costume concepts, performance narratives and costume realisation. You will develop the skills to articulate the value of costume for performance as an important and distinct area of performance research and practice.
The course seeks to recruit students from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, and welcomes applications from mature students.
The course seeks to recruit students who can demonstrate:
All our postgraduate courses offer career development, so that you become a creative thinker, making effective contributions to your relevant sector of the fashion industry.
LCF offers students the opportunity to develop Personal and Professional Development (PPD) skills while studying through:
* Access to to speaker programmes and events featuring alumni and industry.
* Access to careers activities, such as CV clinics and one-to-one advice sessions.
* Access to a graduate careers service
* Access to a live jobsboard for all years.
* Advice on setting up your own brand or company.
MA Costume Design for Performance graduates practice as designers in both the text-based mainstream but also the devised/arthouse live performance and film sector. They often take the collaborative performance work initiated during the course further and as a result, their work has been seen in major national and international festivals, including Prague Quadrennial and Edinburgh Festival, Critical Costume Helsinki (Finland), Pamplona Festival (Spain) and has been exhibited at the National Gallery London, the V&A Museum, National Centre of Performance Art in Beijing, Museum of Modern Art Shanghai and in many other venues in the UK and abroad.
Graduates find employment as assistant designers and costume supervisors in the theatre and film industry in leading institutions such as the Royal Opera House, English National Opera and on films such as Star Wars, Harry Potter and Suffragette. Others have built careers as experts in specific technical areas of costume, such as, pattern cutting, surface textiles, print and dye or fabricated, sculptural costumes. Some graduates are currently working for major fashion labels such as Chanel, Dior, McQueen and Lawrence Xu producing often unusual one-off costumes and objects for the designer’s catwalk shows.
Students will have the opportunity to participate in an elective unit as part of this course. This is an opportunity for students to collaborate with students from other courses within the college.
The following is an example list of electives that have been previously delivered:
Please note:
Block 1: EXPLORE - seeks to support students to make the transition to postgraduate level study through the following units:
You will be introduced to the principles of costume for performance and the narrative agency of costume as a conveyor of meaning in live performance. Learn advanced theoretical and practical tools for live performance creation through the medium of costume, the moving body and materiality. Focusing on character, you’ll experiment and innovate to develop your own concept and costume narratives, exploring possibilities for interaction, movement and storytelling.
Understand costume design interactions as a driving force in performance creation. You’ll explore how costume has been utilised to highlight, provoke and draw attention to individual and broader global issues, for example: climate change, social and racial justice. The aim is to identify your own interests in those wider issues and how these can be explored with costume for performance whilst developing your understanding of the industry to help define your future career aspirations.
On successful completion of these units you are eligible for the award of a Post Graduate Certificate (60 credits)
Block 2: SITUATE - expresses the shift from orientation and exploration of the discipline to a position of affirming your own interests and specific direction, within the context of your discipline and beyond, through the following units:
Start your creative future at University of the Arts London About University of the Arts London (UAL) University of the Arts London (UAL) is hos...
