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MA Performance Making

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    MA 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time

Course Description

This unique international laboratory programme brings diverse individuals into collaborative research, acknowledging the challenges of creating original, performer-driven theatre in today’s complex, globalised culture.

Studying at Goldsmiths gives you access to all the cultural stimulus that London offers, allowing you to enhance your practice and develop compositional, critical, technical and management skills and strategies for forging independent and self-motivated careers. Our graduates work as practitioners, teachers and cultural leaders worldwide.

The Masters will help you conceive, research, construct and deliver your ideas, and articulate what motivates them. You will study with distinguished international artists and scholars. The emphasis throughout will be on encouraging collaboration across disciplines and cultures, and on contextualising practice within its social, political and architectural environment.

You’ll undertake physical training, scenographic/environmental exploration, and hands-on introduction to technologies (lighting, video and sound), to support your composition and artistic experimentation. You will identify your own practice within the historical and contemporary field, and write critically and creatively.

 

Entry Requirements

You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject.

You might also be considered for some programmes if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

Goldsmiths offers a range of financial support including postgraduate scholarships, bursaries and fee waivers. These are awarded based on a variety of criteria, for example academic achievements or personal circumstances.

Student Destinations

Graduates work in a wide variety of professional contexts globally as commissioned performance makers, directors, project leaders, programmers, teachers and academic researchers. The programme has launched international production companies and collaborations whilst the many organisations employing them include:

  • Dreamthinkspeak
  • Station House Opera
  • Marie Gabrielle Rotie Productions
  • The Clod Ensemble
  • Corridor
  • Lift
  • The Royal Court Theatre
  • The Gate Theatre
  • The Globe Theatre
  • Goossun Art-Illery
  • Northern Stage
  • The Royal National Theatre
  • The Beijing Academy
  • BAC
  • Bernie Grant Arts Centre
  • Artsadmin
  • Shunt
  • Hackney Empire
  • Greenwich Dance Agency
  • The Convenor’s Company
  • Athletes of the Heart

Module Details

Core modules

  • Practical Study: Scenography 30 credits
  • MA Performance Making Dissertation 60 credits
  • Contextual Theory 30 credits
  • Composition A 30 credits
  • Composition B 30 credits

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