Drama, Theatre and Performance
Making Performance
Module code: Q3255
Level 4
30 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Project, Workshop, Lecture
Assessment modes: Coursework
On this module, you’ll develop your understanding of what contemporary performance is and how it can be made. You’ll develop a critical and curious attitude to viewing, experiencing and making performance.
The module presents the work of artists and ensembles who have expanded our horizons about what theatre can be. By working collaboratively to generate performance material, you’ll further develop the practical skills necessary for working together.
Key skills you’ll gain include:
- investigating practice
- collaboration
- developing ideas experientially.
Module learning outcomes
- DDevelop a greater understanding of the processes and issues involved in making performances collaboratively and the ability to apply these in your own practice.
- Demonstrate knowledge of artists and ensembles who have expanded our horizons about what theatre can be.
- Employ a critical vocabulary to analyse theatre and performance made by contemporary artists.
- Collaborate with commitment, openness and sensitivity in the realisation of group-led processes
- Develop your reflective practice through analysis of individual and group creative processes.