This module introduces students to an eclectic range of different contemporary approaches to performance-making. Each week, different topics will form the foundations for practical exploration in class workshops, including improvisation and task-based performance, physical theatre and ensemble practices, adapting fiction, site-specific practices and interactive theatre-making.
The module will focus on a variety of international case studies, examining artists that are expanding and challenging the boundaries of theatre-making and innovating new methods of working by drawing on different kinds of triggers to originate live performance. The module provides space for students to research and explore a practitioner/company of their choice, and use their in-depth research as the foundations to devise an original performance at the end of term.
Aims and Objectives
* To develop a knowledge of a range of creative and critical methods and approaches to contemporary performance-making.
* To cultivate an ability to engage critically and develop work creatively in a range of theatre and performance modes and forms.
* To gain understanding of the relationships between process and product in performance work.
* To gain detailed understanding of one or more areas of contemporary theatre
practice.
* To develop organisational, improvisational, workshop and group skills.
Learning Outcomes
Students will have had opportunities to gain…
* an ability to appreciate, engage critically, and develop work creatively, in a variety of theatre and performance modes, forms, and genres.
* an understanding of processes by which performances are created.
* experience of engaging in performance-making, based on an acquisition and understanding of appropriate creative vocabularies, skills, structures, and working methods.
* the ability to work collaboratively, sharing responsibility, delegating, and where appropriate leading teams.
* skills in project management.
- Module Supervisor: Liam Jarvis