In this module you will prepare your final self-created Showcase projects. Working in groups that have emerged naturally within the year group over the three years of your training together, you and your fellow students will decide the form you want your final Showcase projects to take. All projects are supervised either by the Head of Course or by a visiting professional director but their input is intended to be mainly advisory - you are expected to take control of your own original work.
Students will write, devise, produce, direct, act in, manage and market their own work to a professional standard, putting all their learning and skills into the realisation of self-created projects, some of which will test the boundaries of existing contemporary theatre practice.
The Showcase performance is given to an invited audience of industry professionals, e.g. directors, casting directors, agents, normally in a professional London theatre venue. The Showcase is intended to provide you with opportunities to make professional connections that will enhance your career as an artist and performer.
In this module technical skills work is fully integrated with the work of preparing the self-created projects for performance. Voice, movement and singing tutors will work in rehearsals and workshops with groups as necessary, depending on the form and content of the work they are creating.
By the end of the module you will have produced a piece of professional standard original work. Several former groups of students have gone on to show the work they created in this module at professional theatre venues, for example at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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The work of this compulsory module supports the content and practical project work of the practice-led modules in final year BA Hons Contemporary Theatre (EA321 New Plays, EA323 Issue-led Theatre, EA322 Devised Christmas Shows, EA324 Cabaret & Improvisation, EA325 Self-Directed Projects).
Students will begin the year by examining the plethora of ideas that surrounds the Interculturalism debate. The work of Peter Brook will be examined, as well as Eugenio Barba's Odin Teatret and the field of "Theatre Anthropology". The students will also be exposed to some forms of non-western theatre such as Butoh and the work of Tadashi Suzuki. In the second term the students will focus on different forms of contemporary performance such as Live Art and Performance Art with a special focus on British artists and companies in the second part of the term.
Students are encouraged to reflect on their course experiences and training and to prepare themselves for further professional and cultural challenges after graduation. You will use the research and writing skills you have learned in years one and two to consider new ideas in greater depth and to develop the ability to express arguments through a process supported by relevant research and source materials. This process will culminate in the third term when you will present your Personal Development Journal.
The Interculturalism debate
Intercultural elements in the work of Peter Brook
Intercultural elements in the work of Eugenio Barba and the Odin Tetaret
An Examination of Butoh and Suzuki
Live art: Performance and the Everyday
Performance Art: Examining a variety of practitioners but focusing on the work of Marina Abramovic
The future of British theatre/performance: analysing the work of contemporary British practitioners such as Forced Entertainment
Students will begin the year by examining the plethora of ideas that surrounds the Interculturalism debate. The work of Peter Brook will be examined, as well as Eugenio Barba's Odin Teatret and the field of "Theatre Anthropology". The students will also be exposed to some forms of non-western theatre such as Butoh and the work of Tadashi Suzuki. In the second term the students will focus on different forms of contemporary performance such as Live Art and Performance Art with a special focus on British artists and companies in the second part of the term.
Students are encouraged to reflect on their course experiences and training and to prepare themselves for further professional and cultural challenges after graduation. You will use the research and writing skills you have learned in years one and two to consider new ideas in greater depth and to develop the ability to express arguments through a process supported by relevant research and source materials. This process will culminate in the third term when you will present your Personal Development Journal.
The Interculturalism debate
Intercultural elements in the work of Peter Brook
Intercultural elements in the work of Eugenio Barba and the Odin Tetaret
An Examination of Butoh and Suzuki
Live art: Performance and the Everyday
Performance Art: Examining a variety of practitioners but focusing on the work of Marina Abramovic
The future of British theatre/performance: analysing the work of contemporary British practitioners such as Forced Entertainment
- Module Supervisor: Zois Pigadas
Category: Loughton