Drama, Theatre and Performance

Making Performance: Practitioners

Module code: Q3107
Level 5
30 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Workshop, Seminar, Practical, Lecture, Project
Assessment modes: Coursework

On this module, you’ll be introduced to a range of genres in contemporary performance practice. You’ll focus on a number of companies and artists. These will be used as case studies at a practical and theoretical level.

Topics include:

• new strategies in composition/devising
• working with space and site
• participatory approaches
• collaborative methodologies.

The module ends with the performance of collaboratively created short pieces.

Key skills you’ll gain include:

• critical analysis and reflection
• practical, collaborative performance making
• research skills, especially into histories of contemporary performance.

Module learning outcomes

• Develop a greater understanding of diverse genres in contemporary performance and the ability to apply these in your own work, critically and creatively.
• Demonstrate knowledge of a number of significant contemporary performance makers/groups and a range of techniques and methods developed for making performance.
• 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.
• Manage and deliver independent projects involving the coordination of workloads, deadlines, production targets and project objectives.