Connections to national and international theatre industry - Multiple structures within the course will see that you make appropriate and useful connections to the industries that you seek to work within.Reputation for excellence - As one of the leading Drama departments in the UK, you will work within and grow connections to a community of internationally renowned scholars and practitioners.Leadership - You will continually be guided to reflect on your position and potential, alongside attention to contemporary ethics and politics concerns, to develop and sustain a career as a creative leader.Unique, contemporary approach to applied performance - Develop as both a performance practitioner and scholar, with inclusion, diversity, wellbeing and resilience at the core of the work.Critical artistic vocabulary - This course provides you with a chance to develop relevant languages and methods for adapting performance practices within complex contexts.Confirmed placements for the forthcoming year include the Royal Shakespeare Company, Birmingham Rep, Birmingham City Council, Writing West Midlands, China Plate, Stan’s Cafe, Women and Theatre, Open Theatre, Friction Arts and Curiosity Productions. Typically, students will be placed where there is a match between the company and their research or practice-based interests. This experience will inform the Independent Research Project, where you will choose either performance or written outcomes to strengthen the skills most needed for the next strides in your career.Īpplied Artists benefits from the expertise of staff in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts who research, publish, create and facilitate a wide range of creative practices relevant to this degree.Īpplied Artists is based at the University of Birmingham Selly Oak campus with its own supported public performance venue, studio spaces and theatre library.Īpplied Artists is in close dialogue with leading international theatre and performance companies to provide placements. You will test and investigate your performance practice through a placement with leading international and national companies, charities and practitioners in Performance Ethics & Economies. You will lead your own practice as research projects in Praxis: Practical & Embodied Research Methods, and experiment with performance modes and imperatives in Performing the Political Body. The second semester will guide you through applications, methods and international placement opportunities. Simultaneously, in your first semester, through Communities & Cultures you will observe and interrogate performance practices with diverse peoples and places including Indigenous peoples, migrants and queer communities, and in hospitals, schools, care and post-conflict settings. What will you study?Īpplied Artists is a carefully structured one-year MA starting with Alexander Studies where you will locate your complex identities, values, and drive for change in the body first and foremost, before exploring these dramaturgically and in an immersive realm with Digital, Interactive & Immersive Dramaturgies. We will guide you as you steer new practices and research in dialogue with our rapidly changing transnational, globalised and decolonising peripheries. Applied Artists students have access to specialised training, critical research and placements with connected artists, companies and non-governmental organisations around the world. This is a newly formulated MA that responds to the pressing demand for ethical and sustainable performance practices nationally and internationally. This MA sees you journey between yourself and communities in your articulation of practices towards socio-cultural, political and economic change. Are you committed to ideas of community, inclusivity, sustainability and wellbeing in theatre practice? Are you interested in advancing your artistic practices to develop and innovate at the intersections between applied, political and mainstage performance?Īpplied Artists pairs the growing body of international applied theatre and performance research with sophisticated performance training to develop the applied practitioner as an artist.
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