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Study Details: MA
12 months full time 24 months part time
The MA Performance Design course explores scenography and performance-making from various perspectives informed by current research and innovative practices including immersive and participatory forms of performance design, design-led performance, audience experience and contemporary spectatorship.
On this course, you'll experiment with the creative application of design elements, including space, light, sound, costume and digital media, discovering how to shape live performance and generate meaning for contemporary audiences.
This course allows you to extend your own creative practice through developing an understanding of the theories and concepts of scenography and designing for live performance.
A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (hons) in a relevant subject.
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This course will give you the knowledge and skills to become an articulate and creative performance design practitioner. This could include; working as a designer or director in theatre, live performance, festivals or the events industry (either within a company or freelance), creating your own performance events or performance company, or working in community arts. Increasingly the importance of ‘worldmaking’ and designing for audience experience is valued in areas including; museums and the heritage industry contexts, commercial and tourism experiences, gaming and XR.
You’ll also gain a range of transferable skills in research, analysis, interpretation and communication, as well as imagination, independence and cultural awareness. This will equip you to work for a variety of roles across the cultural and creative industries, for example, in administration, marketing and management.
Year 1 compulsory modules
Independent Research Project (MA) 60
Critical Concepts in Performance Design 30
Performance Design Praxis 60
Year 1 optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)
Module Name Credits
Performance and Collaborative Enterprise 30
Digital and Intermedial Storytelling 30
The Costumed Body: Performance, Performativity and Politics 30
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