Location:

London, United Kingdom

Program Type:

Full Degree

Degree Level:

Doctorate

Specialty:

Performing Arts

Program Overview

Program Description:

This programme provides students with the opportunity to engage in performance as an interdisciplinary and connective practice, spanning the fields of live art, theatre, visual art, dance and new media. Exploring performance as creative research, the programme moves gluidly between practice-based and theory-oriented approaches and deploys a diverse set of critical paradigms and methods associated with Performance Studies to examine performance as a cultural phenomenon. Special features This programme enables students to research, conceive and realise creative projects in performance. Students are also asked to develop critical interrogations, reflecting on their own practices and the artistic, social and political frameworks of performance making and reception. There is a strong emphasis on creative collaboration, critical dialogue and practices of public display. The programme offers opportunities for exchange with practising performance makers and theoreticians active in the field and may include residential work abroad.

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