Course options
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Qualification
MA - Master of Arts
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Location
Central Saint Martins
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Study mode
Part time
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Start date
SEP
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Duration
2 Years
Course summary
MA Performance: Society critically explores the conventional boundaries between art, performance, screen, theatre and activism. It recognises that you, the performance maker, can be an agent for change in relation to local places and challenges. The course examines how performance, and its methodologies can provoke debate, build community and make lasting change.MA Performance: Society is aimed at students who are interested in participatory arts, socially engaged arts, applied theatre, site-specific, site-responsive performance, moving image, live arts, scenography and performance in the expanded field. CSM, as a College community, seeks to prioritise the urgencies relating to identities and equity, climate ecologies, and publics and commons. The Performance: Society course recognises that its students will seek to contribute to collective efforts to address the urgencies faced by their community in a particular place as well as the global context.Teaching and learning encompass the relationship between ideas, process and context. Taking into consideration their personal lens, students will create a learning environment where complex social, cultural and artistic viewpoints can be explored.Whilst studying and practicing on the course, you will engage with a range of theoretical and practice-orientated approaches, political and ethical positions, and methods of performance-making in relation to contextual settings. Our focus is on student-centred learning, bringing your work to the critical scrutiny of the academic setting.Students completing this postgraduate award will be able to:Make situated practice considerate of social and ethical responsibilitiesNegotiate the complex relationship between context, practice and communicationSynthesise practical, research, evaluative and reflective skills.The course promotes interdisciplinary practices that critically explore the conventional boundaries between art, performance, screen, theatre, place-making and activism. It recognises that the performance maker can be an agent for change in relation to local places and communities. It prioritises participation through activism, re-enactment, collaboration, imaginative hybridity and narrative (de)framing forms of reverie, exploring place and senses of belonging.
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University information
University of the Arts London
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University League Table
27th
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Campus address
University of the Arts London, 272 High Holborn, London, London, WC1V 7EY, United Kingdom
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Subject ranking
52nd out of 96 13
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Entry standards
/ Max 185133 72%28th
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10051.0 51%74th
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 43.00 75%78th
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