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MA Performance

Manchester Metropolitan University

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Course options

  • Qualification

    MA - Master of Arts

  • Location

    Manchester Metropolitan University

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    05-OCT-26

  • Duration

    1 Year

Course summary

The MA/MFA Performance is an exciting taught masters programme that offers a practical, versatile and interdisciplinary approach to performance-making and training. The programme provides students with an advanced and practical understanding of current performance practices, drawing on a broad range of artistic and theoretical influences. The development of new creative practice is at the core of the programme, as well as how this work might be developed and profiled in a professional context. Furthermore, MA/MFA Performance also offers students the chance to specialise in either of the distinctive areas of laboratory theatre or contemporary performance, or to combine elements from both with direct experience of a current professional arts context. The experience of these options is fed through a further process of critical and professional contextualisation, before students embark on the creation of their own major projects as the culmination of the degree. The contemporary performance specialism focuses on the creation of innovative and experimental performance practice, within or across the categories of radical theatre, contemporary dance and performance art/live art. It draws particularly on the acclaimed interdisciplinary ethos and context of the Manchester School of Art and Manchester’s international arts networks. MA: 12 months full-time (September), 24 months part-time (September)

Career prospects

MA/MFA Performance graduates will leave the programme able to operate as performance practitioners at a professional level, whilst understanding the vocational and critical contexts in which the field operates. This will empower them to develop a career as freelance theatre artists, or as other professionals in the sector (producers, programmers, facilitators, curators, pedagogues etc.) or to combine these identities based on their own interests/skill sets, as is increasingly common practice in the portfolio careers built by performance artists.

Tuition fees

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(International fees)

£ 22,000per year

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University information

Manchester Metropolitan University

Manchester Metropolitan University

Manchester Metropolitan University

  • University League Table

    50th

  • Campus address

    Manchester Metropolitan University, Ormond Building, Lower Ormond Street, Manchester, Lancashire, M15 6BX, United Kingdom

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The university welcomes a diverse international student population of more than 5,000 international students from over 120 countries.
Each year, it offers a range of welcome events to help new students settle into university, explore the city, and prepare for their academic studies.
Study in the centre of the global city of Manchester, on a campus with world-class learning spaces, a lively Students’ Union and fantastic social hubs.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Drama, Dance & Cinematics

    21st out of 94 4

    15th out of 25 4

    30th out of 80

  • Entry standards

    / Max 210
    143 68%

    27th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    64.0 64%

    26th

    17

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.07 77%

    52nd

    14

  • Entry standards

    / Max 204
    117 57%

    21st

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    78.0 78%

    6th

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.23 81%

    4th

    21

  • Entry standards

    / Max 223
    130 58%

    47th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    n/a

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.32 83%

    8th

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