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Course description: The course is approximately 70 per cent practice and 30 per cent theory, and an ideal programme for practising artists developing their own work; there is a strong practical focus and students may choose to do a practical dissertation creating a full-length professional standard performance piece.(read more)
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Course description: The scheme is designed for students who require a flexible programme of postgraduate study linked to their work within an educational context. It provides students with the opportunity to cultivate critical, analytical and higher order understanding of their own practice, as well as to bring an element of freshness into their subject knowledge and understanding.(read more)
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Course description: This course offers 3 distinctive pathways: Music and popular culture; music on stage and on screen; contemporary practice in composition; it provides students with a thorough grounding in advanced musical studies.(read more)
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Course description: Interdisciplinary modules in creative strategies and research and development are taken by all students; students then take 1 of the following specialist modules, depending upon their degree pathway: Contemporary practice in art and music; theories and practices of social sculpture; composition and sonic art practice; at the end of the course, there is an annual degree festival of the Master's work.(read more)
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Course description: A practice-based programme intended to build upon the knowledge and experience gained at undergraduate level by students in performing arts and drama related programmes; and is intended to develop strong independent performance makers, who have knowledge of the professional performing arts sector and the ability to market themselves to that sector, in addition to develop creative and critically reflective practitioners.(read more)
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Course description: There are 4 pathways: Theatre and communications: performance linguistics and language; theatre and technological synergies: virtual theatre and digital art; making performance: theatre practice and philosophy; theatre and management: production staging and co-ordination.(read more)
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Course description: The course is aimed at practitioners who want time to develop and reflect on their work in a supportive and challenging environment; it is also meant for recent graduates who want to develop either a body of practice or who want to do practice-based research at a higher level; the course leads through supervision to project planning with practice-based presentations early in the autumn term, which are then written up for the final dissertation.(read more)
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Course description: Kent offers a unique 4-year undergraduate programme where, in the final year, students take a pre-professional specialist pathway across the entire year to graduate with an MDrama; the pathways include design for performance, technical theatre, creative producing, stand-up comedy, contemporary performance practice, performance applications and theatre dramaturgy.(read more)
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Course description: Work will focus on blending practice-based study and exploration with research and critical engagement; the course will encourage students to research the market for their ideas; to undertand the market position of their work and to effectively manage the performance project process from inception to distribution.(read more)
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Course description: The course is an exciting opportunity to discuss, explore and create performance in high standard professional facilities; the course examines practice as research, the development of creative projects, the creation of major work and the ways in which evaluation and analysis of performance can be undertaken.(read more)
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Course description: The creative and cultural economy; legal and money; creative organisations; and a major creative project.(read more)
All performing arts courses at Leeds Metropolitan University
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Course description: Students who complete the MA realise projects in the following areas: live art and performance installation, site-specific performance and multi-media performance, as well as developed work within the wider field of interdisciplinary arts practice; there is also supporting study in the form of modules in research design and performance studies, which provides students with a critical and historical basis for their work.(read more)
All performing arts courses at University Of Central Lancashire
Study modes: Full time
Course description: Course brings together theatre, dance, music and technology to create an interdisciplinary approach to making performances with digital media; students learn about the use of digital video, electroacoustic music, real-time technologies (motion sensing, sensors), and programming environments for use in live performance settings; students also have the opportunity to explore current discourses in the field of digital performance.(read more)
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Course description: The course aims to equip students with a range of practical knowledge and skills for the application of music technology to a variety of digital media; as well as traditional music for media, such as film and video, students are expected to explore and develop interactive compositions, focusing on the interface between machine and human gesture; students are expected to have had previous experience in music technology composition.(read more)
Study modes: Full time
Course description: A predominantly practical course that explores acting, movement, and voice as applied to music, and theatre; opportunities to create, and perform, and pursue research of issues, and contexts in relation to musical theatre; opportunities to develop composition, writing, choreography, and instrumental performance are integrated into the curriculum where required; explores presentation, and audition techniques.(read more)
All performing arts courses at Central School Of Speech And Drama (University Of London)
Study modes: Distance with attendance | Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The course has been designed to offer students the widest range of opportunities to pursue an area of particular interest to them as individuals; it allows students to study in a way which is most appropriate to their own circumstances and learning style.(read more)
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Course description: This is an advanced degree programme for arts graduates, or for established professionals and practitioners who want to rethink and reinvigorate their performance skills and knowledge; the programme explores contemporary performance techniques, styles and concepts - individually and in collaboration with others - and examines the roles of theatre and performance in a rapidly changing cultural landscape.(read more)
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Course description: The course focuses on the academic study of performance; it is seminar-based and addresses a variety of performative modes (theatre; ballet; modern dance; live art; opera) dealing with live performance, recordings of performance and written texts; the course examines these critically, considering the meanings they generate and the means by which they do so, and placing them in their historical, cultural and aesthetic contexts.(read more)
All performing arts courses at London Metropolitan University
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Course description: The course takes in diverse forms of theatre including multicultural and street theatre; and such practices as performance art; dance; ritual; site-specific performance and a wide range of hybrid forms; it leads students to explore performance as sociocultural process by using analytical principles from sociology; the sociology of culture; cultural theory; anthropology; history; philosophy; politics and semiotics.(read more)
All performing arts courses at Goldsmiths, University Of London
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Devised Performance MA
University Of Winchester
Jamie, May 2010Overall score
Would reccomend, good teachers, good location.
Study experience
Much more work but study skills at the uni are great. Make sure these are used!
Facilities
Library is nice but some books are in short suply. Union is great, only 3 years old. There is a gym with sky tv!
Postgraduate life
There are lots of clubs, i joined the choir and sing at the graduations
Job prospects
Just finishing my postgrad and looking into PHD or teaching
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