Performance Making

Overview

Why study MA Performance Making at Goldsmiths, University of London? 

• Studying at Goldsmiths gives you access to all the cultural stimulus that London offers, allowing you to enhance your practice and develop compositional, critical, technical and management skills and strategies for forging independent and self-motivated careers. Our graduates work as practitioners, teachers and cultural leaders worldwide.
• The Masters will help you conceive, research, construct and deliver your ideas, and articulate what motivates them. You will study with distinguished international artists and scholars. The emphasis throughout will be on encouraging collaboration across disciplines and cultures, and on contextualising practice within its social, political and architectural environment.
• You’ll undertake physical training, scenographic/environmental exploration, and hands-on introduction to technologies (lighting, video and sound), to support your composition and artistic experimentation. You will identify your own practice within the historical and contemporary field, and write critically and creatively.
• You’ll archive your practice digitally, and will have developed a portfolio of projects by graduation. You will receive professional development guidance from theLive Art Development Agency (LADA) and the Institute for Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship (ICCE) at Goldsmiths.
• You will have access to a wide international network of organisations, commissions, venues and festivals, and will study both at Goldsmiths and ArtsAdmin. See a full list of artists associated with the programme as permanent and guest tutors. 

Skills

You will become conversant, confident and skilled in a range of methodological practices as well as compositional strategies for independent theatrical, dance theatre and live art creation.

Your critical and analytical skills in interpreting artistic practice will be tested in a range of verbal, written and oral ways. Your study of your own body as a creative instrument will be complemented by learning the principles of scenography and film narrative.

You will research intellectually and produce theoretically informed writing. You will learn to contextualise your own practice and interests in the contemporary field of performance both in the UK and internationally, and to articulate such practice.

Overall you will learn how to research, construct and deliver your ideas performatively and how to advocate your own projects to producers, venues, funders and other agencies.

Careers

Graduates work in a wide variety of professional contexts globally as commissioned performance makers, directors, project leaders, programmers, teachers and academic researchers.

The programme has launched international production companies and collaborations whilst the many organisations employing them include:

• Dreamthinkspeak
• Station House Opera
• Marie Gabrielle Rotie Productions
• The Clod Ensemble
• Corridor
• Lift
• The Royal Court Theatre
• The Gate Theatre
• The Globe Theatre
• Goossun Art-Illery
• Northern Stage
• The Royal National Theatre
• The Beijing Academy
• BAC
• Bernie Grant Arts Centre
• Artsadmin
• Shunt
• Hackney Empire
• Greenwich Dance Agency
• The Convenor’s Company
• Athletes of the Heart 

And a range of international commissions and festivals including Edinburgh Festival and Brighton Fringe.