Overview

The Performance (Society) MA programme from the University of the Arts London (UAL)key facts:

• Inter and transdisciplinary activism: performance making and participatory arts that undertake to be actually, rather than symbolically, socially engaged
• Context-driven: The course caters for learning and experience in relation to you as an individual. Through self-organised practice and student-led initiatives, the course will help you to build a sustainable, independent practice
• Flexible online interactive and face to face learning: The course creates a globally dispersed international community of students. The structure and timescale enable a particular pace of development, encouraging risk-taking and reflection and integration in your practice, as well as allowing you to balance other life and work commitments.
• International education: The course is linked to a formal network of international partners co-operating on joint learning events and initiatives that enhance the curriculum.

Career opportunities:

The Performance (Society) programme at University of the Arts London (UAL) will equip you with advanced professional skills required to engage in radical, socially engaged, performance practice. It will encourage experimentation, risk-taking and critical reflection whilst supporting you to develop your own independent and sustainable practice as a maker. Through processes of making, reading and debating, you will gain a sophisticated knowledge of ethical, creative and inclusive ways of working with others.

The course will generate and deepen productive networks for your work and you will leave able to identify, construct and resource performance projects, that creatively initiate change within a wide range of interdisciplinary contexts. Whilst this programme facilitates professional development as an artist and performance-maker it also supports progression to PhD study, and is guided by staff with expertise in portfolio careers that move between academia and the creative industries.

The Postgraduate Performance Programme, as a whole, has wide-ranging links with professional organisations, collections and galleries associated with political and socially engaged performance practice. It offers opportunities for interaction and networking with outstanding practitioners across the spectrum of the creative sector such as participatory artists, activists, contemporary performance and moving image practitioners.