Year 1
This is the start of your journey as a self-sustaining performance practitioner, armed with the performance skills and business know-how to survive and succeed in an incredibly rewarding but competitive industry. You will develop the technical skills of voice, movement and acting with a variety of public performance opportunities at local and regional theatres and venues. You will create a variety of collaborative projects, sometimes as part of commissions from external agencies and employers. Alongside these practical skills, you will explore different approaches to performance as well as a selection of modern and contemporary practitioners. Crucially, you will explore fundamental business models, arts funding and develop business skills. These will be developed through bespoke work placements and/or the setting up of small businesses under the Young Enterprise model.
Year 2
You will continue to explore and develop practical performance skills and create work for public performance, including commissions from employers and external agencies in a variety of venues. In your second year the focus will be much more on cross disciplinary collaboration. Your performance and creative skills will be underpinned by more in-depth critical approaches to performance theory and practices as well as an awareness of the impact of new and emerging technologies, audiences and performance spaces. This will be enhanced by the study and exploration of contemporary practice, practitioners and companies that have successfully negotiated these new technologies, approaches and audiences. You will be also be challenged to develop a product/service and select a business model suitable to turn the product/service into a sustainable enterprise.
Year 3
In your final year you will continue to develop and finesse your own creative and business identity through in-depth and focused theoretical and practical exploration which will feed into your Solo Practice and Extended Research Project(which may be a practical research project). In tandem with the forging of this solo identity, you will work on a major collaborative project for public viewing. By the end of your final year, you should be able to enter the profession through the skills, knowledge and networks you have accumulated over the three years or go on to further study.
