MA Performance: Politics and Social Justice

at University of the Arts London

Unit 1: Creative and critical methods

In this unit you will engage with the critical and creative practices of performance research and theatre making. You will look at creative and critical methods of artistic enquiry and examine the relationship between politics and aesthetics as ways of seeing. This will help you gain a deeper understanding of performance as an expanded field and provide context for the development of your social justice practice.

Unit 2: Cultural political practice

The unit will enhance the development of your creative research and critical methods. It will enable you to focus on the modes of practice required to facilitate your socially and politically engaged theatre and performance making and thinking. You will conceive and, where possible, undertake a performance intervention designed to achieve a social justice outcome.

Unit 3: Collaboration

The unit will enable you to extend your collaborative, compositional and research skills. You will work with other MA Performance courses, MA Theatre and Performance Design, or outside your discipline. Projects will seek to develop cross-disciplinary perspectives on some of the ‘global challenges’ of the time (e.g., climate change, sustainable development, migration, etc.), and address a key question of primary concern to performance-making as a social justice practice.

Unit 4: Performance research

In the final unit you will complete a self-directed individual, collaborative, or collective project. The ideas for this will come from the critical and creative interventions explored in previous units.

Note: 120 Credits must be passed before the final unit is undertaken.

The standard minimum entry requirements for this course are:
 

• BA (Hons) degree in either performance or art and design-related disciplines, including social and other sciences or engineering

• Alternative qualifications and experience will also be taken into consideration

• Personal statement

• Portfolio of work

Entry to this course will also be determined by the quality of your application, looking primarily at your portfolio of work and personal statement.

APEL - Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning

Applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered in exceptional cases. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:
 

• Related academic or work experience

• The quality of the personal statement

• A strong academic or other professional reference

• A combination of these factors

Each application will be considered on its own merit but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case.

English language requirements

All classes are taught in English. If English isn't your first language you must provide evidence at enrolment of the following:

IELTS level 6.5 or above, with at least 5.5 in reading, writing, listening and speaking

Home fee
£11,550

International fee
£23,610