BA (Hons) Performing Arts - BA (Hons) Degree
University of Salford
School of Media Music and Performance, Adelphi Campus, Peru Street, Salford, M3 6EQ
Tel: 0161 295 5000
Fax: 0161 295 3126
Email: ugadmissions-exrel@salford.ac.uk
Head of Performance Division: Denise Vernon
Course Description:
This
programme focuses on the development of creative performance skills
to a professional level and draws on the school's expertise in
theatre performance, TV performance and physical theatre. It can be
studied either as a full three-year programme or as a two-year
programme (enrolment for years 2 and 3) for students with an
appropriate HND qualification.
Although students develop a broad
foundation of practical and academic skills in the first year, the
main emphasis is on live theatre performance and its associated
practical skills - acting, improvisation, voice, dance, movement
and singing. Second and third year modules include Physical Theatre
Techniques and Devised Theatre, and there are options in Sound
Design, Camera, Editing, TV Acting, Presenting, Comedy, Radio Acting,
Scriptwriting, Theatre Directing, Classical Theatre Acting, Dance for
the Camera, Music Theatre, and Live Art. Theoretical lecture-based
modules examine cultural and critical perspectives on performance and
include Avant Garde Performance, Feminism in Performance, British TV
Drama, Watching the Detectives, and Contemporary British Theatre.
During the third year students work to create a range of scripted and
devised theatre performances.
BA (Hons) in Contemporary Theatre
Practice
This new programme focuses on 20th
and 21st Century experimental theatre practices. The academic study
of modern and post-modern performance is combined with practical
exploration and skills development, including vocal and physical
skills, improvisation and devising and technical skills in
multi-media performance. Second and third year modules include
Physical Theatre, Introduction to Live Art, Multi-media Performance,
Avant-Garde Theatre, Theatre Directing and Site Specific Performance,
as well as self-initiated performance projects.
The course provides broad
experience of practical work in devised performance and text-based
theatre forms, with an emphasis on non-naturalist theatre. Students
develop a wide understanding of the work of contemporary
practitioners, taught by staff who are involved in academic research
and professional practice. Students are also involved in performance
projects, directed by professional companies and practitioners, which
explore the forms, new media, critical ideas and cultural debates
that shape contemporary theatre and performance
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