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Practising Performance – (M.A.)
The University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 4,099 - ≈ € 10,969 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Aberystwyth / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of The University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth University’s Masters in Practising Performance is designed to bring you through the next stage of your academic and artistic development. As a confident performer with a track record in academia, you will hone your craft through extensive and exciting class work and fruitful engagement with the department’s research community. By fully participating in the artistic and intellectual life of the department, you will gain a more professional, experienced and self-aware approach to theatre and live performance.
The Masters in Practising Performance is designed reward you for apt experimentation and innovation within your area of interest so that, upon graduation, you will be equipped with the right tools to bring your ideas and imaginings to fruition in a highly developed manner. The performance practice is always matched by academic study, and you will be called to account for your artistic choices in every assessment you experience, both formal and informal.
The Masters in Practising Performance at Aberystwyth University combines both practical and critical approaches to the study of a broad range of performance forms and methodologies, with particular attention to devised performance, physical theatre, site-specific work and time-based art as they are manifest historically, culturally and experimentally. It bridges the gap between academic training and professional practice and will help you become a mature, professional and highly reflective performer with the documented experience to back it up. The minimum entry requirement for the Masters in Practising Performance is at least a BA Honours degree (2:1) in cognate subject areas (for instance: Performance Studies, Theatre Studies and Drama).
Contents
This degree will suit you:
* If you wish to strengthen every aspect of your performance practice;
* If you are ready to approach performance in a thoroughly theoretical, interpersonal and practical manner;
* If you aim to sharpen your professional abilities in order to pursue a performance career;
* If you wish to develop a cache of widely marketable skills alongside your subject-specific training.
Employability
Every aspect of the Aberystwyth Master’s in Practising Performance programme is designed to enhance your employability. Simply by graduating from a prestigious performance MA course will prove how highly you prize your craft and your dedication to personal excellence. In addition, you will also be equipped with widely applicable skills and abilities that will suit many employment contexts.
Alongside the development of your performance techniques and abilities, an especially noteworthy strength of this course is the emphasis on personal and interpersonal development. You will possess many of the critical skills that employers look for in creating a productive and professional work environment. Your sensitivity and perceptive nature will make you excellent in management contexts. In addition, your conceptual and creative abilities will stand you in excellent stead for entry into the jobs market as employers seek personnel with the ability to find and prove thematic and motivational connections across broad subject matter.
Every module within this MA teaches subject-specific information by using widely applicable skills. For example, one module explores and enacts strategies, methodologies and techniques of devising performance, requiring of you careful planning and preparation in order to be successful. Another module requires you to present your response to a question through a mixture of video, slides, sound, data projection, OHP and elements of live demonstration and performance. You will be pushed to unusual performance situations and expected to succeed. The applications in business for such skills experience are endless. Though the course conditions and subject matter may be specific to live performance, you will learn widely applicable and highly marketable skills in the process.
Whether your chosen path involves further study, professional acting, criticism, education or any of countless other routes, your Masters Degree in Practising Performance from Aberystwyth University will signal to prospective employers your commitment to personal excellence, professional rigour and high academic quality
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
At least a 2.1 award (or equivalent overseas qualification) in cognate subject areas (Performance Studies, Theatre Studies and Drama; other subject area feeders will be considered if student shows sufficient relevant learning. Such entry would be provisional upon for instance a portfolio of professional work and an extended interview.).
Students may alternatively be able to show evidence of relevant equivalent qualifications and/or work experience. (Such entry would be provisional upon for instance a portfolio of professional work and an extended interview.)
Prospective Masters students should ensure that they have arranged with referees for their references to be available as required.
Non-native English speakers are required to take a University recognised test of academic English language proficiency with required minimum proficiency levels equating to an IELTS score of 7.0 or a TOEFL score of 610 (paper based test) or 250 (computer based) with an essay rating of 5.5. Applicants who have successfully undertaken a Bachelors degree in a UK University are exempt from this requirement.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
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