MA Performance Making
Goldsmiths, University of London
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This international MA programme gives you the opportunity to develop your practice as an independent and collaborative performance practitioner. It invites you to explore and experiment with live, digital, intermedial and socially and politically engaged performance.Why study MA Performance Making at GoldsmithsDevelop your own performance practiceThe MA Performance Making programme fosters a creative-critical, experimental and interdisciplinary approach to performance. You’ll study with and ...Read more

This international MA programme gives you the opportunity to develop your practice as an independent and collaborative performance practitioner. It invites you to explore and experiment with live, digital, intermedial and socially and politically engaged performance.

Why study MA Performance Making at Goldsmiths

Develop your own performance practice

  • The MA Performance Making programme fosters a creative-critical, experimental and interdisciplinary approach to performance. You’ll study with and learn from a diverse range of practitioners from different creative disciplines, exploring your own practice through performance-making.
  • You’ll gain both practical and critical skills in composing performance, while being encouraged to question, challenge, and reconfigure what performance-making is.
  • During your studies, you’ll be guided to create a portfolio of performances and writings that are designed to let you experiment, take risks and push your own boundaries in a rigorous and supportive learning environment, expanding and transforming your practice.
  • You’ll have the opportunity to take part in a final-year degree show, showcasing your work and celebrating the culmination of your studies. Explore the 2023 MA Performance Making show, Verge Festival.
  • Practice as research approach

  • Performance-making is a mode of enquiry that considers performance as a strategy to think about art, culture and the contemporary world. This practice-as-research approach is embedded throughout the programme.
  • You’ll be encouraged, guided and supported to become an articulate practitioner and a creative thinker; able to conceive, make, critique, and write about your own or others’ performance.
  • Careers

    Graduates from the programme typically go on to work as employable performers and researchers, cultural leaders and programmers, and innovators and collaborators in the performing arts both in the UK and internationally.

    Some teach at school, college and university level and provide freelance workships, while others continue their practice-based research at PhD level, with several returning to the department for this after graduating from the MA.

    Many find work in related areas of the profession, including as programmers, venue directors, project leaders, market development directors, dramaturges and directors.

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    Niamh
    04 Mar 23

    The community at Goldsmiths is so creative and accepting, you can tell everyone enjoys the space and they feel supported to continue on their own path. All the courses are very..Read more

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    Entry requirements

    You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject. You might also be considered for the programme if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.

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    £10,350 per year

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    £19,520 per year

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    £19,520 per year

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    Goldsmiths, University of London
    New Cross Lewisham SE14 6NW United Kingdom
    Nearest tube station: New Cross  0.1 miles away Nearest train station: New Cross  0.1 miles away
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