Program Recognition
•Bullet: Specialist route within MA/MFA Performance at Manchester School of Theatre
•Bullet: Taught by practitioner-researchers with expertise in contemporary performance and laboratory theatre
•Bullet: TEF Gold (Teaching Excellence Framework 2023-2027)
Training
•Bullet: Develops innovative and experimental contemporary performance practice
•Bullet: Draws on post-modern performance, post-dramatic theatre, contemporary dance, and live art
•Bullet: Students create performance projects with peers and professional artists
•Bullet: Practice-led, interdisciplinary performance-making with critical and professional contextualisation
•Bullet: Core modules explore current performance practice, self-producing, profiling, and public performance
•Bullet: MFA students can graduate with the bracketed specialism MFA Performance (Contemporary Performance)
Professional Development
•Bullet: Culminates in a self-produced Major Project shown in a public performance event
•Bullet: Emphasises freelance theatre practice, producing, programming, facilitation, curation, and portfolio careers
