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