This is a unique course designed for creative and intellectually demanding students who wish to combine practical performance skills with advanced understanding of global performance approaches. This new development is planned to extend the western-centred teaching and learning processes at East 15 into a diverse and more global context.
BA World Performance offers a hybrid practice-based and theoretical study that explores historical, theoretical and skill-centred approaches to performance forms across the world. It deals with selected aspects of performance forms, traditions and styles from Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America. The course looks at theatre, dance-drama, masks, music and dance within different cultural environments.
Students are involved in devising, researching, creating and performing projects that reflect the influences of styles of performance worldwide. Work develops into practical projects allowing students to explore creatively in a performance environment, drawing on the styles and forms of performance introduced during the three years.
Applicant information
BA World Performance is aimed at students who have an interest in performance but may not envisage becoming traditional, professional actors. Typically, it will interest students who might be drawn towards performing arts and theatre arts programmes in universities and academies that have a strong performance tradition.
First year
The first year offers a foundation of skills for study and performance, as well as the key academic tasks of assimilating and recording information.
There is a study of the role of music in world performance, allowing students to engage from the outset with a range of cultural influences and to experiment with their own performance interests and abilities, and to broaden their knowledge of different cultural contexts of performance.
Second year
In the second year, work is centred on case studies which allow students to gain and demonstrate a broad base of knowledge of different traditions, approaches and issues in world performance, while at the same time developing and applying a significant level of performance skill. There is an opportunity to work intensively with a visiting company, resident in Southend, in a non-Western or intercultural performance form. This work culminates in a major performance. During this year, students also increase their competence and confidence as independent researchers, conducting independent study and presenting the results orally and in written form.
Third year
In the third year, students continue their study of context and analysis through research projects, while skills work continues and is focussed on a series of major independent group performance projects, in which students have increasing autonomy and freedom to pursue their own aesthetic, intellectual and professional priorities. The emphasis is on collaborative working and evolving a professional practice, supported by teaching in organisational and entrepreneurial skills and by substantial independent research tasks
BA World Performance requires a successful audition, plus A-levels: 260 points, including BC at A-level; BTEC National Diploma: MMD, IB 27 points
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