MA/MFA in Actor and Performer Training
Sidcup, United Kingdom
DURATION
13 up to 24 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2024
TUITION FEES
GBP 33,450 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* MFA international students (240 credits) | MFA UK & republic of Ireland students (240 credits): £32350 | MA international students (180 credits): £24150 | MA UK & republic of Ireland students (180 credits): £19900
Introduction
The MA/MFA Actor/Performer Training is a practice-based program for those seeking intensive advanced training as actors and performers alongside rigorous academic study and performance research.
The program focuses specifically on actor/performer training, theatre creation, performative writing, informed critical reflection, and practice research. The uniqueness of the program lies in the way it seeks to integrate traditional text-based conservatoire training and practices with the physical collaborative approach that has grown out of Eastern and Central Europe over the last 60 years.
The MA/MFA includes an expedition that offers a unique context for learning and ethnographic and cultural research.
Why choose this course?
Expert training
Provide specialist professional teaching and opportunities for study, research, and embedded practice that are focused on enabling you to build, enhance, and take ownership over your own practice as an innovative and empowered actor-performer and theatre-maker
Unique approach
Provide in-depth training and study to develop your artistic and academic expertise within highly specialized performance systems and ecologies and offer opportunities to work within dynamic and diverse, performance cultures
Exploration of text and physical performance
The uniqueness of the program lies in the way it seeks to integrate traditional text-based conservatoire training and practices with the physical collaborative approach that has grown out of Eastern and Central Europe over the last 60 years
Learning environment
Create a pedagogical culture dedicated to providing advanced, rigorous, and challenging learning and development opportunities in an environment that seeks to draw inspiration from traditional performance cultures and practices and to fuse these elements with contemporary global theatre and performance and outwardly facing theatre-artist, ready to take their place as citizens and active participants in cultural life
Duration
- MA 13 Months
- MFA 24 Months
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Curriculum
The focus of the MA and the first year of your MFA is experiential learning and practice – exposure to rigorous craft and skill-based practice, and developing complementary artistic and professional skills to support and enhance their creative performance work.
To support this widening field of knowledge and to develop an understanding of contemporary global initiatives and professional opportunities and realities, a series of seminars, workshops, lectures, keynote interventions, and discussions will be programmed throughout the year. It is envisaged that individual students will have utilized this first year of training, study, and research to develop a clear understanding of their skills, abilities, and faculties as Actors/Performers and the particular field of enterprise they wish to pursue through their second year of study and beyond. MA students will undertake a Final Independent project to complete their course.
The second year of your MFA focuses on deepening and widening your field of professional practice and knowledge; gaining professional experience and exposure, developing professional networks and contacts, and culminating in the creation of either an artist’s portfolio or a piece of independent work that typically manifests your vision, artistic practice, skills, inclinations and aptitudes. This may take the form of a live performance or presentation, an electronic presentation, or a combination of these mediums.
While the MA programme and first year of the MFA have been holistically conceived, it is built on a modular framework, culminating in the first year in a research expedition which becomes the stimulus for subsequent collaborative work towards a performance. The second year of the MFA includes a professional placement, taught weekends, and a Final Independent Project module which is equivalent to the Master’s dissertation commonly found in most MFA programs.
MA Actor/Performer Training
There are four modules in the MA
- Module One: The Advanced Actor
- Module Two: Performative Writing/Vade Mecum
- Module Three: Expedition to Performance
- Module Four: Final Research Project
MFA Actor/Performer Training
Year One MFA
There are three modules in year one:
- Advanced Actor Training (30 Credits)
- Performative Writing/Vade Mecum (30 Credits)
- Expedition to Performance (60 Credits)
Year Two MFA
There are two modules in year two:
- The Widening Field (60 Credits)
- Final Independent Project (60 Credits)