Acting (Contemporary Performance)

This new course is for actors interested in experimental and innovative approaches to storytelling. These include non-verbal and physical work, spoken word, specialist non-conventional narrative forms and experiential live/digital work.

Through your training you develop essential acting skills, while becoming part of a new generation of practitioners who can work across mediums to explore new forms of performance and space.

The course celebrates new ground-breaking and cutting edge work that directly addresses culture, diversity, and community engagement. It builds on our successful collaborations with some of the UK’s most exciting theatre companies, including Gecko, Slung Low and ThickSkin, who have worked with students to produce devised immersive, physical and experimental performances. These productions have placed the audience at the heart of the action while engaging with global voices, cultures and communities.

YEAR ONE ==
//The Actor's Preparation: Contemporary Performance Principles I
//The Actor's Preparation: Contemporary Performance Principles II
//The Actor's Preparation: Acting Principles III
//Artistic Practice I [Shared Module across all BA Acting courses]
== YEAR TWO ==
//The Actor's Process: Contemporary Project I
//The Actor's Process: Contemporary Project II
//The Actor's Process: Contemporary Project III
//Artistic Practice II [Shared Module across all BA Acting courses]
== YEAR THREE ==
//The Actor’s Performance: Professional Contemporary Production I
//The Actor’s Performance: Professional Contemporary Production II
//The Actor’s Performance: Professional Contemporary Production III
//Artistic Practice III [Shared Module across all BA Acting courses]

Your assessment takes place during practical classes and rehearsals, performances and your reflective journals. Overall, assessment is based on applications of technique in performance situations, either in front of an audience or in workshops.

The coursework element is focused on your future career, your working environment and critical life skills. In your third year you undertake an optional practical or written research project. Again, career focused and chosen by you.

= Practical/written work ratio =
80% practical work / 20% written course work