Your first year will lay the foundations of the degree, with core modules introducing you to theories and approaches in theatre and performance and allowing you to explore them through different modes of practice. YouÕll develop your performance and devising skills and look at the relationship between text and performance.
In the following year youÕll continue with your creative practice, devising performances and workshops for an external organisation such as a prison, museum or school. YouÕll also learn to apply different research methods and think about the political, historical, social and cultural contexts of performance practitioners. YouÕll choose from a range of optional modules to explore your interests, from dance to arts marketing or cultural history.
By your third year youÕll have more independence in your practice and research, producing a self-directed independent project and choosing how youÕll be assessed. YouÕll either take part in a collaborative, large-scale public performance or try your hand at an enterprise project. A core module will allow you to explore important issues in the contemporary arts and cultural sector, and youÕll demonstrate your knowledge and skills with an independent research project on a topic of your choice.
What facilities are available
It houses two professional standard, publicly licensed theatres. The main space seats 180 and is equipped with the latest technologies. It hosts a range of work by students and visiting theatre companies. The other theatre studio provides a technically advanced performance research facility. The building also contains a dance studio, dressing rooms, box office and meeting rooms.
Other facilities in the School include rehearsal rooms, two black-box studios, costume construction and wardrobe stores, design studio, scenic workshop, computer aided design and video-editing and sound recording suites.
Why Leeds
The Theatre and Performance (Hons) at the University of Leeds offers you a unique opportunity to blend practice and theory, rooted in real-world experience and the wider context of the cultural industries.
YouÕll develop your own practice in our professional theatre, stage@leeds, and have the chance to work outside the theatre with particular client bases and marginalised groups. YouÕll also explore the role of theatre and performance in society over time, innovations in practice, performance design, arts management, cultural theory, performance technologies, composition and devising and impact of the cultural industries.
Core modules will introduce you to key thinkers and approaches in theatre and performance studies, as well as enabling you to explore them through practical work. YouÕll also choose from a range of optional modules offering specialist knowledge in the topics that suit your interests. ItÕs a challenging and rewarding opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of performance and how it relates to the world around it.
