The Performance Arts course is a pathway of BA (Hons) Theatre Practice at Central School of Speech and Drama. The programme actively explores what performance can be, and develops practitioners who will make a creative impact in the development of the cultural industries as the instigators of performance.
Performance Arts is a collaborative community which is led by the student teams who take ownership of the subject and their individual practice within it. It is an entrepreneurial programme, rooted within dramaturgy and analysis, where those who join the community may start to research, question, produce, administrate and discuss performance through a hybrid programme of activity. Potential applicants might be directors, choreographers, producers, performers, theorists and visual artists.
The Performance Arts programme is interested in challenging and re-thinking assumptions about the creation and understanding of live performance. Students are asked to look to the future of performance and curation with an emphasis upon the intercultural and the interdisciplinary. The work of Performance Arts is international in its focus, recognising the importance of understanding and learning through the exchange of ideas, cultures and experience.