The Performance programme consists of the following courses:
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Foundation Studies in Performance
With its focus firmly on practical skills and techniques, Foundation Studies in Performance broadens your horizons and lets you test your aims and aptitudes in a supportive environment.
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BA (Hons) Acting
A Drama Centre course at Central Saint Martins, BA Acting prepares you for direct entry to the profession while laying the foundations for a lifelong acting career.
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BA (Hons) Performance: Design and Practice
Challenging assumptions and territories, this course explores theatre, film, video and live art. It emphasises collaborative practice, instilling a strong set of specialist and transferable skills. In the final year you’ll shape your own individual project, anticipating your future in this diverse and expanding sector.
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MA Acting
MA Acting focuses on the actor as both the material and the maker; and as a skilled and creative technician.
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MA Character Animation
Ideas for stories and characters, but not sure how to make them move?
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MA Directing
A Drama Centre course at Central Saint Martins. MA Directing is a four year integrated Masters course which equips you with the artistic and technical skills suitable for work or for further training in theatre, film, television and radio.
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MA Performance: Writing
We train the next generation of writing talent, giving them the confidence and skills required to thrive in the industry.
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MA Performance Design and Practice
Bringing together artists, directors, writers, researchers and designers, this course sets the agendas that drive performance practice in the twenty-first century.
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MA Screen: Acting
A Drama Centre course at Central Saint Martins, MA Screen: Acting provides a rigorous conservatoire training, focused on performance for the screen.
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MA Screen: Directing
A Drama Centre course at Central Saint Martins, MA Screen: Directing trains you to inspire creative performance from actors on screen.
Performance stories
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Class of 2020: The Body
Depictions of the human body are a constant throughout art history. Here, we talk to the 2020 graduates who incorporate the body into their creative process – from performative drawing to explorations of illness.
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Class of 2020: Collaboration during crisis
We talk to the 2020 graduates who have worked collectively during crisis.
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Class of 2020: Yifat Shir-Moskovitz
Graduating from MA Performance Design and Practice, Yifat Shir-Moskovitz talks to us about her film Under Con(s)traction in which she parallels the months of her pregnancy with a nine-phase baking recipe.
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Class of 2020: Deans' Awards
Since 1989, the CSM Museum & Study Collection has actively purchased works from graduating students. Now, after more than 30 years, the process has taken on a new form in our first ever Deans’ Awards.
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