The Performance programme takes an interdisciplinary, experimental and frequently collaborative approach to performance-making. The work produced is political, free-thinking and inclusive. It encompasses, moving image, socially-engaged practice, choreography, scenography, dramaturgy and immersive technologies.
Our student body and teaching team come from a wide range of personal and professional perspectives. As a community, we are deeply committed to the idea that diverse ecologies are the most vibrant creatively and we actively celebrate difference. As a programme, we encourage creative risk-taking by cultivating a supportive and accepting environment in which unique individual and collective perspectives can develop. We believe in the potential for performance to change the society in which we all live.
The Performance programme consists of the following courses:
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Anne Elmholt and Nina Kunzendorf, Liminal Theatre “Phrases to be used upon…”, 2018 Platform Theatre
College: Central Saint Martins Level: Undergraduate
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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College: Central Saint Martins Level: Postgraduate
MA Character Animation
Ideas for stories and characters, but not sure how to make them move?
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College: Central Saint Martins Level: Postgraduate
MA Intercultural Practices
Global themes are best understood and acted on from multiple cultural and disciplinary perspectives. This course encourages the sharing of these perspectives to develop your agency as an artist and cultural producer.
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Image courtesy of UAL,
College: Central Saint Martins Level: Postgraduate
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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College: Central Saint Martins Level: Postgraduate
MA Performance: Society
This course critically explores the boundaries between art, performance, screen, theatre and activism in your own context and place.
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College: Central Saint Martins Level: Postgraduate
MA Performance: Writing
We train the next generation of writing talent, giving them the confidence and skills required to thrive in the industry.
Performance stories
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Shortlist for MullenLowe NOVA Awards 2021
From a kit for washing reusable menstruation pads to ceramics fired by bacteria, the shortlist for this year's MullenLowe NOVA Awards is fittingly bold and brilliant. And with YourNOVA, now it's your turn to vote for your favourite.
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Nominations for MullenLowe NOVA Awards 2021 announced
The MullenLowe NOVA Awards highlight some of our best graduating work. This year marks a decade of the partnership and the nominated work is fittingly bold and brilliant.
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Collected conversations
In a new series of podcasts, Terrence Phearse, MA Culture, Criticism and Curation alum, explores recent additions to the Central Saint Martins Museum & Study Collection. These works, by 2020 graduates, reflect on social justice, mental health and
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Hybrid Futures
Hybrid Futures gathered together a constellation of voices and perspectives on the contested relationship between humans and machines. Here, Dr Betti Marenko – Reader in Design and Techno-Digital Futures – shares her reflections on the event
