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Why study at Winchester?
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MA Devised Performance
Building on the substantial expertise of the
BA Performing Arts programme staff, along
with invited guest artists, the MA Devised
Performance provides an intensive,
advanced level immersion in the creative
processes of devising at the emerging
professional level, and allows for creative
practical and/or scholarly enquiry into
these processes to take place.
The programme integrates proessional
perormance making and academic refection
on perormance in ways that provoke dialogue
between the creative and the analytical,
and where refection eeds the perormance
making process. It welcomes candidates
who want to nourish, extend and rene their
interest in devising as a processes and in the
devised work as a product, as well as those
whose practical refection eeds scholarly
interests.
The programme supports group and solo
work in an innovative programme that
oers a commitment to in-depth process
and high quality work. Modules begin with
a ocus on the sel as resource (Devising
and the Perormer), moving outwards to an
examination o perormance texts (Advanced
Approaches to Text and Perormance
Writing), then on to work within public
contexts (Devising and Site). The Advanced
Perormance Project oers a chance to
develop perormance skills according to group
interests; alternatively Creative Production
provides a starting point or proessional
curation and production.
The culmination o the MA is a negotiated
Independent Research Project which will
refect your unique interest, practice and
exploration, building skills in scholarly and/or
practice-based research.
It is important to make clear that the
programme unctions at a competitive and
proessional level and that it demands both
practical and intellectual skill.
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Full-time: 1 year
Part-time: 2 years
Start Date: September
Entry requirements: Normally a rst or
second class Honours degree in a related
subject or proessional experience in the
area o study.
Application process: By both
application and audition/interview. For this
exercise students will need to prepare and
show a devised solo perormance excerpt.
I English is not your frst language:
Students should have 600 TOEFL or IELTS
6.5 (including 6.5 in academic writing) or
equivalent. I your score is below this level
you may be required to attend a pre-
sessional course.
FACT FILE
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Programme content
Making perormance is at the core o the MA
Devised Perormance. Students are asked to
refect upon, theorise and contextualise this
perormance making.
Modules
Semester 1:
Introductory module: Devising and the
Performer
This is a refective perormance project,
ocusing on the sel and autobiographical
material as a resource. The module begins
rom the premise that one inevitably devises
rom autobiography, in the sense that all o
our attitudes, opinions and creative impulses
emerge rom the constellation o corporeality,
personality and lie experience that we call the
sel. Aesthetic preerence is not neutral or
objective, it is deeply subjective. We explore
devising using this attitude as a starting point
and extend it into new realms o perormance
practice and refection.
Advanced Approaches to Text and
Performance Writing
This module addresses strategies or working
with text in devising as well as cultivating new
orms o writing or perormance. The module
introduces students to a range o adaptation
and deconstructive approaches enabling
them to develop innovative ways o working
with text or and in perormance. Interested
in addressing the perceived gap between
non-text and text-based practices, we look
at contemporary practices where classical
texts are explored in innovative and critical
ways as well as contemporary devising
practices that use writing and text as a key
element. Students are introduced to the
latest discussions and debates concerning
the use o text in contemporary perormance
and are subsequently asked to situate their
practice in relation to ongoing discussions
and developments. These questions and
issues are, or example, collaborative writing,
authorship, appropriation, ownership,
the impact o modern technologies on
perormance writing.
Research Methods
This module is designed to acilitate research
both or those students wishing to negotiate
an entirely written thesis and or those
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ocusing on practice-led work, and thus
helps prepare students or their Independent
Study. Theoretical, practical and hybrid
methodological approaches in perormance
research are explored.
Semester 2:
Devising and Site
In this module students create a
perormance, event or installation in a public
space. They are encouraged to draw on a
widening eld o concern, as the student is
invited to consider not only the physical, but
also the socio-political environment within
which the work is situated. This environment
will be regarded as resource, provocation,
eld o resistance and site o collaborative
exchange. This module involves students in
an analysis and critique o contemporary site-
specic art, with a particular emphasis on its
socio-political commentary and unction. The
module investigates the ways in which site-
specic perormance and the critical writings
and creative practices that inorm it are
requently concerned with radical political,
social or indeed aesthetic intervention or
negotiation.
Students undertake two o the ollowing three
modules. Students intending to study to MA
level must take Gateway to Independent
Study.
Advanced Performance Project
This is a perormance project in which
students will create a perormance o an
appropriate standard or an emerging
company who may wish to tour proessionally.
The project will be negotiated and managed
by the student company. This project
responds to the pressures o proessional
practice in that the devising will take place
over a three week intensive rehearsal
period, although the planning o the project,
including practical planning, will have taken
place throughout the period o the MA. The
intensive devising period is ollowed by urther
rehearsals and perormance labs prior to
the nal perormance. Each company has a
tutor as supervisor and mentor, although the
student company is responsible or all aspects
o the project, including sound and lighting
design, scenography, text and direction.
Emphasis will be placed on the specic
audience or the perormance. The project
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thus replicates the process that an individual
artist or emerging company goes through in
order to realise their rst proessional project.
Creative Production
This module is designed to introduce and
amiliarise the students with the roles and
unctions o creative production and the
actors that are involved in the relationship
between the perormance practitioner and
the creative producer. This module may be
o particular interest to students who wish to
prepare or proessional engagement with the
creative industries as part o their career plan,
as well as or those who might be interested
in the production role and its creative
possibilities.
Gateway to Independent Study
Students proceeding to the ull MA must take
this module, which builds on the Research
Methods module and will enable students
to develop their proposals or independent
study, identiying a topic under supervision.
They will produce a research plan including
key strategies and a list o perormance/
bibliographic resources, enabling them to
prepare or a practice-led or more traditionally
academic nal independent project.
Independent Study
A project negotiated between the student and
the programme leader, leading to a portolio
o work which could include a combination o
creative maniesto, dissertation, perormative
essay and independently devised perormance
with refection on the process and outcome.
It could also lead to a traditional academic
dissertation, or a combination o this with
practice-led research strategies, depending
on the nature o the project and the students
post-MA goals. This negotiated project can
be designed to be o relevance to the onward
career development o the graduating student.
Learning and teaching
The MA programme oers the opportunity
to ocus on creative practice as research,
so that the rehearsal space as perormance
laboratory is central to its pedagogy. Many
aspects o the learning experience revolve
around an experiential pedagogy that
seeks to develop creative skills within a
theoretical, historical, critical and analytical
ramework. However, learning and teaching
will be undertaken through a variety o
mechanisms, enabling students to establish
their own learning strategies and preerred
research methodologies as they inorm,
analyse and build on their practical experience
through lectures, debates, seminars and
assignments involving critical writing and
documentation. Since the course aims to
oer an understanding and knowledge o
proessional practice, the teaching includes
signicant input rom proessional perormance
makers, both visiting lecturers and permanent
members o sta, many o whom have their
own established practices.
Practical workshops and student labs are
the key teaching method since the subject
is a Perorming Arts degree. At MA level
these workshops are also an opportunity or
students to engage in more intensive modes
o learning. For example, in the Advanced
Perormance Project there is an intensive
devising process replicating a proessional one.
It is expected that work with practitioners will
take place during weekend workshops also.
The processes and outcomes o practices
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will provide examples o work which students
can refect upon and reer to in the seminars,
lectures and tutorials. This refection leads
on to urther testing through perormance
making.
Tutorials or groups and individuals are a vital
part o Masters level study. They are used,
or example, to discuss issues in advance o
presentations and assignments, or eedback
on assignments, guidance on specic and
general issues relating to independent
study and/or discussion o the Independent
study. They acilitate specic and directed
guidance and eedback on both conceptual
and procedural matters, and seek actively
to develop student-centred independent
learning.
Student presentations require individual
students to deend beore their peers and
tutors argument that evaluates, assesses
and synthesises research-based evidence
pertaining to specic issues, concepts,
theories and practices. Presentations develop
the skills o independent research, which
include library and computer research,
inormation gathering and writing skills. They
develop in the student the ability to weigh
critical and theoretical positions, construct
argument and structure ideas. They develop
skills o discussion and argument; skills
o organisation, time management and
presentation; also oral and communication
skills.
Proessional practitioners provide vital
opportunities or students to bring real world
experience into the institution, working closely
with students and oering a range o specic
devising methods or specic audiences.
Assesment is usually by portolio, including,
but not limited to specic assignments, in
order to encourage an holistic approach.
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Teaching team
The MA Devised Perormance has been
initiated by members o the Centre or
Research into Expanded Dramaturgies and
the Centre or Research into Negotiating
Perormance.
Sta profles
Synne Behrndt
Synne is the co-author oDramaturgy and
Perormance (Palgrave, 2008), with Cathy
Turner and joint editor o a special issue
oContemporary Theatre Review on new
dramaturgies. Other academic writing
includes a chapter on seminal company
The People Show or orthcoming Making
Theatre Happen: Documentation and
analysis o interactive devising processes, ed.
Jackie Smart and Alex Mermikides (2010).
Forthcoming publication includes Invisible
Things. Documentation rom a Devising
Process with David Harradine (2010).
Synne works as dramaturg and dramaturgical
advisor or various directors and companies.
Her recent UK dramaturgical collaborations
include collaboration with David Harradine/
Fevered Sleep on productions including
An Infnite Line: Brighton Festival, 2008;
dramaturg or Simon Plumridge/Platorm 4 on
R&D phase oThe Tempest (touring nationally
2009). Current projects include dramaturg or
Douglas Rintoul and choreographer Darren
Johnston on In a Dream dreamt by Another
(2010/11) and On Ageing with Fevered Sleep/
David Harradine (2010).
Yvon Bonenfant
Yvon Bonenant is a perormance maker
and practice-led researcher who works in
intermedia rom the perspective o extended
voice. In 2009, he was artist in residence at
the Experimental Music and Perorming Arts
Centre, Troy, NY USA where he created and
premired the voice-video work Beacons
(with video artist David Shearing). In 2007/8,
Yvon Bonenant received research-creation
unding rom the Arts and Humanities
Research Council and the British Academy.
With the ensemble the Galloping Cuckoos,
he made a movement-street intervention
work called The Opposite o Trauma
(2008) (showed Paris, London, Cardi).
With painter and videographer Ludivine
Allegue, he created the installation B(earth)
(2007) (shown Paris, Cardi, Alsager); the
videodance experimental lm Intimacies
(2008) (premiered 2e Mostra de Videodanza
de Sao Carlos, Brazil) and the video work
Beacons (2008) (exhibited at the Alsager
Gallery in 2009). His voice and text appear in
Micah Silvers installation The End o Saariat
the Massachusetts Museum o Contemporary
Art in 2009/10. His perormance or maximum
ve audience members at a time, Soie
Soyuse (2007) played in Paris, New York,
Wales and the video version in Tallinn. He has
published in Perormance Research, STP,
SCAN Journal, Body, Music and Dance in
Psychotherapyamong others and his artists
book Soie soyeuse was published by Editions
Talmart, Paris in 2009.
Richard Cuming
Richard is a perormer, deviser and director,
who has worked both nationally and
internationally. His interest is in the synthesis
o dierent perormance orms and the
space between the real and the ake. With
his company shproductions he created two
projects in unusual spaces, The Family Outing
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Caravan Holiday(recipient o a Year o the
Artist Award in 2000) and Love Me Tender,
perormed in a lost property oce (1997).
With Fuse Perormance he created Ca
Lente (2006/7), an immersive perormance
event which combined sound, lm and live
perormance which played at Visual Arts
Festivals. In 2009 he was dramaturg or Fuse
Perormance on their perormance event
The Village Fete. He is Chair o the Board
o Platorm 4 Theatre Co and a member
o the editorial board oTotal Theatre
magazine. He is a Principal Lecturer and
Head o Perorming Arts at The University o
Winchester
Janet Lee
Janet Lee is a physical theatre perormer
and puppeteer whose specialist areas
are Physical and Visual Theatre. She has
directed or and perormed with Strange
Arrangements or the past 10 years as well
as collaborating with Australian puppetry
company Spare Parts Puppet Theatre. Janet
is currently researching dance/puppetry
as interdisciplinary practice. She recently
co-created Dead Reckoning with Nigel Luck
and has published on dance and puppetry in
Animations Inprint. She is a Senior Lecturer
in Perorming Arts at the University o
Winchester.
Dr Millie Taylor
Millie Taylor graduated rom Birmingham
University with a degree in Music, Drama
and Dance. She worked as a reelance
musical director or almost twenty years and
completed an MA in Theatre Practice and a
PhD in Drama and Music at Exeter University.
Recent publications include British
Pantomime Perormance (Intellect 2007)
and Singing or Musicals: A Practical Guide
(Crowood Press 2008) as well as articles and
chapters on pantomime, musical theatre,
experimental music theatre and voice.
She is currently working on a monograph,
Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment
to be published by Ashgate Press. She is a
member o IFTR working groups on Popular
Entertainment and Music Theatre and
member o the editorial boards oStudies in
Musical Theatre and Popular Entertainment
Studies. She is a Reader in Perorming Arts
and Programme Leader or the MA in Popular
Perormances.
Dr Cathy Turner
Cathy Turner is a Reader in Perorming Arts
and convenor o the Centre or Research into
Expanded Dramaturgies. She gained her PhD
rom Exeter University Drama Department
in 1996. She is a core member o Wrights
& Sites, a group o refective practitioners
committed to creating and researching site-
specic work and authors oAn Exeter Mis-
Guide (2003) andA Mis-Guide to Anywhere
(2006). The company has also curated work
or the Vienna Festival/Tanzquartier Wien
(2007) and the Belluard Bollwerk International
Festival, Switzerland (2008). Cathy is joint
author, with Synne Behrndt, oDramaturgy
and Perormance (Palgrave 2008) and has
written articles or Perormance Research, STP,
New Theatre Quarterly, Studies in Writing or
Creative Practice and Contemporary Theatre
Review. In 2008, she was awarded research
unding rom AHRC to support Writing Space,
a project investigating new approaches to
dramaturgical work with writers across an
expanded eld.
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Assessment
Assessment on the programme is by
a variety o means. Some modules are
assessed by portolio. As in a ne art portolio,
examples o arts practice are included in the
portolio. While live perormances cannot be
physically incorporated into a portolio, their
documentation can, and the perormances
themselves are considered as contributing to
the overall portolio mark. It is important that
students should be equipped to elect to submit
a dissertation or their Independent Study and
the portolios will thereore include extended
critical writing in response to assignments and
relevant criteria will be applied to the portolio
contents (or example demonstration o the
ability to analyse and debate contemporary
perormance through critical writing).
The portolio oers some fexibility so
that students can develop its contents as
appropriate to specic projects and concerns;
on the other hand, parity will be maintained in
that each will contain specied elements (or
example, a piece o critical writing; a journal;
creative documentation o work), and there will
be clearly dened expectations o the whole.
The portolio thus serves two purposes. Firstly,
it is an assessed document with specic
assessments required by the module, but
secondly it provides an archive or the student
practitioner enabling them to refect upon
their process, and acts as a resource or
the planning o uture projects. Methods o
documentation o live perormance practice are
increasingly being discussed in proessional
practice, and the portolio will also serve as an
arteact or debate around the documentation
o practice.
Essay and presentation-based assessments
are also used in some modules.
Assessment o the independent project is
negotiated in relation to each project, yet with
reerence to fexible models appropriate to
dierent research methodologies. Again, this
refects the programmes strategy o balancing
fexibility with clearly dened expectations and
criteria.
Career opportunities
The course might act as a bridge towards
developing a proessional practice: it aims
to create strong, independent perormance
makers, who have knowledge o the
proessional perorming arts sector and are
creative and critically refective practitioners.
Alternatively, it could be a rst step towards a
PhD and would be particularly appropriate as a
step towards a practice-as-research PhD.
Contact us
Yvon Bonenfant
Programme Leader
Telephone: +44 (0) 1962 854485
Email: Yvon.Bonenant@winchester.ac.uk
Course Enquiries and Applications
Telephone: +44 (0) 1962 827234
Email: course.enquiries@winchester.ac.uk
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The Library oers study places or more than
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to Winchesters network. The library has a
collection o more than 250,000 books, videos,
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some 1,000 journals, in printed and electronic
orm.
Centre or Research and Knowledge
Exchange
The centre oers core services to research
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The Stripe
This is a state-o-the-art lecture theatre
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theatres, seminar rooms and studio spaces.
The acility is used or lectures, seminars and
as a perormance space. A number o key
public events also take place inside The Stripe
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Facilities on campusUniversity Centre
The University Centre creates an impressive
gateway to the King Alred Campus. It
opened in September 2007 and includes the
Student Union, academic bookshop, mini-
mart convenience store and places to eat and
drink. The Centres Learning Ca provides an
inormal atmosphere to relax or study, oering
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It is installed with wireless Internet technology
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Art and Culture
As well as being one o the most popular
centres or higher education or perorming
arts courses in the UK, Winchesters campus
is a thriving network o art activity. The campus
itsel has a vast range o perormance and
rehearsal space including the new 6 million
West Downs Perorming Arts Centre. For more
inormation about the University o Winchester
go to www.winchester.ac.uk
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