London Metropolitan University

Program Information

Degree Offered

M.A.- Modern Performance

Format: Campus, Online

Program Description:

Aims of the course
At the core of the MA Modern Performance is the academic study of performance. Seminar-based, over a range of modules it will address a variety of performative modes — typically, theatre, ballet and modern dance, live art, opera — dealing with live performance, recordings of performance and written texts. It will examine these critically, considering the meanings they generate and the means by which they do so, and placing them in their historical, cultural and aesthetic contexts. Overall, it will develop an analytical perspective on performance as a cultural practice.

Course structure
You will take two core modules, four optional modules and a dissertation of around 15,000 words or equivalent.

Core modules:

Performance and Modernity
Modern and Postmodern Revisionism
Approaches to Research
Optional modules include:

Live Art
Remaking Shakespeare
Arts Criticism
Gender and Performance
Modern Art: Video and Performance

Tuition & Financial Aid

Financial Aid Offered: No