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Welcome to the Theatre & Performance pages

 

THINKING - DOING - MAKING

All Theatre, Dance & Performing Arts courses at the University of Plymouth are deeply informed by the research, scholarship, training and creative practice of our staff members.

Our specialisms include:

• devising, collaborative and interdisciplinary practice (including work with new technologies)
• site-specific performance
• dance-theatre and physical theatre: training and choreography
• playwriting
• directing practice
• integrated disabled and non-disabled performance practice
• live art and avant-garde performance practices
• gender and sexuality in performance
• intercultural and cross-cultural theatre practices

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We also support programmes of study at our partner colleges throughout Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset. If you successfully complete a two year Foundation degree at one of our partner colleges, it is possible to enter directly into the final year of our BA (Hons) Theatre & Performance programme. 

For more information: arts.admissions@plymouth.ac.uk .

COME JOIN US at the following events: 

5 November 2009 at 7.30 pm in the Roland Levinsky Theatre: Under my Skin by Fast Forward Graduate Dance Company. Tickets: £3 (£2 concessions). Contact: Peninsula Arts.

19 November 2009 at 5.30 pm in room 208, Roland Levinsky Building: Dr Lee Miller and Dr Bob Whalley will be making a presentation entitled "Not going out, not stopping in: lassitude, inertia and practice-led research" as part of the Theatre, Dance & Performing Arts research seminar series. All researchers are welcome, free of charge.

21-22 January 2010: We will be hosting a teaching and learning event entitled Calculating Risk: assessment, ethics and risk assessment in durational and site-based performance work with/by students in conjunction with PALATINE, the national subject centre for drama, music and the performing arts.

22 - 24 January 2010: We'll be co-organizing Live Laboratory Symposium with Plymouth Art Centre as part of a collaboration with internationally renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic entitled "The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow".




Image on side panel: Le Navet Bete, a high energy professional clowning company that emerged from our BA (Hons) Theatre & Performance programme.