Dear potential postgraduate students!
As you/we eagerly await the online application launch for the ‘Performance Practice’ MA we thought we’d further fuel your interest with some more information.
Behind the scenes we’re planning the module sessions, mapping out the retreat activities and developing the handbooks and reading lists – all in readiness for a September start (beginning with an induction on Friday 21st September).
In the meantime, we thought you’d be interested to learn a little more about the lecturers working with you on the MA, so you’ll find brief biogs for each of us below.
As you may already be aware there are a few elements of your application that you could be working on now:
· Your personal statement, (indicating why you want to do the MA, what interests you about this particular programme, what skills/experience would you bring with you to the MA etc.,)
· A piece of written work – this might be something you’ve submitted as part of UG assessment and then have developed further (in light of feedback) or a new piece of writing, approximately 1500 – 2500 words
· References – you’ll need to supply the details for two referees, so if you haven’t already approached a lecturer/employer etc., then it would be worth dropping them a line now to ask them, check their contact details, and to give them time to write your reference.
We’re just as keen as you to begin the interviews, so once the online application window is live we’ll be swift to process applications. As such – we’d like to ask you to pencil in some potential interview dates:
Wednesday 18th July (Manchester)
Tuesday 24th July (Sheffield)
Thursday 2nd August (TBC)
The interviews will run from 10am-6pm but we will also make some later interview slots available in order to accommodate those of you in full time employment/with other commitments etc., If you have a preferred date/venue please specify this in your application and we’ll do our best to accommodate you.
We’ll be in touch again in a few weeks to let you know once the application process is open and please feel free to email us, in the interim, if you’ve got any questions or queries.
We’re all extremely enthused about delivering this MA and working with our own cohort of postgraduate students across both SHU and UCEN institutions/sites! There are some very exciting times ahead..!
More soon-
Very best
Hayley, Dani, Debbie and Wayne
Dr Hayley Bradley
Dr Dani Abulhawa, (Course Leader on the MA in Performance Practice), creates site-specific performance and curatorial projects that explore the politics and poetics of movement in specific places and geo-political contexts. Dani co-founded Accumulations, a network to support and develop experimental performance, movement and dance. She is a founder-member of 'Re-verb Skateboarding' who co-organised the first skateboarding in academia conference (in London, 2018) and she is also an ambassador for skateboarding charity, SkatePal.
Dr Hayley Bradley lectures on the BA Performance for Stage and Screen programme at Sheffield Hallam University. Her research examines theatrical artisans in the Victorian/Edwardian performance industry and the relationship between theatre practice/acting styles and early silent film. She has written on aspects of late nineteenth and early twentieth century popular British theatre including collaborating dramatists and theatrical adaptation. Her chapter on ‘Stagecraft, Spectacle and Sensation’ is soon to appear in The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama, ed. by Carolyn Williams (2018). Hayley is currently researching her first monograph, exploring British and American Theatrical Artisans: the professional craft of the late nineteenth century theatrical entrepreneur. She is the co-convenor of TaPRA’s (Theatre and Performance Research Association) ‘History and Historiography’ working group, having previously served on the executive committee as Membership Secretary and later Treasurer http://tapra.org/
Wayne Steven Jackson is Course Leader for BA (Hons.) Theatre and Performance at Arden School of Theatre, UCEN Manchester, specialising in contemporary theatre and intermedial practices. As a performance maker of fourteen years he has toured regionally, nationally, and internationally, producing 'funny, baffling, mystical, absurd, and mind-bending' work both as a solo artist and as a founding member of Escape Theatre. His most recent project, Now|Then, culminated in a series of performance journeys that took place in a taxi as it travelled through the streets of Hull during its year as UK City of Culture 2017. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at London South Bank University researching the performance of autobiographical memory as a strategy for place making. For more information please visit www.waynestevenjackson.co.uk
Deborah Newton is collaborative course Leader for MA Performance Practice and a lecturer on the BA (Hons.) Theatre and Performance at Arden School of Theatre, UCEN Manchester, specialising in contemporary theatre. She is a performance artist and practice-led researcher interested in the para-social relationship between performers and audiences. These interests are specifically situated in the different types of audiences and their relationships with performers that can be created, developed and executed through performance-making activities such as: site-specific performance, live art, applied performance (prison and community), international performance, devising, and practice-as-research. Her performance works are influenced by incorporating a multidisciplinary approach into her performance-making practices. She is an associate artist of Global Grooves and conducts street performances at different festivals and carnivals across the country. Her current research interests include a PhD project in which she is critically interrogating the performer-audience relationship utilising the concepts of liminality and autopoiesis in the ‘in-between’ nature of contemporary performance. Deborah continues to attend and present her research findings at local, national and internal conferences as well as contribute to seminars in different universities and publish academic papers and book chapters.
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