Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

LJMU Partner Taught

Learning Methods

Lecture
Seminar
Tutorial

Module Offerings

7605ACT-SEP-PAR

Aims

This research project aims to equip you with the understanding of how to generate your own creative work in order to sustain an industry career. This year long module will allow you to explore your own creative ideas and will teach how you to research and interpret the world and then generate performance material in response to your research. In this module you can work as a solo artist or collaborate with your peers to understand how you can sustain a career in the industry.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Propose an advanced idea for the creation of a new performance work
2.
Synthesise cultural, critical, and theoretical uses of independent research
3.
Demonstrate the strategic professional process and planning skills needed to realise an original piece of work
4.
Synthesise practitioner approaches in the process of creating new work, evaluating cultural and historical contexts, forms, and practices
5.
Synthesise original performance material by assimilating interdisciplinary technical fundamentals to professional performance standards
6.
Demonstrate interdisciplinary skills in the creation of professional performance material
7.
Manifest the ability to manage professional, personal, and interpersonal workloads efficiently and effectively
8.
Evaluate self-management processes and working methods in performance creation/production
9.
Critically analyse and interpret intersectional cultural and critical perspectives in performance
10.
Evaluate the fundamental components of performance construction, appraising creative and critical interactions in performance reception

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
The module will consider critical ideas and public performance and their relationship to becoming a self-sufficient performer.
Students will be asked to undertake self-reflection and career analysis and determine key questions that will inform their development and understanding of their craft.
A range of practice research and other research methodologies will be considered, and the design of research will be investigated before student propose approaches to the investigations within their final practice project.
The module then provides the opportunity for a student to propose and deliver a creative performance project which is either live or recorded or written script. The project will address professional priorities identified through careful self-reflection and critical analysis.
Module Overview:
This year-long module is a sustained Independent Research Project which forms the dissertation or practice research element of your course. Across the intensive year-long training, you will undertake research and development to identify analytical and critical components, as well as cultural perspectives, to integrate, consolidate and produce an original short-film or staged performance. The process is documented to establish your understanding of the rigours of self-generated work, as well as the creative and technical skills you will bring to the industry for the start of your professional career. This documentation contextualises your final presentation of work, exhibiting an intelligent and original engagement with your chosen subject area of an inventive, and imaginative work.

Assessments

Essay
Practice
Reflection