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BA Contemporary Performance

Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

Digital Creative is a fast-growing area of employment regionally, nationally, and globally from games, and installations, to large-scale performance events, concerts, and shows. Career prospects are diverse and significant, and consequently, Interactive and Immersive Performance graduates will work across a range of essential career pathways.

The variety of course combinations for this course affords a more significant potential for different career trajectories. Within the creative industries, students will be well-placed to seek employment as performers, freelance creative technologists, directors, production designers, arts administrators, and immersive experience designers.

The course’s emphasis on performance-making will provide versatility for students seeking to work behind the scenes of production and performing in works.

Many of our students will pursue a teacher training qualification or a postgraduate course within the creative and performing arts.

Work Placement Opportunities

Work placement opportunities will be sought from the Liverpool-based cultural organizations that Liverpool Hope University already has good working relationships with, Everyman & Playhouse, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool Sound City, etc.

General Eligibility

An A level in one of the Performing Arts – Music, Drama, or Dance is essential. Where music may be the chosen route of study, theoretical understanding at least of ABRSM Grade 5 is desired. An A level in Computer Science would be helpful.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

In your first year of study, you will be introduced to the key practitioners and practices that have sought to create immersive environments for their audiences. This first year is about providing a broad critical context by illustrating the range of different interpretations of 'interactivity' and 'immersion.'

2 Year 2

In the second year, you will learn how to work closely with audiences, engaging with participatory performance practices. The second half of this year emphasizes site-based performance and how technologies can be utilized to excavate the narratives embedded within Liverpool. Many immersive performance companies situate their work in locations not conceived for performances, and it is essential that you can adapt to working in such environments.

3 Year 3

In your final year, you will be able to fully evidence your proficiency in the varying performance technologies you have been trained to use and will be able to develop creative and original applications for them in your work. This year signals a shift towards digital performance, with you creating work in Virtual and Augmented Reality. With this comes a need to understand visual and proprioceptive perception and the challenges of sustaining a performance within a virtual environment.

Language Requirement

  • IELTS5.5
  • TOEFL59
  • PTE50
  • Duolingo69

IELTS

6.0 overall (with reading and writing at 6.0) and no individual score lower than 5.5. We also accept a wide range of International Qualifications.

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