MA in Light Performance
Sidcup, United Kingdom
MA
DURATION
13 months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
A unique MA Program that allows you to explore ways of working with light in collaboration with world-leading lighting designers.
The Light in Performance MA offers a unique opportunity to practically explore current uses and applications of light as a material for performance. Learning happens through a series of experimental workshops in a fully equipped studio theatre, observations/placements, and specialist training with industry partners.
The program is aimed at lighting specialists who want to develop and expand their practice in designing with light and non-specialists who want to enhance their knowledge of working with light, such as directors, designers, choreographers, dancers, musicians, and artists.
Why choose this course?
Expert training
You will have the opportunity to learn and work with world-leading designers, learning from their working methods and practices, before moving on to develop and test your own practice as a performance maker working with light
Professional-experience
The programme includes up to 8 weeks of practical workshops in fully-equipped performance spaces, led by four world-leading lighting designers
Research
You will carefully explore the creation
of visual works through a range of research-led, process-driven working methods
Independent learning
On completion of the course, you may wish to work as an independent lighting designer for performance or return to your own specialist practice with an enhanced understanding of how light can be used in performance
Practice-based opportunities
Explore collaborative and interdisciplinary creative processes, work placements at a range of partner organizations both in the UK and abroad, and an opportunity to further develop your personal practice through an individual or collaborative realized lighting design project
World class visiting tutors
Beyond the lighting mentors for module 702 (see below), these include Patrick Woodroffe, Joe Hill-Gibbins, Professor Roger Kneebone, Durham Marenghi, and Carol Scott.
There are 4 modules in the MA over 13 months.
Ways of Looking
A taught module exploring context and inter-disciplinary working methods, including practical workshops.
Ways of Lighting
A practice-based module, led in 2022-23 by Paule Constable, Michael Hulls, Lucy Carter, and Andi Watson. Up to two one-week workshops with each designer, exploring their working methods and processes.
Ways of Working
A module examining different ways of working, preparing you for your future practice. You may undertake a placement, arranged in liaison with students, designers, and industry partners.
Final Project
An independent realized lighting project supported by a documented process of research and investigation.
Teaching and assessment methods
You will complete around 350 hours of indicative scheduled learning and teaching activities and 850 hours of independent learning on projects, productions, placements, or self-directed study.
Assessment will be through coursework, performances, presentations, assessed tutorials, and portfolios.
- LO1: Independently utilize knowledge and apply a range of skills and methodologies to work effectively as a designer and performance-maker in diverse professional situations
- LO2: Articulate and create a practice that reflects, embodies, and embraces complex aesthetic, social, political, and cultural values and perspectives
- LO3: Demonstrate an effective and original practice of research, investigation, experimentation, and critical evaluation that is integral to your work
- LO4: Implement a range of skills and competencies that enable you to articulate, structure, and present your ideas and practice to expert as well as non-specialist audiences
- LO5: Identify and develop an area of personal specialized design-related practice, showing initiative, self-direction, and originality
- LO6: Employ your skills and knowledge as a designer to be an effective agent for professional performance-making, artistic enterprise, or social change
There is a wide range of possible career options once you leave the course. You may continue working with one of the lighting designers you have met on the course, as an Associate or Assistant. You may have started working collaboratively with other performance makers whilst on the course, and you want to start your own performance company or work as a freelance lighting designer. You may wish to return to your own practice with an enhanced understanding of light.
Lighting Designer for theatre/live music/dance. Work across both commercial and independent sectors. Light Art.Theme Parks/clubs/technology drive/digital light works.
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