BA (Hons) Performance*

From day one, you'll be at the centre of a campus like no other – a playground of possibilities. You’ll be enhancing your skills as you collaborate with other art forms and industry professionals on projects that blur traditional boundaries. You’ll develop a unique performance portfolio, ready to jump into wide range of creative projects. It’s a competitive market, but you’ll be an artist with an edge.

All undergraduate courses at AUB offer an optional placement year, to be taken between your second and third years of study.

If you’re unsure about this optional placement, you don’t need to decide now. Once you’re here and studying with us, the course team will discuss the placement options with you, so when the time comes, you can make a decision that’s right for you.

You’ll begin to explore how to use the body as the primary tool in performance, storytelling and improvisation. You’ll be introduced to interdisciplinary collaboration and begin to develop your skills alongside other artists from a variety of disciplines, including visual arts, design and digital media.

From day one, live performance and making is embedded in the course and you’ll explore creating, producing and performing original works in a variety of settings, from theatres to non-traditional spaces. You’ll have the chance to explore the basics of technical theatre and design, as you develop a strong understanding of the technologies that inform and enhance performance.

You’ll continue to develop your physical and movement-based skills, exploring interdisciplinary performance, movement direction and choreography. You’ll be supported to explore these via more diverse performance-based projects with additional responsibilities for production and design. Whether it’s with community, education and engagement-based work or via Health and Wellbeing Arts projects. You’ll explore more options for pathways into performance work as you begin to think about your identity and brand as a creative maker.

You’ll be given the chance to develop skills for facilitating workshops and creative experiences for diverse groups, focusing on inclusion and accessibility, highlighting how performance and movement can be used as a tool for empowerment, social change and education.

The focus of your final year will be on defining your own artistic voice and brand. You’ll be given the freedom to propose final year projects that are as bold and dynamic as you are. By collaborating across disciplines and challenging traditional performance boundaries you can immerse yourself fully in your own vision. You’ll be given the freedom to take control of the entire performance toolkit, from technical aspects, to production, to brand. You’ll be supported to bring your idea to life in a real-world setting to experiment, innovate and re-define what performance can be.