TP6007 - Advanced Applied Practice

This module is taught via seminars and practical workshops. Activities may include networking support, shadowing current practitioners and development staff, approaches to funding proposals, managing audience feedback and leading workshops with set learning outcomes for a group. The workshops are an opportunity to test our ideas as well as get hands-on experiences with methodologies, techniques, and approaches to making applied-orientated performance practices.

You will receive informal feedback via the tutor and peers during the task-orientated workshops and seminar discussions. The workshops are designed to allow you to explore theoretical ideas in practice.

Information and resources will be available to you on Blackboard and the 'Reading List' contains links to websites and online video material which can help you develop appropriate knowledge and understanding.

Written assessment feedback will be provided within 20 working days of summative assignment submission. Access to library facilities is available 24-7 all year round.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:
? Articulate and/or realise a persuasive project proposal addressing a client or interest group that investigates a particular theoretical or conceptual concern of applied performance practice

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
• Evidence an ability to interrogate complex ideas through a selected practice

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
? Become critically reflective about the ethical challenges and nuances implicit in cultural difference

Formative
Students will share their argument in response to the set provocation as an oral presentation. Staff and peers will offer feedback in class.

Summative
Practice Research project (100%) comprising:
• A demonstration of practice (c. 5 – 10 minutes, as appropriate to form of practice and in discussion with tutor);
• A 1000-words (or equivalent) statement contextualising the practice research demonstration.

In response to a staff provocation or live brief, you will work in small groups to develop, rehearse and realise a practical response (such as performance, workshop, installation or another agreed other format) that investigates the intersection of practice and theory.

The format of the practical demonstration will be agreed in discussion with the module convenor. The 1000 word (or equivalent) research statement will outline the critical and creative references that have informed the project, and how they have done so

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This module gives you an opportunity to pursue independent research into your chosen area of applied theatre practice, such as running theatre projects in schools or health care settings or with those seeking asylum. You will be supported by expert academic staff to achieve your goal, to consider the future of applied performance and, if you wish, to collaborate with one of our many regional partners, such as Recoco Recovery College or Disability North. The goal is to be critically reflective on the role of applied performance and to consider the ethical challenges and nuances implicit in many of these diverse contexts. We encourage you to reflect on the sheer diversity of applications that theatre can have effect on: for example, as a way of increasing the quality of educational outcomes or reducing behaviours deemed challenging, as well as the more intangible ‘affects’ performance can have on feelings and impulses.