Course Details in 2025/26 Session

Module Title	LH Contemporary Practice
School	Eng, Drama, & Creative Studies
Department	Drama and Theatre Arts
Module Code	10 27424
Module Lead	Adam Ledger
Level	Honours Level
Credits	20
Semester	Semester 1
Pre-requisites	LI Theatre/Performance Lab: Devising Lab and Approaches to Text - (10 27780)
Co-requisites
Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Project supervision-15 hours Practical Classes and workshops-15 hours Work based learning-10 hours Guided independent study-160 hours Total: 200 hours
Exclusions
Description	The module seeks to understand, respond to and build upon identifiable trends in contemporary performance practices and in the context of a tutor’s particular expertise. It will support students in making their own original artistic practice, supported by the tutor. There will be an emphasis on a praxical engagement with trends in emerging and contemporary professional practices in order to inform students’ development with artistic and conceptual vision. Initial sessions will focus on the creation of work through innovative development, fusion or critique of selected current practices in professional contemporary performance. Students will be able to select their own assessment groups, and there may be the potential for solo work depending on capacity. Students will all be ‘makers’ of the work but can opt, if they choose - and the Department is able to support - to be more specifically assessed as a performer/director/writer/designer (or any combination of) within an ensemble context, or as the solo artist of the work.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to:ul> Utilise a praxical vocabulary that allows them to reflect critically on theatrical experimentation; Develop performance strategies that they can utilise effectively in solo and/or collaborative practice; Track their process using complementary writing techniques; Contribute to, plan and undertake praxis appropriate to the realisation of performance.
Assessment	27424-02 : Practical Project : Practical (50%) 27424-03 : logbook 2500 words : Coursework (50%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	Assessment: Logbook, 2500-words (50%) Practical project (50%), can be submitted as a recording Reassessment: Failed component only Logbook, 2500-words (50%) Practical project (50%), can be submitted as a recording
Other	None
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