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BA (Hons) Performance and Production
Why study Performance and Production at Liverpool John Moores University?
- A brand new degree designed to push the boundaries of technology in art and develop your performance skills
- Taught by an academic and technical team with decades of experience in performing arts, performance and technology
- Delivered in three dynamic strands: Performance, Socially Engaged Practices and Production
- Based in the Liverpool Screen School where you will have access to a dedicated performance theatre and sector-leading equipment
- Students will receive opportunities to collaborate with community partners, creating thoughtful and dynamic work that tackles a variety of social issues
- You will have access to the Production Unit Liverpool Screen School, a dedicated team which aims to make you an employable, highly skilled and confident graduate
About your course
Are you ready to turn your creative ideas into reality? Discover the BA (Hons) Performance and Production at Liverpool John Moores University!.
Are you passionate about bringing your creative ideas to life? Do you want to craft performances that not only resonate with audiences but also respond to the needs of communities? Are you excited to push the boundaries of technology in art and develop your performance skills across a variety of live performance and digital contexts including performing for film and radio?
If so, the BA (Hons) Performance and Production is the perfect fit for you.
The degree is divided into three dynamic strands: Performance, Socially Engaged Practices, and Production. These strands interweave, giving you a comprehensive understanding of how to create impactful work that speaks to diverse audiences and meets real-world needs.
Throughout your studies, you will deep dive into contemporary performance, discovering how today’s most innovative work is being created and produced. You will have the chance to develop your performance skills in both live performance and recorded settings; whether that’s through acting, voice work, film, radio, podcasts or presenting. You will have opportunities to collaborate with community partners, creating thoughtful and dynamic work that tackles a variety of social issues. These collaborations will allow you to make a real impact, using your creativity to address the challenges faced by different communities while developing your skills in meaningful, hands-on projects.
Collaboration is a key component of this degree; you will have the chance to work with students from other departments across the university. This will broaden your perspective and deepen your understanding of creating and performing new work.
Technology is also at the heart of the teaching of the degree, empowering you to experiment with new mediums and enhance your creative work. You will explore how to blend the latest digital tools with traditional techniques to create performances that are relevant, engaging, and forward-thinking. You will also learn about industry workflows in film, radio and performance production.
Fees and funding
There are many ways to fund study for home and international students
Fees
The fees quoted above cover registration, tuition, supervision, assessment and examinations as well as:
- library membership with access to printed, multimedia and digital resources
- access to programme-appropriate software
- library and student IT support
- free on-campus wifi via eduroam
Additional costs
Although not all of the following are compulsory/relevant, you should keep in mind the costs of:
- accommodation and living expenditure
- books (should you wish to have your own copies)
- printing, photocopying and stationery
- PC/laptop (should you prefer to purchase your own for independent study and online learning activities)
- mobile phone/tablet (to access online services)
- field trips (travel and activity costs)
- placements (travel expenses and living costs)
- student visas (international students only)
- study abroad opportunities (travel costs, accommodation, visas and immunisations)
- academic conferences (travel costs)
- professional-body membership
- graduation (gown hire etc)
Funding
There are many ways to fund study for home and international students. From loans to International Scholarships and subject-specific funding, you'll find all of the information you need on our specialist funding pages.
Employability
Opening doors to a wide range of careers
This is a brand new type of Performance degree. BA (Hons) Performance and Production has been designed to be collaborative, industry-facing and versatile.
It aims to help you to open doors to a wide range of exciting career opportunities in the arts and beyond, setting you up for a successful future after graduation.
Throughout the Performance & Production programme, we have embedded comprehensive projects where you will apply your skills in real-world scenarios. These projects will involve collaboration with industry partners, providing you with practical experience and professional connections. A series of workshops focused on career development are integrated into the final year curriculum; topics will include CV writing, interview techniques, networking strategies, and job search skills. These workshops are tailored to the specific needs of the performance and production industries.
We have established strong partnerships with leading companies and organisations in the performance and production sectors. These partnerships facilitate a range of internship and placement opportunities for our students, allowing you to gain hands-on experience and develop professional skills. Many modules include industry-based projects where you will work on real-world challenges provided by our industry partners. These projects simulate professional work environments and will help you to develop practical skills and industry knowledge. We offer dedicated professional practice modules that focus on work-based learning. These modules include placements, live briefs, and industry collaborations, ensuring students gain substantial work-based experience throughout their studies
Students will have access to the Liverpool Screen School's Production Unit (PULSS), a specialist work-based learning team dedicated to ensuring Screen School students receive opportunities to undertake paid and unpaid work during their studies. PULSS provides assistance on developing CVs, job applications and careers advice.
Student Futures - Careers, Employability and Enterprise Service
A wide range of opportunities and support is available to you, within and beyond your course, to ensure our students experience a transformation in their career trajectory. Every undergraduate curriculum includes Future Focus during Level 4, an e-learning resource and workshop designed to help you to develop your talents, passion and purpose.
Every student has access to Careers Zone 24/7, LJMU's suite of online Apps, resources and jobs board via the LJMU Student Futures website. There are opportunities for flexible, paid and part-time work through Unitemps, LJMU's in-house recruitment service, and we also offer fully funded Discovery Internships.
One-to-one careers and employability advice is available via our campus-based Careers Zones and we offer a year-round programme of events, including themed careers and employability workshops, employer events and recruitment fairs. Our Start-Up Hub can help you to grow your enterprise skills and to research, plan and start your own business or become a freelancer.
A suite of learning experiences, services and opportunities is available to final year students to help ensure you leave with a great onward plan. You can access LJMU's Careers, Employability and Start-up Services after you graduate and return for one-to-one support for life.
Go abroad
LJMU aims to make international opportunities available to every student. You may be able to study abroad as part of your degree at one of our 100+ partner universities across the world. You could also complete a work placement or apply for one of our prestigious worldwide internship programmes. If you wanted to go abroad for a shorter amount of time, you could attend one of our 1-4 week long summer schools.
Our Go Citizen Scheme can help with costs towards volunteering, individual projects or unpaid placements anywhere in the world. With all of these opportunities at your feet, why wouldn’t you take up the chance to go abroad?
Find out more about the opportunities we have available via our Instagram @ljmuglobalopps or email us at: goabroad@ljmu.ac.uk.
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From the moment you join the course, we will be exploring the endless possibilities in contemporary performance making.
From day one, you’ll be introduced to a wide range of creative techniques and ideas, giving you the freedom to experiment and discover what truly excites you.
By the time you reach your final year, you’ll have honed the skills and tools needed to specialise in an area you’re passionate about, bringing your unique vision to life through your final project.
Assessment
Assessment varies depending on the modules you choose, but will usually include a combination of exams and coursework.
We appreciate that all students perform differently depending on how they are assessed, which is why we use a combination of assessment methods.
The programme uses a varied range of assessment process to enhance and strengthen the student experience, including the practical production of performances and artefacts (both digital, live and a mixture of both), essays (both written and recorded), presentations, journals and reflections.
Course tutors
Our staff are committed to the highest standards of teaching and learning
Prof Simon Piasecki
Programme Leader
Simon has enjoyed a connective career as an academic, as well as a researcher, illustrator, performer and writer. His Phd considered cartography, Self and Other in performance, examining identity and place. He has exhibited, directed and performed in international contexts for 30 years, as a painter and performer, making short films, photographs, installations and transporting audiences over mountains at night with performance and music. Recent publications explore the efficacy of pain and suffering in pilgrimage, in addition to the mind/body experience, published in The Performances of Sacred Places: Crossing, Breathing, Resisting, Silvia Battista (Ed.), Intellect) as well as an Audio-Paper published online for Walk-Listen-Create, ‘the home of walking artists’ (walklistencreate.org ) and a journal article in Performance Research looking at the Kailas Pilgrimage, A Mountain as Multiverse : Circumnavigating the realities and meta-realities of a Kailas pilgrim (On Mountains - Volume 24 Issue 2 pp. 16-23). Simon is a dedicated Scout Leader teaching outdoor skills to young people, recently returned from the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea, and a trained Lowland Leader, having also been a DofE Award Manager. Professor and Head of Subject for Creative Writing and Drama, Simon co-leads City Lab in the Institute of Art and Technology.
BA (Hons) Performance and Production was validated with seven commendations including for its consultative engagement with industry, the teaching team, the programme design and employability. When designing the degree, we engaged with a wide range of external stakeholders, including Invisible Wind Factory, Focal Studios, 20 Stories High, Unity Theatre, Shakespeare North, Big Heritage, Noel Jones (Projection Artist), Adam Bee (large scale touring theatre Chief Technician), P&O Cruises, Culture Liverpool, and Liverpool City Council—Community, Neighbourhood, Events, and Heritage teams. All stakeholders agreed that the programme is timely, relevant, and addresses the needs of the artistic and cultural sector. Many commented on the collaborative nature of the design and its emphasis on interdisciplinary practice, noting how this approach mirrors the current artistic landscape.
Facilities
What you can expect from your School
The School is based in the Redmonds Building, in the heart of the bustling Mount Pleasant Campus and Liverpools growing Knowledge Quarter. The building is home to high quality lecture theatres and seminar rooms, TV studios, radio suites, green screen, editing rooms and news rooms, social spaces, and a cafe. It is only a short walk from LJMUs Aldham Robarts Library, which contains all the resources you will require for your studies.
Performance and Production students also have exclusive access to the John Foster Drama Centre, where you will holding performances, rehearsals and castings. The drama centre has dressing rooms, a cafe bar and wardrobe rooms.
Entry requirements
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Grades/points required from qualifications: BCC-BBB (104-120)
Qualification requirements
GCSEs and equivalents
Grade 4 or grade C or above in English Language and Mathematics/ Numeracy. GCSE Equivalences accepted:•
Key Skills Level 2 in English/Maths•
NVQ Level 2 Functional skills in Maths and English Writing and or Reading• Skills for Life
Level 2 in Numeracy/English• Higher Diploma in Maths/English• Northern Ireland
Essential Skills Level 2 in Communication or Application of Number• Wales Essential Skills Level 2 in Communication or Application of Number
A levels
BCC-BBB
Minimum Number of A Levels: 2
Maximum AS UCAS Points: 20
BTECs
Extended Diploma: DMM
Access awards
Acceptable on its own and combined with other qualifications Pass overall with a minimum of 104 points
International Baccalaureate
Acceptable on its own and combined with other qualifications
OCR Cambridge Technical
Extended Diploma: DMM
Irish awards
Acceptable on its own and combined with other qualifications
T levels
Acceptable on its own and combined with other qualifications. You need to obtain the required UCAS points from a related subject area.
Additional requirements
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Interview required
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to an audition/workshop and interview
International requirements
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IELTS
6.0 overall with no component below 5.5, taken within two years of the course start date. https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/study/courses/international-entry-requirements
Please Note: All international qualifications are subject to a qualification equivalency check.
The university reserves the right to withdraw or make alterations to a course and facilities if necessary; this may be because such changes are deemed to be beneficial to students, are minor in nature and unlikely to impact negatively upon students or become necessary due to circumstances beyond the control of the university. Where this does happen, the university operates a policy of consultation, advice and support to all enrolled students affected by the proposed change to their course or module.
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