2020/21 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

PECI5501M Performance Design Praxis

30 creditsClass Size: 15

Module manager: Dr Scott Palmer
Email: s.d.palmer@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2020/21

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module asks students to work experimentally and creatively with a range of scenographic materials to refine their own creative practice. Alongside creative workshops, we will examinecritically and creatively evaluate current issues and debates in the practice of Performance Design and ask students to incorporate this understanding into reflection on their own practice through a reflexive portfolio .

Objectives

On completion of this module students will be able to:

• refine their own creative practice through mature and sophisticated self-reflection and critique within the context of wider contemporary practice;
• critically and creatively evaluate current issues and debates in the practice of Performance Design.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students will have knowledge of:

1. A range of international contemporary performance design practice;
2. Issues and debates about performance design practice;
3. Processes of documentation of practice;
4. Practice-led research as a means of developing creative; practice;
5. Reflection on and analysis of practice.

Syllabus

Staff-led practical workshops which map on to the lecture themes and cover specific scenographic materials and techniques(e.g. lighting and projection, object theatre, site-specific performance, mask and costume, practice-led research approaches, documentation of practice).

Indicative content for lectures and seminars on trends in contemporary performance design practice:

• Postdramatic (e.g. Wooster Group, SRS, Robert Wilson, Katie Mitchell, Kris Verdonck, Sasha Waltz, Lola Arias, chelfitsch, Hooman Sharifi, Teater Garasi)
• ‘Immersive’ (e.g. Punchdrunk, dreamthinkspeak, Shunt, Back to Back, De La Guarda)
• Socially- engaged (e.g. street protest/Occupy, Kathleen Irwin, Hamid Pourazari, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Guillermo Gomez-Peña/La Pocha Nostra, Rabih Moure, Astrid Hadad, Lotte van den Berg)
• Installation/performance (e.g. Olafur Eliasson, Miroslaw Balka, James Turrell, Marina Abramovic, Bill Viola, Verdensteatret)
• Environmental/site-specific ( e.g. NVA, Mike Pearson, Blast Theory, Reza Abdoh, Louise Ann Wilson, Dries Verhoeven)

Students will develop an original design-led performative intervention in response to creative brief utilising PCI resources. Following a showing of their practice they will then develop a Portfolio (documentation and visualisations accompanied by written statements) for the ways the work might be expanded/modified to address particular contexts for performance design.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Preparation Class	5	6.00	30.00
Group learning	8	3.00	24.00
Group learning	8	6.00	48.00
Practical	8	3.00	24.00
Seminar	2	2.00	4.00
Tutorial	1	0.50	0.50
Private study hours			169.50
Total Contact hours			130.50
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Private study

Preparatory work required for tutor-led workshops (e.g. Reading and viewing, responding to briefs)
= 32 hrs
Preparatory work for SDL sessions, Research and development for own creative practice = 66.5 hrs
Documentation of work and development of portfolio = 71 hrs

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

This will form an important aspect of every tutor-led workshop and in feedback on developing performance work.
In 1:1 tutorial and seminars
• Tutorial (in week 17) will be an opportunity for formative feedback on their own creative work and plans for the portfolio.
• Seminar (after performance/presentation e.g. week 22) will be an opportunity to discuss feedback (from self, peers and where applicable form audiences) on the public performance work and to give formative feedback towards their plans for development.
• Group seminar on draft portfolios (e.g. week 23) 3 -4 weeks before submission.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Portfolio	Reflexive portfolio of creative work	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 10/08/2020 08:43:26

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