2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

PECI2113 Creative Practices

20 creditsClass Size: 36

Module manager: Dr Maria Kapsali
Email: m.kapsali@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Module replaces

PECI2701 Creative Practice and Performance Contexts

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

In this studio-based module, you will develop your approach to the creative process for developing performance materials and articulate your growing capacity as a creative practitioner. Workshops will be in relation to a particular area of contemporary performance practice and ask you to engage with and use relevant concepts and theories to develop a reflexive practice. You will work with your peers to devise and perform original material developed through these workshops at the end of the module in a performance/presentation. All students will engage in a seminar and workshop series devoted to exploring and experimenting with diverse processes and methods for creative practice including documentation and reflection.

Objectives

This module will:

-Develop practical understanding in the creative process of an area of contemporary performance practice;

-Develop capacity for constructive criticism of your own work and that of others with reference to a wide range of contemporary performance practices and debates;

-Develop the facility to document and reflect on your growing capabilities in and through practice;

-Articulate a developing sense of yourself as a creative practitioner through practical exploration of diverse methods and wider artistic frameworks for creative practice and documentation.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Articulate your growing capacity as a creative practitioner through documentation and reflection on your practice;
2. Apply an understanding of the relationship between theory and practice as it relates to your creative process in the development and presentation of performance material;
3. Demonstrate technical proficiency appropriate to a particular area of contemporary performance practice;
4. Use relevant concepts and theories to interrogate practice of own and others.

Skills Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
5. Collaborate effectively with other practitioners
6. Use and apply creative judgement to make decisions
7. Demonstrate critical reflection upon the synthesis of theory and practice in performance making

Syllabus

This primarily workshop-based module is comprised of two strands delivered concurrently.

The first strand focuses on understanding and exploring approaches to developing and documenting your creative practice. It is comprised of one seminar on creative praxis, a workshop on documentation and creative practice, and one seminar on portfolio development.

The second strand comprises focused tutor-led workshops relating to the creative process and critical and reflective approaches to the documentation of the creative process.

Students then work in focused workshop cohorts with a tutor around a particular creative practice to develop a creative brief which tests and extends their practice as individuals whilst working in a small-group context. Then, the emphasis shifts from tutor-led to student-led, so that students can further develop their practice and their work. Here weekly showings of practice and discussion and verbal feedback from tutors and peers will structure and support this phase. This leads to a final formative showing of their work to peers, tutors and invited industry professionals.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Workshop	3	1.00	3.00
Independent Learning	8	2.00	16.00
seminars	2	1.00	2.00
Practicals	12	3.00	36.00
Private study hours			143.00
Total Contact hours			57.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will receive ongoing feedback in the guest practitioner workshops and, in the seminars, led by the module leader(s). The workshop-and-seminar-series is designed to support the students as they develop their reflexive practice and to provide valuable feedback on their exploration of documentation practices as it relates to their creative process and development of performance materials in their selected workshop strand.



Students will present a formative presentation of their performances (20-30 minutes dependent on performance practice and approved by their tutor) for their peers, tutors and invited industry professionals. They will be marked on how they respond to this feedback and implement it into their creative practice and development of the final assessed reflective portfolio.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Portfolio	2,500 word -Documentation and analysis of own process and performance	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Each workshop cohort will work with their tutor to develop their assessment brief within module parameters. This is designed to ensure that there is for parity across all cohorts while also taking into consideration that each of the disciplines and performance practices explored will have differences that cannot be achieved within the allotted timeframe to then be assessed within a standard brief.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 10/04/2024

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