MA in Performance Making

Extra-curricular events

The programme benefits from a range of extra-curricular events, including:
(See Department of Drama website for past and current programmes)

The Performance Research Forum (PRF)

is a meeting ground between contemporary practitioners, researchers, students and staff in the college as well as the general public via a programme of cutting edge talks, events and performances.  A PRF event might be the sharing of a work-in-progress, a platform for decoding an unfamiliar form, or the opportunity for an artist to show and discuss their work with the audience.

The Performance Research Forum offers two programmes per year. These reflect the breadth of our department’s curriculum at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels: embracing as we do Live Art, multi media and dance theatre alongside the theatre as a literary form. Crucially, it emphasises our attention on focusing our work beyond western cultural traditions to reflect the cultural diversity of our students and the city in which they are studying.

Performance Research Events, teaching and learning:
The PRF is used by Goldsmiths staff and students in various ways: a) as totally extra-curricular  b) as part of specific under or post-graduate research c) as material from which to write assignments

'The Performance Research Forum is an excellent new model of imparting knowledge through the representation and discussion of artists' practices within a structured but informal context that is particularly geared to facilitating debate. The artists who have contributed to the PRF are not only eloquent and generous speakers but also represent some of the most influential and innovative practitioners of their generation.' Lois Keidan: LIVE ARTS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY and former performance programmer ICA THEATRE LONDON

Recent highlights have included a “no frills” Kathakali performance by KarunaKaran, who trained Peter Brook’s actors for the Mahabaratha, the provocative body artists Franko B, Ron Athey and Kira O’Reilly, the world-renowned scenographer Sally Jacobs, legendary American dancers Steve Paxton and Yvonne Rainer, Pina Bausch’s long-term collaborator Raimund Hoghe, Surinamese theatre artist Alida Neslo and La Ribot, last seen here at the Tate Modern in 2003 and Dance Umbrella 2005, and the world renowned Butoh artist Ko Murobushi from Japan. Some home-based contributors have included Graeme Miller, Kazuko Hohki, Jonathan Stone, Chitra Sundaram, Marie Gabrielle Rotie, Geraldine Pilgrim, Cindy Oswin, Tim Etchells ( Forced Entertainment), Mischa Twitchin ( Shunt), A2, Liz Aggiss, and the eccentric and brilliant grande dame of performance theatre Rose English.