MA in Performance Making

Our Graduates

Our Graduates work in a wide variety of professional contexts worldwide as commissioned performance makers, directors, project leaders, programmers and festival directors, teachers and academic researchers – these range across dance-theatre, physical theatre, live art, butoh, Noh, circus, storytelling, new writing, arts therapies, video and multi-media, installation, body art and site-specific works. The programme has launched a number of international production companies and collaborations. 

To put it simply, the year at Goldsmiths was a life changing experience. Meeting and working hands on with artists such as Maria La Ribot, Steve Paxton, Graeme Miller, Rose English and more introduced a completely new physical perspective into my work. Those encounters, combined with the wonderful opportunity of collaborating with students from different backgrounds and cultures still echo in everything I do professionally. If you are looking for a hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-dirty kind of work, the MA led by Anna Furse is the place to be.
Eylon Bar El Tel Aviv ,Israel

"Since I got back everything has been going extremely well for me professionally, I directed my first play at the National Theatre here in Iceland which was premiered in April.  It was shown on one of the smaller stages and got really good reviews, immediately after the premiere I started getting a lot of directing offers. But the most surprising part was that I won Best Director of the Year for the Icelandic Theatre Awards, 2008. Now I have a contract at the Reykjavik City Theatre and this year I will direct Blasted by Sarah Kane which will be premiered in January 2009. I am the first woman to win this award and the youngest director to receive it. Mainly this means that I can now choose what kind of work I want to do and with whom. I wanted to share this with you because your vision and the performance making course was such a big part of this, thank you."

Kristín Eysteinsdóttir, Iceland

"The course gave us many opportunities to learn about performance making from various practitioners with their different point of views. I developed my own creativity through the year and, interestingly, discovered some similarities in disparate cultural performance forms, eventually developing a new impression of my background in Noh theatre."
Midori Sakaguchi, Noh performer, Japan

"The MA programme gave me both the time and environment to explore my practice, allowing for experimentation as well as providing directed training. The strong ensemble ethic created a safe context in which to be challenged. I am now working professionally as a solo and collaborative performer, assistant director and administrator in a range of international projects."
Dafne Louzioti, Performace Maker, UK