Hannah

"I started the MA in Performance Making as a practicing visual artist. I studied Fine Art for my undergraduate degree and afterwards spent several years developing my practice and showing my work in galleries throughout Ireland including the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Douglas Hyde Gallery. I had always been interested in performance but felt limited by my lack of physical training and experience.

The MA in Performance Making offered many valuable learning experiences both inside and outside of the classroom. Highlights included a three day workshop with Steve Paxton, as well as the chance to see a preview of Franko B’s Because of Love performance during its development.

Without doubt the most beneficial element of the the MA in Performance Making is the diversity of the cohort. Meeting, sharing and collaborating with performers from across the world and from a variety of training backgrounds was invaluable in terms of its impact on my practice. I was privileged to work alongside dancers, actors, cultural theorists and artists from places as diverse as Chile, Palestine, Germany, Iran and Brazil.

Since graduating I have gone on to co-found the performance collective The Honest Crowd, with five of my MA collaborators. In this capacity we have presented our final show piece Glasshouse in the Battersea Arts Centre and are continuing to work closely with The Basement in Brighton through a series of residencies to develop Glasshouse further and premiere it at the Brighton Festival in May 2013. As with most practitioners my practice is supported by my part-time job and even in this respect my ties with Goldsmiths remain as I now work in the Careers Service on campus."