Rose Bruford College has launched a new postgraduate Masters course in Queer Performance, the  first course of its kind available worldwide, training students to create, explore, examine and expand queer performance practice.

This new programme is delivered in a hybrid way, with full or  part time options, via distance learning and in-person, offering the opportunity for students to continue their work as artists outside of their learning.  

Course Director, academic, artist and producer, Dr Phoebe Patey-Ferguson said: “Queer performance is where I consistently see the most exciting ideas for what theatre and art should be,  but also for what the world should be and what the future should look like. This distinctive new course is a space to hold radical imaginings for where contemporary performance practice might be  going next — as well as celebrating the diverse histories of queer makers and thinkers. From drag to  performance art, playwriting to XR, we are launching an MA that is as inventive and multidisciplinary as the fabulous community which it celebrates. Queer performance is already everywhere — on stages, screens, streets, dance floors, galleries, fields and festivals — and now it  finally has its own dedicated space in the academy at Rose Bruford College.”

The Queer Performance course offers broad training in a range of queer performance practices,  delivered by queer artists, theatre-makers, academics, and researchers, including Professor Stephen Farrier, acclaimed scholar of drag and popular queer performance and Head of  Postgraduate School & Director of Research at Rose Bruford College, and Professor Brian Lobel,  internationally renowned queer theatre maker. Fiercely socially engaged, political, experimental,  and interdisciplinary, it provides an in-depth, comprehensive examination of queer performance  practice, studying its themes, methodologies, and untapped possibilities. 

Applications are now open to study Queer Performance at Rose Bruford College from autumn 2023.  The College is also running online events on 24 February and Thursday 30 March, open to  anyone who'd like to find out more about the course.

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