Postgraduate study in Performance

The Performance programme at Central Saint Martins takes an interdisciplinary, experimental and frequently collaborative approach to performance-making. The work produced is political, free-thinking and inclusive. It encompasses, moving image, socially-engaged practice, choreography, scenography, dramaturgy and immersive technologies.

Our student body and teaching team come from a wide range of personal and professional perspectives. As a community, we are deeply committed to the idea that diverse ecologies are the most vibrant creatively and we actively celebrate difference. As a programme, we encourage creative risk-taking by cultivating a supportive and accepting environment in which unique individual and collective perspectives can develop. We believe in the potential for performance to change the society in which we all live.

Join us in person or online to find out more at our Postgraduate Information Sessions in May.

Postgraduate coures 
MA Character Animation
Ideas for stories and characters, but not sure how to make them move? MA Character Animation is for designers, artists and illustrators who want to learn how to animate. Next open day: May 3.

MA Intercultural Practices
Preparing you for future careers where intercultural collaboration is essential. Global themes are best understood and acted on from multiple cultural and disciplinary perspectives. This course encourages the sharing of these perspectives to develop your agency as an artist and cultural producer. Next open day: May 3.

MA Performance: Design and Practice
Bringing together artists, directors, writers, researchers and designers, this course sets the agendas that drive performance practice in the twenty-first century. 

MA Performance: Screen
MA Performance: Screen supports you to define your voice and strategy as an independent film maker and screen-based performance maker. 

MA Performance: Society
MA Performance: Society explores radical, socially engaged performance through live, screen-based and sited practice.  Next open day: May 3 and May 4 (online).

MA Performance: Writing
We train the next generation of writing talent, giving them the confidence and skills required to thrive in the industry.
Next open day: May 3 and May 4 (online)

Mode and length study
MA Performance: Society and MA Intercultural Practices are offered part-time and in low-residency mode, running for 90 weeks over two academic years. Teaching is mostly online. 

MA Character Animation, MA Performance: Design and Practice, MA Performance: Screen and MA Performance: Writing are offered in extended full-time mode which runs for 60 weeks over two academic years.  Teaching takes place in person. 

Applications
Applications are accepted until each course is full. Your application will only be considered after you have successfully completed an online application and submitted the required documents. Full details of specific entry requirements for each course can be found on the relevant course pages of our website.    

A note to applicants from the US: University of the Arts London participates in US federal student aid programs which means that US applicants may be eligible for federal loans to help cover the cost of study.