A Message from the Programme Director

This year's MA in Performing Arts graduation festival features contemporary circus, a durational performance mirroring a 9am -5pm work shift, autobiography theatre, and a dance with the more-than-human. By chance, a shared thread of performative risk runs through these works, despite their varied approaches. 

Risk appeals in personal vulnerability, relational closeness with resources, pushing the body to its physical limits, and the financial stakes of incompromising artistic vision. Conceptual or material, each work uses risk to intensify presence. These performances ask what happens possible when artists step into the unknown and explore the potential that is where is when is when is risked when is when is found and is when risked when is adopted as an artistic methodology. 

Brogan Davison - Program Director