This course is contemporary, visionary and designed for the students to find employment in the quickly expanding and dynamic markets of festival and venue management; with the strong links to organisations such as Leicester Comedy Festival, De Montfort Hall and Curve theatre students develop practical skills in project management, including the programming, planning and delivery of Cultural Exchanges, the University's own nationally recognised festival; students graduate fully equipped to deliver and manage their own artistic projects and ready to work within the arts and festivals sector; the drama course combines both critical and creative approaches to drama, with practical work taking place in studios and rehearsal rooms; there are regular visits to local and London theatres and an annual field trip (most recently to New York, Paris, Amsterdam and Dublin).
Year 1: Running and promoting a venue; creative arts manager; acting, scripting, directing (a practical introduction to drama); a technical introduction to drama. Year 2: Creative management, finance and law; research methods: dissertation or placement; engaging audiences; drama and theory; naturalism and anti-naturalism; Shakespeare in performance; devising; carnival and the carnivalesque; contemporary theatre in Britain. Year 3: Festivals management; media industry management; music industry management; visual culture and heritage practice; drama research project; key practitioners and dramatists; writing for performance; live art; negotiated study; narrative and performance; popular theatre.
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Thu 27th Sep 2012 |
6 years |
Full time | No application date provided |
Leicester, LE1 9BH |
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£9000 per year |
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Thu 27th Sep 2012 |
3 years |
Full time | No application date provided |
Leicester, LE1 9BH |
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£9000 per year |
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De Montfort University
Art, Drama Studies, Arts / Culture Administration

Excellent Course with very good scope of live management Experience. ...more
I think this course is exactly what I needed, because I am a shay person and very wary of how I look when I am dancing. This course is giving me self confident and self esteem to dance. I am really enjoing it....more
Covers a very broad range of topics, from law through finance and cultural policy....more
1 Hotcourses user(s) found the following review helpful.I think that the material included is very relevant, it gets you into gear......more
broad range of lectuerers with interests ranging from music, festivals to fine art and design. Broadened my knowledge beyond my particular interest (art and design)...more
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