PGT students across five of our MA programmes (MA Applied Theatre & Intervention; MA Audiences, Engagement and Participation; MA Culture Creativity and Entrepreneurship; MA Performance Design; and MA Writing for Performance and Publication) have worked collaboratively to develop three ensemble, co-creative projects that engage with some of the significant...
Intercultural Shakespeare is a very popular Year 3 module on our undergraduate degree in Theatre and Performance, first taught in the first semester of the academic year 19-20. It has been devised as a highly practical, studio-based module, exploring Shakespeare through music, dance and hybrid adaptations of his texts that...
Live online Q&A June 4th 11.00am – 12.30pm (BST) Song of the Female Textile Workers tells the story of three generations of women and their intertwined love and passion in pursuing their careers, set against individual historical socio-political background. The story presents a hundred years of China’s socio-economic and...
This GCRF project, part of Changing the Story, emerges from a partnership with Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education, Bottomup NGO and researchers from the University of Leeds – Schools of PCI and Geography. We worked with 25 young people from the Cape Flats and nearby, this project considers how...
Kathy Hinde – Amber Abrams – Marieke Norton In recent years, a great deal of research across various disciplines has demonstrated the need to develop inclusive and transformative modes of water governance (if this is even the right word) that can make space for a multiplicity of water knowledges,...
one day. two hundred choices. Lola, Sara, Shaun and Claire. Four completely different people all entering life outside of prison at the same time, connected only through their probation officer. They each discover the difficulties and importance of relationships, housing, mental health and licence conditions in the outside world. Follow...
by Emma Dutton Tchaikovsky Recomposed was made possible by the Berkofsky Arts Award. Tchaikovsky Recomposed explores the relationship between reconfiguration and recognition by abstracting and restructuring material from Tchaikovsky’s three ballets, Swan Lake (1876), Sleeping Beauty (1889) and The Nutcracker (1892). Performances and reinterpretations of Tchaikovsky’s ballets have been...
Radical Performance Knowledges webinar series + Place and Performance Research Group present: Land Consciousness: What can England learn from Scotland about Taking Back Control? Alastair McIntosh In Scotland, three per cent of the land is now owned by some 500 community groups, and citizens have a responsible right to...
The Farce Dimension by Luke Haywood What if you opened a portal to the legendary Farce Dimension using a secret knob in a deluxe antique wardrobe? Rose Cedar-Pine and her twin sister Mary have done just that. However, when Mary gets lost in the Farce Dimension, five farce worlds begin...
Kamilu Hassan Hamza Al Fitra Academy, Kano, Nigeria Respondent: Nicolas Salazar Sutil This event is sponsored by Sadler Seminar programme, Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds This event explores the spiritual and cultural world of the Maguzawa, or Hausa animists of Northern Nigeria. Kamilu Hassan Hamza...