Students must submit work for both assessments:

Assessment 1: The planning and implementation of a performance related project, including evidence of project management, negotiated with tutors and mentor (80%) [Learning Outcomes 1 & 2]

Assessment 2: Reflective Learning Journal (20%) [Learning Outcome 3]

The purpose of this module is to allow students to take personal responsibility for a major performance related project, building on the experience of the whole learning programme. The critical evaluation of the smaller project in Exploring Specialist Pathway 2 should inform the approach and management of this project. The module is supported by Professional and Contextual Studies 2 module, where students will investigate the skills associated with leadership and management.

A key theme that should be explored is one of working independently, in that the student will be expected to identify potential and generate responses to fulfil a clearly articulated need and/or aspiration. This may be industry directed or academic, and in any of a range of roles.

Examples of projects students might work on would be setting up a company to perform their own work, creating a major performance related event for a new audience, or identifying needs and establishing new performance opportunities in a traditionally non-artistic environment.

Students will be expected to identify and engage with client or clients, work creatively and innovatively and successfully promote work. Targets and timescales should be action planned as part of a well managed project that fully embraces professional considerations: to include financial management, health and safety, legal and ethical requirements and a wide range of communication methods.

As students will be working on diverse projects, individual tutorials will be an important aspect of the module. For students wishing to take an academic route, counselling regarding the nature and suitably of the assignment should be sought: a written academic study of an appropriate depth and breadth should be a major part of the brief, and should relate to progression to level 3 modules. Students wishing to progress to Level 3 should also be conversant with the Health and Safety requirements required, and the need to include evidence of participating in appropriate training in their portfolio.

Studio Theatre; including a full lighting rig, backstage area, props and costumes
Dance Studio; sprung floor, mirrors, barres

Library; books, journals, articles and ejournals
Learning Resource Centre; computers, internet and printing facilities
Access to digital video recorders & tripod

Brewhouse facilities:
Dance Studio; Mirrors, Barres, changing area, showers
Drama studio, Loft Gallery, Corner studio. Auditorium to seat 300. Full backstage facilities, full lighting and sound facilities.

Introduction to module: 2 Hours
Project management: 10 hours
Communication methods workshops and seminars: 20 Hours
Practical media studio workshops: 20 Hours
Event and activity visits: 20 Hours
Indvidual Tutorials: 5 Hours
Total Contact time: 77 hours.


Work practice activities should comprise a minimum 120 hours, and include:
Identification and negotiation of a brief
Engaging with a partner, partners, a client or clients
Planning and leading meetings
Managing the project and production process
Managing a budget
Responsibility for legal, ethical and health and safety issues

Books:
Kloetzel M. & Pavlik C. eds., (2009). Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida.
Kwon M. (2004). One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity . Cambridge, Massachussetts: MIT Press.

Journals:
LeFevre, Camille. (2008). Let's Take it Outside. Dance Magazine. April

Websites:
www.redearth.co.uk