You will have access to suitably equipped performance spaces and associated resources in the college.

Students will have access to studio space and college library and computer resources. University learning resources are available on campus at Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent, and online via the partner Need to Know pages of the university website.
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/courses_and_study/partnerships/current_students/email/index.jsp

Introduction to module
Project management workshops
Communication methods workshops and seminars, to include promotion, information retrieval and negotiation
Practical studio workshops
Event and activity visits and critiques
Individual tutorials

The purpose of this module is to allow you to take personal responsibility for a major brief, building on the experience of the whole learning programme. You will be able to show that you understand how performers work to achieve success, and how this relates to the national and international creative context.

A key theme that you will work with is one of working independently, because you will be expected to identify potential projects and generate appropriate 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, such as part of a performance organisation, as an individual, working as a team leader or coordinator of other practitioners, or as a significant research project relating to your academic aspirations.

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

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

As you will be working on an individual project, individual tutorials will be an important aspect of the module. If you are intending to take an academic progression route, counselling regarding the nature and suitability of the assignment should be sought: a written academic study of an appropriate depth and breadth could be the most appropriate way to prepare yourself for further study, and this might be the major project you undertake for this module.

Students must submit work for both assessments:

Assessment 1: The planning and implementation of a major performance related project, negotiated with tutors and, where appropriate, mentor (80%) [Learning Outcomes 1, 2]

Assessment 2: A 2,500 word report evaluating the project in a national and international context, supported by a portfolio of evidence of project management (20%) [Learning Outcomes 2, 3]

Formative assessment: Peer presentation explaining how your proposed major project is relevant to the contemporary national and international arena for dance and theatre arts practitioners.

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