ma performance: design and practice asks; what is the socio-political context for contemporary performance? what is its purpose? who is it for? what might it be? the course will support you to become an independent practitioner in your chosen field. you will be encouraged to create work which interrogates existing performance conventions, traditional roles, and hierarchies. ma performance: design and practice encourages you: to explore new compositional strategies for time-based practice. to interrogate the relationship(s) between media, performance, socio-political context and audience. to develop a more critical/methodological approach to your own cultural consumption. to use research/knowledge as a base for radical experimentation. to develop strategies for working collaboratively. to think strategically about professional practice. through an integrated and individual approach to practice and research, the course aims to develop your creativity. you will be encouraged to analyse the processes which drive and define your practice and to question how your work relates to the broader context of performance practice. ma performance: design and practice at csm focuses on those sectors of performance culture where ideas and orthodoxies are in flux; innovative and experimental practices, but also those places where mainstream cultural traditions for instance opera, and traditional theatre are being influenced by new approaches to performance. we are committed to developing ethical performance practices. to achieve this, we are working to embed ual's principles for climate, social and racial justice into the course.