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United Kingdom, Manchester

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Manchester Metropolitan University

United Kingdom , Manchester

Key Facts

Program Level

Master by Course Work

Study Type

Full Time

Delivery

On Campus

Campuses

Manchester

Program Language

English

Start & Deadlines

Next Intake DeadlinesSeptember-2026

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Duration 12 month(s)

Tuition Fee

GBP 22,002 / year

Next Intake September-2026

Performance,MFA

About

MA/MFA Performance is an exciting taught masters programme that offers a practical, versatile and interdisciplinary approach to performance-making and training. The programme provides you with an advanced and practical understanding of current performance practices, drawing on a broad range of artistic and theoretical influences. The development of new creative practice is at the core of the programme, as well as how this work might be developed and profiled in a professional context.

Furthermore, MA/MFA Performance offers you the chance to specialise in either of the distinctive areas of laboratory theatre or contemporary performance. The experience of these options is fed through a further process of critical and professional contextualisation, before you embark on the creation of your

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Entry requirements

Normally applicants will have a good undergraduate UK honours degree (minimum 2:2) in a related subject (or international equivalent), or a degree-equivalent postgraduate diploma, or a professional qualification, or relevant professional practice.

IELTS overall requirement 6.5 with no less than 5.5. in any category.

Progression onto the MFA requires that all 180 credits of the MA are passed, with at least a mark of 50% in each unit.

Interview may be required.

English Program Requirements

You need to have a recognised English language qualification to study at Manchester Metropolitan.

The score required will vary depending on the qualification and the area of study you have chosen. If you hold an offer of a place from the University, your offer will give you the specific requirements for your course.

Typical International English Language Testing System (IELTS) requirements are:

6.0 (no less than 5.5 in any section) or equivalent for undergraduate courses
6.5 (no less than 5.5 in any section) or equivalent for postgraduate courses

Visit our English language requirements page for examples of recognised tests and minimum acceptable scores.

Career

Career prospects

MA/MFA Performance graduates will leave the programme able to operate as performance practitioners at a professional level, whilst understanding the vocational and critical contexts in which the field operates. This will empower them to develop a career as freelance theatre artists, or as other professionals in the sector (producers, programmers, facilitators, curators, pedagogues etc.) or to combine these identities based on their own interests/skill-sets, as is increasingly common practice in the portfolio careers built by performance artists.

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