Rose Bruford College launches Queer Performance course
Hattie Fisk
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Said to be the first course of its kind, the course promises to be ‘fiercely socially engaged, political, experimental and interdisciplinary’, providing a comprehensive examination of queer performance practice.
Moritz Richter
Rose Bruford College has announced the launch of a new postgraduate Masters course in Queer Performance.
Said to be the first course of its kind across the globe, the course will train students to create, explore, examine and expand queer performance practice.
The MA will be delivered by queer artists, theatremakers, academics and researchers including acclaimed scholar of drag and popular queer performance and head of Postgraduate School and director of Research at Rose Bruford, Stephen Farrier, and internationally renowned queer theatre maker, Professor Brian Lobel.
‘From drag to performance art, playwriting to XR, we are launching an MA that is as inventive and multidisciplinary as the fabulous community which it celebrates,’ says course director, academic, artist and producer, Dr Phoebe Patey-Ferguson. ‘Queer performance is already everywhere — on stages, screens, streets, dance floors, galleries, fields and festivals — and now it finally has its own dedicated space in the academy at Rose Bruford College.’
Applications are currently open for the course, and there will be an online event on 30 March for those who wish to find out more.
