Dissertation Performances, trips and workshops . . .

Loads is happening on the Bucks Uni Performing Arts course at the moment!

The academic year is drawing to a close, and we are extra busy during this exciting time of the year!

Apart from the dissertation performance having kicked off, we have various theatre trips and extra workshops happening to fill up an already busy end of year schedule.

Read on to find out what our students experience alongside preparing and performing their final performances, hand in their last essays, and rehears for their last practical assessments . . . . 

Dissertation Performances begin next week...be sure to come

Spoiler Alert   these images offer a sneak preview from a most promising duo, whose performance  interrogates the effects of silence, sound and synesthesia on childhood and their ramifications in the present. Well done to Rhiain and Pete for producing their 20 minute practice as research performance ahead of schedule, freeing-up time for them to work with Sign Dance.

Our 2nd year students impress in London!

We've had some brilliant feedback for the performances of our second year students!

Working up a sweat with Frantic Assembly

Two weeks ago we invited the renowned physical theatre company Frantic Assembly to Bucks New University to hold a devising workshop with our performing arts students.

Frantic Assembly have been creating thrilling, energetic and highly physical theatre work since 1994 and are well known in England and beyond. It was a pleasure to welcome their performer and Associate Artist Dritan Kastrati to our campus, and see him hold two 2hour workshops with students from across all years.



Dritan led the students through an intense physical warm up, working up a sweat, before guiding them through a series of challenging lifts which then formed the basis for devising short performance pieces. The lifts and contact work were particularly challenging for students who feel less confident with physical work; however, it was fantastic to see how Dritan stirred them on and convinced them that, with the right technique, everyone can be lifted or lift other people.