Welcome to ClassAction

The formal aims our programmes of study remain the same for every practitioner. The way you achieve those aims will differ from person to person.

1. To promote an enjoyment of and an interest in performance both as a participant and as an informed member of an audience.

2. To extend the skills, knowledge and understanding needed to communicate through your own performance work, encouraging learning and providing access to related careers in the performing arts.

3. To provide a worthwhile, satisfying and complete course of study that broadens experience, demands questioning, develops imagination, fosters creativity and promotes personal and social development.

4. To encourage the appreciation of the significance of social, cultural, political and historical influences on performance practice both past and present.

5. To develop and awareness of the implications of performance (past and present) for the individual and the local, national and international communities.

6. To encourage the development of informed opinions free from prejudicial intolerance. This includes appropriate language. We encourage all practitioners to question the language they employ at all times.

The courses demand practical, analytical, discursive, creative and communication skills in equal measure. You will be required to write about performance and to develop your analytical skills, as you become an informed critic of your own and other’s work. You will take part in productions as well as studying practitioners, performance theory and the social, political and historical context of yours and other’s performance work.