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Performance Making

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Notable alumni

  • Amelia Burke
  • Courtney Cavallaro
  • Grace Chow
  • Timothy Green
  • Charlotte Otton

If you’re interested in pursuing more than one facet of performance, whether that be performing, directing, producing, writing plays, facilitating community-engaged arts projects or collaboratively devising dynamic physical performance, then WAAPA’s Bachelor of Performing Arts (Performance Making) is the perfect choice for you.

This three-year degree course is an incubator for artists who are passionate about driving creativity and innovation in the performing arts landscape.

You’ll begin your WAAPA journey developing a strong foundation of skills, grounded in rigorous training in text-based acting, voice, movement and theatre history. You’ll then deepen your practice by exploring devised, transcultural and experimental approaches to performance. Self-directed projects will develop confidence in working independently, while highly collaborative group work will develop the ability to work as part of a cohesive team.

The course features opportunities such as:

  • annual site-specific performance made in response to a unique location
  • annual study tour to Intercultural Theatre Institute, for training in traditional Asian theatre;
  • a partner training agreement with Spare Parts Puppet Theatre in Fremantle;
  • articulation agreement with Calle Flygare, Stockholm, whose graduates enter year 2 of the program.

By the time you graduate, you’ll have a full range of tools at your disposal to help you create new work that’s distinctly your own, on the pathway to becoming an independent and critically thinking artist.

Courses offered

These course pages detail entry requirements, fee and interview information. You can also apply from these pages.

Audition and interview documents

Staff

The Course Coordinator for Performance Making is Dr Jeremy Neideck.

For a full list of WAAPA Performance staff, please visit the WAAPA Staff listing.

More information

For domestic student enquiries, please go to Future Students.

For international student enquiries, please go to International Students.

For a full list of WAAPA courses, please visit WAAPA Study areas.

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