Graduate Diploma in Performance Creation (GD-PERFCR) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of the course, students should:

• have developed and refined individual leadership abilities and capacities for initiating and realising projects in performance and/or performance pedagogy within and across a range of cultural and social contexts;
• have extended their skills and expertise in all aspects fundamental to their primary performance discipline – namely choreography, directing, animateuring or performance pedagogy;
• have acquired relevant skills in other disciplines;
• be able to foster creativity and experimentation, both individually and through collaboration with artists from their primary discipline area and other disciplines;
• have developed research skills at both a theoretical and practical level appropriate to postgraduate study;
• have acquired a greater understanding of the cultural context of the arts of performance at state, national and international levels.
• have achieved proficiency in eliciting ideas from people and implementing appropriate processes to develop artistic performances;
• have acquired a practical understanding of group dynamics and communication skills needed to develop productive work processes within a collaborative context;
• have developed effective entrepreneurial, planning management and promotional skills appropriate to projects, to ventures in arts training and to small arts organisations;
• have acquired a capacity with which to target, connect with, nurture and develop an audience.