University of Bedfordshire Summer School Programme

The University of Bedfordshire and Excellence East are pleased to announce the Summer School Programme for 2009!

Dance Summer School: Monday 13th July – Friday 17th July for Years 10-13

After the success of the Summer Schools in 2007 and 2008, the University of Bedfordshire and Excellence East are running the third Dance Summer School for young people of Year 10 and above who are considered ‘gifted and talented’ in dance.

This year’s focus is Site-specific Performance and looks at how choreography can be created in response to different spaces, locations and architecture.

The week will comprise; advanced study of contemporary dance technique, site-specific choreography, and dance analysis. The workshops will be studio-based, and the learning approach will focus on knowledge and skill acquisition through practice.

The programme will be taught in state-of the-art studio facilities including a final performance in and around the new professionally equipped theatre.

Staff teaching on the course are highly skilled and internationally and nationally recognised in the areas of dance performance, choreography and education.

This is an opportunity for young people who excel in dance to experience high quality university teaching in an undergraduate atmosphere and to mix with their peers from other schools.


Theatre Summer School: Monday 13th to Wednesday 15th July for Years 10-13

Writing into Performance is a three-day programme in which students will explore the processes of writing for performance both as individuals and in groups.

Students will practise techniques to enhance their approaches to creating text; develop their text in workshops; and hone their vocal skills and the delivery of text.

The school will culminate in a workshop presentation in which students will perform the writing they have developed over the three days and receive constructive feedback on their writing and performance from peers and staff.


English Summer School: Tuesday 21st to Thursday 23rd July for Years 10-13

Shakespeare For Ever! Shakespeare’s works endure because they deal powerfully with the eternal concerns of humanity: love and hate; war and peace; life and death.

Students will have the chance to take a fresh look at Shakespeare, to analyse his work, to see how subsequent generations have revisited the plays and seen their relevance to their own times.

They will have the opportunity to put their own slant on Shakespeare, take a play, a scene, a character, and give it a 21st Century resonance, to demonstrate that Shakespeare as Jonson wrote was indeed ‘not for an age but for all time’, in fact, for ever!

Costs:

The cost for the Dance Summer School will be £150 per student, and the cost for both the Theatre and English Summer Schools will be £100 per student.

Please note places will be free for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. WE ARE KEEN TO RECRUIT STUDENTS IN THIS CATEGORY.


Further Details:

Please download a flyer for the event you are interested in from the column on the right and you can register an interest online in the Student Zone/Full Calender of Events section of this website.

You can download an application form from here also.

If you need any further information, please email kirsty.goddard-willcox@beds.ac.uk.