PERA Short is an intensive program with two strands. Initially, the program was designed to lay the groundwork for further in-depth professional education experience in contemporary dance practice. More recently, PERA short has incorporated an additional strand that explores physical training (both for actors and dancers) and practical methods in the creation of physical theatre practice. This exciting twofold program brings together daring and passionate dance and theatre practitioners from around the globe to train themselves to develop and broaden their skills and expertise in a versatile educational environment.
PERA Short is further designed to encourage a flexible and responsive learning experience. Students are accordingly able to select elective subjects across the two channels of the program as well as join and be integrated with other, schoolyear students studying in the PERA Dance B.A. program. This provides a further encourages the opportunity for the students to adjust their schedule according to their particular interest areas, allowing them greater freedom of access to the broader, interdisciplinary and versatile landscape of knowledge created by PERA’s educational philosophy. Students will consequently have the opportunity to work in close contact with a comprehensive list of resident and visiting teachers/ artists, as well as take part in informal presentations, choreographic showings, annual workshops and site-specific group projects.
To further support students’ continuous growth and development, individual tutorials, mentoring and feedback sessions will be undertaken regularly, alongside assisting students with their independent work that will culminate in a performance project at the end of the study period.
Students who want to make the transition into the PERA Dance B.A. will be evaluated at the end of the study season in June, and can be accepted into the second semester of the first year or directly into the second or third year of study, depending on their progress and achievement.
This one-semester or one-year, full-time undertaking is suitable for high school graduates, exchange students, and also for postgraduates and established practitioners looking to continue their training and research in an intensive study environment.
In this framework, the course provides an invaluable stepping stone into a professional context, fostering technical expertise, creative skills and performance experience in order to facilitate the individual’s personal and artistic development, both as a performer and choreographer. The program provides the opportunity to work with internationally acclaimed guest teachers from diverse backgrounds who visit PERA on a monthly basis. Learning is further optimised by engagement with theory and analytical subjects to encourage critical thinking and promote students' ability to become highly reflective and free-thinking dance artists.
This one-semester or one-year, full-time undertaking is suitable for high school graduates, exchange students, and also for postgraduates and established practitioners looking to continue their training and research in an intensive study environment.
Embracing a variety of mediums, several processes are offered on the three fundamental branches of physical theatre: movement, improvisation and devised work. Instead of a text-centered approach in devising original performance work, the focus is primarily on the body and physicality in building characters and communicating a state of mind or a theatrical idea. Exploring and combining a broad range of movement disciplines, theatrical tools, visual languages and creative domains, the course fosters an intensive and sophisticated learning experience with internationally respected guest teachers from diverse backgrounds who will be visiting PERA on a monthly and semester basis to teach in the course.