Apply Theatre! The master's programme Applied Theatre links theory and practice with different research, instruction and staging processes beyond common conventions. Students learn to work artistically with actors from different professional, cultural and social backgrounds and to intervene in the world with courage and skill through theater.
Department for Acting, Directing & Applied Theatre - Thomas Bernhard Institute
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Study & Examination Management
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Length
4 semesters / 120 ECTS-AP
Language
English & German
Registration deadline
from February each year
to the dates
Admission examinations
summer semester each year
to the dates
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Citizen's stage, participatory theater, theater of intervention, theater and community, theater pedagogy or just: Applied Theatre - many names name those developments in the international theater landscape, in which the relationships of actors and spectators as well as rehearsal and production processes are reformulated. Applied Theatre means transferring theater art into social fields of action that are not necessarily art- or theater-related.
The master's program involves the exploration and invention of participatory, immersive, interventionist, collaborative, and site-specific forms and formats. Students are invited to seek the theatrical in the everyday, translate interests into action, and "read" spaces and people beyond theatrical conventions.
The program is explicitly designed for theater and performance professionals from virtually all fields of study and employment. The completion of a relevant theater degree is not necessary, but relevant practical experience in the theater (to be proven by an internship certificate).
The goals of the Master's degree program in Applied Theatre are artistic maturity and independence, ability for critical reflection and self-evaluation, artistic ability to open up participatory, immersive and inclusive theater practices and dramaturgies, and the ability to fulfill artistic, pedagogical and organizational tasks within cultural life. It serves to deepen and complement the artistic, pedagogical and scientific professional preparation on the basis of subject-related Bachelor's studies.
The master's program qualifies students for artistic professional practice in the fields of theater pedagogy, directing, dramaturgy, performance, curating in the areas of community-based performing arts (e.g. youth work). Students should be enabled to perceive and help shape artistic and overall social developments.
The curriculum is competency-based. Students should, after completion of the Master's program Applied Theatre:
The focus is on the students' independent project work, accompanied by an in-depth examination of theater and performance in various social contexts. To this end, the Thomas Bernhard Institute offers laboratory-like working conditions that provide students with space and resonance for their artistic development. Special importance is also attached to the collaborative aspects of Applied Theatre, which play an important role in collective processes of experience and learning.
In concrete terms, students develop their projects within the framework of practice-oriented focus modules dedicated to performers and actors, spaces and fields of action, as well as aspects of artistic research. This corresponds to theoretical and discursive events on performance theory, educational psychology, dramaturgical practice, applied theory, and artistic group and individual instruction in the areas of body/movement, voice/speech, and improvisation, among others.
The smooth transition to professional practice is a major concern. Central to this is the opportunity for students to present their own projects in public while still in the program.
The Master's programme in Applied Theatre has a modular structure. A module is the combination of teaching and learning content into thematically and didactically meaningful units of study. The names and content descriptions (study objectives) of the individual modules as well as the number of ECTS credits to be achieved for each module and the type of performance assessment are specified in the curriculum. The module descriptions refer to the corresponding learning outcomes and competencies.
The Master's program is a face-to-face program and cannot be offered - not even in parts - as a distance learning program. The courses from the Central Artistic Subject (ZKF) as well as the other Individual Artistic Instruction (KE) are designed to build upon each other. Prerequisite for enrollment in courses from the ZKF or KE is in each semester - with the exception of the first - the positive evaluation of the previous semester.
The prerequisite for admission to the Master's program Applied Theatre is the completion of a Bachelor's degree or another equivalent degree in a (scenic) artistic, pedagogical or scientific subject at a recognized domestic or foreign post-secondary educational institution. For internal and external applicants, admission to the Master's program Applied Theatre is only possible after fulfilling the qualitative admission requirements ( admission examination ) and according to the available study places. Within the framework of this examination, applicants must also prove their artistic/social/pedagogical potential to master the Master's program.
In any case, the completion of a bachelor's degree in voice, composition, music theory, choral conducting, orchestral conducting, elementary music and dance pedagogy or the completion of a diploma program in acting or directing as well as a bachelor's degree in instrumental-singing pedagogy, an instrumental subject (concert subject) or a teaching degree program at the Mozarteum University is considered to be eligible for the Master's degree in Applied Theatre.
The Rectorate decides on the admission to the master's program in accordance with the provisions of the University Act on admission if another study program is available that is suitable in terms of subject matter or if a study program at a recognized domestic or foreign post-secondary educational institution is equivalent.
The application procedure for the MA "Applied Theatre - artistic theater practice and society" is divided into three steps:
1. The online application and submission of the portfolio from 01 February 2023 to 23 March 2023
2. Online workshop after invitation 31 March to 01 April 2023
3. Admission examination in the form of a practical workshop on site in Salzburg, after invitation 05 to 06 May 2023
The following documents must be uploaded completely in the course of the online application:
The following documents must be submitted as part of the artistic application portfolio in a pdf document including a cover sheet:
The work/documents must be digitized (scans, photo, etc.) and uploaded with a cover sheet (photo, name, zip code, city, date of birth, street, phone number, high school diploma, mail and a statement of previous professional training, date and signature) as a coherent pdf document. Only one upload will be accepted.
Admission workshop
Examination content: The second part of the admission examination consists of several practical parts in the form of a workshop as well as an interview with the examination commission.
Examination: Compulsory for all applicants with a positive portfolio examination. The invitation to the entrance examination is sent out approx. 2 weeks before the examination date.
Examination waiver: Not possible.
Examination requirements: The admission examination in the form of a workshop consists of several practical parts (e.g. in the areas of improvisation, movement, instruction practice, research). In addition, the scenic/social imagination, discursive competence and conceptual potential will be assessed in an interview with the examination committee.
Deviating examination method
Please note that the University Mozarteum Salzburg offers various support options for the admission examination and during your studies if you have a disability or a chronic illness.
If this applies to you and you would like to take advantage of counselling, please contact Claudia Haitzmann: claudia.haitzmann@moz.ac.at or +43 676 88122 337.
Students of the Master's programme are recommended to complete a semester abroad. Semesters 5 and 6 of the degree programme are particularly suitable for this. In addition to the subject-specific competences, the following qualifications can be acquired through a study period abroad:
The recognition of examinations taken during studies abroad as compulsory subjects, elective subjects or free elective subjects is carried out by the Director of Studies. The documents required for the assessment are to be submitted by the applicant immediately after the stay abroad.
Details at International Affairs.
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