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Performance programme

Learn more about the Performance programme

The Performance programme takes an interdisciplinary, experimental and frequently collaborative approach to performance-making. The work produced is political, free-thinking and inclusive. It encompasses, moving image, socially-engaged practice, choreography, scenography, dramaturgy and immersive technologies.

Our student body and teaching team come from a wide range of personal and professional perspectives. As a community, we are deeply committed to the idea that diverse ecologies are the most vibrant creatively and we actively celebrate difference. As a programme, we encourage creative risk-taking by cultivating a supportive and accepting environment in which unique individual and collective perspectives can develop. We believe in the potential for performance to change the society in which we all live.

Courses

Performance stories

  • HERDENTIER by Paula Dischinger - 2025 MA Performance: Society, Camera: Quirin Siegert

    The Graduate Award 2025: in their words 

    The CSM Museum & Study Collection has purchased works from graduating students for the last three decades, improving representation in its storytelling and reflecting the diverse communities at CSM.  

  • Credit: Dieter Vlasich Obermann, 2025

    MullenLowe NOVA Awards 2025: the nominees

    The nominations for this year's MullenLowe NOVA Awards are a filter of the CSM class of 2025: fifty-one ideas across art, design, fashion, architecture, materials and performance that bring us to a closer understanding of our selves and our future.

  • Evy Prentice, MA Graphic Communication Design

    MullenLowe NOVA Awards 2024 shortlist

    Presenting the 2024 shortlist for the MullenLowe NOVA Awards for Fresh Creative Talent. Fifteen works by our graduating students across art, design, performance, fashion, materials and culture.

  • Tong Yin, BA Textile Design

    MullenLowe NOVA Awards 2024: the nominees

    The nominations for this year's MullenLowe NOVA Awards are a filter of the CSM class of 2024: fifty ideas across art, design, fashion, architecture, materials and performance that bring us to a closer understanding of our selves and our future.

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