UAL Level 4 Professional Diploma in Performance (Part-time)

The UAL Level 4 Professional Diploma in Performance has been designed to provide students with the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to progress into higher education or conservatoire training. The skills developed throughout the qualification may also support students intending to progress directly into employment in the creative industries.​
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This qualification will provide students with an opportunity to stretch and refine their practical skill levels, whilst defining their own personal interests and area of expertise. It allows them to explore, develop and test their creativity within a qualification structure which is stimulating, demanding, and provides ​a supportive transition into either higher-level training or employment. The qualification is ​suitable for students who intend to pursue a career in the creative arts.

Level 3 Qualification – Grade: MM or above. It is also recommended for candidates to have English GCSE at grade 4 or higher and some previous experience in performing arts.

The qualification is made up of the following three mandatory units:​

Unit 1 - Applied Professional Practice ​

This unit introduces students to the realities of a professional working environment and will equip them with the necessary rehearsal etiquette and professional practice standards required within industry.​
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Students will gain an understanding and appreciation of the demands placed upon the performer both in and outside of the rehearsal room and they will start taking responsibility for their own professional development​

​This unit will be delivered in conjunction with Unit 2 and will primarily involve practical and theoretical exploration of the professional standards required to enhance and sustain a career in the industry.

Unit 2- Specialist Performance Practice ​

In this unit, students will take part in a range of performance activities in order to develop performance technique. Students will advance their technical competency skill levels across a range of performance styles and apply the requisite professional standards in both rehearsal and performance.​

Students will develop their analytical skills through the exploration of their own practice and consider the impact of their artistic choices on the audience experience. ​
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This unit also considers the different ways in which significant practitioners have imagined, theorised and produced performance throughout history, which will enable students to consider and become aware of interweaving strands of questioning and conceptual development.

Unit 3 –Specialist Performance Project ​

The focus of this final unit is for students to realise their professional performance ambitions by instigating, rehearsing and performing in a specialist performance project.​ Students will take control of their own professional development and explore a self-defined area of practice that will bring together their applied professional practice and specialist performance techniques ​combined with their knowledge and understanding to carry out a performance project. ​
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This will involve students identifying the project objectives, clarifying and agreeing the scope of the work, managing their time and resources to achieve a final outcome for a clearly identified audience. The precise form and content of the project will be dependent upon the specialist skills developed by each student

A project brief will be given for each unit.

Unit 1 - Applied Professional Practice (internally assessed, internally verified.)

Unit 2- Specialist Performance Practice (internally assessed, internally verified.)

Unit 3 –Specialist Performance Project* (internally assessed, internally verified and externally moderated.)

* Unit 3 is the only unit for which a Pass/Merit/Distinction is awarded.

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