MA Contemporary Performance Practices UEL

27/02/2026

We’re launching our brand new PG courses in Dance @ University of East London. Applications are open for sept 2026

23/02/2023

Check out the work of alumnus Levi Hibbert

24/08/2022

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24/06/2022

Radical acts of tenderness with La Pocha Nostra. In the poetic ethnography exercise raw material becomes a futuristic goddess in the hands of Nat Alie

23/06/2022

Calling all CPP Alumni to share their upcoming performances, workshops, exhibitions and much more!

We will soon be launching CPP brand new website and would love to include your work.

Please do send us an image, including photo credit, along with a copy of information. Please send this to us by Friday 1st July 2022. We look forward to finding out what you have been up to :)

09/06/2022

On Monday June 13, 2022, Distinguished University Professor Rosi Braidotti will formally retire by giving her farewell lecture Affirmative Ethics: We Are Rooted But We Flow at 16.15 hrs in the Aula of the Academiegebouw.   The lecture will be preceded by a celebratory conference in the Belle van Zu...

25/04/2022

We congratulate Sonia Boyce for winning a Golden Lion this year and take the opportunity to also congratulate CPP alumnus and PhD student Levi Hibbert who won the prestigious British Council fellowship to be an ambassador for Boyce’s exhibition at the British Pavillion. 👏

27/03/2022

Meet the CPP team

Reader Dr Sarahleigh Castelyn

Dance
Department of Music, Writing & Performance, School of Arts and Creative Industries

Dr Sarahleigh Castelyn is an educator, researcher, performer, and choreographer; a dance nerd.

Areas Of Interest:
Dance, Politics, Ethics, Pedagogy, Africa, Gender, Race, Geography, Sexuality, Nation, Practice-Based Research, Theatre, Performance, recently the representation of women and madness in performance: the list goes on…

26/03/2022

Meet the CPP team

Senior Lecturer Dr Tom Drayton

Acting, Performance and Directing, School of Arts and Creative Industries

Dr Tom Drayton is the Course Leader for MA/MFA Directing for Stage and Screen, and teaches across MA Acting, MA Theatre Directing and MA Contemporary Performance Practices.

Areas Of Interest:
Metamodernism
The Millennial Generation
Activist Performance
Political Theatre
Theatre Directing
Contemporary Performance
Applied Storytelling

25/03/2022

Performance fragment presentation during the module Cultures of Performance. This module encourages students to constantly shift between modes and media - from reading to moving and writing.

Music: Tinashé: Mbira version of "Zambezi" (2009)