Leeds School of Arts Alumni recognised in New Year’s Honours
Three graduates from Leeds School of Arts have been acknowledged for their contribution to the fields they work in.
First year Performing Arts student talks about how coronavirus has potentially created a new way to perform, digitally
Coronavirus has affected everyone in some sort of way, but first year student Beth tells us how she has adapted to the changes and how she has created a positive outcome from studying a creative course virtually.
Caitlin shares how she has been supported during the COVID-19 pandemic
Third year Performing Arts student Caitlin explains how the support from her tutors and peers has filled her with confidence for completing her final year.
Infusing the challenges of COVID 19 into creating powerful performances
First year Theatre and Performance student Bethany started her university studies during the COVID 19 pandemic. She tells us how she adapted to a new way of learning, and even learnt to infuse the challenges she faced into creating performance work.
Recent Graduate is Releasing Second Single on Record Label Monomyth Records
BA (Hons) Music Performance and Production graduate, Luka Huidobro-Howe, who performs under the name ‘LUKA’, is releasing her second single on label Monomyth Records.
Leeds School of Arts academic featured on global radio
Dr Sue Miller and her band Charanga del Norte have made a number of appearances on international radio.
Sounds Good
BA (Hons) Music Performance and Production student Cameron Naylor talks about his recent involvement in the ‘Sounds Good’ installation at Leeds City Museum and describes how he created his piece.
Dr Sue Miller presents her Latin Music Research Project at the British Academy Summer Showcase
Led by Dr Sue Miller this British Academy funded research project investigates the performance aesthetics of Latin music in the recording studio using a variety of approaches including the technique of experimental archaeology.
LSA Festival Student Stories: Eleanor Sanctuary / Music Performance & Production
Music Performance & Production student Eleanor talks about her final year project and overcoming the problems raised by COVID-19 in order to record and release her own EP, 'Sanctuary'.
Broadcast Media Technologies Students benefit from long-running partnership with BBC Introducing
The long-running partnership between Leeds Beckett University and the BBC Introducing project has provided our students with numerous opportunities to work with up and coming artists over the past few years.
Oliver Twist at Leeds Playhouse
Music Performance and Production student Alistair Lacey works on the new play ‘Oliver Twist’ at Leeds Playhouse featuring the use of integrated creative sign language, audio description and captioning.
Stardom and the Archive
Director of Research for Leeds School of Arts Prof Robert Shail delivers a paper regarding the historical collection of press books held by the British Film Institute at the Stardom and Archive Conference 2020 in Exeter.
Carolyn Thompson’s ‘Post Moderns’ art exhibition
Leeds School of Arts Academics review Carolyn Thompson’s ‘Post Moderns’ art exhibition at Shandy Hall in their text, ‘Breaking and Entering’
BA (Hons) Performance and Production Student Wins The Belfast Dawson's Singer Songwriter Competition
After winning her heat in November 2019 Leeds Beckett University student, Lucy Robinson, got through to the grand final which took place on the 10th of December 2019 in the famous Dark Horse, Belfast.
Georges Perec book chapter and reading
Dr Oliver Bray, Director of Arts in the Leeds School of Arts, delivered a reading at the book launch of a new edited volume titled Georges Perec’s Geographies.
Studying MA Music Production
Recent graduate Rowena Smith talks about studying for her MA Music Production; what she learnt, her practice as a producer and her numerous subsequent successes.
The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader
Academics from The Leeds School of Arts are set to mark the launch of The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader with a series of durational readings and in-conversation sessions featuring Professor Richard Demarco CBE at the Edinburgh festival.
European Unions: Chapter Three
Performance academics at Leeds Beckett University are collaborating with arts organisations across Europe to develop new, non-verbal methods of adult theatre education and increase participation in theatre.
Leeds Beckett at Sibiu International Festival, Romania
This year has seen the 26th edition of this event, which is now one of the largest and most diverse festivals in Europe.
Dr Oliver Bray performs in Venice
Dr Oliver Bray, the Dean of the School of Film, Music and Performing Arts and Head of Performing Arts performed his solo work Ursonate Post-truth in Venice on Friday 10 May.
European Unions: Chapter Two
Performance academics at Leeds Beckett University are collaborating with arts organisations across Europe to develop new, non-verbal methods of adult theatre education and increase participation in theatre.
Academics work premieres at SLAP Festival of Contemporary Performance
Dance academic and choreographer Beth Cassani (Leeds Beckett University) has collaborated with Joseph Mercier (NSCD and Panic Lab) to make a new full-length touring show. The Faun Project premiered at the SLAP Festival of Contemporary Performance at York Theatre Royal at the end of February.
European Unions: Chapter One
Performance academics at Leeds Beckett University are collaborating with arts organisations across Europe to develop new, non-verbal methods of adult theatre education and increase participation in theatre.
Sound good together with Music:Leeds
New organization launched to coordinate, support, promote and develop the Leeds’ music industry.
Dr Sue Miller talks about her band, Charanga del Norte
Dr Sue Miller was invited to join other special guests at the season launch at Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield on 28 January to talk about her band - Charanga del Norte - and her Cuban music, dance and animation collaboration with professional Cuban dancer-animator (and ex Leeds Beckett alumni BA (Hons) Animation) Guillermo Davis.
The Department of Distractions: Third Angel’s Dr Alex Kelly asks “What aren’t you looking at?”
Leeds Beckett academic Alex Kelly / Third Angel brings to Sheffield Theatres a conspiracy-theory detective story for the 21st century. The Department of Distractions is a play about an organisation so clandestine you won’t have heard of them. Until now.
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