Applications are now being accepted for January 2022 entries into the
MA Site-Specific Theatre Practice Mountview - in partnership with Shoreditch Town Hall. Created and led by Geraldine Pilgrim
Photo (above) by Lloyd Winters, Alexandra Palace
The MA Site-Specific Theatre Practice 2022 is now accepting enquiries and applications. The course is the first of its kind in the UK, It has been created, and will be led by Geraldine Pilgrim, a leading practitioner in the creation of site-specific performances and installations. The course is delivered in partnership with Shoreditch Town Hall, rooting students in a professional space renowned for supporting site-specific work.
The course consists of a variety of salons and seminars, as well as site visits, practical projects, and a site residency, with strong emphasis placed on learning through practice. The course is aimed at practitioners with an art or drama background wanting to diversify or expand their artistic skills in the area of site–specific practice.

​Applications are welcome from those with experience in the fine art, live art, theatre, or related industries as well as those currently studying at BA level.
For more information concerning the course beginning in January 2022 please visit the Mountview website.
Below: Geraldine Pilgrim, Course Leader of the Mountview MA Site-Specific Theatre Practice, in discussion with friend and collaborator Poppy Keeling. Geraldine talks about her career, how she fell in love with site-specific theatre and how she came to develop such a unique course.

​For further information, please click Mountview MA Site-Specific Theatre Practice. 
The MA Site-Specific Theatre Practice has just started the second term of the second year and like every other academic institution, we are now teaching online.
  
With some students now at home in different countries, I am setting international site exercises that are realised on Zoom. The first term of the year was going really well with Salons, Seminars and Masterclasses and the students were just about to present their London Try Out performance which this year was due to take place in The Ditch at Shoreditch Town Hall.

We were in the middle of a technical rehearsal, when like so many other artists and performances, we all went into sudden lockdown, and the set is still there, waiting for us to return. We hope to present their show Municipal Dreams at some point later this year, if not live, then on video.

The course will continue to work online until the current situation changes, and we are able to move back into our studio base at Shoreditch Town Hall.

The Italian residency due to happen this term has also been put on hold, but we will have a residential week in the Autumn Term and if not able to be in Italy, at another wonderful site in the Lake District. The MA is adapting as we all are to this current situation and will continue to explore new ways of working with the aim to inspire site-specific artists of the future
 
The 2019 students completed their final shows at the end of last year two students with their performances;Who Knew the old man had so much blood in Him and Copernican Dream.

Both took place in the empty Adult Learning Centre in the Aylesbury Estate Peckham – courtesy of Southwark Council. One student‘s performance Inu took place in an empty shop window in Rye Lane - courtesy of the Aylesham Centre Peckham.

As recipients of the first MA in Site-Specific Theatre Practice, they are the beginning of a new generation of site-specific artists of the future.
 
We are now recruiting for MA Site-Specific Theatre Practice 2021 and if you are interested in finding out more about the first course of its kind in the U.K. please feel free to contact me and I will be very happy to explain the course in more detail. 

Geraldine Pilgrim
​April, 2020
Photos (above) by Lloyd Winters, Alexandra Palace