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Performing with Mask/Clown

Performing with Mask/Clown is a course aimed at you as an actor and to all those who work with performing arts in collective performative processes and who want to deepen the essential perspectives of clown and mask tradition.

Performing arts can be done in many ways. It can focus on a literary, physical, spatial-visual, or audible narrative language. In many cases, the forms of formulation coincide and form a whole through the psychic and physical being of the artist/actor.

The clown / the mask as a theater-historical phenomenon forms the basis of the theater from an actor's perspective.

During the course, we will work with the basics of clown and mask play, and discuss questions such as:

  • How, on a basic level, does the actor relate to the contrast between a personal, and a distant form of acting?
  • What is the difference between a psychological and narrative form of acting?
  • What is authenticity on stage?

The mask work requires its own artistic form of realism - the psychological and physical presence of the actor’s body at the moment.

We will also touch on how clown and mask relate to the written word.  

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  • Entry requirements

    General Entry Requirements for studies at the first cycle  with the exception of Swedish 1-3 and English 6. 

    Specific Entry Requirements:  

    60 credits in acting, mime, dance, circus, opera or equivalent.

    If you don’t fulfil the formal entry requirements for the programme you may apply for recognition of prior learning, in other words that the knowledge and competence you have acquired through other activities are assessed as the equivalent of the formal merits that are required. Submit your application for recognition of prior learning with your application for the programme.

    You may also apply for an exemption/a waiver, that allows you to proceed to the selection process even though you don’t meet the general admission requirements. Submit your application for an exemption/a waiver together with your application.

    Read more about how you can show that you meet the entry requirements (that you are eligible).

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  • How to apply

    Start your application early! Don’t delay in submitting your application! You may run into trouble if you wait until the last day and your internet connection happens to be down, or you find that your files are in the wrong format. You will not be able to apply once the last date for applications has passed. Keep in mind that your application needs to be turned in by 23.59 (Swedish time).

    Start your application early

    Don’t delay in submitting your application! You may run into trouble if you wait until the last day and your internet connection happens to be down, or you find that your files are in the wrong format. You will not be able to apply once the last date for applications has passed. Keep in mind that your application has to be turned in by 23:59 (Swedish time).
    • You apply to the course via universityadmissions.se, HERE. 

    Last day for application is 19 April 2022. 
     

    NOTE! The documents described below are to be uploaded with your application at universityadmissions.se. (My pages/Documents/Upload documents)


     

    Documents to be submitted for this course
     

    1.  Letter of motivation
      Upload a letter of motivation answering the following questions: What do you find challenging about neutralmask and clownwork in relation to your artistic practice? (max 1 pages of A4 size, 4 000 characters). Use pdf, Name the pdf: "Letter of motivation, mask and clown, YOUR NAME"

     

    Other important dates for your application 
     

    • Last day to pay the application fee or prove that you are not required to pay the fees: 3 May 2022 (read more under Application and tuition fees below)
       
    • Supporting documentation deadline: 21 June 2022*
       
    • Admission results: Published on My pages on universityadmissions.se 12 July 2022

     

    * If you're completing your upper secondary studies in an EU/EEA country, Switzerland or an IB/EB programme, you have until 5 July to submit your documents. All other supporting documents should be submitted together with your application.

  • When you have applied

    If there are more eligible applicants than places on the course, a selection is made by assessing the sent in text, in relation to the course content.

  • Application and tuition fees

    If you are a Swedish citizen or a citizen of another EU or EEA country you are not required to pay application or tuition fees. Some other groups are also exempt from the requirement to pay application and study fees.

    A few years ago Sweden introduced application and tuition fees for higher education. The level of the study fees depends on which course/programme they are for, and the level is set in order to cover the actual costs of the course/programme in question. SKH has some possibilities of offering scholarships that cover the whole study fee or that subsidise it.

    If you are required to pay an application fee, the Swedish Council for Higher Education needs to receive your payment by the last date forpaying the tuition fee. The application fee is SEK 900. If you are required to pay the application fee and the Swedish Council for Higher Education has not received your payment by the last date for paying the tuition fee, they will not process your application.

     

    The tuition fee for the course is 66 750 SEK.

    Read more about tuition fees and how to pay to SKH.