Courses in this area focus on techniques, methods, and approaches to creative performance practices to highlight the relationships between making, contextualising, and analysing performance. They engage hands-on activity where, history, theory and practice mutually illuminate one another. They foreground embodied engagement, dramaturgical thinking, and “practice as research” as primary methodologies. These foci reflect particular areas of expertise and scholarly achievement within TPS, which has sought to align its pedagogical development with the latest practice-based research methodologies.