Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year (full-time)
Expand, refine and articulate your unique vision of dance education.
We’ll empower you as a dance practitioner and educator to advance and innovate your teaching. You'll engage with current research, reflective practice, and practical, contextual and industry-based explorations, and graduate ready to lead and inspire within a range of contemporary dance education environments.
The programme integrates current pedagogies and facilitation practices, research and pedagogical frameworks, philosophy, practice as research, interdisciplinarity, and professional readiness, culminating in a final independent project focused on real-world application - a project that can go straight out in the industry.
Our graduates emerge as skilled dance educators, facilitators, and leaders with visionary skills to be change-makers for good. Through a dynamix mix of practical, contextual and industry-based learning, you'll expand your identity as a dance practitioner and prepare for a range of professional pathways - schools, businesses, community settings and professional dance contexts nationally and internationally.
UK 2:2 or above, or equivalent
A personal statement revealing their previous history of dance training, and their interest in developing their dance education practice.
The programme equips you with skills assessed through industry-based models, so you graduate prepared to enter the industry through multiple career pathways. Your final independent projects will be geared towards a product that can be applied straight to the industry, for example community workshops for vulnerable teenagers, a kathak practice for the elderly, a digital education and facilitation package for professional practitioners in choreography and curation, a dance on film series of workshops on climate change.
You can look forward to:
Graduating with a portfolio comprising text, still and moving images, designed to effectively represent yourself to industry
Industry guests run workshops on current professional projects inculcating working practice, language and social network
Q&A sessions with industry guests that focus on key lessons for entering the industry
The ability to locate and represent your specific practices, interests and skills within a cultural marketplace.
Dance Practice
Creative Encounters
Approaching Performance
Thinking Through Performance
Dance Education
Independent Dance Education Project
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