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MA Dance Practice and Performance

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    MA 1 year (full-time)

Course Description

Develop your dance practice and performance skills in a supportive environment where you will approach your dance practice, dance training and performance making as research processes.

This practice-research based programme will encourage you to approach performance as a critical practice and to relish the complex contextual relationships that exist in making and performing dances. You will explore your role as a collaborator in performance-making as one of agency and empowerment.

Entry Requirements

Applicants are required to provide a link to a short film (10 minutes maximum) of them dancing. This can be a solo dance, or an excerpt from a class or performance setting where the applicant is clearly identified in the film. The work should be accompanied by a short written statement (<250 words) which reveals the applicant’s interest in developing their performance practice.

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Module Details

Research method module

  • Practice as Research

Programme core modules

  • Performance Practice Portfolio
  • Dance Philosophy and Aesthetics

Compulsory modules

  • Choreographic Practice
  • Dance Practice

Optional modules

  • Classicism and Power
  • Mediated Choreography
  • Music and Dance
  • People Moving, People Dancing
  • Theorising Corporeality
  • The Performance of Heritage: Dance in Museums, Galleries and Historic Sites

Independent research module

  • Dance Practice and Performance Project

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