Full time
1 year
SEP-24
MA - Master of Arts
Dance Performing Arts (General)
Taught
Overview
This MA Performance Dance degree is led by Mapdance company Artistic Directors Yael Flexer and Detta Howe. The course operates as a professional performance programme.
This course is ideal for recent graduates or a dance artists who wish to extend their technical and performance skills after completing a recognised BA degree.
This degree is an opportunity to work with internationally established and up-and-coming choreographers, reflect on your professional practice and prior training, and complete an intensive technical training through a variety of contemporary techniques, Pilates, contact improvisation and ballet. Working intensively with international guest choreographers, you will develop your technical and performance skills and deepen your understanding of the creative process through experiencing varied choreographic methodologies and artistic approaches.
Mapdance operates as a professional company with daily technique classes and rehearsals. You will tour nationally and internationally during your studies, performing with the company and offering educational workshops from mid-February until May. You will deepen your understanding of your professional skills through practice, research and scholarship and learn to articulate what you do in written and spoken form.
The 2020/21 repertory includes new works by Joseph Toonga, Yael Flexer and Robert Clark as well as the re-staging of Ceyda Tanc’s piece AYIN.
There are opportunities to engage with cutting edge research into interactive technologies and to market yourself professionally as an artist using DVD and website technologies.
On this course you will:
Careers
Where this course could lead
This course will prepare you for a range of careers and give you experience with a touring dance company. This course also could be a stepping-stone towards further research and PhD study.
You will develop skills in:
For this course (per year)
£12,384
For this course (per year)
£19,980
Students need to have an Honours degree 2:2 or higher in a related discipline.
The University of Chichester is a respected institution that offers some excellent postgraduate study programmes. It has two campuses: one in the centre of Chichester, a charming and historic town, and the other close to the sea in Bognor Regis. Both sites are easily connected by a regular inter-campus bus service. Across the two sites, students have access to a range of state-of-the-art facilities including a sports centre, the Engineering...more
Full time | 1 year | SEP-24
Full time | 1 year | SEP-24
Full time | 1 year | SEP-24
Full time | 1 year | SEP-24
Full time | 1 year | SEP-24