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MA Performance: Dance (MapDance)

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Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

SEP-24

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Dance Performing Arts (General)

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

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:

  • Learn from guest lecturers including included practitioners and curators all working at the edges of dance research.
  • Have opportunities to engage in cutting-edge research with interactive technologies.
  • Attend presentations by visiting artists and researchers.
  • Have opportunities to market yourself professionally as an artist using DVD and website technologies.

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:

  • Performance
  • Technique
  • Teaching in the context of a touring company
  • Choreographic methodology and critical thinking
  • Working independently (via dissertation projects)
  • Research and written communication skills

Modules

This module will include daily technical training to develop your interpretive and presentational skills in preparation for performance. You will explore motion complexity, qualitative interpretation, musicality, alignment, flexibility, core strength, and stamina as you develop the technical skills you will need as a professional dancer.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£12,384

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£19,980

Entry requirements

Students need to have an Honours degree 2:2 or higher in a related discipline.

University information

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

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