MA Dance: Performance

The MA Dance: Performance programme focuses on developing your capacity to interact skillfully with the full variety of technical demands and performance outcomes that the international contemporary dance world offers, enabling you to navigate and shape the future professional landscapes with an in-depth capacity to contribute meaningfully as a creative collaborator and develop your own artistic voice and agency.

Across contemporary cultural forms, dance artists contribute to a wide range of collaborative and interdisciplinary processes, using different media and modes of audience engagement. To support this, they need to develop and value their artistic agency and professional confidence in negotiating freelance portfolio careers. Throughout this course you will build up a portfolio of performance experiences in order to investigate, apply and evaluate the various skills, networks and frameworks that will optimise your professional development and give you the foundations for a sustainable career as a dance performer.

On this course

You will be exposed to a broad range of intensive performance training, developed through collaborative creative processes

You will explore the shifting demands, challenges and potentials of performance as you experience different contexts and methods for making and presenting dance

You will be introduced to the various freelancing skills needed to support and advance your career

You will establish a professional network to enable you to explore the opportunities for the development, application and promotion of your performance practice

You will plan, initiate, manage and realise a substantial period of self-directed activity which will foreground your artistic interests as a professional performer