The program includes technique classes, choreography workshops, collaborative working, writing, and reflection. You will be encouraged to develop and test new ideas and skills in dance ‘laboratory’ situations in order to research and practice notions of dance facilitation, dance teaching, dance leadership, dance intervention, and dance-making in a variety of contexts. This unique practice-based program promotes an understanding of the notions of well-being and safe, healthy dance practice, and relates directly to social, political, and cultural issues around embodiment, community, and the environment.
This program investigates the application of dance practice and knowledge in a wide and ambitious range of artistic, educational, and community contexts, and, less conventionally, in galleries, museums, and outdoor sites. You will be supported by the mentorship and teaching of experienced staff in our modern studios and have the opportunity to gain experience with in-house and visiting artists and tutors alongside a diverse community of peers.
You will also have the opportunity to undertake an independent project which uses original practice research and is underpinned by tutorials, peer review, work experience, and open rehearsals. Students will also have access to the full range of optional modules which are offered to all our postgraduate students.
The School is home to the internationally-recognized Centre for Dance Research where, together with an inquiry into dance as cultural and artistic expression, students are encouraged to investigate a broad range of dance and somatic practices as they are deployed in performative and choreographic situations and experienced through the lived body. These artistic activities are positioned as both critical, scholarly inquiry and creative, imaginative assembly, both of which are essential tools for the development of original and independent approaches to teaching and facilitating dance.
We are within easy reach of London's lively dance culture and our campus has superb studios and a state-of-the-art theatre for dance students. We have excellent links with dance companies and creative organizations which enable us to provide stimulating workplace-learning opportunities.