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Dance (Subject to Validation) – (M.A.)
University of Chester
Department of Performing Arts
| Location: | Chester / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 180 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Chester
This programme is designed for creative dance practitioners and scholars across the wider dance community: choreographers; performers; teachers; lecturers; community dance practitioners; people working in dance promotion and production; and recent dance graduates.
The programme is likely to appeal specifically to individuals working within the dance sector, including education and community practice, who wish to develop their skills, knowledge and capacities as artist researchers and who aspire to increase their employment opportunities.
Reflecting today’s dance practice, this course focuses on the further development of the thinking artist as well as the practicing scholar. In other words, the course applies a holistic approach to theory and practice whereby students not only achieve mastery in their chosen areas within dance, they also acquire appropriate contextual knowledge and research (or practical) skills to complement their strengths.
This approach is intended to enable students to work in their own specialisation whilst allowing them breadth to work in related dance areas or to collaborate with specialists based in those areas.
Contents
Programme Structure
The first two core modules, Research Methods and Frameworks and Practices are intended to complement one another. Research Methods seeks to introduce candidates to research methodologies and strategies appropriate to the study of performing arts and exemplars of application. Frameworks and Practices provides a range of conceptual frameworks and a discourse of theory into practice, that informs, supports and contextualizes performance practice research within the context of artistic, cultural and educational discourses. This study will inform and underpin the practice- based modules in the rest of the programme.
The Dance Practitioner is designed to offer candidates the opportunity to develop the skill of reflective practice, practical workshops will explore and test working processes related intention and context, the self as dancer and/or dance maker. Candidates will be expected to develop an appropriate methodology for evaluating responses to their work and the ways in which they can learn from this feedback as a reflexive practitioner. Creative Platforms is a double module that develops candidates’ knowledge in creative and collaborative processes in dance. It is allows opportunities for candidates to further develop their creative and collaborative capacities and at the same time focuses more on reception and evaluation. This enables candidates to make more informed decisions concerning their own research path on the remaining modules on the programme.
Research Report gives candidates the chance to undertake a written research essay that develops their abilities to articulate their theoretical understanding. For the final triple module students can choose to concentrate on the construction of further performance or practical work with an evaluation (Major Practical Project), or the writing of a dissertation (Research Dissertation). Of course, in the latter case it would be entirely acceptable to place the student’s own practice within a broader frame of reference and it is possible to relate further practical exploration in a related or distinct field – the notion of practice as research to be presented in the dissertation.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Minimum of a lower second class honours degree, or equivalent, in Dance, Performing Arts or a similar field.
Where candidates are not progressing directly from a first degree, relevant professional experience will be taken into account.
Applicants will be expected to attend a workshop/interview in order to demonstrate their suitability for the course.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 85 |
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