Course summary

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. 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.