Course summary

MA Dance (Professional Practice) locates the learners 'signature dance practice' at the heart of the course and addresses employability agendas. The course is designed around three strands: Dance Performance, Dance Making and Thinking through Dance. This course will balance taught and research elements, providing current methodologies towards research, knowledge and creativity which can be applied to the students' communities and/or developing artistic practice. Students will be encouraged to draw upon their dance culture, identity and movement experience alongside a curriculum designed to explore and develop their signature practice within the context of current research and industry perspectives. This programme will appeal to students who want to learn and engage in a range of experiences and opportunities that directly reflect the dance industry of today. The delivery will be highly practical and students will benefit from Hope's Creative partnerships including English National Ballets' Dance for Parkinson's, Our Dance Democracy International Dance Festival held at Liverpool Hope, Everyman & Playhouse and 24 Hope Street Dance studios, learning to actively work in and alongside grassroots and professional organisations and agendas. There will be artist - led activities and ways of working that will support dance practitioners who wish to develop their performance making, marketing and promotional strategies, professional practice, teaching, community learning and participation alongside exploring working practices and contemporary modes which support environments that desire versatility, rigour, independent and reflexive dance artists.