Master of Arts - Dance Practice and Performance

This practice-research based programme will encourage students to approach performance as a critical practice and to relish the complex contextual relationships that exist in making and performing dances. Students will explore their role as a collaborator in performance-making as one of agency and empowerment in a supportive environment. Students will be encouraged to develop and test new ideas and skills through their practice-research in order to imagine how they relate to training, practice, performance-making, dance philosophy and dramaturgy. Students will be supported by the mentorship and teaching of experienced staff in the University of Roehampton's modern studios and students will have the opportunity to work with in-house and visiting artists, scholars and a diverse community of peers. Using a framework of philosophical and aesthetic inquiry, the programme offers a unique perspective to explore the concepts, assumptions and theories which underpin and inform dance practice and discourse. These ideas will be explored further during the students' encounters with performance, devising dance and learning dance repertory. Students will also have access to the full range of optional modules which are offered to all postgraduate students. The School is home to the internationally-recognised Centre for Dance Research which gives students rich opportunities to investigate a broad range of cultural, artistic and embodied inquiry. These activities are positioned as critical, scholarly, embodied and creative in order to equip students for original and independent approaches to dance performance. The University of Roehampton is within easy reach of London and its vibrant arts and culture and the campus has superb studios and a well-resourced theatre for dance students. The University of Roehampton has excellent links with dance companies and creative organisations to provide stimulating workplace visits.