Master of Arts - Choreography and Professional Practice

The Master of Arts in Choreography and Professional Practices course explores choreography, improvisation, devising and experimentation, professional and artistic development, and portfolio working. Applicants will have opportunities to network with industry professionals and improve their portfolio as they study.

Student will be challenged to explore their practice and examine their working methods as a dance-maker. This course will introduce them to choreographic research methods and strategies for documenting live performance practice and promoting their work.

Graduates will have opportunities to pursue live performance practices as a choreographer, consider their work in relation to the wider field of professional contemporary dance practice, develop their artistic voice and explore single discipline or interdisciplinary practice-based projects involving choreography, performance, fine art, music, and installation.

Student will lead projects and focus on topics that interest them in performance making as they explore and expand on their existing choreographic practice in a dynamic research environment. They will examine innovative and experimental approaches to choreographic practice, research and scholarship and discover topics including choreographic practices and methods of research, somatic approaches, developing movement vocabularies, collaboration, devising and experimentation.