MFA Choreography (Taught)

The MA and MFA Choreography offer a stimulating environment in which to explore and develop your choreographic practice and expertise.

Whether you’re in the early stages of your career or an experienced dance artist, these programmes present opportunities to engage with contemporary ideas, concepts and propositions within the choreographic field.

The MFA Choreography is a two-year full-time programme. It shares the first year taught programme with the MA. An extended independent project forms the second year, providing time for in-depth research.

The taught programme of the MA (first year of the MFA) encourages you to explore your current practice and develop as develop as an innovative, independent choreographer.

• You will encounter interdisciplinary perspectives and collaborative practices, creating work across a range of settings and media.

• You will be challenged to experiment, take risks and continuously create: developing your individual artistic voice.

• You will engage in critical dialogue with your work from a variety of perspectives.

• Two of the modules offered in the taught component provide opportunities for collaborative exchanges with other artistic practices.

• An independent project, will allow you build on the ideas encountered in the programme and undertake self-directed research, experimentation and reflection.

The MFA Extended Project is a self-directed module during which you consolidate your independent choreographic perspectives and practice.

• You will create and present a substantial body of work that evidences your capacity to research and realise your ideas as a coherent choreographic project.