Diasporic Dance Styles (Taught)

Expand your dance practice through this unique low residency programme, designed for practitioners working within a diverse range of dance styles and contexts.

Validated by Goldsmiths and taught by IRIE! Dance Theatre, this degree involves blended online and on-campus learning.

On-campus learning will take place at IRIE! Dance Theatre’s Moonshot Centre in New Cross.

Why study MA Diasporic Dance Styles
The MA in Diasporic Dance Styles programme aims to address a historical gap in the educational study of dance and the employability market for dance graduates through the teaching of non-Eurocentric movement arts.

You will be supported to reach your full potential as a dance artist working within diasporic dance styles and contexts globally. Through the programme, you will:

• Develop, extend, and enrich your embodied knowledge and understanding of Diasporic Dance Styles

• Undertake independently focused practice research, in the areas of choreography, dance pedagogy, community and public performance, production, and dance management

• Develop your practice as a maker, performer, pedagogue, producer, and policy change advocate for dance in the twenty-first century

• Have access to a global online learning community through a blended teaching approach that supports you in developing your own agency as an artist

• Learn key theories, participate in discussions and undertake an active dance practice to hone your practice’s voice

• Critically evaluate existing theories and frameworks for dance, with an awareness of the potential for transformation and change within your own professional practice