Programme Structure and Content

We offer this course as a balance of intensive teaching and distance learning. Course members attend for two years in intensive part-time two week blocks of study offered at Fontys Dance Academy in early September, January and April, and are engaged in artistic activities through workshops, seminars, performances and debates designed to challenge, provoke and question personal and shared positions. You can work independently on profession-related questions or problems related to your own career aspirations and personal context. This structure allows you to combine postgraduate study with work experience in your chosen field in interrelationship.

Year One Modules:

Craft of Choreography 1

Concepts and Analysis

Dance Collaboration and Devising

Theoretical Frameworks

Year Two Modules:

Craft of Choreography 2

Choice of Option Module: Dance Practitioner Project, or Artist as Researcher or Technology and Experimental Choreography

Research Project (Master test)

Each module has a specific assignment attached: a performance, lecture-demonstration or essay.

Teaching methods and course organization

The core of the programme is formed by classes, workshops, lectures and seminars. Students work on tasks and assignments, individually and in groups, through facilitation, problem-solving, reflection and communication. All lecturers are practicing professionals and guest choreographers are invited from the professional field.

The course is taught in English on the Tilburg campus.

Since students attend from a number of European countries, valuable opportunities for intercultural, social and artistic processes are built in to the programme. Students are expected to spend approximately 10 hours per week in practical and theoretical study outside of contact hours, with tutorial guidance offered by phone, Web site and email.  They should therefore be computer literate and have regular access to a terminal.