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This two-year part-time innovative Joint Degree Master in Choreography, offered by Codarts in Rotterdam and Fontys in Tilburg, the Netherlands, supports experienced movement makers from a variety of fields in conducting research based on questions from their current practice.
Learn about a process-driven approach, essential for securing funding
You will be responsible for shaping the content of particular assignments
Like circus, dance and community arts
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Our learning environment exposes students to a broad range of approaches, movement disciplines and creative domains while supporting them in retaining connections with their own working field. You learn to work from a process driven approach. This is key to finding funding and fulfilling the potential of any cultural context.
Think creatively about modes of communication.
And develop your approach to outcomes of artistic research.
With particular emphasis on the potential of co-creation.
The 2 year programme is carried out in "two week intensives'' that take place three times a year at either the campus of Codarts in Rotterdam or of Fontys Academy of the Arts in Tilburg, both of which have full dance, theoretical and circus facilities.
You possess enriched knowledge of contexts beyond your discipline, understanding the challenges, strategies, and potential of creative work. You have a repertoire of individual creative strategies and the ability to reflect on and generate choreography related to these strategies.
Check the full admission requirements to see which qualifications allow you to enrol.
For this programme you must first audition.
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English
September
Master
Part-time
2 year(s)
Tilburg, Rotterdam
Wondering what's to come after applying for this programme? Go over the entire admission process.
Yes,the two-week intensives, scheduled 3 times a year, are intended to allow you the space to continue to pursue your work outside of these blocks. Of course, you will also have to make time for reading, carrying out assignments, and working towards your final project.
The flexibility in the creation and direction of assignments means that you, with your study facilitator and research mentor, work together to ensure that the work you do is appropriate to your discipline related interests and research aim. At the same time, interaction with makers from other fields will help you think innovatively about the choices you make whether as a movement expert or a future leader in the field.
The programme consists of 90 European Credits (EC). These credits are achieved over the 2 years of the programme. A single EC is calculated as 28 hours of time. 40% of these hours will be spent on the development and production of a final creative project and approximately 20% on the supporting research thesis. The remaining credits are achieved during activities carried out in the intensives (25%) and learning activities that need to be finished in between intensives (1 5%). All evaluated components are placed in a portfolio that helpsthe student and their study facilitator, research mentor, and coach track their process towards achieving the final competences, and allows examiners to interrogate the process of artistic research that the student has been involved in.
No, not in the traditional sense. There will be a competency assessment in which examiners will ask you to discuss assignments that have been included in your portfolio. This is to determine whether you have achieved the required learning outcomes at the end of the first and second years. You will also be required to orally defend your final creative project and thesis, but this is not considered a traditional test.
The programme focuses on embodied learning. However, over the two years of the programme, you will be expected to write one essay and a research report. All written assignments will be in English.In addition to this academic writing, you will also be asked to produce more informal reflections, experiment with creative writing and documentation techniques, annotate interviews, and develop a personal artistic manifesto. The skills required for these different forms of writing will be introduced during the intensive sessions, and you will have access to online tutorials for further support. The guiding principle of the programme is not to exclude anyone based on their academic experience, but rather to ensure that everyone can benefit from engaging in different ways of thinking about and communicating their practice.
For students within commuting distance of Tilburg and Rotterdam extra costs will be relatively low. International Students will have to budget for accommodation costs as well as travel costs to and from the Netherlands.
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