A Decade of MA Solo Dance Authorship

In the most recent (July 2017) SODA Admissions vimeo 6 Rhys Martin
and Sophia New affirm that the SODA programme is looking for
postgraduates ‘who are interested in being challenged, who want
to work within a community of artists, people who have a strong
sense of performance identity, who are fluent in English and international
in attitude’ and in terms of dance, for people ‘who have a
body-based practice - and we understand dance in a very expanded
sense’. The aims and curriculum in the current (2017–19) SODA
Handbook [see Programme] remain close in form and content to
the initial 2010–2012 version.
MA SODA aims to provide a distinctive, practice-led postgraduate
level education for practitioners and graduates who wish to make
dance and body-based performance work in relation to embodied
and conceptual practice, and engage with and reflect on the physical,
compositional, intellectual and cultural processes involved.
MA SODA is aimed at dancers, performers, artists and makers who
have already established a motivated (but not necessarily professional)
practice in dance and performance, who wish to extend
and develop the forms, contexts and intellectual range of their
work, and who wish to engage with the contexts, challenges and
environments of contemporary practice.
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