A Decade of MA Solo Dance Authorship

Sonja Pregrad (2011) Wall Writings in Studio 8 Photo © Ric Allsopp
• Theory: The approach to theory is designed to ensure that the
theoretical issues emerging within an individual student’s practice
can be located in relation to current arts discourses. It is
concerned both with the methodological implications of theoretical
enquiry by practitioners as well as with specific bodies of
theory. It addresses the possibilities and limitations of shared
theoretical discourse across subject fields. Linked to this it poses
questions about the relation of subject-specific fields of enquiry
to contemporary meta-discourses.
• Practices / Making New Work: MA SODA guides and enables the
student to work towards the thinking and making of a substantial
practical work (or set of works) of their own devising, designed
to define their own position within their field of practice by the
end of the study course. This is achieved through a series of
shorter formal, informal and / or intensive engagements with the
methods, processes and contexts of making and thinking about
work. Small performance ‘studies’ are planned, encouraging the
student to test ideas, for an audience of peers, during their
development, as part of the process towards a resolved work.
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