A Decade of MA Solo Dance Authorship

COURSE STRUCTURE
The MA uses both formal and informal structures as the basis for
its enquiry. As well as a modular format, these include participation
in local and international networks enabling exchange research
and dialogue; opportunities for students to curate single
workshops, seminars, and lectures with invited artists, and visiting
exhibitions, performances and other relevant cultural and
educational activities in Berlin and elsewhere.
Semester 1: Questions of Practice 1: Diagnostics /
Writing Practices / Making New Work
takes three key approaches to making and thinking practice:
diagnostics – the ability to share processes of making work;
writing & research for artists – the ability to place practice in relation
to language and identify and utilize appropriate research
methods with which to develop practice; making new work - the
ability to identify and develop new approaches to making and
thinking practice.
Negotiating Solo / Dance / Authorship: Lecture / Seminar Series 1
explores critical, contextual, and theoretical understandings of
key terms of the course. The first series of lecture / seminars addresses
the contexts, implications and relationships of the key
terms of the MA - ‘solo’, ‘dance’ and ‘authorship’ - in relation to
contemporary arts practice and theory.
Semester 2: Questions of Practice 2:
Compositional Strategies & Tactics
examines the work process of composition as research through
artistic practice by exploring and testing various compositional
strategies, tactics and work processes and analyzing the aesthetic
and cultural contexts that make them possible and support them.
Compositional Practices & Contexts: Lecture / Seminar Series 2
addresses questions of thinking and making contemporary practice
in relation to the histories and strategies of 20 th and 21 st century
compositional practice and contexts.
Semester 3: Independent & Collaborative Research
following an initial independent research proposal at the end of
Semester 2, you embark on a sustained program of individual
research designed and structured in discussion with tutors.
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