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MA Creative Practice: Dance Professional Practice Pathway
Delivered jointly with Siobhan Davies Dance, The Cholmondeleys and Independent Dance.
The MA Creative Practice is intended to allow both the experienced and the recent graduate creative individual to develop and promote their ‘voice’ in a safe and supportive environment. The open modular format is designed so that you can select those topics that most interest you or which are most suitable for your career intentions. You will have the opportunity to study and practice with students from other programmes.
There are two pathways available, one more self-determined than the other and each with its own distinctive character. You will need to indicate on the extended application form your module preference and also a second choice in case your first choice is not available. The ‘taught’ elements of this programme form year 1 of the MFA programme.
MA Creative Practice (Dance Professional Practice Pathway) aims to provide a rigorous and investigative learning and research environment to support professional dance artists in the further development of their artistic practice within a professional environment of intellectual and creative enquiry.
It provides an opportunity for mid-career artists to reflect upon their previous professional experience and its role in their ongoing learning, to engage in intensive studio-based learning experiences with significant artists and a professional peer group, to deepen their own practice as performers/makers, develop their understanding of a range of research methodologies within the arts, and to pursue their own area of artistic interest through substantial independent research.
The programme advocates a broad definition of dance in dialogue with a wider artistic and cultural context, and embraces a diversity of forms and contexts as emerging through dance thought and practice. It promotes a fluid and productive exchange between theoretical ideas and artistic practice, seeing new ideas and knowledge as emerging through practice and enabling theoretical ideas within and beyond dance to be thought through movement practice. These aims are reinforced by the Programme’s association with the practices, activity and resources of both Independent Dance and Siobhan Davies Dance.
Full time: One Year
Part time: (normally)Two Years
Validated by City University, London
The Programme comprises a taught element of 4 modules plus an independent project. You must take two modules (M581 & M582) delivered by our partners Independent Dance at the Siobhan Davies Studios.
The Research Methodologies module (M502) is undertaken at Laban, and then you must select a module of your choosing from the Module Menu of the MA Creative Practice (MACP) programme. Study is structured to allow the skills and experience of the individual student to flourish and for new skills and insights to be gained.
To complete the programme, you will also undertake an in-depth independent research project. This may take the form of a performance, a lecture demonstration, a written dissertation, or a mixed mode project.
Please note that technical training (technique classes) is not provided within the fee structure of the programme. However, classes are available on payment of a supplementary fee to cover direct teaching costs – please see further information Technique Training.
Alternatively evening classes offered by the Education and Community department are available.
A range of professional classes are also offered at our partner organisation Greenwich Dance, located some 15 minutes walk away.
Core (required) Modules
| M-502 |
Research Methods |
30 credits |
| M-505 |
Project |
60 credits |
| M-581 |
Embodied Practice |
30 credits |
| M-582 |
Investigative Practice |
30 credits |
Elective Modules
You must select ONE module from the ‘module menu’ listed below, noting that not all modules may be offered in any one year (shown as greyed out) and there may be scheduling conflicts which may render some choices ‘unavailable’
| M-506 |
Self-Directed/Placement |
30 credits |
| M-512 |
Synergies & Transformations |
30 credits |
| M-521 |
Advanced Technical Practice |
30 credits |
| M-532 |
Histories of the Body |
30 credits |
| M-546 |
Dance and Design |
30 credits |
| M-547 |
Performance Technologies |
30 credits |
| M-548 |
Performance Making |
30 credits |
| M-567 |
Performance Psychology |
30 credits |
| M-568 |
Performance Enhancement |
30 credits |
| M-571 |
Choreological Practice |
30 credits |
| M-572 |
Dance & the Moving Image |
30 credits |
| M-573 |
Writing the Body |
30 credits |
Follow the link to download module specifications
• To provide professional development opportunities for you as a graduate of dance, performing arts or humanities programmes, and to support you in deepening, extending, interrogating and challenging your embodied creative practice
• To develop you as a reflective practitioner who is critically aware of the reciprocity of theory and practice, thereby promoting standards of excellence in your dance practice, and preparing you for employment.
• To enable you to explore and reflect upon dance practice in its many forms, taking account of the social, cultural, aesthetic and political contexts in which performance practice is located.
• To encourage you to make links across various approaches to and perspectives on practice, and to locate your own practice within a wider contemporary artistic and cultural context
• To develop your ability to address complex issues creatively and systematically, as well as the ability to problem-solve in a variety of artistic contexts through the engagement in practice based research, including collaborative projects.
• To develop your potential for a range of practices in or associated with dance and research-based activity.
Most modules are assessed within a practice-based format, most usually by performance or presentation with supporting documentation of how and why you arrived at your position. Inevitably there is an expectation that you will be able to demonstrate a high level of communication as the subject matter with which you are dealing is normally very complex, and you will probably have to articulate such issues orally and in writing. Please see Module Specifications for more information on assessment.
Applicants should normally have a good first (undergraduate) degree or have five years' professional experience. However, if you do not have formal qualifications, you will need to refer to our policy on admissions using AP(E)L.
Full-time:
UK/EU - £5,510
Overseas/ELQ - £13,750
Part-time:
UK/EU - £3,100
Follow the link to download the application form
Follow the link to download the programme specification
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