MA
Diasporic Dance Styles

Expand your dance practice through this unique low residency programme, designed for practitioners working within a diverse range of dance styles and contexts.

Validated by Goldsmiths and taught by IRIE! Dance Theatre, this degree involves blended online and on-campus learning. 

On-campus learning will take place at IRIE! Dance Theatre’s Moonshot Centre in New Cross.

Why study MA Diasporic Dance Styles

The MA in Diasporic Dance Styles programme aims to address a historical gap in the educational study of dance and the employability market for dance graduates through the teaching of non-Eurocentric movement arts.

You will be supported to reach your full potential as a dance artist working within diasporic dance styles and contexts globally. Through the programme, you will:

• Develop, extend, and enrich your embodied knowledge and understanding of Diasporic Dance Styles
• Undertake independently focused practice research, in the areas of choreography, dance pedagogy, community and public performance, production, and dance management
• Develop your practice as a maker, performer, pedagogue, producer, and policy change advocate for dance in the twenty-first century
• Have access to a global online learning community through a blended teaching approach that supports you in developing your own agency as an artist
• Learn key theories, participate in discussions and undertake an active dance practice to hone your practice’s voice
• Critically evaluate existing theories and frameworks for dance, with an awareness of the potential for transformation and change within your own professional practice

Modules

• Professional Practice and Lifelong Learning: Position, Passion, Progress (60 credits)
• Practice, Research Design and Meaning-Making: Diasporic Dance Cultures in Action (30 credits)
• Independent practice research project: Cultivating Questions through Inquiry (30 credits)
• Artistic Practice within Diasporic Dance Styles: Collaboration, Currency, Community (60 credits)

Entry requirements

• At least five years of experience in the dance-arts field
• A willingness to engage with research study
• Evidence of prior learning in the field through certification such as an undergraduate degree, professional certification or professional/community activity

Please note, that this programme is not able to sponsor students for an international student visa.

Application process

As part of the application process, all applicants will be interviewed. During the interview, you will be expected to evidence current professional practice, with reference to examples within the last five years.

You will also be requested to submit a CV and other relevant application materials that outline your past experience including training at the point of application.

Please visit the IRIE! website for more information about entry requirements and the application process.

Structure:

This programme is taught through on-campus sessions and virtual teaching, utilising a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

The on-campus element of the programme is made up of two residency intensives per year, which aim to foster embodied learning through the development of a community of practice at IRIE! dance theatre.

Contact

Email: MA@iriedancetheatre.org