Course Modules

Through a combination of lectures, seminars and practical tasks, you will analyse, deconstruct and reconstruct technical exercises and phrases in order to build a critical base of teaching material. Planning, phrase construction and giving corrections will be explored in the […]

In this module, you will analyse a wide range of dance practices: historical and contemporary, popular and ‘high art’, Western and non-Western. You will consider these in relation to 20th and 21st-century debates about the politics of the body, for

This practical module is an opportunity to work on the creation or re-staging of a repertoire work. Dancing in the construction or reconstruction of a work of repertory provides you with opportunities to extend creative practical skills in dance performance.

This module will include daily technical training to develop your interpretive and presentational skills in preparation for performance. You will explore motion complexity, qualitative interpretation, musicality, alignment, flexibility, core strength and stamina as you develop the technical skills you will

The aim of this module is to provide you with the opportunity to plan, implement and evaluate dance-specific monitoring and observation of an individual dancer within a real-life setting, over a specified period of time.

This module will give you the opportunity to discover more about your own movement potential through a somatic practice, focussing particularly one somatic practice, such as the Feldenkrais Method. By drawing attention to functional anatomy of the skeleton, you will

This module will give you the opportunity to discover more about your own movement potential through, for example the Feldenkrais Method, Awareness in Motion, and improvisation. By drawing attention to functional anatomy of the skeleton, you will discover more about

The dissertation is the culmination of your postgraduate study. You will develop a substantial dance research project of your choice. You can choose to include a varying amount of dance practice alongside written critical commentary.

Through a combination of lectures, seminars and practical tasks, you will analyse, deconstruct and reconstruct technical exercises and phrases in order to build a critical base of teaching material. Planning, phrase construction and giving corrections will be explored in the

In this module, you will explore theories and practices of motor learning and control. Specific topics will cover include: organisation of motor control, perception, anticipation, instructional strategies, conditions of practice, attention and feedback. The intersection of somatically informed approaches to