MA Choreography

The programme aims to produce artists with a professional grounding in the work of choreography, performance and documentation. 

Semester A

Choreographic Strategies

This module introduces students to current debates and practices within the realms of choreography which acknowledge the reciprocity and interdependence of theory and practice. Students will consider the ethical implications of choreographic practice by exploring how issues of power and agency, politics and aesthetics, identity, subjectivity, and the interrelationships of self-other-world are understood in dance. This module provides opportunities for students to situate their work in a wider context, enabling them to consider the different ways in which dance is experienced and understood in the 21st century. Students will articulate their individual choreographic voice by investigating current and emerging strategies for making and critiquing work.

Facilitating Dance Creation

This module focuses on developing a critical and reflective understanding of facilitating choreography and ethical implications of facilitative working processes. Students will engage with a variety of practices and theories by seminal dance practitioners that have challenged traditional concepts of performance and choreography; in doing so students will experiment with their own creative practices through collaboration, debate and reflection.

Semester B

Examining Choreography

This module enables students to engage in rigorous choreographic enquiry rooted in artistic ideas of 20th and 21st century. This student-led research process provides students with the opportunity to further examine, experiment with, and reflect on their choreographic practices by producing a rigorous creative research. The emphasis here is on process and reflection, rather than product. Students engage in intensive studio based research, and share findings on a regular basis as a way of developing their skills in articulating and disseminating their findings.

Research Methods PaR

Semester C

Final Degree Showcase

Students will initiate and realise a major piece of independent and original choreographic research which demonstrates their understanding and application of practice as research. Students will assimilate and synthesise the practices and theories covered in the programme in a way which is meaningful to them and purposeful to their research project. Students will be encouraged and mentored in the promotion of their work to the widest possible audience.

The programme is delivered by a professional team of choreographers, practitioners, theoreticians and educators at the University of Lincoln.

Assessment occurs at each module and consists of the presentation of works-in-progress, lecture demonstrations, performances, critical reflection and documentation.

Students have access to the LPAC facility including its recently refurbished black box space in Studio 1.

Students at Lincoln will be introduced to regional organisations, such as Dance4, Deda and Lincolnshire Dance - key organisations in the development of dance in the East Midlands. The programme is delivered by a professional team of choreographers, practitioners, theoreticians and educators at the University of Lincoln.

The programme is developed with an awareness of the need for dance development in Lincolnshire. The MA in Choreography will particularly appeal to those who want experience of actively contributing to a developing dance scene and the surrounding infrastructure.

The programme is developed with an awareness of the need for dance development. The MA in Choreography will particularly appeal to those who want experience of actively contributing to a developing dance scene and the surrounding infrastructure.

Graduates will be well placed to work as choreographers in theatres, outreach settings, education and the freelance/independent company circuit.

For information about fees, scholarships and bursaries please see our Fees & Funding pages.

Fees and Funding