Master Performance Practices
Arnhem, Netherlands
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
Master Performance Practices
The Master Performance Practices at ArtEZ is an incubator for artistic research around the Body in Performance and its wider ecology. The course is based in the HOME OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICES in Arnhem, Netherlands, harbouring a community of dedisciplined and diverse thinkers who promote performance-making as a strategy for equitable societies.
The ArtEZ Master Performance Practices is an assembly point: as a home base, it brings together performance studies, performance practices and dance studies โ but also social sciences, politics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. As the hub where they all intersect, the programme supports you in enhancing artistic practices and reflective analysis, looking beyond borders of different disciplines.
The Master Performance Practices offers its practitioners the space to synthesise and expand upon their fields of research through individual study and collaborative projects and workshops. As a practitioner you learn to challenge and expand the notions of performance, of how embodied actions create social meaning. Starting from your own practice as research and drawing from different disciplines, you apply and mould theory and practice through diverse means such as studio experimentation and conceptual refinement.
You gain a critical and in-depth understanding of the transformations and challenges of the body in โ and of โ performance. In two years, you build up an advanced portfolio and you develop skills of critical evaluation, synthesizing new ideas, curating artistic practices and managing people and resources in challenging and complex situations. A strategic mission of the Master Performance Practices is the development and expansion of the notion of โstudent as producerโ to enable you as a student to become an independent artist-researchers and at the same time to build a multivocal and fluid production powerhouse.
Admissions
Curriculum
Choosing your own route, you will be sharing modules and actively working together with students of the other tracks, working towards de-disciplining your field. The curriculum is designed to allow for a thoughtful progression, integration and consistency of those skills needed for an ethically and ecologically geared artistic research within the required competencies and learning objectives that come with our status as a fully accredited master's degree.
Group sessions are organised in eight residential periods of three to five weeks spread throughout the two years. In between residential periods, students work autonomously on their own research projects with the support of one-to-one tutorials, online group meetings, and peer feedback
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Career Opportunities
Once graduated, you will have developed your knowledge and skills as a diverse thinking, dedisciplined and independent artist researcher, capable of promoting performance making as a strategy for initiating motion. Aware of your own stance in relation to otherness, you can take steps to maintain or change position. Performance Practitioners have impact as makers, choreographers, directors, performers, creative producers, arts administrators, applied theatre practitioners and more.
After graduation you will be able to situate your artistic practice in the development of the Body in and of Performance in the 21st century. You have asked yourself questions on how to โactโ and โmoveโ in the world. How does individual agency, political activism, or artistic acting move with the world โ and how are they moved by it?
Performance Practices graduates continue working as makers, choreographers, directors, performers, creative producers, arts administrators, applied theatre practitioners, and more with a critical and rigorous understanding of the transformations and challenges of the Body in and of Performance.
Program delivery
In brief
- Performance-making and critical thinking: A home base for performance-making and critical thinking that is geared to constructing intersectional, unconventional, and speculative futures for both making and research
- Design your own study programme: Interdisciplinary andโฏflexibleโฏprogramme: you design the trajectory ofโฏyour ownโฏresearch
- Different residencies throughout the year: Four intensive and collective residential periods (three to five weeks) per year
- Work with artists from all over the world: Close dialogue with a team of experienced lecturers and inspiring guests from an international network in the performing arts
- Create a portfolio of critical and probing performances: Develop a portfolio of performances that critically probe the de-disciplining potential of your practices that engage in โ and are entangled with โ the Body in Performance