Fontys University of Applied Sciences
Master of Choreography (MA)
- Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Tilburg, Netherlands
Master degree
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
01 Jan 2027
EARLIEST START DATE
Jul 2027
TUITION FEES
EUR 2,601 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* statutory tuition fees Full-time| statutory tuition fees Part-time- € 2.395 | institutional tuition fee: € 8.570
Key Summary
About: This part-time 2-year Joint Degree Master of Choreography is run by Codarts (Rotterdam) and Fontys Academy of the Arts (Tilburg). It supports experienced movement makers to carry out practice-based research from their own practice. The programme gives autonomy and flexibility, with teaching from dance, circus, community arts and related fields to develop choreography, performance and creative communication.
Career Outcomes: Graduates gain new ways of approaching and communicating their creative practice and access academic, educational and creative domains. You can work as a creative movement expert in choreography, performance-making, community arts facilitation, arts education, practice-based research, interdisciplinary projects, freelance or within cultural institutions.
This part-time 2-year innovative Joint Degree Master Choreography is run jointly by Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam and Fontys Academy of the Arts in Tilburg. The program is designed to support experienced movement makers from a variety of fields while they carry out research into questions initiated from their current practice.
Why Master Choreography
- Designed to support experienced movement makers/choreographers
- Autonomy and flexibility in designing your path towards a master's qualification
- Teachers in the program will come from a wide variety of fields including circus, dance a, nd community arts
How does your week look
The Master Choreography COMMA is designed so that at the end of the 2-year study graduated students will have gained new ways of approaching and communicating their creative practice.
Year 1
Year 1 has an internally directed focus as students are guided by teachers, coaches and guest teachers in developing their approach to the following:
- The potential trajectories and outcomes of artistic research.
- Taking a critical perspective on their own practices and disciplines with particular emphasis on the potential of co-creation.
- Testing potential questions, thinking creatively about modes of communication and generating movement-based responses.
- Engaging with current theoretical, technological and design based perspectives.
- Entering into a productive discourse about their work.
Year 2
Year 2 has an externally directed focus and students test the acquired knowledge while learning about, and creating generative responses to, alternative working contexts. At the end of the programme, the student will produce a final work that will be presented in a public context and a supporting thesis that documents their research process and places it within an appropriate theoretical or artistic context.
Emphasis in Year 2 is placed on:
- The ability to engage in wider discourses.
- Gaining an enriched knowledge of contexts beyond their own discipline and the challenges, strategies and potential of creative work within those contexts.
- Developing a repertoire of individual creative strategies and the ability to reflect on and generate ‘choreography’ related to these strategies.
What are you going to learn?
The course occurs within a learning environment that exposes students to a broad range of approaches, movement disciplines, and creative domains while supporting them in retaining connections with their working field. Students are co-creators of the course and will be responsible for shaping the content of particular assignments and for creating a productive learning cohort with their peers. The course is carried out in 2-week intensives that take place 3 times a year at either the campus of Codarts in Rotterdam or Fontys in Tilburg, both of which have full dance, theoretical, and circus facilities.
Unfortunately, Fontys University of Applied Sciences does not offer any scholarships for this programme. However, students who are citizens of any EU/EEA country, Switzerland or the UK may be eligible for loans or grants via duo.nl.
After Graduation
The graduated student will have gained new ways of approaching and communicating their creative practice and will have done this in a way that opens doors in the academic, educational and creative domains. They will have become a creative movement expert that can work with anyone, anywhere, anytime: an investment in themselves and their careers.