Vytautas Magnus University

Choreomundus – Erasmus Mundus Master in Dance and Movement as Practical Knowledge and Heritage

Choreomundus – Erasmus Mundus Master in Dance and Movement as Practical Knowledge and Heritage, established in 2012 and having recruited nearly 300 students from 80 countries, is a two-year fully joint programme taught principally in English and currently run by a new Consortium of four Partner Universities:

1. Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania;
2. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece;
3. University of Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France;
4. University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom.

It addresses dance, movement and related practices as Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) from the perspectives of Ethnochoreology, the Anthropology of Dance, Sport and Movement, Heritage Studies, and Technology for Dance and Sport. It focuses on fieldwork and engages with movement analysis, motion capture, ethnographic and documentation techniques.

Its intercultural and transcultural foundation, with a team of international staff and targeted recruitment from all continents, contributes to the promotion of culturally sensitive modes of knowledge transmission. It addresses the effects and conditions of displacement and migration in the 21st century through the study of people’s traditional performance practices, whether artistic, ritual or sports. To these ends, students study in three countries with the option of studying in a fourth non-EU partner. The programme delivers a fully joint degree with a single diploma parchment signed by all four universities and is managed by four joint committees.