Entry requirements: Normally a first or second-class (upper division) Honours degree or professional experience in the area of study Students will be required to show potential for practical work.
Full-time: 1 year
Part-time: 2 years
Programme Leader: Cathy Seago
Telephone +44 (0) 1962 827157
Email Catherine.Seago@winchester.ac.uk
If English is not your first language: IELTS 6.5 (including 6.5 in academic writing) or a TOEFL score of 575 (paper-based) or 232 (computer-based) or equivalent
Start dates: September
Application process: UKPASS (full-time applicants only) or Direct Entry Application Form (part-time applicants only)
Students will be invited to come to the University for audition/interview but submission of examples of previous solo performance and group choreographic works on DVD is
acceptable
* subject to validation
The programme aims to develop an enhanced understanding of choreography as an embodied practice and advanced skills in communicating this in a range of contexts through embodiment, creation, facilitation and documentation. Students build skills as creative entrepreneurs, to support a portfolio career. They develop work to realise their ideas through choreographic forms physically, creatively and pedagogically.
Students are challenged to develop their practice within both professional and academic contexts through placements with artists and of arts organisations such
as The Point Eastleigh, Hampshire Dance, Creative Ecology Wiltshire, StopGAP Dance Company, Green Candle Dance Company and the Wessex Academy. Through creativity
and criticality, students develop reflexive practices and measure their impact towards defining and redefining their artistic vision.
• Choreographic Practice
• Creative Partnerships in Choreographic Contexts
• Entrepreneurship in Dance
• Choreography in Performance
• Research Methods
• Gateway to Independent Study
Students undertake workshops, masterclasses and labs, placements in professional contexts and intensive devising, lectures, seminars and a mini-conference, self-directed study and tutorials.
Modules are assessed by practical work in real situations through the performance and facilitation of choreography. Reflective documentation supports this through lecture-demonstrations, performative presentations, online blogs, critical writing, proposals and research plans.
The programme prepares students to enter the field as independent dance artists equipped to work in a range of community and professional contexts as creative facilitators, performers and choreographers. Students may also wish to pursue a career in teaching or a related area, for example an education officer attached to a dance company. Students may also consider undertaking further study for a practicebased PhD or MPhil.