Master of Arts Solo/ Dance/ Authorship (SODA)
Degree: Master of Arts
Length: Two year (full time)
Study language: English
Start: summer term 2016 (April 2016)
Application period: 1 October – 1 November 2015
Admission exams: 26-28 January 2016
The MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship (MA SODA) is a two year, full-time, performance-oriented Master of Arts degree. It provides a practice-led postgraduate education for practitioners and recent graduates who wish to challenge, extend and transform their practice and their understanding of arts practice through practical, theoretical and critical enquiry.
MA SODA focuses on individual solo and collaborative dance and body-based performance making within the wider field of contemporary arts practice. It concerns itself with making through thinking, and thinking through making in relation to issues of composition, authorship, collaboration, and process. In the plural and cross-disciplinary contexts of contemporary arts practice, MA SODA enables the development of a student’s own individual performance work as a collaborative and interrogative practice in dialogue with other artists, thinkers and practitioners, and that responds to the contexts in which it takes place.
MA SODA is designed for students to undertake a sustained and structured development of their methodologies for practice, reflection and study. It enables students to widen their choice and capacity for professional practice, other employment or higher-level studies; to engage with and contribute to contemporary arts and cultural practices; to develop strategies as practitioners in a time of continuing technological, social and cultural change; and to build a valuable ensemble of adaptable and transferable skills at postgraduate level.
The study course is divided into six modules over four semesters:
Module 101 (Project) - Questions of Practice 1
Module 102 (Lecture/ Seminar) - Negotiating Solo/Dance/Authorship
Module 201 (Project) - Questions of Practice 2
Module 202 - (Lecture/ Seminar) Compositional Practices and Contexts
Module 301 (Project) - Independent & Collaborative Research
Module 401 (Project) - Final SODA Project
How much does it cost?
No tuition is charged for the programme. The only charge is an administration fee of approximately 250 euros per semester that includes a semester ticket for public transportation.
Prof. Rhys Martin (Head of study programme), Prof. Boyan Manchev, Sophia New.
The following visiting artists, academics, and theorists have been invited to contribute to the study programme:
Emilyn Claid, Lito Walkey, Eva Meyer-Keller, Ramsay Burt, Franz-Anton Cramer, Victoria Pérez Royo, Bojana Kunst, deufert&plischke, Martin Nachbar, Deborah Hay, Heidie-Maria Hertel, Isabel de Naveran, Una Bauer, Jeroen Peeters, Janez Jansa, Heiner Goebbels.