30 Master Programs in Dance 2024

The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance offers graduate students a unique international and multi-cultural environment for study and for personal and artistic growth.

Develop your dance practice and performance skills by approaching them as research processes on this practice-research-based programme. This practice-research-based programme will encourage you to approach performance as a critical practice and to relish the complex contextual relationships that exist in making and performing dances. You will explore your role as a collaborator in performance-making as one of agency and empowerment in a supportive environment. You will be encouraged to develop and test new ideas and skills through your practice research in order to imagine how they relate to training, practice, performance-making, dance philosophy and dramaturgy. You will be supported by the mentorship and teaching of experienced staff in our modern studios and you will have the opportunity to work with in-house and visiting artists, scholars and a diverse community of peers.

The program considers Irish dance practices within cultural, historical and practice-based perspectives. Students on the program critically engage with relevant literature and dance practices and undertake field research in a relevant Irish dance study of their choice. They also have the opportunity to interact with students on other related programs at the Irish World Academy. The aim of the program is to provide students with contextual, historical and embodied knowledge relating to different Irish dance practices. It also provides an invaluable foundation for those wishing to pursue dance research to doctoral level.

This course will support the development of your teaching, challenging you to embed creativity and inclusivity at the heart of your practice. Over three trimesters, you'll explore the approaches, creative practices and professional skills needed to excel in dance teaching and facilitation. Study the art and science of dance pedagogy, considering a wide range of learning needs, teaching styles and modern perspectives on teaching and learning.

The Master’s Degree programs in Choreography allows you to develop into an artist with a personal voice while interacting with the society and its changing views of art.

Within the context of contemporary movement practice, our postgraduate dance programme has a specialist focus on site, collaboration, and screen-based practice. Our Dance degree offers a creative environment that supports you to explore and develop your specialist practice within an international community of emerging dance artists.

This programme provides you with a broad understanding of the theories and practices of dance movement therapy necessary for safe and effective clinical work, and enables you to practise as a dance movement therapist.

Guildford School of Acting (GSA) is one of the UK’s leading accredited drama schools, providing dedicated conservatoire training within a purpose-built environment on the University of Surrey campus. MFA Movement Direction is one of very few in this fast-growing and impactful professional field and one which notably includes intimacy co-ordination

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.

The School of Arts offers English-language master programmes in the visual arts, audio visual arts and music. Each year, dozens of foreign students choose the master programmes of our faculty to continue their studies.

In this Master's program, we focus on new and interdisciplinary forms of theatre, dance, and dramaturgy. We are interested in how performance and choreography respond to current societal phenomena (such as debates around gender diversity, societal and ecological challenges, dance and neuroscience, or how media impacts perception), how this leads to new artistic forms and strategies, and new modes of storytelling. We will teach you how to critically reflect and write about these developments.

Focuses on: Mexican dance folklore Research and historiography Mexican folklore

The Master of Expression and Arts Focuses on Dance Performance, Research on Oriental and Western Dances, Dance Works Production

The Department of Dance Art consists of Korean Dance Major and Modern Dance Major. Through an advanced curriculum, it tries to raise high-quality dancers equipped with dance skills and professional knowledge. It aims to cultivate professional dancers with cultural competitiveness who are creative, knowledgeable about dance theories, and capable of succeeding on the international stage.

The MFA program in dance with a concentration in interdisciplinary digital media and performance builds on the School of Music, Dance, and Theatre strength. It expands into the specific area of new media practices.