Key topics
- dances as socio-cultural practices and transnational commodities
- dance, globalisation and the multicultural debate
- dance, identity and ethnicity
- fieldwork as a key investigative tool.
Research methods are integrated into the compulsory core modules and research skills are developed further through the self-directed, individually tutored dissertation.
Special features
You benefit from contact with those on other MA Dance
cluster courses and those studying for research degree (MPhil or PhD) and from
the excellent material facilities for dance at Roehampton. You will be able to
join an Intensive Erasmus Programme in Norway during the Easter break and be
taught by key scholars within the field.
Research areas
Western theatre dance; Australian Aboriginal, Indian and
Indonesian dance; identity; diasporic movements; nationalism; politics as
pertaining to various dance genres; dance analysis.
Teaching staff
The teaching team has a strong research profile and
publication record:
Staff from across dance programmes, who are also members
of the Centre for Dance Research, contribute to the compulsory and optional
modules. The core team is also complemented by guest lecturers.
Attendance
A part-time MA Dance Anthropology student would normally be
enrolled for two years and would take one of the compulsory modules in the
autumn term of year one, taking the other compulsory module in the autumn term
of the following year. These modules are currently scheduled on Mondays and
last for either the whole morning or the whole afternoon, with occasionally
some evening attendance required (currently, two Wednesday evenings in the
term).
In the spring, you would take one of your core modules in each of your two
years of study. Tuition would be for 3.5 hours per module.
In the summer term of your second year you complete your
dissertation which is by individual arrangement with a tutor.
Entry requirements
Our postgraduate entry requirements apply. The programme convener can advise on any specific
queries.
Because the programme creates a bridge between the
professional and the academic dance worlds, professional experience, usually of
at least eight years, for example, in performance, choreography, teaching or
dance journalism may be offered in satisfaction of the entry requirements and
in lieu of formal academic qualifications.
Applicants from non-traditional routes will be required to
demonstrate academic skills appropriate for entry onto a postgraduate
programme, in the form of a short essay on a given topic and are accepted as
Associate Students in the first instance.
Programme start date
September