MA Performance: Dance (MapDance)

University of Chichester

This MA Performance Dance degree is led by mapdance company Artistic Director Yael Flexer and rehearsal director Luke Brown. The course operates as a professional performance programme. This course is ideal for recent graduates or dance artists who wish to extend their technical and performance skills after completing a recognised BA degree.This degree is an opportunity to work with established and up-and-coming choreographers, reflect on your professional practice and prior training, and complete an intensive technical training through a variety of contemporary techniques, contact improvisation and ballet. Working intensively with international guest choreographers, you will develop your technical and performance skills and deepen your understanding of the creative process through experiencing varied choreographic methodologies and artistic approaches.mapdance operates as a professional company with daily technique classes and rehearsals. You will tour nationally and internationally during your studies, performing with the company and offering educational workshops from mid-February until May. You will deepen your understanding of your professional skills through practice, research and scholarship and learn to articulate what you do in written and spoken form. For 2026, the company has commissioned new works by Luca Silverstrini, Cathy Waller, Amy Morvell , as well as the re-staging of Yukiko Masui’s For Seasons from mapdance 2024. Commissions for 2026 2027 include Alleyne Dance and Takeshi Matsumoto, one more commission to be announced, plus a restaging of Kay Crook’s work Medea.There are opportunities to engage with cutting-edge research into interactive technologies and to market yourself professionally as an artist using DVD and website technologies.