Applications for MA Interdisciplinary Dance Performance are now open. Create brand new interdisciplinary work with world-renowned artists and companies and develop your own creative practice.
Next year (2023/24) students on this MA course will be joined by guest companies/artists:
GECKO
Dan Canham
Susan Sentler
AΦE (AE)
Our search for a diverse cohort of dancers from all backgrounds begins now.
Applications to MA Interdisciplinary Dance Performance are now open. Apply by 8 January 2023
Course info APPLYGecko is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed physical theatre company, led by Artistic Director Amit Lahav. Founded in 2001, the company has created 7 critically acclaimed shows, 2 Associate Shows and 2 films. Gecko is currently creating their eighth stage production, commissioned by the National Theatre, exploring themes of racism, family, migration, and home.
The creation process is incredibly rigorous to ensure the high quality demanded by Gecko; testing, learning, evaluating, and refining throughout. Through experimentation, craft and collaboration, Amit has created an organic process that highlights the power and intangible value of imagination, allowing our diverse freelance team of devising performers, creatives, and technicians to work alongside Amit and to bring their own skills, background, experiences and culture into the creation of our work.
Gecko will be working with the MA Interdisciplinary Dance Performance students to devise a new work.
Watch: Previous WorkDan Canham is an award-winning choreographer, theatre and filmmaker with over 18 years in the industry.
Having performed for 10 years with some of the UK and Ireland’s most celebrated theatre and dance companies, in 2011 he created his own company Still House, alongside working as a movement director on a range of projects with other people.
Key projects as movement director include Jane Eyre (National Theatre/Bristol Old Vic), A Monster Calls (Old Vic/Bristol Old Vic) and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Leeds Playhouse/Eliot Harper).
Past Still House productions include 30 Cecil Street, Ours Was the Fen Country, Of Riders & Running Horses and SESSION with touring that includes Australia, China, Canada and throughout Europe.
Dan will be working with the MA Interdisciplinary Dance Performance on film practices as they relate to movement.
Susan Sentler is an artist rooted in the field of Dance/Performance working as educator/lecturer, maker/choreographer, researcher, director, curator, dramaturg and performer. She danced with the original second company ‘The Ensemble’ of the Martha Graham Dance Company in the 1980’s and has returned to performing in the past 10 years with artists such as Tino Sehgal, Xavier le Roy, Dora Garcia and Jerome Bel (with the Candoco Dance Company).
Her work focuses on gallery/museum contexts creating/collaborating on ‘responses’ or ‘activations’ within exhibitions as well as durational installations orchestrating moving/still image, objects, sound and absence/presence of the performing body.
Susan will be working with the MA Interdisciplinary Dance Performance on a collaborative project in partnership with the Tetley.
Learn MoreAΦE (AE) is a Medway/Kent (UK) based dance company founded by Aoi Nakamura (Japanese) and Esteban Lecoq (French). Their uniqueness lies in the use of technology to completely reinvent audience participation. They were the UK’s first dance company to tour internationally with VR and AR productions.
They also actively share our expertise. In summer 2021 they consulted on the development of Jasmin Vardimon’s Alice VR. AE Artistic Directors are currently part of Creative Estuary’s commissioning group.
Individually Aoi and Esteban have been performing over 15 years with renowned dance and immersive theatre companies such as Punchdrunk, Jasmin Vardimon Company, State Theatre Kassel, Saarbruecken and Wiesbaden.
Watch: previous work
All information subject to change
