Programme info

Micro-credential: Dance Theory and Analysis

Study load: 6 ECTS credits
Language of instruction: English
Location: Stadscampus
Faculty: Faculty of Arts

Learning outcomes

This micro-credential focuses on the following learning outcomes.

1. The participant acquires insight into the most important disciplinary and interdisciplinary methodological approaches in dance studies through close readings and critical analysis of various key texts within the field.

2. The participant can identify recent developments in dance practice and situate them in a broader historical and theoretical framework that relates the formal principles of dance (micro-level) with the theoretical, cultural-historical, and socio-political dimensions of choreography (macro-level).

Practical organisation

Weekly seminars on Mondays, Semester 2, 1-4pm.

In-person attendance is required.

Classes are not recorded.

Evaluation

Permanent evaluation (10%)

Assignments throughout the course (40%)

Final paper (50%)

Please note: participants are required to complete all of the above components in order to pass the course.