MA in Dance at The Place LCDS
Applications to join the course in September 2025 are open.
If you want to study on MA Dance: Participation, Communities, Activism, you can apply to join us now!
If you are interested in applying for one of the two Global South Access Scholarships which covers all course fees, the deadline to apply is 17 March 2025.
The deadline for all other applications is 28 April 2025.
This MA is for students who want to develop a socially engaged dance practice which addresses the urgencies of our times. You will join a global community of artists and researchers working at the intersection of community dance and arts activism.
You may have an emerging community, participatory or activist movement practice which you want to develop, or you may be an established maker who wants to interrogate and develop your practice in the light of the shifting discourses and challenges of the moment.
This unique Masters, offered full-time or part-time, has an intensive residency model. You engage in two, 2-week live residencies per year based at LCDS in London. All other teaching and learning is online, allowing you to remain embedded in the communities with whom you practice, growing your work as you study. You are not required to relocate to London; indeed, the course places the de-centred practice of the individual student in their specific context at its heart. The richness of the curriculum grows from the wide diversity of geographical, cultural and contextual situations of our students and staff.
The course can be completed in one year full-time, or two years part-time, and the next cohort begins in September 2025. It is designed to allow you to study alongside work, caring responsibilities or your need to pace your learning to suit your individual needs. We are offering two full scholarships to those living and working in the Global South.
This course explores the potential of movement and dance to contribute to the creation of sustainable social structures, to support individuals and communities, to rehearse and perform collective actions and to challenge systemic inequity. You will situate your work in an international network of peers, artists, scholars and teachers, challenge and develop your individual practice and apply your learning in an individual creative project, supported by one-to-one mentoring.
https://theplace.org.uk/lcds-courses/madancepca
Applications to start in September 2025 are open. The deadline to apply is April 28th 2025.
The first newsletter for the academic year is hot off the press and packed full of news about this expanding, innovative course. The cohort of 19 students are growing their practice working for change with their local communities in 11 different countries. (attached below)
We are excited that this year we are again able to offer two full scholarships covering the fees of the course to applicants living and working in a country of the Global South as well as other opportunities for financial support.
We have some events soon where you can find out more:
Tuesday Feb 4 from 5pm to 6pm GMT/London
International film screening of a new documentary about the residency which starts the course:
a practice for living together
Sign up here: https://theplace.org.uk/events/pca-international-film-screening
Tuesday Feb 25 from 5pm to 6pm GMT/London
Online information session with staff and students for potential applicants
Sign up here: https://theplace.org.uk/events/feb-online-information-session
Thursday March 27 from 12 noon - 1pm GMT/London
Online information session with staff and students for potential applicants
Sign up here: https://theplace.org.uk/events/mar-online-information-session