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Erasmus Mundus Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage (CHOREOMUNDUS)
Emm in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and
Heritage
NUMBER OF STUDENTS: approx. 20
ADDRESS: NTNU, Faculty of Humanities
NO-7491 Trondheim
PHONE: +47 73 59 65 95
E-MAIL: choreo
@
hf.ntnu.no
URL: www.choreomundus.org/
STUDY ADVISORS:
Egil Bakka (NTNU), Georgiana Wierre-Gore
(UBP), Andrée Grau (URL), Lászlo Felföldi (SZTE)
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS AND
APPLICATION DEADLINE: see page 1.
ABOUT THE MASTER’S PROGRAMME
The two-year Master’s programme in Dance
Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage (Cho-
reomundus) investigates dance and other
movement systems (ritual practices, martial
arts, games and physical theatre) as Intangible
Cultural Heritage (ICH) within the broader
contexts of Ethnochoreology, the Anthropology
of Dance, Dance Studies, and Heritage Studies.
The programme is offered by a consortium
of four universities: NTNU (Host University),
Université Blaise Pascal Clermont 2 (UBP)
in France, University of Roehampton London
(URL) in United Kingdom and Scientific
University of Szeged (SZTE) in Hungary. The
primary language of instruction is English,
and an introduction to French, Norwegian, and
Hungarian is provided (not mandatory).
WHY STUDY CHOREOMUNDUS?
Choreomundus responds to needs for
professionalisation, arising from the UNESCO
convention in a large number of countries
around the world, in state cultural sectors
and cultural industries, as well as to the
commitment to lifelong learning, central to
the policies of European academic institutions.
Choreomundus graduates will gain transfer-
rable skills, employability and receive the
necessary preparation for doctoral research.
The programme has been designed to provide
all students with a common academic training
that equips them with the intellectual tools
to analyse dance cross-culturally and to deal
with issues concerning dance as ICH in diverse
professional contexts.
ADMISSION
Admission to the programme requires an
undergraduate/bachelor’s degree from a
recognised institution, preferably in dance,
anthropology or in the related subjects (drama
and/or theatre, music, sports and human
movement studies, sociology, cultural
studies) or equivalent professional experience.
Candidates will need to demonstrate, through
the submission of a DVD of their own dancing
and an essay, that they have the necessary
expertise to be engaged with the programme
focusing either on contextual issues or issues
concerning dance as movement
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
During the first year, students are divided
between NTNU and UBP, depending on the
desired supervision focus for their individual
programme (oriented towards movement
analysis at NTNU, more contextually and
theoretically oriented at UBP). Both groups
will attend an intensive course in the other
institution during this first year, to gain the full
content of the programme. In the second year,
all students go to SZTE for their first semester
and to URL for their second, the courses in
the former focusing on an ethnochoreological
orientation to issues of documentation and
archiving, and the latter on the anthropo-
logical analyses of dance in the context of
post-colonial globalisation and transnational
multiculturalism.
Fieldwork is an important feature, and brief
field trips are undertaken in all four countries
to allow students to engage fully with a number
of European cultures. Moreover, an inten-
sive period of fieldwork during the summer
between year 1 and 2 is a prelude to the thesis
and a prerequisite to the successful completion
of the master's degree.
CAREER PROSPECTS
Students graduating directly from Choreomun-
dus will be trained for the following positions:
cultural officer/coordinator in a regional or na-
tional arts council or similar government body;
research officer in an institute, museum or arts
council (regional and national) or other such
body; archivist in any of the former institutions
or one devoted uniquely to archiving; dance
festival organiser or director.
Further positions exist in the educational
sector. Students engaging in doctoral research
after Choreomundus will find employment
in their home countries, many of which lack
trained staff to establish Master’s and PhD
programmes in either Dance Studies or
Heritage Studies. Other sectors which may
prove to open up employment possibilities
for specialists in human movement analysis
include the computer games and film industry
(including animation, special effects, and
so on), which require consultants with such
expertise.
Choreomundus aims to provide
practical skills to observe,
analyse, document, and
evaluate dances. The pro-
gramme will equip students to
analyse dance as knowledge,
practice and heritage and to
promote different modes of
knowledge transmission
adapted to local contexts. A
broader aim is to equip stu-
dents for global challenges
and cultural encounters.
Photo: Tore Hugubakken