Dance - Contemporary Dance Performance

Key programme benefits to future students

It is a unique course in that it facilitates two independent streams of dance, Irish Traditional Dance and Contemporary Dance. Although independent, interactivity between these two dance genres is facilitated in the form of shared workshops, seminars and electives.



Key Fact:

The programme provides a learning environment for advanced performance in Key Fact: either Irish Traditional Dance and Contemporary Dance; it explores aspects of repertoire and style within each of the two performance genres and it facilitates interactivity through the elective system with other related areas of study.

Autumn Modules

• Contemporary Dance Techniques for Performance 1

• Practicum: Dance Performance Repertoire 1

• Media Technologies for Performing Arts and Arts Research

• Introduction to Somatics 1

• Writing and the Documentation of Arts Practice 1



Optional Modules (choose one)

Colloquium 1

Professional Development for the Performing Arts

Interdisciplinary Improvisation

Introduction to Fieldwork Techniques

Broadening through Awareness, Activism and the Arts

Independent Study 1



Spring Modules

• Contemporary Dance Techniques for Performance 2

• Practicum: Dance Performance Repertoire 2

• Choreography for Camera

• Writing and the Documentation of Art Practice 2

• Critical Contexts of Arts Management and Cultural



Optional Modules (choose one)

Introduction to Somatics 2

Colloquium 2

Independent Study 2



Summer Modules

• Final Presentation

A primary degree with first or second class honours or an equivalent qualification (Primary degree: Level 8 - National Qualifications Authority of Ireland). An equivalent capability based on prior professional experience.

An interview and audition (online) will be required in all cases. Candidates will be required to submit additional audio-visual material via online links that demonstrate previous experience in contemporary dance.

1 year full-time, on-campus.

Autumn