MA Screendance

London Contemporary Dance School, The Place

The trailblazing MA Screendance is designed to help you refine and expand your screen-based practice. Led by expert teaching faculty and with a wide range of guest artists and lecturers, this practice-based programme blends hands-on learning and experimentation with theoretical investigation.Screendance is a flourishing, international art form that incorporates dance, film, design, sound, visual arts and performance. The MA Screendance embraces this interdisciplinarity, encouraging creative exploration, critical enquiry and artistic innovation across the form.On the course, you’ll explore the histories, contexts and contemporary debates surrounding screendance, whilst developing your artistic voice and honing practical skills.At London Contemporary Dance School, we foster a dynamic, learner-centred environment. Seminars, workshops, and personal tutorials support your artistic development and reflection, ensuring your ideas and interests are core to your learning. You will also have opportunities to collaborate with peers across disciplines and to build a professional network that extends beyond your time at LCDS.The MA Screendance programme attracts students from around the world, each coming with unique backgrounds and experiences, giving rise to a rich environment for exchange and innovation. Our graduates go on to lead and shape the future of screendance, evolving the potential of this ever-expanding art form.This course empowers you to:Develop a confident, articulate, independent artistic practice and a wide professional networkCombine hands-on experimentation, technical skills, contextual research and public engagementExpand your vision and explore how your work resonates in today’s worldCritically assess image-based art in contemporary societyContribute to the development of the field of screendance through practice and research

London Contemporary Dance School, The Place