Designed for mid-career artists, teachers and dance professionals. Accomplished, nationally recognized candidates may receive up to 12 credits for professional experience. In special cases, some candidates are admitted in a three-summer track.

Application deadline: December 1

Sample Schedule

Summer I
Location: ADF

• Mentored Studio Practice, 4 (daily M-F)
• History/Theory/Criticism, 4 (T/Th 4-7)
• Graduate Seminar, 2 (Sat 9-1)
• Contemporary Body Practices I, 2 (Wed 4-7)

Location: Hollins

• Digital Imagination
• Visual and Sound Performance Practices, 4 (M-F 1-4)
• Contemporary Art Practices: Past/Present: Contemporary Art practices and the Historical Imagination, 4 (M-F 9-12)
• Special Topics: Poetry into Performance
• Special Topics: Improvised Media
  

Fall

• Portfolio Development, 6
• Off-site directed study/review, 2

J-Term

• Two-day January retreat in NYC

Spring

• Portfolio Development, 6
• Off-site directed study/review, 2

Summer II
Location: ADF

• Mentored Studio Practice, 4 (daily M-F)
• Special Topics: Pedagogy: Ok, Now; Shifting Grounds of Discourse (2)
• Special Topics: Relational Aesthetics and Dance Making (2)
• Special Topics: Guerrilla Presenting in the 21st Century (2)
• History/Theory/Criticism, 4 (T, Th 4-7)
• Graduate Seminar 2 (Sat 9-1)
• Graduate Critique 2 (Wed 4-7)
• Thesis Forms II, 6 (tba)
• Thesis Concert and Portfolio Presentations at American Dance Festival

Location: Hollins

• Contemporary Art Practices II, 2 (M,W,F 9-12)
• Graduate Seminar 2 (Sat 9-1)
• Thesis Forms II, Final Review, 2 (tba)
• Portfolio Presentations