Type: Postgraduate Taught Masters
Qualification: MA Dance & Creative Enterprise
Duration: 1 year full-time (Home & Overseas students)
Validated by: University of Kent
NSCD aims to have full degree awarding powers from September 2025 (subject to Office for Students approval). This is an exciting step, in the school’s history enabling us to take that next step in control of our curriculum and course portfolio. In the unlikely event NSCD does not achieve degree awarding powers in this academic cycle, our degrees will continue to be validated by the University of Kent.
The MA in Dance & Creative Enterprise enables you to advance and re-imagine your practice as a maker, whilst helping you to develop key professional and business skills to boost your creative practice. It includes opportunities to:
APPLICATIONS FOR 2025 ENTRY ARE OPEN
MA in Dance & Creative focuses on developing your artistic identity as a maker and producer. Throughout the programme you work individually and collaboratively on projects, developing your entrepreneurial skillset. The course includes a number of opportunities to showcase the work you create, enabling you to put into practice the skills you develop as both a creator and project manager, culminating in the annual MA Showcase – an opportunity for you to share work created over the course of the year in a live format, for a public and invited audience. Through mentorship and guidance, you present a portfolio of work across the building, including Riley Theatre, the Lighting Studio, Courtyard and studios.
The course is taught by lecturers who are actively making work, and who have a successful track record of securing funding. They are ideally placed to guide you in developing your career, empowering you to best promote yourself and your practice.
The course comprises the following modules:
These modules are designed to equip you with the specific skills needed to be successful as a creative artist. Each module explores the subject area both practically and theoretically, allowing you to put your ideas into practice.
View modulesMA Dance & Creative Enterprise is for emerging and established choreographers, movement-based artists and performers looking to develop their voice as makers and producers. It is open to graduates of two/three-year dance training programmes at Higher Education level, or to dance/movement artists with some professional experience and equivalent vocational training.
The course recruits a diverse student body and is popular with international cohorts. We welcome applications from the UK and overseas.
Student profilesTeaching at NSCD is tailored to the nature of the modules being taken, often combining practical and theoretical learning to best prepare you for the demands of the industry. Teaching methods include practical classes and workshops, rehearsal and performance, placement activities, lectures, seminars and tutorials.
Taught hours for each module reflect the nature of the module and current professional practice. For example, creation and rehearsal modules have intensive contact and studio time, whereas research projects combine lectures, workshops, and tutorials with the independent study time needed to develop your research practice. Consequently, study time varies, but the average contact time is normally between 16 and 24 hours per week during directed teaching activity.
Students have access to our wide range of excellent industry-standard facilities to develop their practice, carry out research and test ideas in a supportive, creative learning environment:
This course allows you to focus on topics that interest you. Modules are geared towards helping you further develop your ideas in both academic and real-world contexts.
Arts Project Management enables you to put forward a proposal and take steps to make it happen, taking into account operations, budgeting, strategy and marketing in parallel to artistic content. Example projects from students who have studied on the course include:
In the final term, students undertake a substantial major research project on a topic of their choice. Recent students’ research topics include:
We welcome choreographers, movement-based artists and performers looking to develop their voice as a maker and/or producer. Above all, we are looking for ambition and commitment to your practice.
The MA in Dance & Creative Enterprise is open to graduates of two/three-year dance training programmes at higher education level, or to dance or movement artists with some professional experience and equivalent vocational training at an appropriate level.
We welcome applications from EU, EEA and International applicants. Students with English as a second language will need a 6.5 ESOL level (with a minimum of 6.0 in reading and 5.5 in speaking and listening)
Entry is through an online application, the submission of a showreel, and a video interview.
We are committed to providing a holistic experience for our students. Based on a comparison with other courses of an equivalent price, we typically offer the following as ‘value added’:
