Choreomundus is an integrated joint European programme, promoted and taylor-made by the four partner universities . All four institutions, therefore, take full responsibility for the whole programme and not just the section they deliver.
During the course of study, students are introduced to theoretical, epistemological and methodological issues concerning the concept of Dance Heritage, with a focus on ethnographic material drawn from the field experiences of the four team leaders. These include examples from the Nordic countries, from Eastern and Western Europe, from South Asia and Africa. Further examples will be provided by visiting scholars. The programme is committed to both movement and contextual analyses and has been designed to provide all students with a common scientific training to equip them with the intellectual tools necessary to analyse dance cross-culturally and to deal with dance as Intangible Cultural Heritage in diverse professional contexts. 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 intensive period of fieldwork during the summer between years 1 and 2, in a country of the student’s choice, apart from the student’s residence or home country, is a prelude to the dissertation/thesis and a prerequisite to the successful completion of the Master degree.
Introduction: all students follow induction and a short intensive course in Clermont-Ferrand. Students are then divided for the rest of the academic year into two groups: one in Trondheim and another in Szeged.
Semester 1: After a short intensive Introduction to Ethnochoreology
and the Anthropology of dance students will be introduced to the
impact on dance of the displacement of peoples within or across borders.
Moreover, a focus on fieldwork methodology and archiving will prepare
students for individual research in the summer before year two.
Semester 2: By the beginning of the second semester students will have chosen the topic for their dissertation/thesis. Intensive courses in dance notation and dance analysis, including motion capture, will assist them in acquiring skills in detailed movement analysis necessary for fieldwork. They will undertake an internship either in the field or in an institutional framework during the period at the end of semester 2 and beginning of semester 3.
Semester 1: In the second academic year, all students go to UCA Clermont-Ferrand for their third semester of the study. The focus here will be on critical issues related to Intangible Cultural Heritage, safeguarding, archiving and digitisation. During this second year of study the focus shifts from an ethnochoreological to an anthropological perspective, in which a reflexive approach is applied to the analysis of ethnographic and other material collected during the intership/fieldwork.
Semester 2: For the fourth and final semester of the programme, students will go to UR London. Courses will focus on anthropological analyses of dance in the contemporary context of post-colonialism, globalisation, transnationalism, and multiculturalism. Students will finalise the process of writing up their Master’s dissertation/thesis, which they shall submit by the end of the academic year.
Semesters 1 & 2
University of Clermont Auvergne (UCA)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
University of Szeged (SZTE)
Semester 3
University of Clermont Auvergne (UCA)
Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Age of Digitisation (All students) 15 ECTS:
a. Critical Perspectives on ICH (Intensive 4)
b. Structuring Knowledge in the Digital Age
c. Dynamics of Interaction and Performance: Ritual, Play, Dance, Physical Practices
Anthropology of Bodily Practices and Dance: Concepts and Methods (All students) 15 ECTS:
a. Corporeal Experience: Analysis and Transmission
b. Dissertation 2: Ethnography and Interpretation
Semester 4
University of Roehampton, London (UR)
