Choreomundus – Erasmus Mundus Master in Dance and Movement as Practical Knowledge and Heritage
Graduate (Master) Studies
Social Sciences
Choreomundus – Erasmus Mundus Master in Dance and Movement as Practical Knowledge and Heritage
Description
Choreomundus – Erasmus Mundus Master in Dance and Movement as Practical Knowledge and Heritage, established in 2012 and having recruited nearly 300 students from 80 countries, is a two-year fully joint programme taught principally in English and currently run by a new Consortium of four Partner Universites: Vytautas Magnus University (VDU), Kaunas, Lithuania; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA); University of Clermont Auvergne (UCA), Clermont-Ferrand, France; University of Roehampton, London (UR). It addresses dance, movement and related practices as Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) from the perspectives of Ethnochoreology, the Anthropology of Dance and Movement, Dance and Heritage Studies, Dance and Technology. It focuses on fieldwork and engages with movement analysis, motion capture, ethnographic and documentation techniques. Its intercultural and transcultural foundation with a team of international staff and targeted recruitment from all continents contributes to the promotion of culturally sensitive modes of knowledge transmission. It addresses the effects and conditions of displacement and migration in the 21st century through study of people's traditional creative performance practices. To these ends students study in three countries with a possibility to study in a fourth non-EU partner. In the final (fourth) semester, students will be split into two groups and will study either at Vytautas Magnus University or at the University of Roehampton.
Keywords
#ErasmusMundus #dance #culture #heritage #practical knowledge #anthropology #sports anthropology #dance anthropology #ethnochoreography
Choreomundus – diplomacy at the highest academic level.
Prof. dr. Gediminas Karoblis, Head of the study programme
Partners
Curriculum
| Course | Lecturer | ECTS Credits |
| Decolonising Ethnochoreology and the Anthropology of Dance: An Introduction | 10 | |
| Dance, Displacement, Diaspora | 10 | |
| Ethnographic Research Methodologies, Archiving and Motion Capture | 10 |
Total ECTS credits:
30
| Course | Lecturer | ECTS Credits |
| Dance Ethnography and Contemporary Issues: Heritage in Motion - Dance Learning and Transmission | 5 | |
| Analysing and Notating Dance and Movement | 10 | |
| Dance Ethnography and Contemporary Issues: Special Issues in Dance Studies | 5 | |
| Dissertation 1: Planning Fieldwork - Conceptual and Methodological Issues | 10 |
Total ECTS credits:
30
| Course | Lecturer | ECTS Credits |
| Critical Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage | 10 | |
| Transmission and Circulation of Knowledge in Bodily Practices: Documenting Bodily Practices - Textual and Filmic | 5 | |
| Transmission and Circulation of Knowledge in Bodily Practices: Corporeal Experience - Analysis and Transmission | 5 | |
| Dissertation 2: Ethnography in the Making | 10 |
Total ECTS credits:
30
| Course | Lecturer | ECTS Credits |
| Optional courses I | ||
| Cultural Diplomacy and Heritage | 10 | |
| Performance of Heritage | 10 | |
| Optional courses II | ||
| Dissertation 3: Theorising Dance and Movement | 20 | |
| Dissertation 3: Extended Essay | 20 | |
Total ECTS credits:
30
