MA CoDE

The Mas­ter's pro­gram in Con­tem­pora­ry Dance Edu­ca­ti­on (MA CoDE), suc­cess­ful­ly ac­credi­ted ac­cord­ing to the Bo­lo­gna gui­de­li­nes, is ai­med at pro­fes­sio­nal and ex­pe­ri­en­ced dan­cers, per­for­mers and cho­reo­graph­ers who wish to ex­plo­re the foun­da­ti­ons of their work. The pro­gram, con­cei­ved un­der the di­rec­tion of Prof. Ingo Diehl and es­tab­lished in the long term at the Hoch­schu­le für Mu­sik und Dar­stel­len­de Kunst Frank­furt am Main re­sponds to the in­crea­sing de­mands and cur­rent ar­tis­tic de­ve­lop­ments in the pro­fes­sio­nal field. The Mas­ter of Arts de­gree equa­tes to 120 ECTS credit points and qua­li­fies for the third cy­cle of the Bo­lo­gna Pro­cess.

Com­pe­ten­ces

The Eng­lish-lan­guage full-time pro­gram trains skills in de­ve­lo­ping and com­mu­ni­ca­ting the la­test ap­proa­ches to lear­ning in the field of dance. Through a wide ran­ge of pro­po­si­ti­ons/of­fers es­pe­ci­al­ly the per­so­nal in­te­rests of the stu­dents will be car­ved out and sup­por­ted. The fo­cus in edu­ca­ti­on lies on a com­pa­ra­ti­ve me­tho­do­lo­gy in con­tem­pora­ry dance and in group-pro­ces­ses as well as in so­ma­tic prac­tices. The theo­re­ti­cal di­rec­tion of the pro­gram fo­cu­ses on new ap­proa­ches in dance and trai­ning-sci­ence and phy­si­cal re­se­arch along­si­de pro­ces­ses of ar­tis­tic do­cu­men­ta­ti­on. Through sup­ple­men­tal fo­cu­ses in the fields of com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on and ma­nage­ment stu­dents will be qua­li­fied to pro­mo­te the de­ve­lop­ment of struc­tures and the dance field’s ge­ne­ral frame­work. The M.A. pro­gram pla­ces its­elf in­ter­na­tio­nal­ly wi­t­hin the field of ar­tis­tic re­se­arch, theo­re­ti­cal con­tex­tua­li­sa­ti­on and prac­ti­cal use.

Aims

The aim is to train dance edu­ca­tors who are ca­pa­ble of com­bi­ning edu­ca­tio­nal ac­tivi­ties with high ar­tis­tic aspi­ra­ti­ons as trai­ning di­rec­tors or cho­reo­gra­phic as­si­stants in mu­ni­ci­pal thea­ters or on the in­de­pen­dent sce­ne, as dance edu­ca­tors at uni­ver­si­ties, in pri­va­te dance schools, or in the mu­ni­ci­pal sec­tor. Gra­dua­tes should be able to im­ple­ment their know­ledge and skills in va­rious working are­as and shape the fu­ture of dance.

Part­ners

The va­rious of­fers and the con­nec­tions with the pro­fes­sio­nal field in the form of tar­ge­ted pro­jec­ts and in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry ex­chan­ge for­mats are car­ri­ed out in as­so­cia­ti­on with the Hes­si­an Thea­t­re Aca­de­my and in clo­se coope­ra­ti­on with the Mo­ti­on Bank/Hoch­schu­le Mainz pro­ject (In­sti­tut De­sign­la­bor Gu­ten­berg) and va­rious foun­da­ti­ons. The clo­se col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with the in­ter­na­tio­nal MA CoDE alum­ni net­work is in­te­gra­ted in the stu­dy cour­se. The pro­gram cur­r­ent­ly coope­ra­tes with ma­jor events in the field, such as the Ger­man Dance Con­gress, the cho­reo­gra­pher Jen­ny Bey­er and the Cho­reo­gra­phic Cent­re K3 at Kamp­na­gel in Ham­burg as well as the Künst­ler­haus Mou­son­turm in Frank­furt or the Tanz­haus NRW. The­re are clo­se part­nerships with stu­dy pro­grams at the uni­ver­si­ties DOCH Stock­holm, the In­ter­na­tio­nal Sum­mer Aca­de­my of Hol­lins Uni­ver­si­ty (USA) in Ber­lin, the Aca­de­my for Cul­tu­ral Edu­ca­ti­on Rem­scheid and the Ri­ve­r­ia Ou­to­kum­pu dance de­part­ment in Fin­land. Fur­ther in­for­ma­ti­ons on the­se out­re­ach-pro­jec­ts you’ll find un­der News/Pro­jec­ts.

RE­AC­CREDI­TA­TI­ON: Oc­to­ber 1st, 2022

Ad­mis­si­on to the Mas­ter's pro­gram in Con­tem­pora­ry Dance Edu­ca­ti­on re­qui­res:

• a Ba­che­lor de­gree or a com­pa­ra­ble aca­de­mic de­gree or
• three ye­ars or more of pro­fes­sio­nal ex­pe­ri­ence (evi­dence must be sub­mit­ted) in the field of dance as well as pro­of of know­ledge and skills de­mons­tra­ted at the ent­ran­ce ex­ami­na­ti­on and equi­va­lent to an aca­de­mic de­gree re­qui­red pur­suant to lit. a).

For ad­mis­si­on to this Mas­ter's pro­gram in Con­tem­pora­ry Dance Edu­ca­ti­on a suf­fi­ci­ent writ­ten and oral com­mand of Ger­man or Eng­lish is re­qui­red. Ad­mis­si­on to the Mas­ter's pro­gram in Con­tem­pora­ry Dance Edu­ca­ti­on is also sub­ject to can­di­da­tes pas­sing an ent­ran­ce ex­ami­na­ti­on. 

The ap­p­li­ca­ti­on pro­cess for this full time stu­dy pro­gram oc­curs every three se­mes­ters. The next ad­mis­si­on be­gins in sum­mer se­mes­ter 2026.

The ap­p­li­ca­ti­on dead­line is Oc­to­ber 1^st to No­vem­ber 20^th, 2025.

The ent­ran­ce ex­ami­na­ti­on com­pri­ses theo­re­ti­cal as well as prac­ti­cal com­pon­ents:

1. Upload re­le­vant cer­ti­fi­ca­tes and three writ­ten tasks which de­mons­tra­te a know­ledge of the art form dance, cho­reo­gra­phic and per­for­ma­ti­ve as­pec­ts, tea­ching of mo­ve­ment con­cepts as well as an ade­qua­te abi­li­ty to ex­press oneself in wri­ting in the Ger­man or Eng­lish lan­guage.
   (a) A per­so­nal let­ter of mo­ti­va­ti­on sta­ting the rea­sons for choo­sing this cour­se and uni­ver­si­ty as well as the can­di­da­te's ide­as in re­la­ti­on to his/her fu­ture po­si­tio­ning in the sphe­re of work (ca. 4000 cha­rac­ters)
   (b) A writ­ten re­port on a per­for­mance or dance les­son of one's own choice (ca. 2000 cha­rac­ters)
   (c) A writ­ten di­dac­tic plan of a tea­ching con­cept (1 A4 page) 
   (d) Pay­ment of Fee
2. The Au­di­tion to which selec­ted par­ti­ci­pants will be in­vi­ted con­sists of four prac­ti­cal com­pon­ents:
   (a) pe­dago­gic com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on of a tea­ching con­cept (20-30 mi­nu­tes) in ad­di­ti­on to a writ­ten di­dac­tic plan of the tea­ching con­cept (1 A4 page)
   (b) writ­ten ana­ly­sis and re­flec­tion of a tea­ching unit in situ (30 mi­nu­tes)
   (c) prac­ti­cal ex­ami­na­ti­on in phy­si­cal/tech­ni­cal ex­pe­ri­ence and skills as well as a group ex­ami­na­ti­on in ar­tis­tic and im­pro­vi­sa­tio­nal skills (30 mi­nu­tes)
   (d) pre­sen­ta­ti­on of a pie­ce of mo­ve­ment re­se­arch (ca. 5 - 10 mi­nu­tes)
3. In­ter­view:
   (a) Dis­cus­sion about the mo­ti­va­ti­on for the cho­sen field of stu­dy and whe­re the can­di­da­te ima­gi­nes his/her fu­ture sphe­re of ac­tivi­ties. At the can­di­da­te's re­quest, the in­ter­view may be con­duc­ted in Eng­lish (20 mi­nu­tes).
   (b) Can­di­da­tes who do not hold a first aca­de­mic de­gree have to de­mons­tra­te evi­dence of the know­ledge and com­pe­ten­ces cor­re­spon­ding to a first aca­de­mic de­gree ap­pro­pria­te for the cho­sen pro­gram of stu­dy. As evi­dence, the can­di­da­te must pre­sent a re­port on a to­pic ta­ken from the field of work in a se­cond in­ter­view (20 mi­nu­tes). This part of the ex­ami­na­ti­on will be as­ses­sed as "be­stan­den" (pas­sed) or "nicht be­stan­den" (fai­led). Ad­mis­si­on to the Mas­ter's pro­gram in Con­tem­pora­ry Dance Pe­dago­gy is not pos­si­ble if a can­di­da­te fails this part of the ent­ran­ce ex­ami­na­ti­on. The as­sess­ment will not be in­clu­ded in the over­all re­sult of the ent­ran­ce ex­ami­na­ti­on.

The ap­ti­tu­de test is con­duc­ted in two sta­ges. The first sta­ge (two writ­ten tasks) must be pas­sed. Fail­u­re to pass the first sta­ge of the test pre­clu­des par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on in the re­mai­ning sta­ges and the test has not been pas­sed. The writ­ten tasks have to be uploa­ded tog­e­ther with the do­cu­ments and will be pro­ofed by three ex­ami­ners.

The fol­lo­wing points can be achie­ved:
2a): 0-7 points
2b): 0-5 points
2c): 0-3 points
2d): 0-5 points
3a): 0-5 points

The ent­ran­ce ex­ami­na­ti­on is de­cla­red "pas­sed" if can­di­da­tes achie­ve a mi­ni­mum of 13 points (a ma­xi­mum of 25 points is pos­si­ble) over­all.

Plea­se ap­p­ly on­line!

The ap­p­li­ca­ti­on dead­line is Oc­to­ber 1^st to No­vem­ber 20^th, 2025.

The Stu­dy and Ex­ami­na­ti­on Re­gu­la­ti­ons (SPO) set out the frame­work con­di­ti­ons and re­gu­la­ti­ons for your stu­dies. They ap­p­ly tog­e­ther with the Ge­ne­ral Re­gu­la­ti­ons (for Ba­che­lor's and Mas­ter's de­gree pro­gram­mes) or the SPoL (for tea­cher trai­ning de­gree pro­gram­mes). All ver­si­ons of the SPO for your de­gree pro­gram­me (in­clu­ding ear­lier ver­si­ons for stu­dents of pre­vious aca­de­mic ye­ars) can be found at Ex­ami­na­ti­ons.