Mas­ter of Con­tem­pora­ry Dance Edu­ca­ti­on - MA CoDE

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Dance in Trans­fer: The Eng­lish-lan­guage Mas­ter Con­tem­pora­ry Dance Edu­ca­ti­on (MA CoDE) is ai­med at ex­pe­ri­en­ced dan­cers, per­for­mers, and cho­reo­graph­ers who want to ex­plo­re the foun­da­ti­ons of their work in the con­text of a con­tem­pora­ry dance edu­ca­ti­on. The goal of the trai­ning? To ex­pand dance pe­dago­gi­cal fields of work in a for­ward-loo­king way and to build an alum­ni net­work to make me­dia­ti­on strong in the pro­fes­sio­nal field.

Com­pa­ra­ti­ve me­tho­do­lo­gy in con­tem­pora­ry dance

With this pro­gram, the HfMDK re­sponds to gro­wing de­mands and cur­rent ar­tis­tic and pe­dago­gi­cal de­ve­lop­ments in the pro­fes­sio­nal field and opens up new per­spec­tives for stu­dents in the me­dia­ti­on and in­sti­tu­tio­na­li­za­ti­on of dance.

The pro­gram is con­cei­ved by a team un­der the di­rec­tion of Prof. Ingo Diehl and is de­si­gned to be both theo­re­ti­cal and prac­ti­cal: MA CoDE fo­cu­ses on the in­di­vi­du­al in­te­rests of the stu­dents, sup­ports them in working the­se out, and fol­lows the hig­hest stan­dards both ar­tis­ti­cal­ly and aca­de­mi­cal­ly. Em­pha­sis is pla­ced on a com­pa­ra­ti­ve me­tho­do­lo­gy in con­tem­pora­ry dance, on the ana­ly­sis of group pro­ces­ses, on re­flec­tion, com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on and in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry col­la­bo­ra­ti­on.

Con­tac­ts, pro­jec­ts, im­pul­ses

Stu­dents de­ve­lop a new ba­sis for their work and the tools for con­cre­te col­la­bo­ra­ti­ons in the pro­fes­sio­nal field. To this end, they ex­pe­ri­ence from day one what makes a net­wor­ked cour­se of stu­dy like the MA CoDE: con­tac­ts, pro­jec­ts, dis­cour­se, im­pul­ses. Firm­ly roo­ted in the arts, they be­co­me part of a li­vely, crea­ti­ve pro­fes­sio­nal com­mu­ni­ty.

The re­fe­rence to prac­tice is al­ways cen­tral - in clo­se coope­ra­ti­on with in­ter­na­tio­nal part­ners and in as­so­cia­ti­on with the Hes­si­an Thea­ter Aca­de­my, we im­ple­ment di­ver­se pro­jec­ts and me­dia­ti­on for­mats in the pro­fes­sio­nal field.

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The new application phase starts at October 01st, 2025!

Application Deadline: November 20th, 2025

Begin of studies: April 2026

Audition by invitation: January 16th & 17th in Frankfurt

January 31st in Helsinki

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Susanne Triebel

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Prof. Ingo Diehl

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