*This graduate program is not accepting new registrants this year.

Master of Arts Program

The Master of Arts in Dance is a three-term program offering the study of dance through historical research, critical writing, ethnography, and movement analysis. Graduates from the program can use their degrees towards admission to a doctoral program in dance; be involved immediately in teaching, writing, research, dance curatorship; and work in libraries, archives, museums, dance companies, and art councils and organizations.

Master of Fine Arts Program

The MFA in Dance Program: ‘Choreography Collaboration | Creation’ reflects the way many contemporary artists are working. This student-centred, experiential, intensive five-term program requires program participants to form collaborative teams with other graduate students from a wide range of disciplines and diverse skill sets, successfully creating, producing and presenting their own work. Through a series of critical skill courses taken during their first three terms, the program provides students with the theoretical and technical knowledge necessary to create multidisciplinary performance art. Then, guided through the creation process by our experienced faculty, the collaborative team’s work is presented to the public. The student’s research and creative process is self-examined and contextualized through an extended research essay (thesis). Finally, an oral examination focused equally on the thesis and related collaborative project completes their research/creation journey.