The MAPD programme is designed for graduates with a bachelor degree in the arts (performing arts, design, art and technology) and professionals working in the wide field of performance who are ready to explore the boundaries of theatre.
In MAPD you make performances, experiences and events. MAPD prepares you to design, produce and manage performance design processes in context. You are involved in intensive teamwork with artists from different backgrounds. With your colleague students you look for new forms and expressions for various audiences, engaging with a variety of contexts such as media, culture, science, health, agriculture.
MAPD is unique in combining expertise from contemporary theatre with scenography, applied theatre game design and arts management. In the course you deepen your artistic practice through the study of contemporary dramaturgies (site-specific theatre, community arts, theatre and education, and interaction and game design) and creativity theory. In our Medialab you use technology and new media as means to investigate principles of interaction and intervention. You strengthen your practice with courses in entrepreneurship where you design a business profile which suits your artistic aims. In MAP-D you develop a clear vision on the relationship between the arts and society today.
We offer you an inspiring learning environment in and outside our school. Our coaches are artists and researchers from various discipline backgrounds working in arts practice themselves. You will work in the studios of HKU and its theatre partners in Utrecht as well as on various locations in the city of Utrecht and in the public space. MAPD works closely together with theatres, festivals, cultural and commercial partners and other artschools in the Netherlands and abroad.
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The programme prepares you particularly for self-sustaining independent initiatives and companies that are able to design and adapt their organisational and financial models to their artistic needs. When graduated, you will produce work in a diversity of creative contexts all over the world. Markets include: professional and amateur theatres, production houses, arts festivals, community-places, the public space, and organizations in and on the edges of several other domains such as: media, education, science, health, agriculture, business/ industries, and politics. In the MAP-D course you will strengthen your creative and business aspects and extend your working relationships and networks. You learn how to create demand for your work.
The Master of Arts in Performance Design is validated by the Open University (OUVS) in the UK and therefore will meet the British academic standards.
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Upon successful completion of the Master's programme, you will receive the Master of Arts in Performance Design degree. The Open University, which will also award the diploma, accredits the course. This means that the Master of Arts in Performance Design offers an international university MA degree.
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For more information about this new course, please send an email to Mrs Maud Lazaroms (maud.lazaroms@theater.hku.nl)
Mrs Thera Jonker (thera.jonker@theater.hku.nl).
Master of Arts in Performance Design has been validated by The Open University.