Master’s Degree Programme in Performing Arts

Practical artistic work is essential in the master's programme and emphasis is placed on creativity and innovation. As a student, you will acquire knowledge through lessons, supervision and independent study. Your self-defined master's project is the axis of the programme around which everything else revolves. By specialising in this, you will gain a solid foundation for developing a personal artistic expression and profile and the ability for independence and professional reflection.

Our three different subject areas give us the opportunity to operate across artistic expressions in dance and music. This is reflected in both working methods and the structure of courses. You will meet fellow students in the Master's Forum where you present to each other and receive impulses from outside via guest lecturers. You will also work on joint artistic processes in Multi-Artistic Lab. Furthermore there are opportunities for joint performance and community outreach projects in collaboration with external partners or as a student-driven activity.

But first and foremost, you will experience a discipline-based professional concentration in the programme. In addition to providing supervision by its own academic community, the faculty also facilitates meetings with Norwegian and foreign guest teachers through projects, master classes, courses, seminars and lectures.

We also emphasise that you should be able to practice reflecting on and articulate how your art practice and creation relates to society as a whole, how art engages in dialogue with current cross-cultural issues and currents in society, and what role art can address general societal challenges.