Dance (MA) | Master's degree | Art & Design | On Campus | York University | Canada

The MA in Dance at York University is a five-term program offering the study of dance through historical and ethnographic research, critical writing, movement analysis and reconstruction. Established in 1976 the York MA, Canada’s first, was one of the first research-based dance graduate programs in the world. In thirty years it has produced 176 graduates who work as archivists, librarians, curators, choreographers, film producers, arts administrators, writers, critics and editors. The majority teach, at all age and skill levels, in a variety of settings. Many now hold doctorates, and 32% teach or have taught in universities and colleges in Canada, England, the United States, Trinidad and Taiwan. A dozen alumni are artistic directors of companies and collectives that regularly present traditional and contemporary performance as well as educational programming; even more have careers as independent artists.