Movement Direction MFA drafted

Program Overview

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Guildford School of Acting (GSA) is one of the UK’s leading accredited drama schools, providing dedicated conservatoire training within a purpose-built environment on the University of Surrey campus.

This programme is one of very few in this fast growing and impactful professional field and one which notably includes intimacy co-ordination.

This intensive course offers a range of approaches to the field of movement direction. Training will include contemporary approaches to movement teaching and coaching, which will equip you to work with performers across a diverse range of disciplines and confidently lead classes and rehearsal processes.

We keep our cohorts small to ensure you get personal attention and contact from our expert teachers, who have extensive first-hand experience in professional theatre in the UK and the US.

This is a practice-based interdisciplinary programme that will provide a unique opportunity for the research and development of specialist early career teachers and practitioners from backgrounds who may not otherwise enter the teaching and coaching profession.

The University of Surrey is home to the

National Resource Centre for Dance

which includes the personal archives of the prominent movement theorist Rudolf Laban as well as collections from companies, choreographers, dancers, teachers and other artists including the Bice Bellairs collection.

GSA operates a pedagogic approach that utilises student-centred learning. Every module has an ethos of nurturing and enabling employability and personal development opportunities for the students. Our working practices encourage dialogue and are most effective when a collaborative approach is undertaken. Our learning environment grants our students the freedom to take risks and to embrace spontaneity.

Program Outline

Academic year structure

The Guildford School of Acting (GSA) delivers its provision across three teaching blocks, within the University of Surrey’s existing semester structure.

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Modules

Modules listed are indicative, reflecting the information available at the time of publication. Please note that modules may be subject to teaching availability, student demand and/or class size caps.

The University operates a credit framework for all taught programmes based on a 15-credit tariff. Modules can be either 15, 30, 45, 75 and 120 credits, and additionally for some masters dissertations, 90 credits.

The structure of our programmes follows clear educational aims that are tailored to each programme. These are all outlined in the

programme specifications

which include further details such as the learning outcomes:

Movement Direction MFA

Full-time

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Year 1 (full-time)

Module title	Status	Semester
CHOREOGRAPHY	Compulsory	Year-long
MOVEMENT DIRECTION AND INTIMACY COORDINATION	Compulsory	Year-long
MOVEMENT PRACTICES AND PEDAGOGIES	Compulsory	Year-long

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Year 2 (full-time)

Module title	Status	Semester
ADVANCED PEDAGOGIES	Compulsory	Year-long
ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE	Compulsory	Year-long

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Timetable

GSA delivers its provision across three teaching blocks, within the University of Surrey’s existing semester structure.

Course timetables are normally available one month before the start of the semester. Please note that while we make every effort to ensure that timetables are as student-friendly as possible, scheduled teaching can take place on any day of the week (Monday - Friday). Wednesday afternoons are normally reserved for sports and cultural activities. Part-time classes are normally scheduled on one or two days per week, details of which can be obtained from the Academic Hive. View our

Code of practice for the scheduling of teaching and assessment

(PDF).

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Contact hours

Contact hours can vary across our modules. Full details of the contact hours for each module are available from the University of Surrey's module catalogue. See the

modules section

for more information.