Course

Low residency

Performance Practices is a master's course that follows a low residency format. This means that instead of having daily classes on location, you will meet with other students four times a year during residential periods that last three to five weeks. The location of each residential period can vary between Arnhem, which is the home base of the master's course, or abroad. During these periods, you'll have group sessions with other students, present your performances, and give feedback on your fellow students' performances.

It's important to note that because of the low residency format, you will need to travel to attend the residencies four times a year, and there will be additional costs for travel and accommodation. More information about the addictional costs can be found here.

Being away, coming back, meeting the same people and also having the responsibility of being there – my peers being there for me, and my teachers supporting this environment and this space, somehow helped me develop my research questions."

Individual studies and research

Between residential periods, you will work independently on your research projects with support from one-to-one tutorials, online group meetings, and peer review. You will design your own study programme by choosing different modules and attending conferences and research field trips. You can do all of this from your own country, home, or studio. Additionally, you have the option to do an Erasmus+ internship abroad at an institute, university, or artistic studio of your choice. Internationally, the master’s course Performance Practices has Erasmus agreements with, for example, HZT Berlin (SODA), Teak Helsinki, and Academy of Dramatic Arts Zagreb.

Want to learn more about the schedule, modules and the residential periods? Download the year schedule of the master’s course Performance Practices (pdf) or check out this video about research field trips.

The studio as a place for experiment and innovation

The master's course Performance Practices encourages you to experiment and transform knowledge through studio practice and practice-as-research. By combining theory with practice, you will learn to connect the studio to the outside world, using the studio as a starting point for new and innovative ideas. Collaboration is key, and you will work with both professionals and non-professionals, as well as with humans and non-humans, to create a more ecological and sustainable approach to your artistic practice.

Network of connections

During the course, you will interact with experienced lecturers and guest artists from around the world who will share their practices and provide critical insights. You work with fellow students to analyse texts, create performances and presentations, produce documentation and essays, and discuss ecological and social features of the system you operate in. By combining resources and working together, you'll have access to opportunities for growth and mobility that wouldn't be available if you were working alone.

Photographers: Fenia Kotsopoulou, Marije van der Berg | Makers and Performers: Alexandra Tsotanidou, Lucia Kramárová, Sophia Kondylia, Daniel Voorthuis, Taru Miettinen, Fernanda Gonzáles Morales, Maria-João Falcão, Penelope Morout, Mariela Nestora, Conrad Useldinger