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We offer pathways to learning to suit all needs – including part time routes, ‘build-your-own’ modules, and blended learning
postgraduate programmes
Reimagining Performance Practice
Reimagining Performance Practice is an integrative, transdisciplinary programme for performers, and anyone working in the field of performance, who are determined to reimagine performance and performative public engagement for the coming decades.
Poetics of Imagination
Explore story and culture, examining how we have conjured stories from the earliest times to the present day. The course is centred around oral telling and opens to a broader spectrum of arts, examining the work of ancient to contemporary storytellers, writers and artists.
Cultural Production
What does it really mean to create, curate and manage cultural organisations and arts projects? This programme is designed to help you build and enhance your production, managerial, administrative, fundraising and creative curatorial skills, to survive in the contemporary arts sector.
Arts and Ecology
This is the most decisive decade in human history and unlike previous highly significant periods in history, we are fully aware of how pivotal these few years are to our species and the planet as human habitat. Arts and Ecology is a low residency master’s degree that asks how the whole of our humanity can be brought to this urgent conversation.
Arts and Place
Open to practitioners and curators working in any art form including performance, writing, soundart, moving image, photography, digital art and fine art, this course puts particular emphasis on collaborative practice in response to an expanded understanding of place, via a unique residency-based programme.
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why join us?
our venue
Dartington has a range of dance, theatre, music and art studios and a wealth of outdoor learning spaces including woods, farmland, the river Dart, the medieval deer park, food growing and landscaped gardens.
our faculty
Dartington Arts School has a rich interdisciplinary learning community of staff and students working with a passion to be change-agents for a sustainable future.
our programmes
Our low residency, innovative programmes offer you a learning experience rich in intellectual and creative exploration, with a flexibility that suits the complexities of modern life.
latest news & blogs
Student Stories: Navigating New Horizons with Emma Yorke
In the spirit of our MA Arts & Place, Emma Yorke reports on her trip to the international ‘Textures of Emotions: Storytelling and Textiles’ Conference in Athens.
Jason Singh’s sound installation launches in our Gallery
The ancient yew tree here takes centre stage in a new audio work by our artist-in-residence Jason Singh, open to the public until 15 September.
Student stories: Rosie May Jones is Landless in Oxford
Our current MA Arts and Place student Rosie May Jones reports on her creative residency at Ovada gallery in Oxford, through which she has developed her practice in response to issues of land ownership in the local area.
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This week on Arts & Ecology podcast, Mike and Natasha Rivett-Carnac discuss the Arts & Ecology MA at Dartington Arts School and you get a chance to hear from our students to get a sense of what it’s like to be a part of this exciting new programme.
Our Arts & Ecology MA is an opportunity to explore the ways in which your practice intersects with the climate crisis, how you can make an impact, and the many ways in which your practice is connected to the more-than-human world. It’s also an incredible chance to meet practitioners across a range of disciplines, as this course takes a non-siloed approach to learning. We are incredibly fortunate at Dartington to be able to use our senses to learn about our work as well so students get to experience the estate in new ways and feed their discoveries into their practice. Our MA is low-residency and that means that we work intensively together during the time that students are with us on campus. We grow a community that helps nurture your curiosities, take you to new heights in your practice, and re-examine those tools which perhaps are no longer working so well. If you’re interested in joining us next year, check out the website - Link in Bio.
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Outrage + Optimism
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Arts and Ecology is a brand new podcast about the vital role art and culture play in creating a regenerative future. It is co-hosted by @natasharivettcarnac, Curator of our MA Arts & Ecology programme and Dr. Mike Edwards, Senior Lecturer of Arts & Ecology.
This season we ask authors, curators, and artists one question: What is the artists’ role during an ecological crisis?
In this week's episode, we interview Jay Griffiths. Jay is the award-winning author of six critically acclaimed books, including her latest book, Nemesis: My Friend. In this interview, Jay and Natasha discuss her book Wild. Wild took seven years to research and write. It is an evocation of the songlines of the earth, the result of long journeys among indigenous cultures, including staying with Amazonian shamans and Inuit people, visiting sea gypsies and staying with the freedom fighters of West Papua. It explores the words and meanings which shape ideas of wildness, arguing that wildness is intrinsic to the health of the human spirit.
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Our MA Arts and Place students are now off around the country on creative residencies in urban and rural environments. In this latest blog post, we hear from student Rosie May Jones who has spent time at @ovada_gallery in Oxford, developing a theme in her work responding to issues of land ownership, and performing some of it at Oxford Poetry Library. Read more from Rosie, and watch videos of her reading from her new work via the blog link in our biog.
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Highlights from a recent trip to South London for some our students in residence at @delfinafdn. Here they are taking in work by @nangoldinstudio and @gray_wielebinski at @boldtendencies / @frankspeckham.
Images: Viviana Checchia / Delfina Foundation
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