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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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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 Showcase: Arts and Place
A selection of students on our Arts and Place master’s programme are showcasing their final projects at the Barn Cinema, Soundart Radio, in London and online.
Reading List: Arts and Ecology
We asked the programme team for our Arts and Ecology Master’s to put together a top ten list of books for anyone wishing to start exploring this topic in more detail.
New Arts & Ecology partners announced
We are very pleased to announce confirmation of three partners to help us deliver the new Arts and Ecology Master’s degree at Dartington Arts School starting in January 2022: Learning Planet, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Cyland.
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We're delighted to share that the brilliant @ensemblemoliere will be performing in The Great Hall at Dartington at 7:30pm Saturday 5 March. Their programme, ‘Réunion des goûts’, celebrates and explores the coming together of French and Italian musical styles.
The group, who recently featured on @bbcradio3's Early Music Show to celebrate Molière's quatercentenary, will also be returning to Dartington later this year to lead a course on chamber music at our Music Summer School & Festival.
Get your tickets for this joyous evening of live music on Saturday 5 March via the link in our bio via the "What's On" button!
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Come and spend the week with acclaimed ceramicist Dylan Bowen 20 - 25 March in the studio at Dartington!
This hands-on short course explores plate making and embellishment. You'll spend your mornings in the studio, and your afternoons finding inspiration from nature in Dartington's stunning Grade II listed gardens, working on designs and drawing to bring ideas into play for your own work. You'll work closely with Dylan to learn new techniques in a joyfully spontaneous spirit.
It will be a beautiful way to celebrate the fresh spring energy. Find out more and book your place via the “Short Courses” button found in the link in our profile, or at: dartington.org/shortcourses
@dylanbowenceramics @ceramicreview
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Join us for an inspiring evening talk with wonderful South Devon artist Anita Reynolds at Dartington, 8pm Thursday 3 February.
Surrounded by the wild moorland and dramatic coastline of the South West Peninsula, Anita's mark-making is both gestural and energetic, reflecting her total immersion in the landscape. Prepare to get your creative juices flowing!
Tickets available for "Earth Talk: Her Dark Materials" via the "What's On" button in our profile link.
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What a marvellously inspiring and spooky week we’ve had with the brilliant Mark Gatiss here at Dartington - Mark’s been teaching a short course on Ghost and Horror writing, and treating us to some of his favourite tales along the way.
In this video he’s reading an extract from M. R. James’ story, Casting the Runes - a little scary fun for your Friday... 👻
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