[Candrama] Call for applications: Graduate Programs in Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University

[Peter Dickinson]

PLEASE FORWARD TO INTERESTED APPLICANTS
Call for Applications: Graduate Programs in Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University
Are you a theatre or performance studies scholar who would like to pursue advanced research in an environment that provides historical and theoretical perspectives from across the fine and performing arts?
Are you a theatre artist who would like to further your practice in a university setting that encourages interdisciplinary research and experimentation?
If you answer YES to either of these questions, then consider applying to the graduate program of Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts<http://www.sfu.ca/sca.html>.
Application deadline: February 15, 2020; apply here<http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/future/application_process.html>.
Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts, situated in one of downtown Vancouver’s most dynamic and diverse neighbourhoods, offers a unique curriculum in which studio classes in dance, film, music/sound, theatre performance and production, and visual art are integrated with the historical and theoretical study of the arts. This meeting of creative practice with academic inquiry is a core value of the school and is enhanced by our attention to critical contemporary issues, as well as our commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration both within the classroom and beyond.
Graduate Programs
MA in Contemporary Arts
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
The Master of Arts in Contemporary Arts is a four-semester course-based program that encourages students to think across the arts through an intermedial framework. Students gain focused, interdisciplinary expertise in the arts by examining a chosen object of study (such as an artwork or movement) through theoretical and historical approaches derived from art history, cinema studies, performance studies, sound studies, and digital arts. The program’s strong practical focus includes funded research travel, editing the CMA Journal<http://www.sfu.ca/cmajournal.html>, arts internships, funding and support for curating, participating in the graduating symposium, and intensive professional preparation for publishing, public presentation, and job and grant applications. Our graduates work as curators, programmers, arts administrators, arts writers, and practicing artists. About a third of graduates go on to do PhDs in the fine and performing arts.
The Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts is a two-year cohort-based program that provides advanced, professional interdisciplinary training for artists working in and across the fields of dance, film, music/sound, theatre/performance, and visual art. The program develops students’ individual artistic practice, creativity, interdisciplinary research, technical skill and critical awareness of art's relationship to contemporary society. Several kinds of artist thrive in this program: those who have a strong background in a single discipline and value the stimulation of an interdisciplinary environment; those whose studio practice fuses two or more disciplines; and those who want to develop the theoretical or scholarly context of their practice. Students pursue original research through a combination of seminar and studio courses, culminating in a graduating artistic project supported by an essay and relevant documentation. Annual showcases of MFA work take place in SCA’s state-of-the art facilities, which include the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, the Audain Gallery, two fully equipped black box theatres, screening rooms, a film sound stage, dance studios, music rooms, visual art studios, and numerous computer-based editing and composing suites for film, video, and electro-acoustic music.
With its intimate scale, interdisciplinary design, and faculty of international reputation, the School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU provides a rich environment for both scholars and practitioners of the fine and performing arts to immerse themselves in creative experimentation.
For more information on each program and how to apply, visit here: http://www.sfu.ca/sca/future-students/graduate.html.
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Peter Dickinson, PhD
Professor and Graduate Chair
School for the Contemporary Arts | SFU
Director, Institute for Performance Studies | SFU
T:  604-908-0993
W: http://www.sfu.ca/~ped

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