Symposium 3rd Cycle Programmes in the Arts: realities and practices

Published on April 19, 2016

On Saturday May 21st the Graduate School organises a symposium on 3rd Cycle Programmes in the Arts: realities and practices. With the newly founded Graduate School of de Theaterschool, the involved master programmes and research group have formulated the ambition to expand their research education and establish a sustainable 3rd Cycle programme in Amsterdam - specifically devised for internationally operating and locally rooted practitioners in the performing arts.

This one-day-symposium serves as the kick off of our initiative, it is an opportunity to bring together colleagues and alumni who are working on 3rd Cycle programmes or are PhD candidates themselves. We are eager to learn from each other, compare notes, share experiences and reflect critically on a variety of models and motivations.

Particular practices
During one day we will bring together a group of max. 60 interested peers, next to colleagues and alumni who are working on 3rd Cycle programmes or are PhD candidates themselves. In two intense sessions we will present a number of concrete individual and institutional examples, compare notes, share experiences and reflect critically on the different models and motivations at hand.

The first session is dedicated to artists and alumni of DasArts and the Master of Choreography that are currently enrolled in international PhD programmes or have already finished. What are their motives to pursue advanced research in the field of the performing arts? How does the 3rd Cycle add to their practice and how do they practice their research? The second session however will focus on representatives from three different programmes in Europe in the field of the arts and performing arts. What are the motivations and aims of these programmes? What distinguishes their so called practice-led degrees from exclusively historical or theoretical investigations of the arts? How do they function in terms of selection, structure, research conditions, writing and evaluation and assessment?

The event ends with constructive feedback by invited ‘observers’, discussion and recommendations by all involved.

Programme Saturday May 21st, 2016 at GrootLab

9.30 doors open

10.00-10.30 welcome, introduction, situating the event
10.30-12.30 three case-study-presentations (3x20 min), followed by roundtable discussion

Martin Nachbar (choreographer, PhD candidate, associated with the postgraduate programme ‘Assemblies and Participation’, Hamburg)
Julian Klein (director, composer, PhD, founder of the Institute for Artistic Research, Berlin)
Paz Rojo (choreographer, PhD candidate, Stockholm University of the Arts)

lunch

14.00-16.00 three case-study-presentations (3x20 min), followed by roundtable discussion

Eyal Sivan (lecturer Master Film, National Film Academy, Exeter University)
Camilla Damkjaer (head of Research Education Stockholm University of the Arts, member of the Swedish Research Council)
Katrien Vuylsteke Vanfleteren (head of Research Office, School of Arts KASK & Conservatorium, University College Ghent)

16.30-17.30 reflections by Henk Borgdorff (professor at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden), and and Bojana Mladenovic (artistic director SNDO, recommendations for THIRD!

INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION UNTIL MAY 15: sanne.kersten@ahk.nl

Graduate School / THIRD
Overhoeksplein 2 - Amsterdam
+31 (0)20-5277747

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