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Until recently, the performing arts did not have much presence in the university and research around this object of study was concentrated mainly in Anglo-Saxon countries or was conducted exclusively by academics trained in other disciplines. The scarce higher education in this area, with few honorable exceptions, focused on the production of performers or creators with great technical capacity.
These teaching objectives are not enough today because the development of a society based on technology, information and knowledge management requires a multidimensional professional, capable of interpreting a constantly changing reality from various perspectives and applying their informed vision of the world to the processes of creation, interpretation or cultural entrepreneurship. These characteristics are acquired through specialized postgraduate training and are the objective of the academic proposal of the Master's Degree in Performing Arts.
The degree is aimed both at stage professionals, creators, performers or artistic education teachers who want to reflect from within on the inherent phenomena of their disciplines, as well as at communicators, art historians, and researchers interested in this object of study.
With a mixed orientation, the official degree offers access to the doctorate and proposes two main graduate profiles: that of the researcher and that of the professional who wants to complete and deepen their previous training. In this sense, and in order to expand job opportunities and the insertion of the graduate in the business fabric of the Cultural and Creative Industries, subjects of New Technologies or Management and production of stage projects and shows are offered, in addition to Psychology, Music or Communication.
Creators who investigate and researchers who create
On the other hand, emphasis is placed on the construction of a researcher-creator profile that is the ideal of the contemporary artist. This effort is the result of a paradigm shift in art education more focused on the production of knowledge and the integration of theory and practice. Its consequence is a master's degree that promotes performative research projects or those of artistic creation built around reflection arising both from the conceptual and from the knowledge of the body.
The students will find a degree in which the subject of Philosophy proposes, through scenic practices, to use the body in movement as a tool for critical thinking, while Dance and Theatre: Rites, Festivals and Shows examines the anthropological and sociological dimension of that same body. Subjects such as Performance Studies and Scenic Languages in their Historical Context address the performing arts from a transversal perspective and the fusion with other disciplines such as the visual arts.
Distinguished graduates
During the 16 years of the master's degree, there are many graduates who are already part of the professional world of performing arts. In addition, international figures such as the dancer and director of the English National Ballet, Tamara Rojo; the dancer and choreographer María Pagés, a benchmark in flamenco dance, and Eva López Crevillén, director of the Superior Dance Conservatory of Madrid, among many other outstanding artists, have completed this degree.