As part of the syllabus course, we created a summer school. Teaching and learning methods of curating as a relevant critical practice in performing arts were tested, developed, and later included in the course syllabus.
This course syllabus is designed to work with a broadened perspective on curatorial and contextual practices in performing arts and relates to sociopolitical, economic and cultural contexts. Also, it analyses the context in which art is produced and highlights curatorial questions in dialogue with contemporary issues such as democracy, gender, feminism, ecology and human rights.
Furthermore, tools for critical and ethical reflection on curation are introduced; to produce, advocate and initiate different models to present and articulate art within a specific context.
The Master of Arts programme: Performance in Context at the Academy of Dramatic Arts University of Zagreb is a two-year full-time study programme, 120 credits, which leads to an MA in Dramaturgy or an MA in Choreography, depending on the student's preferred orientation. The education gives the candidate knowledge, expertise and competence in accordance with the The Croatian Qualifications Framework Act. The study programme is practice and research-based. The candidate has access to relevant and qualified supervision in dialogue with a community of peers and colleagues operating according to international standards.
Artistic practice is at the core of the program, it leans onto and helps develop and support the student's artistic work and interests, provides wider contextual knowledge of contemporary performing arts together with the conditions of its production, provides a hand-on experience and nurtures an active engagement with the concrete cultural context in which the students live and work, with special attention to issues of human rights, ecology and social care through collaboration with the civil society locally.