Master Programme New Performative Practices

You apply to the programme with your artistic practice and a plan for its presentation. Your background can be as a performer – dancer, choreographer or circus artist – or as an artist with another professional relationship to performance practices.

The base of the programme is your artistic practice and all courses are related to and studied through that. The education consists of two years of in-depth studies with compulsory and optional courses. The course contents may be influenced by the questions and concerns inspired by your practice and plan for presentation. At the programme you discuss your own practice in relation to others' and formulate you own artistic method for its presentation.

In addition, your practice is put into relation with theory, construction of aesthetics, and philosophy. Several of the programme's courses are offered as freestanding courses, which adds to the critical mass for discussion and reflection. To guarantee a top-level education, the programme cooperates with other seats of learning and artistic fora, nationally and internationally.

You may arrive at an articulation of your own artistic practice during the NPP education by pursuing a single project over the two years of your studies. It’s also possible to include your current artistic process as part of your studies, or to arrive at a final project by following through and keeping track of what accumulates and becomes evident to you as essential to your artistic work during the education.

Physical, live-performance practices are studied for the development of relationships to audience, perceptions of the performer's role in society, and a critical, ethically viable relationship to the continuous unfolding of live performance. Personal history, ethnographic studies and classical academic enquiries are all supported and encouraged by the program. The individual artist's development of a personally sustainable practice is studied in dynamic relation to society's demands, understanding and respect for artistic practice.

As an NPP student you study what constitutes your artistic practice, how that practice relates to concurrent practices in your artistic field, the boundaries of your knowledge and what conditions you need to sustain your artistic practice. The course invites participants into contexts that recognize the history of knowledge in choreography and performance as well as into contexts that support the constructive questioning of conventions.

If you have questions regarding the content of the programme, please contact: Tove Salmgren, Assistant Professor of Choreography in Performative Practices and Head of the Master Programme New Performative Practices.

If you have questions regarding the entry requirements, application process, tuition fees and/or scholarships, please contact the Education Administration Department vi e-mail studieinfo@uniarts.se.

General entry requirements for programme studies at the second-cycle level in higher education or equivalent,

and

Specific entry requirements

• At least five years of professional experience of artistic activities
• English 5 and 6 or the equivalent

Eligibility through prior learning

If you don’t fulfil the formal entry requirements for the programme you may apply for recognition of prior learning, in other words that the knowledge and competence you have acquired through other activities are assessed as the equivalent of the formal merits that are required. Submit your application for recognition of prior learning with your application for the programme. Submit at universityadmissions.se under My pages/Documents/Documents/Provide educational documents. 

You may also apply for an exemption/a waiver, that allows you to proceed to the selection process even though you don’t meet the general admission requirements. Submit your application for an exemption/a waiver together with your application.

Read more about how you can show that you meet the entry requirements (that you are eligible).

Read more about recognition of prior learning.

Start your application early

Don’t delay in submitting your application! You may run into trouble if you wait until the last day and your internet connection happens to be down, or you find that your files are in the wrong format. You will not be able to apply once the last date for applications has passed. Keep in mind that your application has to be turned in by 23:59 (Swedish time).

You apply to the programme in two steps

1. Apply to the programme via universityadmissions.se.
Last day for application: 15 January 2025.
Please note! Choose “Autumn 2025” for your search!

Submit supporting documents via universityadmissions.se
Please note that you need to submit supporting documents showing that you meet the entry requirements via universityadmissions.se under My pages/Documents/Upload documents.
Last day to submit supporting documentation: 3 February 2025.

For the specific entry requirement of at least 5 years of professional experience of artistic activities, please upload documents to verify the requirements. You can upload copies of contracts, copies of reviews from print publications, links to online publications, copies of signed affidavits from colleagues, collaborators, presenters and/or directors etc. They must be signed and dated and your name and date of birth must be entered on all documents.

2. Submit your work samples via Varbi (accordning to instructions below).
Last day to submit work sample via Varbi: 15 January 2025.

Important dates for your application

- Last day for applications: 15 January 2025
Please note! Choose “Autumn 2025” if you search for the programme at universityadmissions.se.

- Last day to submit supporting documentation for entry requirements: 3 February 2025. Please note that SKH's date is an earlier date than the general date communicated on universityadmission.se. But, some documents you can submit later.*

- Last day to pay the application fee or prove that you are not required to pay the fees: 3 February 2025 (read more under Application and tuition fees below). Submit passport/identification card on universityadmissions.se – My Pages – Documents.

- Admission results: Published on My pages on universityadmissions.se 27 March 2025.

- Last day to reply to possible programme offer: 9 April 2025.

* 5 July is deadline for you who need to submit proficiency test in English or Swedish.
Deadline for Diploma of Bachelor’s Degree and transcript of records for you who are currently studying the last term of your Bachelor’s Programme, is by the time for registration.

Instructions for work samples

You need to submit the following work samples via Varbi in order to be part of the selection to this education. For some programmes the work samples can also be part of the entry requirements. Only files uploaded in the current admission round can be considered for selection. 

If you have used AI tools/AI techniques to produce or process video, image, audio or text in any of your artistic works or submitted work samples, we expect you to disclose and describe your use and production process. 

Before uploading your documents, they must be prepared

• You must scan your original documents. If the document is in colour, scan it in colour.
• All documents must be in PDF-format.
• Please name the document/file with content and your name for example: CV_ first name_ family name

Send in the following via Varbi

1. Your CV

Your CV with a description of your education and professional experience in chronological order. To meet the eligibility requirement of at least 5 years of professional artistic experience, you will need to upload supporting documents, such as certificates from employers, or others with whom you have worked, programme notes, reviews or similar. Proof of a total of 5 years of work experience is sufficient. The CV must be written in English.

2. Biography/Relevant professional experience

Upload a description of relevant professional experience in line with your expectations of the programme, in English. Maximum 500 words.

3. A letter of motivation

Answer the following questions:

• Why are you applying for this programme?
• What expectations do you have on the studies?

The letter must be written in English. Sign with name and date of birth. Maximum 500 words.

4. A statement on your artistic field

Upload an account of how you currently identify and experience your artistic field. The statement must be written in English. Maximum 1000 words.

5. A proposal for presenting your artistic practice

Upload a proposal for a presentation of your artistic practice. The proposal must be written in English. Sign with name and date of birth. Maximum 1000 words.

6. A film of your previous work (maximum length 10 min and 150 MB, format mov, mp4 or avi)

Upload a video to a previous job in a maximum of 10 minutes (max 150 MB). You may need to resize the video before uploading it.

Read more here about how to convert your film

Proceed as follows to upload work samples via Varbi:

• Register by providing name and e-mail address.
• Fill in your contact information.
• Please note! Fill in the application number you received when submitting your application to the course via universityadmissions.se.
• Submit the requested documents/files.
• Please name the document/file with content and your name for example: CV_ first name_ family name

Confirmation that you have submitted your work samples via Varbi

When you've submitted your work samples you will receive a confirmation to the e-mail address that you’ve stated. If you don’t receive a confirmation e-mail, you should first check your spam filter. If the confirmation e-mail is not there, contact Varbi's technical support.

E-mail: support@varbi.com 
Phone: +46 520 580 050 (weekdays 08:30–12:00 and 13:00–16:30).

The assessment of eligibility and the selection take place in several stages.

The assessment of formal merits/grades is carried out by the Swedish Council for Higher Education. The assessment of artistic qualifications will be made by an admissions group consisting of teachers and professionals from the fields of choreography and performance practices. A student representative will also participate in the admissions group, but will not take part in the assessment.

All applicants who are eligible for the programme will proceed to the selection process.

Here you will find detailed information about the selection process

If you are a citizen of Sweden, another EU or EEA country or or Switzerland you are not required to pay application or tuition fees. Some other groups are also exempt from the requirement to pay application and study fees.

If you are not a citizen of Sweden, another EU or EEA country or or Switzerland you are required to pay application and tuition fees. The level of the study fees depends on which course/programme they are for, and the level is set in order to cover the actual costs of the course/programme in question. SKH has some possibilities of offering scholarships that cover the study fees for Bachelor´s and Master´s programmes.

If you are required to pay an application fee, the Swedish Council for Higher Education needs to receive your payment by the last date for paying the application fee. The application fee is SEK 900. If you are required to pay the application fee and the Swedish Council for Higher Education has not received your payment by the last date for paying the tuition fee, they will not process your application. Read more here.

The tuition fee for the Master’s Programme New Performative Practices starting in the autumn of 2025 is SEK 189,500 for the first semester and SEK 758,000 for the programme as a whole.

Note! For the Master’s Programme New Performative Practices it's possible to apply for the Swedish Institute scholarship. Read more ablut the Swedish Institute scholarship.

Scholarships to Cover the Tuition Fee

If you are obliged to pay a tuition fee you can apply for a scholarship which covers the tuition fee. The scholarship does not cover any private costs during your studies. Please note that you still need to pay an application fee (900 SEK). The application fee is non-refundable.

Read more about tuition fees and scholarships.