Choreography
Learn about our programme’s activities, content of studies, current events and latest publications.

Learn about our programme’s activities, content of studies, current events and latest publications.
The Choreography Degree Programme is an active contributor to the field of choreography. We promote the development of the artistic field, mutual and intercultural understanding and strengthening of the independence of dance art, and cooperation with other art forms.
As the biggest institution for artist education in Finland, Uniarts Helsinki advocates for establishing sustainable structures and a wellbeing-centred working culture in the arts sector.
Read about the studies of choreography in Theatre Academy.
Develop into an artist with a personal voice while interacting with the society and its changing views of art.
Studies in the masters programme in choreography include four different artistic projects that each focus on different approaches or aspects of choreography.
The studies of choreography process the history and theory of dance art through perspectives and development stages that are important to contemporary choreography.
Take advantage of the Open University’s high-quality instruction in music, fine arts, theatre and dance at the University of the Arts Helsinki.
Visiting teachers, artists and lecturers of the Degree Programme in Choreography.
Tuition fees at Uniarts Helsinki are applicable to students who study in English and who are not citizens of EU, EEA, or Switzerland.
MA programme is initiating and facilitating theme based courses and seminars that handle current societal, ecological and artistic issues. The studies provide opportunities for multi- and transdisciplinary views, practice-based research and networking. In addition to field trips, exchange studies and international visiting teachers, the programme itself is constantly cultivated by international advising and peer support. Professor Kirsi Monni visits regularly other art universities, and is asked to act as an external evaluator and peer reviewer in study, research and recruitment matters.
The Nordic network platform supports the development of artist pedagogy in the field of choreography.
The series’ visiting lecturers tackle the question of futures of artistic work from multiple perspectives.
The collaborative and multidisciplinary course between Theatre Academy and Aalto University has been organised since 1994.
Graduating student Karoliina Loimaala wrote about her exchange experience in Brazil.
The first doctoral dissertation from Theatre Academy was published in 2001. MA programme in choreography has a strongly research oriented approach to choreography, that gives the student good readiness for postgraduate studies. The programme collaborates with the Performing Arts Research Center TUTKE. It is also a crucial agent in Theatre Academy’s publication series Kinesis, that focuses on research on dance.
In the research, the notion of choreography operates simultaneously as an analytical device, a problem to be examined, and an artistic outcome. Read the dissertation online.
Browse the artistic research dissertations on Acta Scenica’s homepage.
Browse the Kinesis publications on dance art.
Read the programme’s latest newsletter
Read the MA thesis’ in Helda service.
Browse all the open access lectures by Uniarts Helsinki.