B.M.PhD

Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University has incorporated Circus art education throughout the LMD system since 1995, and research in circus art since 2005. It is recognized today as a unique academic centre in Europe, among national and international reference points for circus.

CIRCUS TEACHING PROPOSED IN THE PROGRAM "THEATRE AND PERFORMING ARTS"

Academic Staff specialised in circus topics:

COURSES

BACHELOR THEATRE & PERFORMING ARTS
B 1st year

  • "Circus trades" (Seminars-24h)
  • "Discover and understand Circus" (Seminars-24h)
  • "Performance analysis" (Seminars-12h)
  • "Circus apparatus" (Workshop- 12h)

B 2nd year

  • "Circus history and aesthetics " (Lectures -24h)
  • Practice workshops (24h)
  • Internships
  • Supervised projects

RESEARCH MASTER'S IN THEATRE & PERFORMING ARTS

  • "Circus and Cinema" in the first year of the program (Lectures-13h)
  • Master's Degree thesis dedicated to circus arts in the first and second year of the program
  • Master's Degree thesis based on a personal circus creation in the first and second year of the program
  • Internships and related paper

MASTER'S PERFORMING ARTS

  • For circus artists
  • Master's Degree thesis dedicated to circus arts in the first and second year of the program
  • Master's Degree thesis based on a personal circus creation in the first and second year of the program
  • Internships

MASTER ARTISTIC DIRECTION OF EUROPEAN CULTURAL PROJECTS

  • "Circus arts today" in the second year of master DAPCE (Seminars-6h)
  • Accessible to students with a circus arts production training project

PhD. IN CIRCUS ARTS

  • within Ecole Doctorale 58 and Research Centre Rirra21 (EA 4209)
  • under supervision of Full Professors or Assistant professors specialised in circus studies of the teaching team
  • in co-direction (co- research directors from Montpellier 3 and another French university)
  • in joint supervision (research directors from Montpellier 3 and another university abroad)