The School for the Contemporary Arts SFU

The School for the Contemporary Arts SFU, where the faculty contributes to the research of international prominence, is home to most significant members who are working artists or artist-scholars. Most of the faculty are artists: choreographers and composers, filmmakers, lighting designers, and visual artists, as well as others who are directors, actors, and dramaturges. Their scholarly researches are primarily in the areas of art history and visual culture, cinema theory, and media (The School for the Contemporary Arts SFU, 2023). SCA studio is a unique interdisciplinary and intercultural dance program that is designed for the creative dance artists of our time. The course is for anyone interested in exploring creative and diverging approaches to contemporary composition and movement, as well as increasing their adaptability in refigure contemporary dance landscapes. SCA studio welcomes students who come from ‘classical’, ‘modern’, or ‘contemporary studio educations, and those with movement styles that are not part of these codified forms. But it introduces some courses that involve theoretical training, using a varied range of techniques and methods that are integrated into composition, improvisation, and collaborative practices. It also introduces some lecture courses that follow the same principle and introduce historical and aesthetic contexts for the critical thinking based on our concept of practice-as-research and ask students to think about those contexts with information from their own socio-cultural backgrounds and lived experiences. Additionally, the courses are based on collaboration, so they allow students to collaborate with other SCA disciplines, including Film, Music & Sound (including Theatre Performance), Theatre Production & Design (including Visual Art), and Art, Performance & Cinema Studies to develop new and exciting interdisciplinary projects (The School for the Contemporary Arts SFU, 2023).