Year 1 has an internally directed focus as students are guided by facilitators, lecturers, mentors and guest choreographers in developing their approach to the following:

• the potential trajectories and outcomes of artistic research
• taking a critical perspective on their own practices and disciplines with particular emphasis on the potential of co-creation
• testing potential questions, thinking creatively about modes of communication and generating movement based responses
• engaging with current theoretical, technological and design based perspectives
• entering into a productive discourse about their work

Year 2 has an externally directed focus where maker/choreographers test their acquired knowledge while developing creative and generative responses to alternative working contexts. At the end of the program the maker/choreographer will produce a final work that will be presented in a public context, this is supported by a thesis, exegesis, or exposition that documents their research process and places it within an appropriate theoretical or artistic context.

Year 2 highlights the following:

• the ability to engage in wider discourses
• gaining an enriched knowledge of contexts beyond their own discipline and the challenges, strategies and potential of creative work within those contexts
• developing a repertoire of individual creative strategies and the ability to reflect on and generate ‘choreography’ related to these strategies