Dartington College of Arts was a specialist arts institution near Totnes, Devon, South West England, it specialized in post-dramatic theatre, music, choreography, Performance Writing and visual performance, focusing on a performative and multi-disciplinary approach to the arts. In addition to this, lecturing staff were all in some way active arts practitioners. The college held an international reputation for excellence, and aimed to promote a critical self-awareness in contemporary arts practice, and as such was firmly entrenched in post-modernism.
The college was founded in 1961 having evolved as part of the original Dartington Hall experiment in rural regeneration. Academic degrees were validated in partnership with the University of Plymouth.
Dartington College of Arts merged into the University College Falmouth on 6 April 2008, relocating to Falmouth, Cornwall in 2010.
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