Modules

Our course structure, teaching and professional-standard facilities provide you with time and space to develop physical, technical and critical capabilities. On this dance degree, you'll receive a thorough grounding in dance techniques and develop your own innovative performance and choreographic practice. There will be collaboration and cross-disciplinary working opportunities and chances to connect with wider communities from the dance industry. This dance and choreography degree will enable you to explore your own interests in dance and prepare you to make creative contributions to a range of professional arts contexts within which dance plays a vital role. We think about dance and choreography 'outside the box’, with opportunities to explore site-specific and digital creation as well as studio-based work. Our students frequently work on projects with other students in our Fashion & Textiles Institute, School of Film & Television and on student-led activities including drawing/painting collaborations. Many students also take part in or lead societies across musical theatre, dance and sport.

Year one
Your first year provides a solid grounding in the skills and techniques used in dance performance and choreography. Modules provide you with a focused, physically-centred experience. In addition to regular body-work classes during which there is a focus on grounding a safe and sustainable dance practice, you are encouraged to explore and challenge your ideas of performance and choreography through studio practice (individual and group work), lectures and seminars. Your bodywork classes include contemporary dance and a range of supporting styles and approaches, such as Pilates, yoga, flow, ballet and, improvisation.

Year one also provides the opportunity to engage with site-based dance in a variety of settings and locations, and to develop strategies for making connections between practice and theory in preparation for year two.

Modules
Contemporary Techniques & Improvisation 1
Performance & Choreographic Practices
Embodied Learning: Theories & Practices
Contemporary Techniques & Improvisation 2
Dance Cultures, Histories & Practices
Site-Based Practices

Year two
Your second year involves directed, supervised and self-generated dance and performance projects. Building on the intensive physical training in your first year, you will continue to develop your technical and skills training through applied techniques, while developing your knowledge and experiences in choreography and performance and its cross-disciplinary contexts.

You will attend to your potential as a change-maker and contributor to the wider field of dance and engaged practices through considerations of your sustainable dance future. You will also develop your writing skills through critical evaluation of social, historical and/or political dance contexts.

Modules
Applied Techniques 1
Performance & Choreographic Skills
Dance Futures
Applied Techniques 2
Researching Dance: Theories & Contexts
Cross-Disciplinary Practices

Year three
You'll undertake two major research projects (including practical and written work) both of which focus on your chosen areas of interest. Throughout the year, you'll advance your physical training and creative, choreographic skills. This culminates in a professional practice project, in which you'll collaborate to produce, market, choreograph and perform an original work for public performance, mirroring professional practice.

Modules
Advanced Technique 1
Independent Research Project
Advanced Technique 2
Professional Practice Project

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Assessment methods

Assessments for this course are 100% coursework and performance-based, with no exams.

Students are assessed either through class observations, individual submissions, solo or ensemble performances, or written submissions/essays.

When work is being viewed within an ensemble performance, tutors assess your personal demonstration of the skills outlined in the learning outcomes, and you are given an individual mark.