Dance Practice and Performance

It all starts here. Develop your dance practice and performance skills by approaching them as research processes on this practice-research based programme.

Skills

Get the skills needed for an exciting and fulfilling career.

You will gain skills around:

• approaching performance as a critical practice
• the complex contextual relationships that exist in making and performing dances
• your role as a collaborator in performance-making as one of agency and empowerment in a supportive environment.

Learning

A course built around you.

Using a framework of philosophical and aesthetic inquiry, the programme offers:

• a unique perspective to explore the concepts, assumptions and theories which underpin and inform dance practice and discourse.
• encounters with performance, devising dance and learning dance repertory
• access to the full range of optional modules which are offered to all our postgraduate students

The School is home to the internationally recognised Centre for Research in Arts and Creative Exchange, which gives students rich opportunities to investigate a broad range of cultural, artistic and embodied inquiry. These activities are positioned as critical, scholarly, embodied and creative in order to equip students for original and independent approaches to dance performance.

Careers

An exciting career awaits.

The knowledge and skills gained from the programme will support careers which involve performance, choreography, dramaturgy, community dance practice, and commissioning dance. The programme also opens the opportunity for further study for a practice as research PhD.

You could work in roles such as:

• Professional Dancer
• Dance Choreographer
• Dance Educator
• Dance Company Director
• Dance Therapist
• Dance Researcher
• Arts Administrator (with a focus on dance)
• Dance Critic or Reviewer