Training Opportunity

BA (Hons) Dance and Aerial Arts

Learn specialist aerial techniques and physical theatre narrative approaches

Extend your dance training with specialist aerial skills and understanding of narrative choreography

Reach new heights with aerial training

  • Learn to use apparatus, including:
  • Fabric
  • Hoop
  • Dance trapeze
  • Rope
  • Harness.

Develop your technical skills with intensive training

Areas of focus include:

  • Cunningham
  • Limon
  • Release
  • Ballet
  • Contact improvisation
  • Somatic practices
  • Dance styles from styles influenced from other cultural perspectives.


Find your choreographic voice

Perform throughout your degree

Learn from sector-active dance practitioners

Collaborative and supportive community

International exchange opportunities

On this course you will:

  • Study three aerial technique classes per week with equipment including vertical and horizontal apparatus and harness-based dance.
  • Develop your knowledge of physical theatre and narrative choreography.
  • Take daily dance-technique classes with dance students on other courses.
  • Perform regularly, including at end of semester shows.
  • Learn from experienced and sector-active dance practitioners and researchers.
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