Share your passion for dance with others through teaching and creative practice

Develop your skills as a dance practitioner and explore teaching in a range of settings

Learn to teach dance

Develop your technical skills in daily classes

Perform and choreograph throughout your degree

Learn to share your passion for dance in a variety of settings, including:

• Educational institutions and organisations
• Youth and community settings
• Professional dance companies
• Special educational needs and inclusive dance settings.

Guaranteed interview for our PGCE Dance programme

Learn from sector-active dance practitioners

Collaborative and supportive community

International exchange opportunities

Prepare for your career

On this course you will:

• Learn to teach dance in educational, professional and community settings.
• Take daily dance technique classes in a range of styles, including contemporary technique and ballet.
• Perform regularly including at end of semester shows.
• Join a close dance community and work dance students from other courses.
• Learn from experienced and sector-active dance practitioners and researchers.
• Have the opportunity to complete an international exchange.

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.

Develop your technical, creative and performance skills

• Develop your technical skills with intensive training and specialist performance classes.
• Complete up to eight dance and performance techniques classes per week.
• Join the 3Fall dance company in your third year and tour around the country.
• Learn from experienced and sector-active dance practitioners and researchers.

Develop your talent as a musician and performer through the practical and theoretical study of popular music.

On this very practically based programme, you will also have the opportunity to develop extremely useful skills such as recording techniques, live PA mixing, songwriting and arranging – all essential for working in the music industry.

Our course provides a unique opportunity for you to excel in performance while developing a critical mind and becoming an intelligent, multi-skilled musician.

Popular musicians learn in different ways so the course uses accelerated learning techniques to ensure that all students progress in areas of musicianship, making clear links between; performance, context, theory and professional practice. The Department is committed to this holistic method of study, helping you to understand the value in what you are learning as you become confident, creative musicians. As a Department, we also have excellent links with industry professionals and visiting professors.

In the 2020 NSS, Popular Music Performance received 100% for teaching on the course and academic support, and 100% of students agreed that staff had made the course interesting.

We pride ourselves on the quality of support we offer, and have a range of support packages to help support students during their time at University.