On the BA (Hons) Professional and Commercial Dance you’ll have the opportunity to gain core skills in ballet, jazz, contemporary and commercial dance, and develop the knowledge and practical experience needed for employment in a variety of exciting and demanding professions in the performing arts industry.
The 3-year BA (Hons) course in Professional and Commercial Dance, delivered by Shockout Arts, offers you the opportunity to acquire and develop essential technical, artistic and theoretical competence through professional training to an advanced/level 6 standard. If you're an aspiring dance artist, successful completion of this 3-year BA (Hons) provides you with the platform to begin your professional career in the dance and performing arts industry. After graduation, you could continue your education at master’s level. The partnership between Shockout Arts and the University of Bolton offers you access to a number of postgraduate opportunities.
You’ll be based at Shockout Arts, studying and training in their purpose-built, high-specification dance studios that are equal to professional industry standards. Alongside your intensive practical dance training, you’ll have regular performance opportunities to help you develop a diverse range of performance and production skills.
Teaching staff at Shockout Arts are professional practitioners and choreographers. They are keen to make the time you spend with them as stimulating and rewarding as possible and enjoy a well-deserved reputation for being approachable and interested in your progress. As teaching often takes place in small groups you’ll have access to individual support and guidance at every stage.
Want to develop your musical craft from world-leading music tutors? Excited by the thought of learning to play instruments from the Medieval period or studying the music of today from around the globe?
Engage in multi-faceted and diverse study of music and dive into the exceptionally busy performance scene.
Our Acting degree is an industry standard training programme which prepares students to work in theatre, TV and film.
Studying Acting at Chester involves working with a dynamic, international team of tutors with a wealth of industry experience. There are a range of exciting module choices, and students are encouraged to develop their employability and graduate skills throughout the course. The Department has excellent links with the professional industry: locally, nationally and internationally.
You will work closely with directors and practitioners who specialise in a range of areas, developing productions in each year of the degree, alongside studying many other practical and theoretical aspects of performance.
The staff team currently includes experienced directors and producers for both stage and screen, applied theatre practitioners, and experts in actor training and physical theatre.
The Department is a vibrant, close-knit and supportive community of performers and practitioners, working in the excellent facilitites at Creative Campus, Kingsway.
The Department boasts impressive facilities, including fully equipped rehearsal and performance studios.
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.
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The department boasts impressive facilities, including fully equipped rehearsal and performance studios and an outdoor amphitheatre.
Covering all aspects of musical theatre skills and opportunities for creating new music theatre, this practice-based course is ideal if you are looking ahead to a career as an on-stage performer or back-stage creative.
Our musical theatre degree includes weekly drama school-style actor training, focussing on all the classic musical theatre skills including acting, singing, dance, ensemble singing and yoga. These developing skills are realised in a full-scale production in each year of the course. In addition to performing in a full-scale musical, you will also take on a production role, including stage management, design, assistant director, hair and makeup, costume, front of house and many more. By both performing and having a production role you take full ownership of your musical theatre production and gain valuable experience across a range of creative roles.
You will also be able to explore your own creativity by co-creating original pieces of musical theatre. Through engagement with a variety of contemporary musical and performance techniques, you will expand your creative frames of reference to develop and understand new ways of combining music and theatre. There are opportunities to work with visiting creatives and performers, including working with a professional director in your third year production.
Inclusivity and community, as well as safe and supportive spaces, lie at the heart of the music theatre course. Together staff and students build and nurture an environment that is thriving with the highest level of training, and develop performers who are individual, unique, professional, and great company members. Personal support and guidance are a key aspect of our delivery to students.
