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.

Become a honed specialist in theatre directing

Our BA (Hons) Drama, Theatre and Directing course offers you numerous opportunities to both perform in and direct your own performance work, as well as working with pre-existing texts.

This will develop your creative and theoretical skills ready for real-world application after you graduate, as you learn to cultivate your own ideas in response to seeing other contemporary performance practices and the world around you.

Study the key aspects of dramatic practice

You will explore the cultural and critical significance of dramatic practice, process, and product throughout history, as you consider a wide range of historical and social theatre practices and contexts.

When you graduate you will have a confident understanding of the complimentary disciplines of drama, theatre and directing, alongside a range of practical experiences suited to diverse careers in a range of professional contexts.

Immerse yourself in the theatrical world

We have a strong link to the world-renowned Chichester Festival Theatre, where you will discover and experience established theatre practice and perform throughout your studies.

On this course you will:

• Develop your theatre and directing skills.
• Perform in and direct your own work as well as existing texts.
• Explore the cultural and critical significance of dramatic practice, process, and product.
• Work with the Chichester Festival Theatre.
• Access placement opportunities including roles at The Chichester Festival Theatre, Forest Fringe, Edinburgh Festival and more.

Perfect your acting skills in a creative and caring community
Our practical and performance-based BA (Hons) Acting course helps turn natural talent into a career and make dreams of performing on stage or screen a reality.

Explore a range of key performance topics, including:

• Acting technique
• Acting for camera
• Showreel and agent showcase
• Scene study
• Vocal skills and singing
• Movement and physicality
• Stage combat
• Playwrighting
• Solo performance
• Classical theatre