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.

• Choose from diverse modules like Film Music Techniques and History, Music and Emotion, and The Symphony: Prestige and Politics.
• Enhance your professional development with our industry focused modules, including Arts Management and Music Education.
• Benefit from additional one-to-one instrumental and/or vocal tuition in each year and refine your musical craft.
• Join University Music ensembles and participate in a wide variety of different groups, both professionally and student led.
• Explore the city of Birmingham’s music venues, from the grand Birmingham Symphony Hall to the more intimate Jam House.   

Explore choreographic research methods while developing and promoting your own artistic voice

Are you looking for a qualification to equip you for a range of careers in choreography, performing arts, dance development, arts administration, performance, teaching or dance research? Or are you interested in a postgraduate course to prepare you for further study such as a PhD or professionally-related qualification?

If you enjoy problem-solving, creative thinking, engaging in debate and independent and group work, then this course is for you.

This MA Choreography and Professional Practice course explores choreography, improvisation, devising and experimentation, professional and artistic development and portfolio working. You will have opportunities to network with industry professionals and improve your portfolio as you study.

You will be challenged to explore your practice and examine your working methods as a dance-maker. This course will introduce you to choreographic research methods and strategies for documenting live performance practice and promoting your work.

There will be opportunities to pursue live performance practices as a choreographer, consider your work in relation to the wider field of professional contemporary dance practice, develop your artistic voice and explore single discipline or interdisciplinary practice-based projects involving choreography, performance, fine art, music and installation.

You will lead projects and focus on topics that interest you in performance making as you explore and expand on your existing choreographic practice in a dynamic research environment. You will examine innovative and experimental approaches to choreographic practice, research and scholarship, and discover topics including choreographic practices and methods of research, somatic approaches, developing movement vocabularies, collaboration, devising and experimentation.

Learn from experienced industry professionals and benefit from our close relationship with regional dance industry providers and practitioners. Staff work in a range of fields, including dance theatre, new media and dance film, site-specific and installation work.

Some of the course content will be delivered on campus, with some content taught off-site in Brighton, London or other venues. You need to be flexible and prepared to travel to make the most of this opportunity. You will need to pay your own travel costs.

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.