Dance

This course is for dancers who want more than just training. It’s about discovering where dance can take you. You’ll train across multiple styles while developing your technique, performance, choreography, and teaching skills, giving you the freedom to shape a career that fits you. 

From day one, you’ll join an inclusive, supportive community that values individuality, creativity, and collaboration. Regular technique classes across different genres are paired with strength and conditioning training, helping you dance stronger, smarter, and with confidence in a fast-moving industry. 

You’ll graduate as a versatile, industry-ready dancer, equipped to work across a range of professional pathways. Our experienced teaching team brings diverse industry backgrounds, ensuring your training is current, relevant, and rooted in real-world practice. 

You’ll train in a purpose-built Performing Arts Centre, with access to large harlequin sprung-floor studios, a multimedia suite, and a devising studio. You’ll also benefit from discounted access to the university fitness suite and on-site sports therapy clinics, so your body and creativity are fully supported. 

Train in multiple styles. Create. Perform. Lead.

As you progress through your degree you’ll find out where your passion lies and can specialise in teaching to advanced levels or focus on performing and choreographing.

Compulsory modules in your first year lay the experiential and academic ground for advanced specialisation in your second and third years. 

Throughout the degree you’ll have a range of assessment types from dance technique assessments to presentations and reflective essays. 

This is an ideal course for those wishing to: 

• study a wide variety of dance styles experientially and academically,
• teach to advanced levels in specific styles and genres, 
• develop skills to perform and choreograph,
• develop skills to perform and choreograph  
• academically and experientially explore different philosophical approaches to the body in dance teaching, performance and choreography 
• study teaching ethics and embodied approaches to dance

This course is designed to help you fully realise your potential as a choreographer, performer, community dance teacher, or practitioner. It goes beyond simply developing your dance skills and serves as a springboard for a wide range of professional paths, including postgraduate studies in specialised fields such as Dance, Health and Wellbeing, Dance Science, and Teaching.

Our placement modules give you the opportunity to develop your own networks and grow in confidence when planning what comes after uni. They allow you to get real-world experience of the industry and test out which corners you find exciting and see potential in.

Our students participate in regular workshops and masterclasses led by professional dancers, choreographers, and companies. These include 2Faced Dance Company, Motionhouse, Shobana Jeyasingh, Alleyne Dance, Layton Williams and many others.

We have an established network of industry connections across the UK and partnerships with organisations like Strike-a-Light, Dance in Gloucestershire, and The Roses Theatre.