Program Overview

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Dance BA (Hons)

Overview

Experiment. Push boundaries. Celebrate dance. Explore your creative potential in performance and choreography with tutors employing the latest teaching practices. Refine technique and theory as you grow as a reflective and creative dance artist on Edge Hill University’s dance degree.

Course Features

• International students can apply
• Sandwich year option available
• Studying abroad option available

What You'll Study

Year 1

• Dance Practices: Knowing Bodies
  • Introduces you to a range of dance practices within historical western and global traditions and places them in their contemporary cultural context.
  • Regular studio practice-based sessions will develop your physical vocabulary and broaden your understanding of different dance practices and ways of studying within higher education.
  • Module code: DAN1300
  • Credits: 20
  • Assessment: 70% Practical, 30% Coursework
• Making Dance: Choreographic Cuts
  • Introduces you to the creative and disciplined independent approaches to exploring movement and dance making.
  • You will investigate the application of compositional tools and structuring devices, experimenting with contemporary dance practices and performance.
  • Module code: DAN1303
  • Credits: 20
  • Assessment: 100% Practical
• Making Dance: Choreographing Worlds
  • Develops your skills in devising and creating dance as part of a collective and in collaboration with others.
  • You will engage in the making, rehearsal and performance of a small-scale dance piece in conjunction with a tutor who will act as choreographer.
  • Module code: DAN1301
  • Credits: 20
  • Assessment: 70% Practical, 30% Coursework
• Performance Contexts
  • Surveys the key elements of dance, drama and musical theatre contexts and histories.
  • While not intended to offer an exhaustive account of all performance histories, the module will highlight shared terminologies and practices, while also offering an introduction to appropriate modes of study, including research, performance and workshop skills.
  • Module code: PAR1300
  • Credits: 20
  • Assessment: 100% Practical
• Writing Dance Landscapes
  • Introduces you to approaches to writing about dance.
  • The module will hone your skills in observing, describing, researching and interpreting dance.
  • Module code: DAN1302
  • Credits: 20
  • Assessment: 50% Coursework, 50% Practical
• One of:
  • Applied, Community and Outreach Practice 1
    • A project-based module where you will be guided through the creation of a performative outreach project focusing on a range of community settings.
    • Module code: PAR1301
    • Credits: 20
    • Assessment: 100% Practical
  • New Venture Creation
    • Introduces you to business planning and the development stages in business start-up.
    • Module code: BUS1054
    • Credits: 20
    • Assessment: 50% Coursework, 50% Practical
  • Language 1
    • Ideal if you want to learn a new language, or further develop your current language skills, as an integrated part of this degree.
    • Module code: TLC1010
    • Credits: 20
    • Assessment: 85% Coursework, 15% Practical

Year 2

• Body Matters in Performance
  • Examines the theories and practices of performance that are concerned with the dialogue between the body and dance practice.
  • Module code: DAN2301
  • Credits: 20
  • Assessment: 50% Coursework, 50% Practical
• Creative Dance Portfolio: Choreograph, Perform, Archive
  • Focuses on the practical exploration and interrogation of contemporary dance making as an interdisciplinary and collaborative art form.
  • Module code: DAN2300
  • Credits: 20
  • Assessment: 70% Coursework, 30% Practical
• Making Dance: Practice Makes Political
  • Expands your creative and technical skills and helps you develop your individual creative voice.
  • Module code: DAN2302
  • Credits: 20
  • Assessment: 70% Practical, 30% Coursework
• Performance Contexts 2
  • Explores dance, drama and musical theatre as a cultural product of its own specific cultural setting.
  • Module code: PAR2300
  • Credits: 20
  • Assessment: 100% Practical
• Two of:
  • Applied, Community and Outreach Practice 2
    • Enables you to create a performance and/or facilitate artistic educational workshops in response to the needs of a specific community, educational setting or selected client group.
    • Module code: PAR2301
    • Credits: 20
    • Assessment: 80% Practical, 20% Coursework
  • Dance Practices: Preparing for the Profession
    • Expands on your movement skills and techniques.
    • Module code: DAN2303
    • Credits: 20
    • Assessment: 70% Practical, 30% Coursework
  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation
    • Explores characteristics, behaviours, attributes, and skills of entrepreneurship as well as the whole process of innovation from idea to product development and the conditions that must be fulfilled for innovation to thrive.
    • Module code: BUS2229
    • Credits: 20
    • Assessment: 50% Coursework, 50% Practical

Year 3

• Creative Entrepreneurship: Production and Touring
  • Nurtures your development as an independent artist, providing authentic experience of working as part of a collective to devise a professionally orientated performance project.
  • Module code: PAR3303
  • Credits: 20
  • Assessment: 70% Practical, 30% Coursework
• Dance Practices: Employability and Professional Portfolio
  • Develops your dance technique and movement skills and enhances your potential as an emerging dance professional.
  • Module code: DAN3300
  • Credits: 20
  • Assessment: 50% Coursework, 50% Practical
• Research Project
  • Engages and expands your interests in performance while cultivating your professional expertise and critical perspectives.
  • Module code: PAR3302
  • Credits: 40
  • Assessment: 80% Practical, 20% Coursework
• Two of:
  • Dance Practices: Exit Velocity
    • Refines your dance and movement skills and encourages you to reflect on their potential applications as you become an emerging independent dance professional.
    • Module code: DAN3301
    • Credits: 20
    • Assessment: 100% Practical
  • Jazz Dance Routes
    • Allows you to explore and expand on the cultural and performance aspects of jazz dance.
    • Module code: DAN3302
    • Credits: 20
    • Assessment: 100% Practical
  • Live Art
    • Explores and interrogates live art practices, from avant-garde histories and performance art to installation art and experiential, participatory, socially-engaged practices.
    • Module code: PAR3301
    • Credits: 20
    • Assessment: 70% Practical, 30% Coursework
  • Performance, Gender and Sexual Politics
    • Explores a range of different types of dramatic text and theatrical experience linked to the fundamental themes of gender and sexual politics.
    • Module code: DRA3303
    • Credits: 20
    • Assessment: 100% Practical

How You'll Study

A wide range of teaching styles are offered, delivered through practical workshops, technique classes, performance projects, formal lectures and seminars.

How You'll Be Assessed

As part of your student journey, your tutors will support you towards your assessments, which we see as a way for you to celebrate your learning. The different points of assessment prepare you for real-life scenarios, whether that be performance, presentations, portfolios, written work, or a viva/interview. As part of your personal development, you will have opportunities to reflect on your learning to recognise and build your skill sets.

There are no formal written examinations as part of the current assessment methods on this degree.

Who Will Be Teaching You

You will be taught by a dedicated team of academic specialists and professionally-experienced dance practitioners and you will benefit from a wide range of dance experiences. Learning is driven by the principle of research-informed teaching and supported by a team of experienced theatre technicians.

Entry Criteria

Typical offer 112-120 UCAS Tariff points. No specific subjects are required.

Relevant experience will be taken into account and all offers are made on the basis of an audition.

Example Offers

• A Level: BBC-BBB
• UCAS Tariff points: 112-120 points
• BTEC Extended Diploma (or combination of BTEC QCF qualifications): Distinction, Merit, Merit (DMM)
• T Level: Overall grade of Merit
• International Baccalaureate (IB): We are happy to accept IB qualifications which achieve the required number of UCAS Tariff points. Subject-specific requirements at Higher Level (HL) Grade 5 may apply.
• Access to Higher Education Diploma: 45 credits at Level 3, for example 15 credits at Distinction and 30 credits at Merit or 24 credits at Distinction and 21 credits at Merit. The required total can be attained from various credit combinations.

English Language Requirements

International students require IELTS 6.0, with a score no lower than 5.5 in each individual component, or an equivalent English language qualification.

Facilities

Dance, Drama and Musical Theatre students at Edge Hill University enjoy industry-standard teaching and learning facilities in the £7million Arts Centre which is also home to the Rose and Studio Theatres.

Finance

Tuition Fees

• UK Full-Time: £9,535 a year
• UK Part-Time: £79 per credit for 360 credits
• International: £17,000 a year

Your Future Career

Our graduates have the specialist skillset to work as artists, performers, choreographers and teachers. Former students now run their own very successful businesses, or are employed by organisations like Company Chameleon, Ludus Dance, Blue Moose Dance Company, Company Carpi, DanceSyndrome, Small Things Dance at Alder Hey Hospital, Divine Days CIC, Arts Council Isle of Man, Carnival Cruise Line, and WigLe Dance CIC.

Many dance students go on to work as freelance dance teachers and community artists. Roles you could aim for include:

• Portfolio dance artist
• Dance development and learning coordinator
• Artistic director
• Choreographer
• Teacher
• Freelance commercial dance artist
• Academy manager
• Director