What will I learn?

Dance Technique, Performance and Choreography

The Dance City BA (Hons) Professional Dance is practically focused and has a strong emphasis on developing your dance technique and performance skills in a range of forms.

The programme has a strong core training in contemporary dance practice, but also enables you to design your own technical development by engaging in regular classes in other styles. This is supported by Dance City’s public class programme with over 25 styles to choose from including commercial, ballet, hip hop, musical theatre and many more.

Project-Based Learning

We value practical learning at Dance City; as such, you will have the opportunity to participate in and lead on real projects.

In Year 3, students collaborate to manage, coordinate, and curate a festival of their work at Dance City, open to the public and part of Dance City’s programme. As well as preparing you for work in dance, the skills developed on our programme are highly transferable and will support further study or working life, whatever your path post-degree.

Developing as an all-rounder in dance and beyond
Our course enables students to become independent, reflective practitioners, independent thinkers, and changemakers. As a student, you will be introduced to the core skills of teaching and facilitation, management, administration, and producing.

You are introduced to Dance City’s wider team, including producers, teachers, and dance managers in the first week of the programme, so that you can develop relationships and learn from working practitioners. We will empower you to engage with the theoretical and social study of dance, and apply this to your own work. We have a special, studio-based approach to this part of the course, and draw together practical choreographic development with dance history and scholarship, also including a unique set of reflective modules.

This is your dance future, and we’re here to help you make it happen.

Year 3 modules are:

  • Dance Technique and Performance 3
  • Producing and Curating Dance
  • Festival Project
  • The Reflective Dance Practitioner

Assessment of modules includes written assignments, reports, presentations, case studies and practical work-based portfolios as well as studio-based and performance assessment.

Dance City has opened up so many pathways which I didn’t realise were available to me. I feel I have improved both technically and creatively, and my knowledge has advanced since being here.



Rachel McQuillan, Former Student