BA in Dance
- Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
- London, United Kingdom
BA
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
GBP 9,535 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* UK students: £9,535 per year | international: £19,200 for the first year
Key Summary
Ready to step into your future career in dance?
The Dance BA (Hons) course from Kingston University will enable you to hone your technique, gain valuable insight into the dance industry and specialise in either performance or choreography. So that you will be employment-ready on graduating.
Study a range of styles, including hip hop, dances of the African diaspora and contemporary dance, in Kingston University's RIBA award-winning Town House building. The building has six dance studios, all equipped to professional standards with fully sprung floors, mirrors and barres, and a performance studio theatre.
Learn from professional dance companies with guest workshops and in-house residencies from the likes of What is Written?. All while benefiting from being part of the creative community at Kingston School of Art, where our workshops and studios are open to all disciplines, enabling students and staff to work together and explore multi-disciplinary making.
Why choose this course?
If you want to study dance and performance practically, but also want an understanding of the dance industry past and present, this is the course for you. Whatever your dance experience and background is, this course enables you to experiment and explore your creative potential. You'll graduate prepared for a career in the dance or creative arts industries.
By studying a variety of topics, such as choreography, dance technique and performance, you'll develop your own dance identity. You’ll also gain insight into the dance industry, with a particular focus on teaching dance or event management.
Through a range of workshops and technique classes, you’ll practise a variety of dance and performance styles, such as:
- Hip hop
- African
- Classical Indian
- Contemporary and contact improvisation
The course is forward-thinking and embraces the diversity that makes the dance industry a vibrant and exciting place to work. It also provides opportunities to undertake a work placement, professional project or to collaborate across disciplines (such as with a composer or filmmaker).
We want to ensure anyone with potential and drive has the opportunity to study with us, no matter their background or financial situation. That's why each year, we provide a number of bursaries to help our undergraduate students gain their degree.
- The Kingston bursary
- Bursaries for care leavers
- Bursaries for estranged students
- Bursaries for young adult carers
- Bursaries for Sanctuary Scholars
- Chancerygate Foundation bursary
- Salutem scholarships
- AVSH scholarship
What you will study
By the time you graduate you'll have gained real-life experience and skills that it is linked to working in the dance industry and completed projects that will help kick-start your career. You will do this through learning, making, performing, watching, and discussing dances in new ways, using eye-opening perspectives and developing your professional and employability skills.
As you progress, you will work on projects that draw together different strands of your learning. Across the three years of the course, you will have increasing independence in the design and delivery of these projects.
Year 1
Year 1 focuses on developing your skills, knowledge and understanding. You will be introduced to the dance industry and set a plan for what you need to do to support your career aspirations. You will develop your technical and performance skills in a range of dance styles and apply this to your choreographic work. dance technique and knowledge of. You will also learn about the history of dance, anatomy and dance training.
Core modules
- Dance Techniques and Cultures 1
- Creating Dance 1
- Dance Industry 1: professional skills and personal development
Year 2
Year 2, provides you with the opportunities to apply your skills, knowledge and understanding developed in year 1 to the development of projects. Alongside developing your dance technique you will have the opportunity to develop your teaching skills or gain insight into producing and managing events and completing group projects. You will also learn about theoretical frameworks that will help you develop your understanding of the dance industry today and have the opportunity to specialise in either choreography or Hip Hop and Urban performance practices.
Core modules
- Dance Industry 2: teaching and producing pathways
- Dance Techniques and Cultures 2
- Dance and the Global Now
Optional modules
- Creating Dance 2
- Hip Hop and Urban Performance Practices 1
Optional Year
You have the option to take an additional year to study abroad.
Year 3
The focus of Year 3 is on preparing you for graduation and opportunities to work independently and lead your own projects. You will have the opportunity to undertake a placement or develop your own industry-based project, work as a member of a Dance Company with a choreographer and tailor the rest of your study to your own interests.
Core modules
- Dance industry 3: placement and professional skills
- Dance Company
Optional modules
- Independent Dance Project
- Creating Dance 3
- Hip Hop and Urban Performance Practices 2
Please note
Optional modules only run if there is enough demand. If we have an insufficient number of students interested in an optional module, that module will not be offered for this course.
Career options include performance, choreography, directing, community dance, teaching or producing and managing dance. Outside the performing arts, graduates work in production, event management, fitness instruction, media and teaching.
Our Future Skills programme is embedded within the Dance BA (Hons) curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience. Its purpose is to help you become a future-proof graduate by providing you with the skills most valued by employers, such as problem-solving, digital competency and adaptability.
As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills. You’ll also understand how to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.