Performing Arts - BA (Hons) at Anglia Ruskin University

Overview

Take your skills in drama, dance and music to the next level on our full-time Performing Arts degree in Cambridge. Choose to study abroad in Canada. Perform alongside others who share your passion and become a versatile, confident and powerful artist, ready for a career in the performing arts.

Careers

We work with employers to make sure you graduate with the knowledge, skills and abilities they need. They help us review what we teach and how we teach it – and they offer hands-on, practical opportunities to learn through work-based projects, internships or placements.

Find out more about our placements and work experience, or the faculty's employability support.

Our performance culture and creative thinking will prepare you for a career in the performing arts, whichever aspect you want to take up. You will receive the ideal training for any position that require creativity, self-reliance, imagination and teamwork.

Upon graduation our students take different paths depending on their interests and aspirations. The main career paths you can access are:

Creative industry - You can work as a performer, director or stage manager. You could also create your own company, produce new work and tour it globally.

Art industry - You can access jobs within arts organisations and management, acting as a performing arts producer or event organiser, or join theatre and companies' marketing teams

Creative-related industry - Creative industries are broad and exciting, and feature a variety of opportunities. If you’re academic-minded, you can become a performing arts journalist or critic or, if you like numbers and have good interpersonal skills, you can work within the performing arts fundraising and budgeting business.

Education - As a performing arts graduate you can access numerous job opportunities within the educational world, pursuing a career as primary or secondary school teacher, or as a workshop facilitator for a variety of communities. Also, you can work as a performing arts assistant, supporting school and students' productions.

Further studies - If you wish to continue your studies after graduation, you can take a Masters Course or an Artist Diploma and, later on, a PhD or MPhil. This route will give you the chance to explore your subject of study in a deeper academic way, carrying further research and access academic jobs in higher education.

If you have an interest in arts therapy, you might decide to move on to our MA Dramatherapy.