DANCE at Canterbury Christ Church University

This course enables you to study dance alongside another subject, developing your own unique portfolio of skills and interests.

You will spend most of your time in the dance studios, supported by passionate and experienced tutors. You will be supported and challenged to develop technically as a dancer and as a choreographer. You will take part in a range of technique classes and consider different ways of making work.

You will explore areas including:

• social/political aspects of dance development
• choreography
• ballet, jazz, contemporary limón, contemporary release, urban, African, South Asian and Repertoire.

Why Dance?

The Dance combined programme is designed to engage you in developing as a dancer, choreographer and/or artist. It develops your knowledge, skills and understanding in initiating, creating and performing dance projects and activities.

The programme supports and challenges you to develop technically and creatively as a dancer and choreographer. You should leave with knowledge, skills and understanding of a range of dance techniques and styles, ways of creating and presenting or performing dance and first-hand experiences of where, why and how dance happens in the current dance/arts landscape via the range of project opportunities.

What will i study?

• A variety of dance techniques such as ballet, contemporary, jazz, African, South Asian and aerial.
• Aspects of historical, social and political development in dance.
• A range of ways of creating and presenting choreographic work.
• How to find and analyse information about the dance landscape, use a range of methods and develop an independent study/project.
• Optional interdisciplinary modules enabling you to work with music, (commercial and classical) drama and performing arts students.
• Optional global experience module enabling you to experience arts in another country with a short trip abroad.

What can i do next?

As a dance practitioner or artist, you might be employed to work, for example, in a company as a dancer or education/outreach manager. You may want to work as a choreographer. You will be equipped to embark on a Schools Direct or PGCE programme (providing they have GCSE or equivalent English, Maths, and in addition for Primary, Science) and work in mainstream school settings or may choose to lead their own career and market themselves as freelance dance artists. You will also gain many transferable skills ranging from confidence and resilience to teamwork and communication skills.