Performing Arts | BA (Hons) at Leeds Beckett University

Course Details

Study the performing arts while nurturing your artistic individuality. You will learn more about your current artistic interests as you draw from a range of disciplines as inspiration for your project work.

Your passion might be to develop your skills in creative text writing, dance, acting or directing. You will use project work to explore your particular area of interest and you will enhance your practical performance skills through weekly technique classes and creative workshops, also developing confidence in your ability to create performance work.

You will study a range of practical modules that develop your knowledge in many different performance areas, from creating work specifically for festivals, to the role of art in society and the realities of applying for funding.

You will undertake a professional placement during your second year, and your third-year project work will be showcased in front of professional artists and producers at the University's annual Lift Off festival.

Course Benefits

Leeds is home to hundreds of professional theatre collectives, dance companies and arts festivals so you will be surrounded by a vibrant creative community and an exciting range of performance work.

We will support you in setting up your second year professional placement. You could spend a semester learning alongside and networking with one of the many artistic companies in Leeds or you could choose to travel abroad to work for an international organisation. Our students have previously completed placements at Company Chameleon in Manchester, BMotion Festival in Bassano del Grappa, Italy and with theatre company Third Angel based in Sheffield.

All of the staff teaching on your course are practising artists, which means our teaching is based on real professional experience. You will also have the chance to attend additional workshops delivered by external artists and companies. Our partnerships with organisations such as Compass Live Art Festival and Yorkshire Dance will give you the opportunity to learn from guest lecturers at the top of their field.

You will have access to specialist studio spaces used by professional artists at Northern Ballet and Yorkshire Dance as well as our own studios at our picturesque Headingley Campus.