Bachelor of Arts - Dance (Honours)

BA (Hons) Dance develops practice and understanding together: technique and performance across contemporary and other forms, choreography and composition, dance history and theory, and the community and educational applications of the art form.

Studio practice runs continuously alongside academic study, and students choreograph as well as perform, because the discipline’s sustainable careers require makers and teachers rather than only dancers — a reality the course structures rather than obscures.

Community and participatory dance modules connect to the health and wellbeing sector, where dance practitioners increasingly work with older adults, neurological conditions and mental health services, and The export lists five entry points for this course, spanning both September and January admission cycles.

Career honesty matters particularly in dance, and the structure of the profession should be explained before enrolment rather than discovered afterwards: performance careers are short, physically precarious and highly competitive, while teaching, community practice, choreography and administration sustain most dance graduates across full working lives. This course builds all of those deliberately, and students who embrace the teaching and facilitation strands rather than treating them as secondary graduate with genuine employment options. The growing health-and-wellbeing dance sector, working with older adults and neurological conditions, is expanding faster than performance and is worth targeting early through placements and volunteering. Injury management and physical self-care should be taken seriously from the first term, since careers in this discipline are shortened more often by preventable strain than by lack of talent.

Early income typically combines teaching, facilitation and performance at £18,000–£23,000 equivalent. The completed honours degree carries Graduate Route eligibility for 18 months under post-2026 application rules, and dependants cannot accompany students on taught study.