Dance and Education BA (Hons)
Level 6
Course Outline
This new 3 year degree is designed to develop your dance skills in preparation for working in the industry. Two main focus points aim to provide a solid grounding in the practical and intellectual skills necessary for a successful career in performance or teaching.
Led by a team of inspiring staff with extensive experience working across the industry and within higher education, you'll embark on a creative journey that aims to provide the tools necessary to excel in your chosen field.
This is a dance training degree, predominantly taught through practical exploration and rehearsal, underpinned by research, practitioner study and critical reflection. Training focuses on building strength and confidence in a broad range of dance styles as well as enabling you to creatively build skills through composition and improvisation techniques. These attributes build confidence and deepen understanding of teaching dance to a range of clients within community or educational settings. You'll have the opportunity to create your own original work, exploring areas of specific and personal interest and finding your own creative voice or teaching style.
We've worked in partnership for many years with Dance4, Lakeside Arts and a variety of local educational settings. We collaborate with other creative departments across college and have our own graduate Dance Company to support placement opportunities and progression.
Indicative Year 1 (Level 4) modules:
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Performance skills
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Dance technique, history and context
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Creative dance practice
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Facilitating dance
Indicative Year 2 (Level 5) modules:
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Developing dance technique
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Choreography, production and performance
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Dance education within the community
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Independent practice
Indicative Year 3 (Level 6) modules:
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The healthy dancer: wellbeing and somatic practice.
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Dance in an educational setting.
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Ensemble performance
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Major independent project
Specialist Facilities
Performing Arts is based at our new £58 million City Hub campus in Nottingham City Centre’s Canalside quarter with state of the art facilities. These include specially-designed rehearsal studios for acting and dance, as well as a 160 seat versatile theatre space with fully-functional wardrobe and workshop facilities and industry-standard lighting and sound. Students also use our brand-new digital TV centre, recording studio and multi-media suites.
You will be based at our City Hub campus for this course, we have open days throughout the year for students to come and view our facilities here as well as learn more about the courses themselves.
Open day information is available on the Nottingham College Website.
If you want to apply for this course please click on the button to the right!
Course code: C042650 / Q042651
Institution code: N30
UCAS code: DAN3
Your Course Leader:
Nicola Burt MA
Lecturer
Course Leader BA Dance & Education, Level 3 Dance.
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Every course has a member of staff who will be your main point of contact as they are designated in roles of course leaders. However, each department is very much a team and therefore all staff across the performance department will be available to help and support you through your studies. To find out more about our staff across our performance department then please