Dance: Urban Practice (with Foundation Year)

The Level 3 Foundation year in Performing Arts is designed to equip students with a range of performance and academic skills. It will prepare you for university level study. Once you complete the foundation year, you will be able to progress onto the BA (Hons) Dance: Urban Practice.

The BA (Hons) Dance: Urban Practice, is a forward-thinking course that continues to increase in popularity nationally and internationally since it started in 2007. This vibrant and distinctive course offers students the chance to study with a dynamic and specialist skilled dance team in a great location that is the cultural hub of East London. This course is also offered with a foundation year, as a four year course.

We cover hip-hop, club, social and popular dance styles, with contemporary techniques from across Europe, Africa and Asia. Whether it is popping or locking, contemporary or capoeira, afro-house or bharata natyam, our course continues to be the first of its kind to offer a degree in dance without borders or limitations.

You will have great opportunities to perform your work in our annual student led festival, studio sharings and external events. The dance team will support and guide you to develop your skills as a researcher, choreographer, performer and in events management whilst giving you networking opportunities from our varied and exciting industry links.

We help create dance all-rounders preparing you for a portfolio career in the arts. So you will theorise, create and collaborate in dance managing yourself and others. You will discover and practise many various types of dance.

Foundation Year: Group Work 1 (Core), Dance Skills 1 (Core), Public Outcome (Core), Dance Skills 2 (Core), Group Work 2 (Core), Mental Wealth: Professional Life: Enterprise and Engagement 1 (Core)

Year 1: Dance Technique: Healthier Dancer 1 (Core), Collaboration 1 (Core), Public Project 1 (Core), Dance Technique: Healthier Dancer 2 (Core), Collaboration 2 (Core), Mental Wealth: Professional Life: Enterprise and Engagement 1 (Core)

Year 2: Dance Technique and Hybrid Forms 1 (Core), Multidisciplinary Collaboration 1 (Core), Public Project 2 (Core), Dance Technique and Hybrid Forms 2 (Core), Multidisciplinary Collaboration 2 (Core), Mental Wealth: Professional Life Enterprise and Engagement 2 (Core)

Year 3: Dance Technique and Community Dance Techniques 1 (Core), Final Project: Research and Development (Core), Public Project 3 (Core), Dance Technique and Community Dance Techniques 2 (Core), Final Project: Implementation and Impact (Core), Mental Wealth: Professional Life : Enterprise and Engagement 3 (Core)

For more information about individual modules, please visit our course pages via the link below.

We'll assess you course through practical performances, rehearsals and dance technical developments.

We assess theoretical work through essays, workbooks and journals that reflect on progress and performance.

Second and third-year modules contribute to the final degree award classification.

In your final year, you'll undertake a compulsory written dissertation and a placement with a dance organisation or company.