BA (Hons) Dance: Urban Practice (With Foundation Year)

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. 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.

Foundation Year

• Dance Skills 1
• Group Work 1
• Public Outcome
• Dance Skills 2
• Group Work 2
• Professional Life (Mental Wealth)

Year 1

• Dance Technique: Healthier Dancer 1
• Collaboration 1
• Public Project 1
• Dance Technique: Healthier Dancer 2
• Collaboration 2
• Professional Life 1 (Mental Wealth)

Year 2

• Dance Technique and Hybrid Forms 1
• Multidisciplinary Collaboration 1
• Public Project 2
• Dance Technique and Hybrid Forms 2
• Multidisciplinary Collaboration 2
• Professional Life 2 (Mental Wealth)

Year 3

• Dance Technique and Community Dance Techniques 1
• Final Project: Research and Development
• Public Project 3
• Dance Technique and Community Dance Techniques 2
• Final Project: Engagement and Impact
• Professional Life 3 (Mental Wealth)

Employability

The breadth of our course means you’ll graduate with a wide set of skills to equip you to be a true dance all-rounder. Many of our graduates go on to enjoy what we call a ‘portfolio’ career, making a thriving living in varied areas such as teaching, choreography, performing, and managing. Through your work placements, dance management studies, and your involvement in creating and staging community dance projects, you couldn’t be better prepared for the world of work. We’re proud to have helped shape the careers of our students, whether they’ve gone on to run their own companies, to work as dance administrators and managers, to deliver and teach workshops in communities and schools or to produce, choreograph and direct works for stage and screen. The graduates who succeed in our course are innovative, confident, and original. People like Brian Gillespie, who got his degree a couple of years back and now runs his own company, B-Hybrid Dance, in which he’s artistic director, choreographer, and performer.