Experiment. Push boundaries. Celebrate dance. Explore your creative potential in performance and choreography with tutors employing the latest teaching practices. Refine technique and theory as you grow as a reflective and creative dance artist on Edge Hill University’s dance degree.
Follow your dreams as a creative practitioner with a dance degree that gives you the knowledge, skills and experience to launch a professional career.
Dance to your heart’s content on our BA (Hons) Dance course. We’re 2nd in the UK for teaching (National Student Survey 2024 – Dance), so you’ll be immersed in practical performance projects, technique classes, and inspiring seminars. Collaborate with professionals in dance-making for a wide range of performance settings. You’ll study dance techniques and theories essential to current practice.
We’ll encourage and enable you to perform and grow as artists in our Arts Centre theatres and studios – we’re ranked 2nd in the North West for learning resources (National Student Survey 2024 – Dance).
Your artistic and creative development is everything to us. See dance through different lenses as you explore performance and choreography, applying your skills in different contexts. Our research-active practitioners will help you elevate your perception and experience of the body, and develop cultural perspectives.
Our culture of performance will expand your portfolio, workshopping new ideas and helping you make connections with visiting professionals. Learn to fund and pitch projects. Gain industry skills as part of our staff and student-led dance companies. By the time you graduate, you’ll be ready to work as an independent dance professional.
Course features
International students can apply
Learn a language option available
Sandwich year option available
Studying abroad option available
Performing pieces created by us was the most memorable course moment to date. The degree develops your confidence, determination and individuality. There’s something about the energy and drive on stage, it’s really special.
What goes into a performance? How can we describe dance? You’ll discover why dance remains a dynamic and important contemporary artform. Develop your skills in devising and creating dance alongside your technical and performance ability. See how theory and history inform applied dance projects as you investigate choreography, dance-making and performance for stage and other settings.
Dance Practices: Knowing Bodies introduces you to a range of dance practices within historical western and global traditions and places them in their contemporary cultural context. Regular studio practice-based sessions will develop your physical vocabulary and broaden your understanding of different dance practices and ways of studying within higher education. Your experience will be widened through experiential anatomy and holistic approaches to the moving body. The module will emphasise the importance of being a responsive and reflective practitioner and support your development of safe dance practice within a studio environment.
Module code: DAN1300
Credits: 20
Making Dance: Choreographic Cuts
Making Dance: Choreographic Cuts introduces you to the creative and disciplined independent approaches to exploring movement and dance making. You will investigate the application of compositional tools and structuring devices, experimenting with contemporary dance practices and performance. You will develop confidence in your own creative voice and performance skills to empower you to effectively communicate your own choreographic work, including its intentionality, musicality, and individual qualities. The module places emphasis on decision making, the editing of choreographic materials, and sharing of process as a means to generate a forum for discussion and to develop peer-reviewing skills. It will broaden your perspective of current practice and prepare you for undertaking large-scale dance projects.
Module code: DAN1303
Credits: 20
Making Dance: Choreographing Worlds
Making Dance: Choreographing Worlds develops your skills in devising and creating dance as part of a collective and in collaboration with others. You will engage in the making, rehearsal and performance of a small-scale dance piece in conjunction with a tutor who will act as choreographer. Through the creative process of making a contemporary dance work, the module will help you begin to realise your potential as a dancer and performer. You will develop your compositional dance skills through response-ability towards problem solving. As your performance technique and technical ability grows, you will start exploring how to create choreography from improvisational, conceptual or thematic based stimuli while reflecting on approaches to movement making and composition in preparation for public performance of your dance work.
Module code: DAN1301
Credits: 20
Performance Contexts
Performance Contexts surveys the key elements of dance, drama and musical theatre contexts and histories. While not intended to offer an exhaustive account of all performance histories, the module will highlight shared terminologies and practices, while also offering an introduction to appropriate modes of study, including research, performance and workshop skills. Key themes will include the nature of performance and how it is perceived, ‘traditional’ and ‘non-traditional’ crafting traditions, training processes, and the continuous expansion and development of definitions of performance itself. You will gain an enhanced understanding of the close relationship between dance, drama and musical theatre, as well as the associated relationship between actors, performers, choreographers, directors, writers and audiences.
Module code: PAR1300
Credits: 20
Writing Dance Landscapes
Writing Dance Landscapes introduces you to approaches to writing about dance. The module will hone your skills in observing, describing, researching and interpreting dance. Practical and theoretical approaches will combine to help you identify and discuss the work of key artists in relation to a broad range of dance practices, concepts and contexts. You will have opportunities to watch and write about live and recorded dance performances using a range of practical, observational and textual approaches to generate analytical descriptions and interpretations. The socio-political and cultural landscapes that shape dance practices will be an additional consideration throughout the module. This will help inform your understanding of dance practices as historic processes and provide a foundation for cultural and critical analysis. Studio practice is key to the module as you develop fundamental skills in movement competence and discover the interweaving relationships of embodied and written practices. You will also investigate wider processes of dance documentation, such as writing reviews and maintaining a reflective journal.
Applied, Community and Outreach Practice 1 is a project-based module where you will be guided through the creation of a performative outreach project focusing on a range of community settings. This will involve the study of performance interventions, their histories and practices, and consequences and meanings. After studying a range of performance intervention projects in diverse cultural, social and political contexts, you will identify and devise an appropriate project for a chosen setting. Although you will not implement the project in the community, you will develop a project portfolio and subsequently present your plans and deliver a workshop to your peers. This will include key illustrations of your creative artistic practice. You can work individually, by agreement with tutors, but emphasis is placed upon the skills of team working, including how to embrace divergent thinking, maintaining positive interpersonal communication, problem solving and collective decision-making.
Module code: PAR1301
Credits: 20
New Venture Creation
New Venture Creation introduces you to business planning and the development stages in business start-up. You will organise and evaluate theoretical perspectives in a practical setting, informing your future learning processes and outcomes. A key element of the module is a review of entrepreneurial skills and small business development through theoretical concepts of enterprise, self-employment and small business management. This module creates an awareness of emergent business types and their markets, the factors behind small business start-ups, entry routes, funding, and barriers. A practical element includes foundational steps towards a business start-up project which will require you to demonstrate key skill areas such as the development stages of business planning, communication, negotiation, self-management, and problem solving. The combination of these aspects will enable you to critically engage in academic thinking and writing about enterprise, evaluate business ideas, choose one main idea, strategically conceptualise that idea, and prepare a business plan and pitch for how the idea could be brought successfully to market.
Module code: BUS1054
Credits: 20
Language 1
Language 1 is ideal if you want to learn a new language, or further develop your current language skills, as an integrated part of this degree. You can study French, German, Arabic, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese or Spanish (subject to minimum numbers for your preferred language). Delivered at the Edge Hill Language Centre, the module will be taught in an interactive, communicative manner, using authentic materials in the target language. Emphasis will be placed on all four areas of reading, writing, speaking and listening. You will play an active role in the weekly two-hour classes, engaging in role-plays, short conversations, videos, authentic texts and listening materials. You will also be encouraged to reflect on your own learning needs. On enrolment to the module, you will complete a language induction form and be placed into a language level group appropriate for your prior knowledge of your chosen language. Please note, while we will endeavour to accommodate varying language levels per module, this is not always possible. While you can join the module with some prior experience of your target language, you will not be able to study a language you are already fluent or proficient in.
Module code: TLC1010
Credits: 20
You’ll develop as a dancer and choreographer in Year 2. Creating as individuals and within a collective, you will make new work guided by your tutors – planning, collaborating and choreographing to perform on a public stage. As well as celebrating dance as an inclusive practice, you will strengthen your progress by refining your technique, learning to question and analyse approaches to dance-making.
Body Matters in Performance examines the theories and practices of performance that are concerned with the dialogue between the body and dance practice. You will expand your knowledge, understanding and experience of the body in relation to studio practice and embodied research.The module will also examine why the body has been objectified in performance contexts. You will have the opportunity to experiment and develop your own personal approach to dance research. Underlying this is the principle that as you develop your sense of self awareness and your working environment, you will adapt your artistic practice to a variety of settings. The module will also cultivate your awareness of the need for sustainable practices in our age of climate emergency.
Creative Dance Portfolio: Choreograph, Perform, Archive focuses on the practical exploration and interrogation of contemporary dance making as an interdisciplinary and collaborative art form. The module explores choreographic and creative strategies through a tutor-led production that is informed by focused studio practice. This will enable you to gain experience of contributing to the generation, analysis and refinement of creative performance. Relevant historical, theoretical and socio-cultural perspectives will be considered, and you will relate these themes to your own creative and practical experience. You will document your contribution to the creative process. The module will also highlight the significance of archive in the history and future of dance and performance, exploring how you can record and archive your work, through different digital, written and presentational means.
Module code: DAN2300
Credits: 20
Making Dance: Practice Makes Political
Making Dance: Practice Makes Political expands your creative and technical skills and helps you develop your individual creative voice. From an initial group focus, exploring dance practice in relation to a range of cultural and socio-political frameworks, this module offers you space to investigate your creative and contextualised ideas in the process of devising choreography. You will be encouraged to draw from insights observing processes and practices applied by key professional dance makers, as well as utilising research on the social and traditional functions of dance in various cultures and traditions. Choreographic workshops will enable focused studio practice that will further inform your decision making as you develop your own choreography, with tutorial support, in preparation for a public performance. As part of a collaborative group, you will be responsible for in-house promotion of this performance and scheduling technical and dress rehearsals. You will also hone your creative skills and artistic strategies for connecting the aesthetics, intentionality and meaning of your work.
Module code: DAN2302
Credits: 20
Performance Contexts 2
Performance Contexts 2 explores dance, drama and musical theatre as a cultural product of its own specific cultural setting. By considering examples of performances drawn from each genre, across a wide range of different cultures, the module will explore how performance traditions can communicate and appropriate cultures and ideologies. The module will help you to understand the complex relationship between performance, culture, politics and ideology. It will also encourage you to recognise and value cultural diversity in performance practice and develop the skills, understanding and sensitivities to reflect these complexities in your own practical explorations of performance.
Applied, Community and Outreach Practice 2 enables you to create a performance and/or facilitate artistic educational workshops in response to the needs of a specific community, educational setting or selected client group. The module provides the opportunity to devise, plan, implement and evaluate a ‘real world’ project. Focusing on applied practice that takes place in a range of settings, including with community groups and in formal education, the module provides a platform for you to experience and interrogate creative artistic practice in diverse cultural, social and political contexts. It also introduces you to the work of current and historical key practitioners in this field. Prior to commencing the project, you will submit a proposal that considers ethical concerns and other safety risks. Projects can draw on teaching practices, or applied creative and artistic enquiry, or a combination of the two. You can work individually, by agreement with tutors, but emphasis is placed upon the skills of team working. This includes how to embrace divergent thinking, maintain positive interpersonal communication, and demonstrate problem solving and collective decision-making.
Module code: PAR2301
Credits: 20
Dance Practices: Preparing for the Profession
Dance Practices: Preparing for the Profession expands on your movement skills and techniques. Key workshops will prepare you for professional dance roles and encourage you to investigate employment opportunities in the sector that are ideal for your specific skillset. This will encourage you to explore different areas as you begin to understand what a sustainable career within the sector may look like for you personally. Offering a variety of over-lapping approaches to movement and dance, the module will give you a sense of adaptability and guide you in understanding how your individual range of skills might apply to different job roles or specialisms. Extending on the study of experiential anatomy and holistic approaches to the moving body, you will devise an independent ‘care-of-self’ study plan, as well as mapping a ‘me-reel’ to enhance confidence towards becoming a portfolio practitioner.
Module code: DAN2303
Credits: 20
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Entrepreneurship and Innovation explores characteristics, behaviours, attributes, and skills of entrepreneurship as well as the whole process of innovation from idea to product development and the conditions that must be fulfilled for innovation to thrive. The module explores research from a number of areas to highlight the importance of factors such as social and economic capital, local and regional infrastructure and the role of government in enabling (or disabling) innovation. You'll develop your entrepreneurial skills, identifying opportunities and developing ventures. On top of this, you'll consider the risk environment including legal issues, funding issues, start-up and growth strategies. This module provides you with the ability to act entrepreneurially to generate, develop and communicate ideas, manage and exploit intellectual property, gain support, and deliver successful outcomes.
Module code: BUS2229
Credits: 20
Language 2
Language 2 is ideal if you want to learn a new language, or further develop your current language skills, as an integrated part of this degree. You can study French, German, Arabic, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese or Spanish (subject to minimum numbers for your preferred language). Delivered at the Edge Hill Language Centre, the module will be taught in an interactive, communicative manner, using authentic materials in the target language. Emphasis will be placed on all four areas of reading, writing, speaking and listening. You will play an active role in the weekly two-hour classes, engaging in role-plays, short conversations, videos, authentic texts and listening materials. You will also be encouraged to reflect on your own learning needs. On enrolment to the module, you will complete a language induction form and be placed into a language level group appropriate for your prior knowledge of your chosen language. Please note, while we will endeavour to accommodate varying language levels per module, this is not always possible. While you can join the module with some prior experience of your target language, you will not be able to study a language you are already fluent or proficient in.
Module code: TLC2000
Credits: 20
In your final year you’ll refine your technique, performance and choreography skills to become industry-ready. You’ll build your portfolio and learn how to fund projects. We’ll encourage you to pursue your own interests in an independent research project that will also prepare you for work or postgraduate study.
Creative Entrepreneurship: Production and Touring nurtures your development as an independent artist, providing authentic experience of working as part of a collective to devise a professionally orientated performance project. You will utilise and demonstrate the skills of an independent practitioner, such as enterprise, project management and evaluation, in the creation of a collective performance piece and its distribution/touring activity. The project will encourage you to consider key questions in creating performance. What is being made? How is it being made? Who is the target audience? Working collaboratively with a choreographer, dramaturg and director, you will create a full-length performance and organise performance dates for a small-scale tour. You will be encouraged to adapt the work according to your audience or performance setting. There is also the opportunity to consider and engage in behind-the-scenes processes that underpin the making and performance of dance, drama or musical theatre, such as costume and lighting, as well as tour development and management. This combination of exciting real-world experiences will provide you with the expertise to develop collective performance work within the financial constraints of an emerging artist.
Module code: PAR3303
Credits: 20
Dance Practices: Employability and Professional Portfolio
Dance Practices: Employability and Professional Portfolio develops your dance technique and movement skills and enhances your potential as an emerging dance professional. A combination of sessions relevant to historical, current and future dance practices will be studied in-depth, increasing your awareness of how these are informed by multicultural forms and contexts. A range of overlapping approaches to movement and dance will give you a rich palette from which to source your work. Underpinning this with analytical approaches to movement will enable you to self-reflect and develop your own unique potential as a dancer and practitioner. The module will encourage you to think about where you might locate yourself within the dance profession. You will analyse the current job market within the sector and identify trends and gaps within the current market. This will help you to gain further insight into the skills and knowledge required to forge a career in the dance industry. Practical advice and guidance will be shared on key employability topics, from self-employment and business planning to application writing and creating your own portfolio.
Module code: DAN3300
Credits: 20
Research Project
Research Project engages and expands your interests in performance while cultivating your professional expertise and critical perspectives. You will plan and conduct a research enquiry relevant to the application, practice and study of dance, drama, musical theatre, live art or cross-form practices. A series of lectures, workshops and tutorial support will develop your skills in collecting, analysing, documenting and organising materials to present and evidence your research process and findings. You will then apply these research skills to the creation of a dissertation or artefact which may take the form of a performance, creative, applied or written project. This will allow you to demonstrate creative independence and position you as an engaged, emerging artist.
Dance Practices: Exit Velocity refines your dance and movement skills and encourages you to reflect on their potential applications as you become an emerging independent dance professional. A combination of practical classes and workshops will focus on enhancing your understanding and confidence with respect to your own dancing body of knowledge, emphasising command and authority over individual artistry and resilience. The module will support you in efficiently and reflectively implementing anatomical and technical engagement to embody a range of diverse dance practices. By providing a range of overlapping approaches to movement and dance, the module will give you a rich palette from which to develop your unique potential as a mover and practitioner and offer a greater understanding and awareness of where you might locate yourself for future employment in the dance profession.
Module code: DAN3301
Credits: 20
Jazz Dance Routes
Jazz Dance Routes allows you to explore and expand on the cultural and performance aspects of jazz dance. Interrogating the diverse contributions that the form has made to the development of dance in musical theatre and some commercial contexts, the module will critically explore the role that artistic jazz dance can play in recognising narratives of decolonisation. You will examine the origins of jazz dance, its development in New Orleans and the Harlem Renaissance, to its emergence as concert dance in New York and its impact on American theatre dance. Identifying and discussing the work of key artists in jazz dance, the module provides you with the opportunity to take artistic risks in the pursuit of an independent and autonomous dance performance.
Module code: DAN3302
Credits: 20
Live Art
Live Art explores and interrogates live art practices, from avant-garde histories and performance art to installation art and experiential, participatory, socially-engaged practices. The module focuses on the political implications and aesthetic sensibilities of live art study and practice and spans a wide range of disciplines and artforms. Challenging conventional definitions and boundaries of what constitutes theatre and contemporary performance, the module develops advanced knowledge and offers a critical perspective on live art and provides you with the opportunity to create live art work. You will discover a creative genre where defined performance roles break down and are replaced with the concept of the performance artist or live artist. Live art encourages experimentation, process and participatory practice and is deeply invested in the experience of creative and aesthetic possibilities. Immersing you in this challenging art form will enable you to create your own piece of live art and in so doing help to forge your own creative relationship between 'body', ecologies, visual imagery, political intent and live performance.
Module code: PAR3301
Credits: 20
Performance, Gender and Sexual Politics
Performance, Gender and Sexual Politics explores a range of different types of dramatic text and theatrical experience linked to the fundamental themes of gender and sexual politics. The module interrogates themes of gender and sexual politics, examining ways in which playwrights and practitioners have sought to use theatre as a forum to challenge gender roles and sexual ideology. Other means by which the themes of gender and sexuality have been explored through performance will also be explored. You will consider how theatre has functioned as a setting for challenging gender roles, with specific reference to a range of contrasting dramatic texts that deal explicitly with gender identity and sexual politics. Bringing a specialised focus to the study of the relationship between the theatre and our quest to understand who we are, the module will reveal theatre’s dual function as a site for debating gender identity and sexuality. This will provide a springboard for creating a theatrical event, as part of a small group, embracing these themes of gender identity and sexual politics.
Module code: DRA3303
Credits: 20
Language 3
Language 3 enables you to build on and develop your previous language knowledge in French, German, Arabic, Italian, Mandarin or Spanish. You must have either studied the prior language module in the previous year or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge of your target language (though you will not be able to study a language you are already fluent or proficient in). The language levels available will be determined by the continuation of corresponding groups from the previous language module. You will gain the language skills necessary to become a more proficient user of the language. Classes will be taught in an interactive and communicative manner using authentic materials to promote meaningful communication. They will be conducted in the target language as much as possible. Emphasis will be on speaking and listening, with appropriate attention also being paid to other communication skills. Other work will include a variety of tasks which may be completed in the Language Centre.
Module code: TLC3000
Credits: 20
Where your course includes optional modules, these are to provide an element of choice within the course curriculum. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by timetabling requirements. Some restrictions on optional module choice or combinations of optional modules may apply.
How you'll study
A wide range of teaching styles are offered, delivered through practical workshops, technique classes, performance projects, formal lectures and seminars.
Through creative projects, ensemble work and personal research, you will acquire critical and creative skills which will be of use in a wide range of future careers. You will develop a personal portfolio and prepare practice CVs for employment, supported by sessions in career planning.
The Dance team work closely with professional bodies to ensure the course teaches cutting edge practices and enables you to develop teamwork skills, lead group projects, and participate in management activities with an emphasis on self-efficacy.
Students will have the opportunity to undertake creative opportunities with companies and organisations, and a wide range of dance artists from different backgrounds. Students are also offered the opportunity to take workshops and performances into educational and community settings.
In addition, the award-winning student-led Dance Society delivers evening classes and organises performances on campus, as well as competing in dance events.
Timetables for your first week are normally available at the end of August prior to enrolment in September. You can expect to receive your timetable for the rest of the academic year during your first week. Please note that while we make every effort to ensure that timetables are as student-friendly as possible, scheduled teaching can take place on any day of the week. Wednesday afternoons are normally reserved for sports and cultural activities.
How you'll be assessed
As part of your student journey, your tutors will support you towards your assessments, which we see as a way for you to celebrate your learning. The different points of assessment prepare you for real-life scenarios, whether that be performance, presentations, portfolios, written work, or a viva/interview. As part of your personal development, you will have opportunities to reflect on your learning to recognise and build your skill sets.
There are no formal written examinations as part of the current assessment methods on this degree.
Who will be teaching you
You will be taught by a dedicated team of academic specialists and professionally-experienced dance practitioners and you will benefit from a wide range of dance experiences. Learning is driven by the principle of research-informed teaching and supported by a team of experienced theatre technicians.
To enhance your experience, the department has industry links with a wide range of professional bodies both regionally and nationally. These include Ludus Dance, The Grand Theatre Blackpool, Lisa Simpson Dance, Curious Minds, Company Chameleon, Company Carpi, Culture Warrington, The Everyman and Playhouse, Tate Liverpool, and Arts Council England.
These well-established links have enabled students to gain experience creating, performing and touring work by professionals including Company Carpi, Levantes Dance Theatre, Theo Clinkard, Joss Arnott, Company Chameleon, Garry Clarke, Charlotte Broom, Alesandra Seutin, Eleanor Perry and Daniel Gay Gordon, Coalesce Youth Dance, and Abhinnandana Kodana.
Entry criteria
Entry requirements
Typical offer 112-120 UCAS Tariff points. No specific subjects are required.
Relevant experience will be taken into account and all offers are made on the basis of an audition.
Example offers
Qualification
Requirement
A Level
BBC-BBB.
BTEC Extended Diploma (or combination of BTEC QCF qualifications)
Distinction, Merit, Merit (DMM).
T Level
Overall grade of Merit.
International Baccalaureate (IB)
We are happy to accept IB qualifications which achieve the required number of UCAS Tariff points. Subject-specific requirements at Higher Level (HL) Grade 5 may apply.
Access to Higher Education Diploma
45 credits at Level 3, for example 15 credits at Distinction and 30 credits at Merit or 24 credits at Distinction and 21 credits at Merit. The required total can be attained from various credit combinations.
Please note, the above examples may differ from actual offers made. A combination of A Level and BTEC awards may also be accepted.
If you have a minimum of two A Levels (or equivalent), there is no maximum number of qualifications that we will accept UCAS points from. This includes additional qualifications such as Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), AS Levels that haven't been continued to A Level, and General Studies AS or A Level awards.
English language requirements
International students require IELTS 6.0, with a score no lower than 5.5 in each individual component, or an equivalent English language qualification.
If your current level of English is half a band, one band, or one-and-a-half bands lower, either overall or in one or two elements, you may want to consider our Pre-Sessional English course.
Should you accept an offer of a place to study with us and formally enrol as a student, you will be subject to the provisions of the regulations, rules, codes, conditions and policies which apply to our students. These are available at www.edgehill.ac.uk/studentterms.
Dance, Drama and Musical Theatre students at Edge Hill University enjoy industry-standard teaching and learning facilities in the £7million Arts Centre which is also home to the Rose and Studio Theatres.
The Department of English and Creative Arts’ outstanding resources ensure you gain practical experience to a professional standard. Contemporary performance environments include dance studios, black box drama studios, rehearsal rooms, a theatre construction workshop, costume construction workshop, scene dock, theatre design studios, digital sound studio, digital design suite, music technology room, music practice studios, a recital room and an outdoor amphitheatre. The Studio Theatre also functions as a fully equipped aerial performance space.
The Arts Centre hosts a diverse range of high-quality productions and performers, including comedy, dance, drama and music, designed to supplement English and Creative Arts programmes and entertain both students and the local community.
The University may administer a small inflationary rise in tuition fees, in line with Government policy, in subsequent academic years as you progress through the course.
EU/EEA and Swiss students who have settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme, as well as Irish nationals, may be eligible for the UK tuition fee rate.
Financial support
Subject to eligibility, UK students joining this course can apply for a Tuition Fee Loan from the Government to cover the full cost of tuition fees. UK students enrolling on the course may also be eligible to apply for additional funding to help with living costs.
Scholarships
We offer a range of scholarships, which celebrate the determination, commitment and achievement of our students. Many of our scholarships are awarded automatically. There are some however, where you will need to be involved in an application or nomination process. To find out more about our scholarships and check your eligibility, please visit our dedicated scholarships pages.
Money Matters
Please view the relevant Money Matters guide for comprehensive information about the financial support available to eligible UK students.
EU/EEA and Swiss students who have settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme may be eligible to apply for financial support. Irish nationals can ordinarily apply to Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI).
If you are an EU student who does not have settled or pre-settled status, or are an international student from a non-EU country, please see our international student finance pages.
Your future career
Our graduates have the specialist skillset to work as artists, performers, choreographers and teachers. Former students now run their own very successful businesses, or are employed by organisations like Company Chameleon, Ludus Dance, Blue Moose Dance Company, Company Carpi, DanceSyndrome, Small Things Dance at Alder Hey Hospital, Divine Days CIC, Arts Council Isle of Man, Carnival Cruise Line, and WigLe Dance CIC.
Many dance students go on to work as freelance dance teachers and community artists. Roles you could aim for include:
portfolio dance artist
dance development and learning coordinator
artistic director
choreographer
teacher
freelance commercial dance artist
academy manager
director
Course changes
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this information, however our courses are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may necessitate alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses.
Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of professional bodies, revisions to subject benchmarks statements, to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.
Track changes to this course
Module changes - 31 May 2024
BUS1054 New Venture Creation, a new 20-credit optional module added to Year 1
BUS2229 Entrepreneurship and Innovation, a new 20-credit optional module added to Year 2
Change to Entry Requirements - 21 November 2022
Entry requirements updated to remove preferred subjects.
Dance, Drama and Musical Theatre students at Edge Hill University enjoy industry-standard teaching and learning facilities in the £7million Arts Centre which is also home to the Rose and Studio Theatres.
