Dance Education, BA - 2017/18

100% of Dance Education graduates were in employment or further study six months after completing their studies 2013-14 DLHE The Dance Education degree programme is designed to prepare you for entry into the dance profession as a dance practitioner or artist. It develops your knowledge, skills and understanding in initiating, creating, organising, managing, teaching and performing dance projects and activities. It enables you to work with people of varying ages and abilities in a variety of school and community contexts. The programme supports and challenges you to develop technically and creatively as a dancer, teacher and choreographer and to gradually become more confident in taking leadership roles with greater responsibility and independence. You should leave with a high level of knowledge, skill and understanding of a range of dance techniques and styles, ways of creating, teaching and presenting or performing dance and first-hand experiences of where, why and how dance happens in the current dance/arts landscape via the range of projects and placement opportunities. Our degree in Dance Education has a 100% overall student satisfaction rating National Student Survey, 2015 Top reasons to study this course A wide variety of dance techniques are studied – ballet, contemporary Limon, contemporary Cunningham, jazz, African, South Asian and aerial High quality tutor team including practitioners, artists, performers, managers, choreographers, researchers and published authors Collaborative teaching with established organisations/companies e.g. Magpie Dance Company (dance and disability), Dance United (dis-affected youth), Tamalpa (therapeutic dance) and Matthew Bourne Re-Bourne (Boys’ dance legacy) Enhanced curriculum of artists in residency (e.g. Jasmin Vardimon, Matthias Sperling), workshops with company artists/performers (e.g. Protein, Boy Blue, Lila Dance), performances (end of year performances, Canterbury Festival, Canterbury Dance Company) and education and health/well-being projects (e.g. Kent Dance Network, Sidney De Hann Research Centre), placements, trips and visits (e.g. The Marlowe Theatre, The Gulbenkian Theatre, Move It, Dance Umbrella) A focus on developing student as collaborator and as an individual practitioner/artist of the future with individual choices for placements, focus of choreography, areas of investigation for dissertation and ways of presenting work (e.g. theatre, site-specific, installation, using digital image, film/camera) linked to individual future aspirations/employability