W5FY Dance and Professional Practice with Foundation Year BA (Hons)

Skills and experience gained The course facilitates the development of skills for inquisition and enquiry through creative and research methodologies. Students invest in compositional practices acquiring a comprehensive and varied set of improvisation skills and choreographic knowledge. Developing self-reflection skills is fundamental to professional and technical progression and experiencing a range of modes of performance and dance making underpins learning. All learning is contextualised through engaging in published theory and professional practice. Students critically analyse dance as a text in relation to their own and professional practice. Students can locate their creative and performance work historically, culturally and socially and communicate their understanding verbally, physically and in written form. Collaboration is crucial to artistic practice and effective participation in group work is required. Students articulate their awareness and understanding of the dance sector through their entrepreneurial practice. Students plan, design, create and deliver a range of artistic and entrepreneurial outputs and can discuss and evaluate the process. Students can debate the political and artistic movements that contribute to the evolution of dance. The professional theatre located on campus provides subsidised student tickets to professional performances as well as voluntary opportunities to work in the theatre. There are regular trips to galleries and theatres to see professional work throughout the year at national theatres such as Sadler’s Wells, The National Theatre, The Barbican and The Robin Howard Theatre. The department works proactively with the Partnerships team in the university offering workshops, classes and taster days to local school students. Our students have the opportunity to volunteer to deliver workshops, perform or...