Performing Arts BA (Hons)

University of Bedfordshire

Bachelor's degree

In Luton

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Luton

About the course Explore the full range of your talents in Performing Arts – as a director, choreographer, actor, dancer and project leader. This degree focuses on combining theoretical and practical study of cutting-edge theatre, dance and performance practice to develop you as a skilled, innovative and adaptable professional ready to enter the world of Performing Arts. An introduction to dance and theatre is followed by the chance to develop further skills in musical theatre, dance, theatre, digital performance, performance making or community performance, making use of our professional-quality -seat theatre, a studio theatre, and a suite of dance studios. Explore improvisation and choreography and further flex your creative muscles by working with students of other disciplines, and choose your own final dissertation topic.

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Location

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Luton (Bedfordshire)
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University Of Bedfordshire Business School, Luton Campus (Vicarage Street), LU1 3JU

Start date

On request

About this course

We will consider you as an individual and take into account all elements of your application, not just your qualifications. We are looking for breadth and depth in your current studies and enthusiasm for the subject you wish to study. / entry UCAS Tariff Score of at least , which should include two A levels at C or above UCAS Tariff Score of at least from BTEC level 3 QCF Qualifications which should include a minimum of Merit Merit from either two BTEC Subsidiary Diplomas or from a BTEC Diploma or Merit Merit Pass in the BTEC Extended Diploma UCAS Tariff Score.

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Subjects

  • Production
  • Acting
  • Dance Technique
  • Musical Theatre
  • Theatre
  • Choreography
  • Musical
  • Dance

Course programme

  • Learn from supportive and enthusiastic tutors with extensive professional experience
  • Study contemporary dance and theatre through dance and acting techniques as well as through devising, directing, choreography, theory, digital performance, musical theatre and production work with the opportunity to create work for a range of audiences, including in the community and education
  • Develop knowledge and skills in creating, performing and critically appraising dance and theatre practices
  • Gain experience of working with a range of professional performance companies
  • Challenge yourself to create new and exciting work in collaboration with students of other disciplines
  • Benefit from a degree which will provide you with appropriate subject knowledge, transferable skills and comprehensive guidance for entry into a variety of vocational fields, acting, dance performance, teaching, small-scale touring, arts management, community arts and educational outreach, and technical theatre production or postgraduate study and research
Year 1
  • Practising Ideas
  • Performance and Production
  • Dance Technique and Choreography 1
  • Acting and Devising 1
Year 2
  • Theoretical Approaches to Performance
  • Production Processes: Musical Theatre
  • Dance Technique and Choreography 2
  • Screen Performance
  • Digital Performance
  • Turning Points: Theatre, Control and Power
  • Acting and Devising 2: Community Performance
Year 3
  • Professional Practice in Performing Arts
  • Performing Arts Dissertation
  • Performance Practice as Research
  • Dance Technique and Choreography 3
  • Performing Innovations: Interdisciplinary Performance
  • Staging New Writing

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