Dance & Choreography with Professional Placement - BA (Hons)

Falmouth University

Start your next creative adventure in dance and choreography.With a focus on creativity and collaboration, you’ll emerge from this course as a technically skilled dancer and an experimental choreographer. On this Dance & Choreography degree you’ll be given the freedom to develop your own ideas and style, creating your own performances from day one while training in our exceptional, state-of-the-art dance studios under guidance from experienced industry professionals. You’ll be immersed in an inspirational, creative community, benefiting from Falmouth’s interdisciplinary culture. You’ll be surrounded by other artists in a department buzzing with performers, musicians, filmmakers, theatre designers and more. You're encouraged to be proactive and collaborate with students from a range of disciplines expanding your skillset, knowledge and sense of creative identity while establishing your own innovative approach to dance and movement, ready for a career in performance, communities or allied professions. This is a course ideally suited to those who want to build their physical skills and technique as a dancer, alongside developing a distinctive choreographic voice as a curious, independent dance artist. You will:Study on one of the only degrees of its kind, placing equal weight on nurturing your individual choreographic voice and developing technical dance skills from day one You’ll be challenged to imagine new futures for dance by developing projects in collaboration with musicians, illustrators, fashion designers, photographers, filmmakers or game developers as well responding to contemporary issues such as social justice, health, climate change or activism Build industry links through workshops, guest lectures and visits from internationally renowned practitioners – previous guests have included Company Chameleon, Theo Clinkard, Ayesha Fazal and Honorary Fellow Julie Felix MBE Benefit from our year-round performance programme, which attracts top dance, theatre and music performers such as Protein Dance, Thick and Tight, Lea Anderson and Aakash Odedra Learn to utilise our extensive range of technical sound, lighting and recording equipment, to enabling you to realise your own production ideas and visions

The Academy of Music and Theatre Arts