Dance
Extend your skillset, reach new heights and create your pathway to success
Dance
Extend your skillset, reach new heights and create your pathway to success
37th
UK University
The Guardian University Guide 2023
7th
in the UK for teaching quality
The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022
Top 10
for student satisfaction
Complete University Guide 2023
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Explore your passion for dance
Discover our range of highly-practical courses
Apply more of your theoretical learning in the studio to develop your technical, choreography, and performance skills.
Explore the breadth of dance study
Study areas of dance that go beyond performance and technical training, including dance science, history, journalism and scenography.
Dedicated careers guidance and support
Our courses include in-built work placement and professional experience options to prepare you for a successful career.
Learn from active dance artists and practitioners
Work with and learn from industry-active professional dance artists, choreographers, practitioners, and researchers throughout your studies.
Dance courses
Discover courses that develop your performance, creative, research, and technical skills within dance
Our dynamic Dance courses allow you to explore a broad range of topics and specialisms in performance and technical development, research and theory, and education and contextual studies.
Select a learning level
- All
- Undergraduate
- Postgraduate
- Foundation Options
BA (Hons) Dance
- Develop your technique and performance skills through daily dance classes.
- Build your degree around your interests with broad range of practical and contextual modules.
- Learn from experienced and sector-active dance practitioners and researchers.
- In-built career guidance and support
BA (Hons) Dance Performance
- Develop your technical skills with intensive training and specialist performance classes
- Complete up to 8 dance and performance techniques classes per week
- Join the 3Fall dance company in your third year and tour around the country
- Learn from experienced and sector-active dance practitioners and researchers.
BSc (Hons) Dance Science & MSci Dance Science
- Focus your studies with the Applied Performance or Health and Wellbeing pathway
- Complete daily dance technique classes with a course theory to practice ratio of 60:40
- Join the dance community: share classes and modules with other students across the department
- Opportunity to complete industry qualifications alongside your studies
- Prepare for your career in the dance industry as a choreographer, performer, teacher and more
BA (Hons) Dance Education and Teaching
- Prepare to teach dance in a variety of settings including communities and schoolsÂ
- Complete daily dance technique classes and study a theory to practice ratio of roughly 60:40
- Join the dance community: share classes and modules with other students across the department
- Be guaranteed an interview for our PGCE Dance programme once you graduateÂ
BA (Hons) Dance, Aerial and Physical TheatreÂ
- Specialise in aerial and physical theatre in dance, regardless of previous experience
- Develop your knowledge of physical theatre and narrative choreography.
- Take daily dance technique classes with dance students on other courses.
- Learn from experienced and sector-active dance practitioners and researchers.
BA (Hons) Dance Studies Top Up
- Complete daily dance technique classes and study a theory to practice ratio of 60:40Â
- Join the dance community: share classes and modules with other students across the departmentÂ
- Choose from a wide range of modules
- Specialise in areas that interest you
- Prepare for your career in the dance industry as a choreographer, performer, teacher and more
Foundation Degree in Teaching Dance in the Private Sector
- Broaden your dance knowledge
- Highly qualified teaching team
- Develop your practical skills
- Internationally recognised qualification
Close community
Join our collaborative community of dancers
Studying at the University of Chichester allows you to share classes and modules with students from across our Dance Department to help creative a close. collaborative community of dancers, choreographers, writers, and researchers.
Showcase your passion
Perform throughout your studies
Develop your technical skills with regular classes and development sessions as you work towards end-of-semester performances and showcases.
Perform with working companies
Seize opportunities to watch, join, and learn from our working dance companies
Our in-house working dance companies 3Fall, MapDance and HIVE provide performance, work experience, and professional networking opportunities for our undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Dedicated dance facilities
Train, rehearse and study in industry standard spaces
Our University dance facilities include:
- Four purpose built dance studios.
- The Arts Council funded Dance Studio Theatre.
- The Show Room, a fully-equipped 250-seat theatre.
- A 110-seat studio theatre.
- A newly refurbished large gymnasium space.
- 2 sprung floor spaces.
- Specialist physiology, psychology and biomechanics labs
- Sports injury clinic
Expert teaching staff
Learn from industry-active professional dance artists, researchers, and practitioners
Head of Dance Department
Cathy's background focuses on dance performance. Cathy trained at Laban and continued to the postgraduate dance company Transitions Dance Company before joining English Dance Theatre, where she worked with choreographers such as Robert Cohan, Michael Clark, Kim Brandstrup and David Glass.
Senior Lecturer and Co-Artistic Director for Mapdance
Detta Howe teaches on both BA and MA programmes and co-directs their postgraduate company mapdance. In 2013 Detta completed her Masters which furthered her interest in improvisation and awareness in motion, challenging her working processes and curiosity about the dancing body.
Professor in Site-Dance, MA Choreography and Professional Practices Leader
Vicky teaches across a range of theoretical and practical modules and has a specialism in teaching Cunningham-based contemporary technique.
Dance research and research degrees
Developing research in interdisciplinary work and new technologies
Research in Dance at the University is at an extremely exciting stage in its development as the interests of our dance researchers extends.
Our Dance Department has gained an international reputation in PhD studies through Practice as Research, and actively encourage applicants in this area of research practice.
Attend professional performances
Enjoy performances and talks from professionals on campus
Watch performances in University spaces and attend talks with professionals to enhance your studies.
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