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BA(Hons) Dance Choreography is run by Northumbria University in collaboration with Dance City.
The main aim of the programme is to prepare reflective, creative and professionally skilled contemporary dance artists who have developed a critical understanding of dance and of themselves as artists in society and culture.
The internationally unique relationship with Dance City ensures that the curriculum and course content is in constant dialogue with professional performance practices and thus enables students to engage with current and cutting edge approaches to contemporary dance. Learning and teaching activities occur in a vibrant environment of performance, experimentation and artistic exchange.
Throughout the programme students engage in daily technique classes that are designed to enable them to develop as expressive, articulate and professionally skilled dance artists able to work competently in a variety of performance and choreographic contexts. Through the Choreography modules, students are encouraged to develop their own approaches to making that are individually relevant but also referential to or participate in the dialogues of contemporary practices. The degree culminates in students directing a work for a platform performance through which they can synthesise their interests and create a work that expresses their vision as an emerging contemporary dance artist.
Students are also encouraged to be active within the regional dance community through attending performances, additional classes and projects as time allows. This engagement helps to feed a healthy dance culture, assists students’ knowledge and understanding of current practices, and increases their awareness of possible future employment opportunities.
Year 1
Contemporary Technique
Foundations of Classical Technique
Choreography
Choreographers in Context
Improvisation and Bodywork
Performance Technologies
Year 2
Contemporary Technique
Classical Technique
Experimental Performance
Digital Dance Making
Movement and Meaning
Leading and Managing Dance
Year 3
Contemporary Technique
Contact Improvisation
Representation, Performativity and Culture
Advanced Choreography
Dance Performance: Portfolio Preparation
Dance Performance: Platform
Application for the programme is made through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) www.ucas.ac.uk
Institution code: N77
Course code: WWM5 BA/DCh
Entry requirements for the programme are five GCSEs plus 260-280 UCAS tariff points and successful completion of the audition process.
All qualified applicants will be invited for audition. The audition consists of a technique class, an improvisation and a presentation of a self-choreographed solo by the applicant. Auditions are usually scheduled for Wednesday afternoons between January and April each year.
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