BA (Hons) Dance, Movement and Creative Practice*

All undergraduate courses at AUB offer an optional placement year, to be taken between your second and third years of study.

If you’re unsure about this optional placement, you don’t need to decide now. Once you’re here and studying with us, the course team will discuss the placement options with you, so when the time comes, you can make a decision that’s right for you.

With professional engagement, innovative practice and creative experimentation at its heart, this degree equips you with the skills to shape the future of dance and movement, through performance, health and wellbeing and embodied creativity.

This year is about play and discovery: you’ll become a creative collaborator, both a muse for other art forms, but also a maker who isn’t afraid to test boundaries and mix disciplines.

You’ll begin to explore how to use the body as the primary tool in physical performance and will be introduced to interdisciplinary collaboration. You'll be introduced to the idea of a physical skills toolkit and explore how you can use it not just on stage but in digital media, theatre, visual arts and design.

From day one, making and performing live work is embedded in the course and you’ll be given the chance to create, produce and perform original works in a variety of settings, both in theatres to non-traditional spaces. You’ll also begin to develop a strong understanding of the technologies that inform and enhance your creative practice.

This year expands your horizons, helping you shape a personal sense of identity and brand as an dance artist ready to influence multiple creative landscapes.

You’ll continue to refine your physical and movement-based skills, while also advancing your approach to interdisciplinary performance, movement direction, film and choreography. You’ll be supported to explore these via more diverse performance-based projects and a deepening awareness of production and design.

You’ll explore more approaches to movement and physical performance work as you begin to think about your identity and brand as a creative maker. This year offers opportunities to develop your practice in community, education and engagement-based work or via health and wellbeing arts projects.

You’ll develop skills for facilitating workshops and creative experiences for diverse groups, focusing on inclusion and accessibility, highlighting how performance and movement can be used as a tool for empowerment, social change and education.

The focus of your final year will be on defining your own artistic voice and brand. You’ll be given the freedom to propose a signature final year project that's as bold and dynamic as you are.

By collaborating across disciplines and across industry settings and challenging traditional performance boundaries you can immerse yourself fully in your own vision. You have the freedom to take control of the entire performance toolkit, enhancing your unique and crafted approach to movement with technical and production support, as well as developing your own branding. You’ll be able to bring your idea to life in a real-world setting to experiment, innovate and redefine what a mover, dancer and physical performer can be.