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BA (Hons) Dance, Movement and Creative Practice

Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time
Placement year: Optional 1 year
Course code: W713 (UCAS)
Institution code: A66 (UCAS)

Overview

This course will run from September 2027.

Dance is movement, expression, storytelling and connection. BA (Hons) Dance, Movement and Creative Practice is a dance degree for performers and makers who want to explore the future of dance across live performance, film, digital media and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Embedded within Bournemouth Film School, this course gives you the opportunity to develop your dance practice in a uniquely creative environment – where choreography meets camera, movement meets technology and performance extends beyond the stage.

Rooted in dance and movement research, the course explores dance as both an art form and a powerful tool for communication, wellbeing and social impact.

Two Arts University Bournemouth student performers in the middle of a dance routine. One student has their head on the other's shoulder. The student in front is holding the other's head in their hands.

Create work for stage, screen and beyond

You’ll train as a versatile dance artist while developing the skills to create original performance work across live and digital platforms, from choreography and site-specific performance to dance film and music video.

Working alongside filmmakers, photographers, designers and creative technologists, you’ll collaborate on ambitious projects that reflect the way contemporary performance is evolving across industries and audiences.

Four Arts University Bournemouth student performers smiling and dancing in black outfits while performing a routine on campus as part of the Day of Dance event.

Dance with purpose

This course recognises the wider impact of movement – exploring dance not only as performance, but also as a practice that supports wellbeing, identity, connection and health. You’ll be encouraged to think critically about the role of the body in contemporary culture and how movement can engage communities, tell stories and inspire change.

An Arts University Bournemouth student pulls a pose in mid-air, arms raised, having jumped from some steps outside Bournemouth Pavilion.

Become a creative, collaborative, future-facing artist

Through practical projects, industry collaborations and experimental making, you’ll graduate with the confidence to perform, choreograph, collaborate and innovate across a wide range of creative careers.

Watch our videos

These projects offer a glimpse into the collaborative and boundary-pushing work created on BA (Hons) Dance, Movement and Creative Practice.

Falling Together is a multidisciplinary music video project led by graduate Emilie Bouet Conran, bringing together students from the BA (Hons) Film Production, Commercial Photography, Costume, and Makeup, Hair and Prosthetics courses.

Desire and Decay is a small studio project, created during an intensive week of experimentation, where dancers, designers and makeup artists collaborated to build a world through movement, texture and film.

You can also hear our graduate, Emilie, reflect on her creative practice, collaboration and what it means to work with the performing body today.