BA (Hons) Dance at University of Lincoln

This MA Dance programme is designed to build your knowledge and skills of creative dance practices, and will appeal to entrepreneurial dance artists who are keen to develop their own practice. As part of the School of Music and Performing Arts the course sits within a dynamic, artistic community of learners and at the programme’s heart is the creation and exploration of new work and creative ideas. There is an emphasis on supporting you to work with artists both within, and beyond the discipline, as well as working with different live and digital ‘sites’ as potential performance arenas. This approach aims to develop dance graduates who can be versatile and confident in managing a range of complex and dynamic scenarios.


 The programme is delivered through a series of weekly practical workshops, lectures and seminars that allow you to explore your ideas and how these intersect with the ideas of others. Portfolio building forms an essential taught element of the course alongside individual enquiry into.



self-selected areas of the profession. Developing an understanding of the demands and trends of the dancerelated workplace is a key feature of the programme. The course is designed to support flexible, independent study, which allows those already working in the field to be able to continue with their practice.

BA Dance is a physically and intellectually challenging training programme that will build your skills in contemporary dance practices. The strong practical focus forms an immersive and challenging artistic environment that will support your development as a creative artist. Creativity and performance lie at the heart of the course; modules are designed to give you regular opportunities to present new work you have generated in a range of performance projects.

 Physical training is an important component of your study, particularly for the Single Honours route. Cunningham and Limon based classes, somatic practices and contact improvisation are key elements of this and underpin your development as a strong and confident ‘thinking body’. The programme offers specialist modules in Somatics and Digital Performance Practice and these areas will help to support your development as a creative dance practitioner. You will also have a chance to explore how dance intersects with other art forms to make performance and how you can use this knowledge to help to build the critical and analytical mind set essential to creative enquiry. 

Year 1 builds understanding in the key areas of performance, creativity and critical thinking and broadens your skills by introducing new ways to think and move. You will work regularly with industry practitioners to engender a broad understanding of the dance industry that will inform your career aspirations. Year 2 extends the creative and performance skills in exciting new directions and considers how to make performance work for different contexts. Year 3 focusses on developing a specialist area of study. You can work on a professional performance project, complete a work-placement with a professional dance organisation and undertake a substantial independent study. Some of this work can be done in collaboration with students from partner programmes such as BA Theatre and Digital Production.

If you're considering a career in the performing arts, this combination of dance and drama is both artistic and practical.

You'll be encouraged to develop your own identity in dance and as a theatre-maker, reflecting your own interests and career pathway. To prepare you for working in the performance industry, you'll develop analytical, choreographic, directorial, ensemble and performance skills.

There are practical opportunities to master physical performance in both dance and drama. Workshops and active technique classes cover a wide range of performance styles. This includes popular and non- Western forms and reflects the professional practice you'll experience in your career.