Why study Dance & Choreography at Leeds Beckett University?
- Learn from an experienced, dedicated team of industry professionals
- Access to workshops and guest lectures delivered by external artists
- Opportunity to work in diverse community settings, using innovative collaborative approaches
- Take advantage of the university's partnership with One Dance UK – watch the video further up this page that was created by One Dance UK of our graduate and international choreographer Shambik Ghose working with our students
- Access to an industry standard theatre, performance studios and a host of other performing arts facilities in the Leeds School of Arts Building
As part of this course, you’ll have opportunity to:
- Find new ways to produce and perform innovative choreography
- Choose optional modules to create an individually tailored programme of study
- Explore your artistic interests and make several new performance works including a final major work of your choosing
- Engage with up-to-date dance scholarship and learn how to apply this to industry practice
- Use alternative and traditional settings for dance performance; studio, theatre, gallery, museum, site and/or screen-based projects are all possible
- Study participatory, immersive and socially engaged practices to develop new creative practice with community groups
- Share ideas with fellow students to collaborate, critique and engage with each other's artistic identities
- Develop the skills to respond to dance and choreographic commissions
- Direct, perform in or collaborate on interdisciplinary and experimental projects
