Contemporary Craft and Dance BA (Hons)

CONTEMPORARY CRAFT BA (HONS)

Contemporary Craft is an exciting major focused on hands-on design and making. We aim to build a supportive community where emerging makers and designers can reach their creative potential. This leads to specialised craft works, innovative projects, and new career paths.

Liverpool Hope University offers specialized facilities in metal, ceramics, textiles, and digital design. With dedicated tutoring and technical support, it is an inspiring place to study. You’ll explore materials and share ideas and goals. Masterclasses, lectures, and group seminars will explore key themes. These include the joy of making, materiality, sustainability, personal direction, collaboration, and craft identities.

We emphasize professional practice and employability. You'll work on live projects with support from university partners in Liverpool and the North West. You'll gain work experience and might even have a placement year.

A Contemporary Craft graduate can explore many careers. They might become a craft or design practitioner, a community worker, or a creative producer. They can also teach or engage in postgraduate research.

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DANCE

This degree is designed to achieve an excellence in dance, focusing on performance and choreographic practices you will learn to become an adaptable, reflexive, independent & critical dance artist. You will foster your creativity and discover your signature dance practice. You will be exposed to a diverse range of dance techniques and theories designed to develop your skills, knowledge and understanding. You will undertake project-based learning, professional placements and work towards large scale performances.

You will have regular opportunities to create work and perform in a variety of contexts, professional platforms, touring, community and educational settings.  This focus will develop creative practice and develop awareness between the wider historical, philosophical and cultural practices of the field, while locating dance as an independent discipline that has influenced and informed Performance Studies today. 

Hear from student Frances Shephard about what it's like to study Dance at Hope.