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UCAS Code: Combined Honours only – see combinations tab|Duration: 3 years|Full Time|Creative Campus
UCAS Campus Code: L46
Work placement opportunities|International students can apply|Study Abroad opportunities
About the course
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.
Course structure
Course Structure Teaching on this degree includes technique classes, lectures, practical seminars and small group tutorials. For the Dance part of your combined honours degree, there are approximately 9 teaching hours each week throughout your course. On top of teaching hours, you are expected to spend a number of hours each week studying independently and practicing your dance techniques, as well as studying in groups to prepare for any group assessments you may have.
Assessment and feedback
Assessments on this degree are largely practical - performances, choreography and contextual journals, reviews of practical performances and some essays.
There are no formal written exams. In your third year you will write a dissertation. You will be given written feedback on your assessments, and you will have the opportunity to discuss this with your tutor in more detail.
Year One
Introduction to Dance
The first year is framed by dance performance and technique. Dance technique and training is fundamental to the ethos of the course, you will develop technical acquisition, posture, alignment, performance skills and the ability to support your own training. You will explore key choreographic and performance approaches in solo and ensemble work.
Students will have the opportunity to reconstruct, adapt, learn and perform established dance pieces from key historic figures to present day artists and choreographers. In the lecture series you will focus on the figures who shaped dance history and in turn how history shapes, defines and inspires dance makers, practitioners and facilitators.
Students will consider how political and social contexts have shaped and informed how we situate/position/acknowledge dance today, developing a reflexive approach to their subject.
Year Two
Explorations in Dance
In the second-year daily technique classes are designed to explore and develop students technical and expressive skills and approaches to dynamic alignment and phrases, and the continuation of anatomical and lifestyle implications on the dancing body. Students will develop their learning from year 1 develop their performance and creative practice through analyses and learn to create and develop site-specific and screen digital technologies, interdisciplinary practice and installation; these will be specifically informed through collaborative practice.
The second half of the year students will have the opportunity to develop facilitation and teaching skills through industry placements. Students will learn theoretical frameworks to support their understanding of the industry today and the ways dance meaning and impact might be constructed through critical lenses, and to think analytically about dance from multiple perspectives.
Year Three
Advanced Studies - Signature Practice
The third year aims to further extend student's critical awareness of research and inquiry relating to dance performance, training and practice and applying them. Third year technique develops the notion of the signature dance practice. Focus will be on economy of movement, mastery of performance skills, there is a focus on developing the articulate body, this will be effectively achieved through a sensorial approach to anatomy and posture.
Students will undertake an extended body of dance research where they develop their signature dance practice. Students can focus on either choreography and performance with the culmination of a large-scale performance project or community practices which involves a professional dance placement. In this last year students will deliver an undergraduate dance conference, and will complete an integrated dissertation.
The student will develop a personal Independent Negotiated Project that may take the form of self-choreography, dance performance, screen dance, teaching or written work.
Entry requirements
A-Levels | BCC |
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UCAS Tariff Points | 104 UCAS Tariff points must come from a minimum of two A Levels (or equivalent). Additional points can be made up from a range of alternative qualifications |
BTEC | DMM |
Access to HE | 104 Tariff Points |
IB | 24 |
Irish Leaving Certificate | 104 Tariff Points from Higher Level qualifications only |
Welsh Baccalaureate | This qualification can only be accepted in conjunction with other relevant qualifications |
T-Levels | Merit |
Subject Requirements | All applicants will be required to attend an audition. |
International entry requirements
Specific Country Requirements | Select your country |
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IELTS | 6.0 overall (with reading and writing at 6.0) and no individual score lower than 5.5. We also accept a wide range of International Qualifications. For more information, please visit our English Language Requirements page. |
Careers
There are a wide range of careers opportunities for our graduates. Our graduates work across the creative sector, and their highly developed social and practical skills make them very employable in a wide range of workplaces. We have graduates who have gone on to have a career as a freelance dancer, choreographer, community dance artist, dance therapist, dance teacher, many have started their own dance companies, or opened their own dance schools. This course also equips to move onto further study, postgraduate dance courses, PGCE and Masters Courses.
We currently have graduates working in the National Youth Dance Company of Wales, the Black e-Community Arts Space in Liverpool and, internationally, at The Space Dance and Arts Centre, Melbourne, Lisa Simpson Dance Company.
Students graduating from the Dance course at Liverpool Hope University will have accumulated a wide range of practical and critical skills to apply directly in the professional workplace. Students will graduate with hands-on experience in running community dance projects, managing rehearsal schedules, evaluating and reviewing professional dance work and producing performance works in professional environments.
Enhancement opportunities
Work Placement Opportunities
Throughout your degree, you will be given a number of placement opportunities which will help you to gain skills of the working Dance world that will be highly valued by future employers.
SALA
The Service and Leadership Award (SALA) is offered as an extra-curricular programme involving service-based experiences, development of leadership potential and equipping you for a career in a rapidly changing world. It enhances your degree, it is something which is complimentary but different and which has a distinct ‘value-added’ component. Find out more on our Service and Leadership Award page.
Study Abroad
As part of your degree, you can choose to spend either a semester or a full year of study at one of our partner universities as part of our Study Abroad programme. Find out more on our Study Abroad page.
Tuition fees
The tuition fees for the 2025/26 academic year are £9,535* for full-time undergraduate courses.
If you are a student from the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, your tuition fees will also be £9,535*.
The University reserves the right to increase Home and EU Undergraduate and PGCE tuition fees in line with any inflationary or other increase authorised by the Secretary of State for future years of study.
*subject to Council approval.
Additional costs
As well as your tuition fees, you will also need to consider the cost of your accommodation each year whilst you study at university. Visit our accommodation pages for further details about our Halls of Residence.
Scholarships
We have a range of scholarships to help with the cost of your studies. Visit our scholarships page to find out more.
International tuition fees
The International Tuition fees for 2025/26 are £14,500.
Visit our International fees page for more information.
Course combinations
This course is only available as a Combined Honours degree with the following subjects: