Professional Dance BA (Hons)

**Passionate about dance and dancing? Our Professional Dance course allows you to perform, to create, to inspire. Challenge the boundaries of physical expression through a dynamic studio-based learning experience.**<br/><br/>Our primary dance course at Chester - BA Professional Dance - invites you to acquire strong performance, emotive ability, refined technique, and choreographic skills, underpinned by a critically informed approach to current dance trends within the media and technology. Our students learn to perform, create, and teach dance in diverse professional settings.<br/><br/>Our collaborative, practical approach with dynamic experimentation invites dancers to expand their expertise in a range of styles, including contemporary, global and commercial dance, community work, screen dance, and choreography. Our dance students can find exciting routes through a dynamic range of specialist modules to best support their future career.<br/><br/>The Professional Dance course is led by expert and highly motivated professionals, and the supportive and nurturing environment encourages the development of each individual dancer. You will study in a hands-on learning environment with excellent subject-specific studios for rehearsal and practice. There are opportunities to present and perform work as well as develop dance teaching skills. Due to our close partnerships with professional dance artists and companies, graduates have gone on to work with companies throughout Europe and the UK, and also to secure Arts Council funding to create their own work.