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Dance

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Degree with Honours)Specialisation (formal)Year: 2025

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Overview

The Dance specialisation offers students, under the guidance of their supervisor, an opportunity to combine rigorous creative investigation with practice-led research skills – interlocking critical curiosity and creative enquiry to encourage a deeper understanding and capacity as contemporary dance artists and thinkers. The degree specialisation introduces students to practice-led research skills and methodologies to underpin and support the creation of a major creative work and a related research paper.

The Dance specialisation seeks to introduce students of proven ability and aptitude to research training – developing their critical inquisitiveness, creative drive, and capacity to devise, define and manage a major creative research project. The degree specialisation aims to produce innovative, ethical, critically engaged creative practitioners.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this specialisation, students should be able to:

  • plan and execute an independently devised major project in dance;
  • analyse and situate a dance practice in a research-led context;
  • persuasively reflect on their own artistic position in oral and written form;
  • produce work in alignment with professional dance requirements;
  • apply analytical, critical and research skills in the creation of an independent dance project.

Last updated: 7 November 2024