Study Abroad is available to undergraduate dance students. An exchange can last for a minimum of three months to a maximum of 12 months, which means you are abroad for either one semester, or one academic year. Whilst abroad, you can either study at a partner university, or complete a work placement. Current opportunities include: • York University in Toronto, Canada • University College of Dance, Stockholm, Sweden • Theatre Academy of Finland, Helsinki • State University of New York, Buffalo • Escola Superior de Dança, Lisbon, Portugal • University of Stavanger, Norway • Israel

Study abroad opportunities

STUDENT VIEW

The exchange enabled us to meet amazing people that we can both call friends for life, as well as people that provide connections for future endeavours. Ellie and Tara, studied at York University, Toronto

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Studying at the University of ChichesterThe Dance department has a well-established history of delivering high quality dance training, performance opportunities and a breadth of dance specialist education.

During your programme you will get to experience working within a wider arts and cultural environment which includes theatre practitioners, artists, musicians and media specialists as well as making new friends from other programmes across the campus. At Chichester we offer both specific, focussed undergraduate dance programmes in performance, teaching, dance science and aerial and physical theatre. But our most establish programme at this level is the BA Dance which offers you the breadth to study and select modules that suit your career interests and aspirations. You can continue your training and education to postgraduate level from any of our courses with specific programmes in performance, choreography, research as well as advanced dance practice. All the lecturers and dance tutors are expert professional practicing choreographers, technique tutors, dance artists and dance science specialists. Our aim is to be able to share our expertise and nurture your talent and individual aspirations to extend your creativity and debate contemporary issues in dance. Find out more here or on our website pages or why not attend one of our Open Days? I look forward to meeting you. Cathy Childs Head of Dance

Studying and training in Dance at the University of Chichester means that you will be joining our community of creative dancers, choreographers and writers, on our modern and friendly campus and we welcome students from a wide variety of backgrounds.

OUR COURSES

UNDERGRADUATE

• Dance BA (Hons)

• Dance, Aerial and Physical Theatre BA (Hons)

• Dance Performance BA (Hons)

• Dance Education and Teaching BA (Hons)

• Dance Science BSc (Hons) / MSci

• Dance Studies ‘Top-up’ available with International English Studies BA (Hons)

• Teaching Dance in the Private Sector FD

POSTGRADUATE

Performance: Dance (mapdance) MA or PGDip

• Choreography and Professional Practices MA

• Choreography by Independent Research MA

• Dance: Advanced Practice MA

• Dance Research MA

• Dance PGCE

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Overall Satisfaction in the UK – BA (Hons) Dance

National Student Survey 2019

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Our Dance Companies

Mapdance, our postgraduate performance company, is an established and exciting company of young, dynamic dancers recruited nationally and internationally. The company performs and tours a diverse repertoire by renowned and upcoming contemporary choreographers.

The third year BA (Hons) Dance Performance students tour locally, nationally and internationally as dancers in 3Fall Dance Company. It is an intensive, work-based learning experience that develops your technical, creative and performance skills. You will gain experience in teaching by providing educational opportunities to school groups. There is also the opportunity to gain arts administration and technical theatre experience or work with our youth company 3Fall Youth based as Shoreham Academy.

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The dance department has strong links with a variety of dance companies and organisations, resulting in a vibrant network across the sector. Many students benefit from successful work experience or placement opportunities via these connections. These have included: • Motionhouse • Loop Dance • Stop Gap • Jasmin Vardimon • South East Dance • Sussex Dance Network • The Point • Yorke Dance Project • One Dance UK • Scottish Ballet • National Dance Company of Wales • Pavilion Dance South West • Far Flung Dance Theatre

Placement opportunities

The ShowRoom – a fully equipped 212-seat public theatre venue - has built a reputation for presenting some of the most exciting dance and theatre companies touring on the UK circuit. Arts Council funding is supporting a programme of dance company performances, workshops and events in our Dance Theatre Space and the opportunity to see live dance work regularly ‘on your doorstep’ keeps you up to date with what is going on in the dance world. This programme aims to present emerging, diverse work from BAME, LGBTQ+ and integrated artists. In addition, there is a large gymnasium space together with two new sprung-floor spaces in the Academic Building. Also our students can use our well-equipped exercise laboratory facilities.

Our Facilities

Preparing students for the world of work when they graduate is built into our programmes through specific modules such as Preparing the Dance Artist for Work or Applied Dance (Placements). Several modules also support work-based learning opportunities alongside 3Fall Dance Company or mapdance and teaching experience and placements are an important part of the Education and Teaching programme. We also invite guest speakers to share their insight from a range of careers across the sector as well as workshops by choreographers and current practitioners. Graduates from our dance programmes have gone on to have exciting and rewarding careers and taken up influential roles in all aspects of the

dance profession. Our students have gone on to perform with artists such as Richard Alston, Tavaziva, Shobana Jeyasingh, Lila Dance, Protein Dance, BalletBoyz, Akram Khan and Flexer & Sandiland. Our students have also gone on to work at leading dance institutions such as Sadler’s Wells, RAD, Trinity Laban, ISTD, The Point. Numerous graduates are teaching in primary and secondary schools across the country, following completion of our PGCE Dance programme. Others have become community dance artists, creating their own companies such as Doodle Dance or working with different groups including CAT groups, Youth Dance, SEND, and the elderly.

Career pathways STUDENT VIEW We’re really lucky at Chichester to have the facilities that we do, the dance studios are amazing and the labs too. The course has a great combination of practice and theory. It’s interesting how we learn something in a physiology lesson and then are able to apply it to technique or performance classes. This transfer of knowledge helps us understand the information from multiple perspectives. Jody – BSc (Hons) Dance Science