Dance (Commercial)
Bath Spa University
UCAS Code: MG12 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Scottish Higher
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About this course
**This forward-thinking degree offers opportunities for choreography, performance, and working with visiting professionals. It develops your skills in dance for film.**
Taught at The MGA Academy of Performing Arts, BA Hons Dance (Commercial) provides an elite training environment. It offers intensive, rigorous conservatoire-style training in Commercial Dance for those aiming for professional dance careers. The programme allows you to embrace artistry, musicality, and versatility as a multi-faceted commercial dance artist.
Delivered by highly skilled, internationally experienced professional commercial dancers and choreographers, BA (Hons) Dance (Commercial) will build your core dance techniques, explore choreographic practice, and help you develop as an individual creative dance practitioner. The programme is highly physical and intensively taught.
A distinctive element of the programme is the broad range of professional performance skills developed:
- Jazz dance (Mattox, Luigi, Horton)
- Hip-hop and street dance
- Heels
- Aerial
- Musical theatre jazz
- Tap (British and American)
- Ballet
- Contemporary dance
- Acting and singing
Supporting lectures and seminars cover other professional areas such as anatomy and kinesiology, historical and contextual studies, and entrepreneurship.
The course has been specifically designed for dance students who require a diverse and flexible skill-set that merges disciplines with a strong sense of personal identity.
Building on traditional dance genres, tutors will introduce hip-hop culture and dance techniques, past and present. You'll explore how this cultural revolution is continuing to thrive globally and how to find your place within it.
**Taught at MGA Academy of Performing Arts in Edinburgh.**
Modules
Year 1 is focused on the development of the technical and intellectual skill required for Dance.
- Commercial Dance 1
- Ballet and Contemporary 1
- Acting and Singing 1
- Anatomy and Kinesiology
- Critical and Contextual Studies 1
Year 2 is focused on building on the skills developed in year 1 and developing integrated performance skills.
- Commercial Dance 2
- Ballet and Contemporary 2
- Acting and Singing 2
- Performance Workshop
- Critical and Contextual Studies 2
Year 3 is focused on developing advanced performance skills and advanced professional expertise in preparation for launch into industry.
- Performance – Commercial Dance
- Professional Performer
- Entrepreneurship and Professional Studies
- Independent Research Project
Assessment methods
Assessment tasks vary according to the learning outcomes. They can include group performance presentations, solo presentations, written assignments, and contribution to public performance projects.
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