Dance Academy

Choosing this Course

This is a vocational 2-year course offering students the opportunity to gain insight to be a professional dancer within the industry. This course is aimed at students who wish to embark upon a career in dance and performing arts and wish to apply to Dance Conservatoires or Universities.

Course Content

Compulsory units:

Unit 3 Group Performance Workshop

You will be required to interpret and respond to a stimulus for a group performance. You will need to apply personal management and collaborative skills to a group performance workshop process and then apply performance skills to communicate creative intentions during performance workshops. You will be required to review and reflect on the effectiveness of the working process and the workshop performance.

Unit 34 Developing Skills and Techniques for Performance

You will learn the role and skills of a performer, develop performance skills and techniques for live performance and apply performance skills and techniques in the jazz dance style.

Further units of study:

Unit 10 Jazz Dance Technique
Unit 12 Contemporary Dance Technique
Unit 22 Movement in Performance

You will develop skills and techniques in these styles. You will need to apply skills and techniques of these styles to a performance and review your personal development.

Practical classes are led by Dance teachers and industry professionals who have trained at top dance degree schools such as London Contemporary Dance School and The Laban Centre, to West End performers, and RAD professionals.