Join our MDX Dance community and develop your skills as a professional dance artist. Our Dance Performance degree fosters individuality through rigorous technique training, collaborative projects, frequent performance opportunities and applied professional practices. You’ll be taught by a diverse team of industry professionals who will support you in discovering your potential.

We embrace digital alongside traditional teaching to enhance your learning. With the industry experience of our technical team and the high-quality digital media facilities available on campus, you will be fully supported in creating exciting and dynamic work.

Why study Dance Performance with us?

Our course ranks as one of the UK’s top for dance, with national and international recognition. Your lecturers have years of industry and teaching experience that they'll share in practical, theoretical and creative contexts, so you get an understanding of what a career in dance really looks like.

Dance lives within the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries, which is also home to an array of creative disciplines including music, animation, theatre and interior and architectural design, and so we strongly encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration. Being based in London, the creative and cultural hub, means there are plenty of opportunities for participation and inspiration, right on your doorstep. You'll also have access to four fully equipped dance studios in addition to our flagship Grove Dance Theatre, which has a seating capacity of 144, a dedicated dressing room, a specialist lighting rig, and many more extras to facilitate an authentic stage environment.

A degree in Dance from Middlesex opens up a wide range of careers:

There is such a wide range of performance opportunities available to you once you graduate. Recent graduates have performed with:

• Akram Khan Company
• Alter Ego
• Amici Dance Theatre Company
• Attik Dance Company
• Avant Garde
• Boy Blue Entertainment
• C-12 Dance Theatre
• CandoCo Dance Company
• Eddie Peake
• Ensemble Dance Company
• Flawless
• Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company
• Loop Dance Company
• MCDC - Michaela Cisarikova Dance Company
• Mavin Khoo Dance
• Melody Squire - Sol Dans Company
• New Adventures (Matthew Bourne)
• Olympic 2012 opening and closing ceremonies (as choreographer and dancers)
• Reside Dance Company
• Ross McKim
• Royal Opera House (Covent Garden)
• Sia and Zayn dance music video
• Shobana Jeyasingh
• Uchenna Dance
• Vocab Dance Company

After graduation, you might wish to enhance your skills with an internship. Our graduates have taken advantage of a range of dance internships at studios and organisations such as Dance Research Studio, Dance Programme Support Graduate Intern at Trinity Laban, Ombetja Yehinga Organisation Namibia, Tanzplattform Rhein-Main Frankfurt, DanceXchange, Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.

There are also a number of arts organisations you could forge a career with and previous graduates have been successful at One Dance UK, The Lowry Theatre, Creation Box, MOVE IT, Capezio, East London Dance, DanceXchange, Big Dance Bus, Arts Depot, The Place, Dance UK, Jackson's Lane Theatre, London Studio Centre, Activate Performing Arts Richard Alston Dance Company, Dance4, Blac Canvas, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, National Dance Teachers Association (NDTA), The Royal Ballet School.

Interested in choreography? Our graduates have worked with the following companies GradLab ACE funded project, Young Choreographer South West, Resolutions!, ACE funded dance artist Ieva Kuniskis, Siobhan Davies Dance Young Artists Advisory Group.

You could also be successful in the journalism industry and several of our graduates are working as dance writers or critics for Resolution, Dance UK, Dance Direct Blog, and Cloud Dance Festival.