Our Dance Practices degree presents a vibrant curriculum that prepares you for a versatile, lifelong career in the dance and creative industries. Our diverse team of industry experts and professional artists will support you in tailoring this dance degree to suit your individual interests. Select from our exit awards in Dance Science and Choreography or develop a portfolio of skills in areas such as dance teaching, collaboration and journalism with the Dance Practices pathway.

Why study dance practices with us?

The course is designed to help you discover your passions and interests across the field of dance and creative industries. You will be exposed to a range of practice through project-based learning and industry focused learning, equipping you to make your pathway selections in Year 3. The exit awards in Dance Science and Choreography present a defined specialist pathway, whereas remaining on the Dance Practices route offers you a collection of modules to choose from. You’ll have the opportunity to develop various transferable skills through immersive training in dance teaching, collaborative practice, creative performance and dance journalism, all of which will provide you with valuable skills to pursue diverse career avenues in the creative field/s..

Put your knowledge into practice

A vibrant curriculum, state-of-the-art dance facilities and links to our London connections will help you in your pre-professional development. You will become part of a network of entrepreneurial practitioners and you will receive rigorous practical training in a broad range of dance techniques, project-based experiences that have been mapped to current external practice and experimental collaborative exchanges that engage you with artists and professionals from across the creative field.

You'll develop your professional skills through examining, reflecting and performance. Our four fully equipped dance studios and specialist dance theatre allow you to train in a professional-level 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 working both independently and with leading companies such as:

• Akram Khan
• Alter Ego
• Amici Dance Theatre
• C-12 Dance Theatre
• Flawless
• Stop Gap
• Avant Garde
• Boy Blue Entertainment
• JV2
• Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company
• MCDC – Michaela Cisarikova Dance Company
• Melody Squire – Sol Dans Company
• Olympic 2012 opening and closing ceremonies (as choreographers and dancers)
• Reside Dance Company
• Ross McKim Ensemble Dance Company
• Sia and Zayn dance music video
• Uchenna Dance
• Vocab Dance
• Zoo Nation

The Resolutions season at the Place Theatre, London continues to feature numerous companies involving Middlesex graduates as choreographers and/or dancers.

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, Tanzplatform 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 Lowery Theatre, Creation Box, Move IT, Capezio, East London Dance, DanceXchange, Big Dance Bus, Arts Depot, The Place, One 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 Leva Kuniskis, Siobhan Davies Dance, Young Artists Advisory Group. Our graduates have also been selected for Young Choreographers South West and worked with Arts Council England (ACE) funded companies as part of GradLab at the Point. Some have even won ACE funding to tour their choreographic works.