Dance and Early Childhood (Hons) Liverpool Hope University

Overview

Throughout this Dance and Early Childhood (Hons) programme from Liverpool Hope University you will foster your creativity and discover your signature dance practice. You will be exposed to a diverse range of dance techniques and theories designed to develop your skills, knowledge and understanding. You will undertake project-based learning, professional placements and work towards large scale performances.

You will have regular opportunities to create work and perform in a variety of contexts, professional platforms, touring, community and educational settings.  This focus will develop creative practice and develop awareness between the wider historical, philosophical and cultural practices of the field, while locating dance as an independent discipline that has influenced and informed Performance Studies today. 

Career opportunities:

There are a wide range of careers opportunities for our graduates. Our graduates work across the creative sector, and their highly developed social and practical skills make them very employable in a wide range of workplaces. We have graduates who have gone on to have a career as a freelance dancer, choreographer, community dance artist, dance therapist, dance teacher, many have started their own dance companies, or opened their own dance schools. This course also equips to move onto further study, postgraduate dance courses, PGCE and Masters Courses.

We currently have graduates working in the National Youth Dance Company of Wales, the Black e-Community Arts Space in Liverpool and, internationally, at The Space Dance and Arts Centre, Melbourne, Lisa Simpson Dance Company.

Students graduating from the Dance course at Liverpool Hope University will have accumulated a wide range of practical and critical skills to apply directly in the professional workplace. Students will graduate with hands-on experience in running community dance projects, managing rehearsal schedules, evaluating and reviewing professional dance work and producing performance works in professional environments.