Taught by lecturers with a wealth of experience, our degrees focus on developing students’ professional skills and techniques, while also equipping them with the business tools essential to building their careers.

Students become thinking practitioners of dance or performance, and spend time looking at areas such as performance development through choreography, and the importance of performance in society, alongside developing their dance and performance techniques.

We offer students regular opportunities to work with industry specialists, such as a voice coach, professional dancers, choreographers and arts organisations.

Other opportunities include:

• Regular masterclasses, taught by leading professionals, to further develop techniques and understanding of a range of dance and performance styles
• Industry days and specialist classes such as stage combat tuition to develop knowledge, skills and practice
• Modules focused on entrepreneurship and enterprise, essential to building a successful career in dance or performance
• The chance for students to immerse themselves in the performing arts in the West End, just a short train ride away from our campus.

• We have access to the Wycombe Swan Theatre and Wycombe Town Hall as part of our Wycombe Swan Residency. The Swan Theatre sits adjacent to the University and is one of the UK’s leading regional theatres.
• Having gained skills in entrepreneurship and enterprise, students are well prepared for self-employment, and are able to launch their own dance-related business ventures.
• On our Performing Arts degree, students create a series of shows, films, short scenes and devised performances. In their third year, they set up their own theatre company and devise a production they manage from conception through to venue booking, marketing and performance.