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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
An interest in dance and a flair for creativity can take you far and a dance course can really help to establish your skills and knowledge. Our course ranks as one of the UK’s top courses for dance, with national and international recognition for its high calibre of research and teaching. Your lecturers have years of industry expertise that they'll share in practical and theoretical contexts, so you get an understanding of what a creative career in dance looks like. Their experience includes performing internationally at the Olympic Arts Festival, nominations for the Laurence Olivier Award for Dance, as well as directing the 2012 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony among others.
You'll engage with different aspects of dance performance like critical and reflective analysis, dance science and safe dance practices, to name just a few.
Develop your practical dance performance skills
A dance degree will equip you with everything you need to start a career in this creative field, from joining a dance company to working for an arts organisation. Your day will be made up of a variety of learning including theoretical and creative practices, and daily practical classes with live accompaniment where you’ll specialise in different dance techniques.
We have four fully-equipped dance studios. Additionally, our flagship Grove Dance Theatre has a seating capacity of 144, a dedicated dressing room, a specialist lighting rig, and many more extras to facilitate an authentic stage environment.
We have a long-standing partnership with the artsdepot, an award winning cultural hub in North London, where you'll have an opportunity to perform. You’ll also attend industry professional workshops and the student-led dance society will facilitate your interests and pursuits of different dance styles. Graduates have gone on to perform with the likes of Eddie Peake, Ross McKim, and Flawless among others.
Get the support you need
While you’re learning, you’ll be matched with a Personal Tutor directly related to your course. You’ll also get support from our Student Learning and Graduate Academic Assistants, who have experience in your subject area. We also have close links with the sport and rehabilitation clinic, so you receive support for safe dance training.
Teaching staff always work closely with students, going above and beyond to support them in their career goals and with their professional experience, they know the hurdles you'll face. Careers in the arts, dancing as part of a troupe or becoming a choreographer are all just an application away!
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Modules
Year 1
The Emerging Dance Artist (120 credits) – Compulsory
Year 2
Theorising Performance and Practices (30 credits) - Compulsory
Dance Techniques and Performances (30 credits) - Compulsory
Creativity and Enterprise (30 credits) - Compulsory
Dance Science (30 Credits) - Compulsory
Year 3
Applied Professional Practices (30 credits) - Compulsory
Directed Performance (30 credits) - Compulsory
Dance Techniques (Performance) (30 credits) - Compulsory
Creative Performance (30 credits) - Compulsory
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.
Dance at Middlesex counts many distinguished names among its graduates:
Adam Benjamin trained in Dance and Fine Art at Middlesex. He is the co-founder of CandoCo Dance Company, one of the world's premier companies for disabled and non-disabled dancers, and the author of the widely-read book Making an Entrance, Theory and practice for disabled and non-disabled dancers.
Mavin Khoo took both his undergraduate dance degree and postgraduate degree in Choreography at Middlesex. Malaysian-born, he performed with many of today's leading choreographers, including Akram Khan and Wayne McGregor. He is also celebrated as one of the leading male solo Bharata Natyam performers, both in India and around the world.
Jenny Sealey did her undergraduate dance degree at Middlesex. She was the Co-Artistic Director of the 2012 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony, and is Artistic Director of Graeae, a major disabled-led theatre company in the UK. She was awarded an MBE in 2009 for services to disability arts.
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