Our graduates work across the creative sector, and their highly developed social and practical skills make them very employable in many workplaces. For example, 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. We also have graduates who have gone on to have a career as Freelance Dancers, Choreographers, Community Dance Artists, Dance Therapists, Dance Teachers, and directors of Drama.
Students graduating from the Dance course at Liverpool Hope University will have accumulated many practical and critical skills to apply directly in the professional workplace. In addition, students will graduate with hands-on experience running community dance projects, managing rehearsal schedules, evaluating and reviewing professional dance work, and producing performance works in professional environments.
Dance at Liverpool Hope looks at the bodies, techniques, performances, and histories that make up dance practice today. The dance team is all professional practitioners and active researchers whose specialist skills map onto the diverse areas of dance history, dance technique, site-specific choreography, multicultural dance, and somatic practice.
During your studies, you will have the opportunity to work alongside professional visiting choreographers and dance artists. In addition, you will perform for public audiences and develop a studio practice through one-to-one feedback and group seminars, including regular dance classes and workshops.
Here at Liverpool Hope, we actively encourage students to consider their art form as an ethical and embodied practice, where we can confidently claim that dance is crucial to the worlds we decide to make.