The BA (Hons) Dance: Urban Practice, is a forward-thinking course that continues to increase in popularity nationally and internationally since it started in 2007. This vibrant and distinctive course offers students the chance to study with a dynamic and specialist skilled dance team in a great location that is the cultural hub of East London. This course is also offered with a foundation year, as a four-year course.<br>We cover hip-hop, club, social and popular dance styles, with contemporary techniques from across Europe, Africa and Asia. Whether it is popping or locking, contemporary or capoeira, afro-house or bharata natyam, our course continues to be the first of its kind to offer a degree in dance without borders or limitations.<br>You will have great opportunities to perform your work in our annual student-led festival, studio sharings and external events. The dance team will support and guide you to develop your skills as a researcher, choreographer, performer and in events management whilst giving you networking opportunities from our varied and exciting industry links.<br>We help create dance all-rounders preparing you for a portfolio career in the arts. So you will theorise, create and collaborate in dance managing yourself and others. You will discover and practise many various types of dance.<br>One of the great attractions of our three-year course is its sheer variety in both study and practice.<br><br>You'll combine both as you create and perform a dance that communicates a response to political, cultural and aesthetic questions.<br>You'll study a wide range of dance forms, such as hip-hop, club and funk styles, capoeira, African contemporary, Afro-house, bharata natyam, kathak and kalaripayattu.<br>The breadth of our course means you'll graduate with a wide set of skills to equip you to be a true dance all-rounder.<br><br>Many of our graduates go on to enjoy what we call a 'portfolio' career, making a thriving living in varied areas such as teaching, choreography, performing and managing.<br>Through your work placements, dance management studies and your involvement in creating and staging community dance projects, you couldn't be better prepared for the world of work.