Dance and Education

Dance and education is a combination that takes seriously both the artistic rigour of dance practice and the pedagogical skills needed to teach and share it. Dance as an art form encompasses a wide range of techniques, traditions, and performance practices, from contemporary and ballet to vernacular and community dance forms, and studying it seriously means developing both physical skill and a reflective, creative understanding of movement as a medium of expression. Education adds the dimension of how you communicate and develop that understanding in others, whether in formal school settings or in community and artistic contexts.

At Liverpool Hope University, this four-year full-time degree, which includes a foundation year, is designed to develop you as an adaptable, reflexive, and independent dance artist with a strong pedagogical foundation. You will foster creativity and develop your own signature practice, engaging with a diverse range of techniques and theories to build both technical and intellectual understanding of dance. The education strand prepares you to work with learners in different contexts, developing the teaching skills that are central to dance education in schools, community settings, and beyond.

The programme includes a sandwich year, a year abroad, and a work placement, giving you substantial professional and international experience alongside your artistic development. With a typical entry tariff of 104 UCAS points, the programme is accessible to students with genuine artistic ambition.

Graduates from dance and education programmes pursue careers as performers, choreographers, dance educators, arts education coordinators, community dance practitioners, dance therapists (typically with further training), and arts administrators. Teaching dance in schools, either through initial teacher training following the degree or through community and outreach roles, is a well-established career path. Many graduates build portfolio careers that combine performance, teaching, and project work.