BA (Hons) Street Dance Artistry and Hip-Hop Theatre (top-up)

Program Overview

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Course Details

Our intensive final year BA (Hons) Street Dance Artistry and Hip-Hop Theatre (top-up) course offers you the opportunity to build on your existing dance-related foundation degree or HND. Delivered in central Manchester by Shockout Arts, it provides an eclectic mix of styles and techniques, including Breaking, Popping, Locking, House, Waacking, Voguing, and Hip-Hop Foundations underpinned by core techniques. Through a range of industry-led projects and performance opportunities, you'll acquire and refine essential skills to an advanced and professional standard. We focus on preparing you for employment while continuing to nurture your creative identity and practice.

Our professional subject specialists will encourage you to develop your artistic and creative expression and support you in becoming responsive to the demands of a career as a performer, choreographer, producer, director and teacher in the dance theatre arena.

If you're an aspiring dance artist, this honours-level top-up programme provides an ideal platform to begin your professional career in dance and performing arts or pursue further postgraduate study in a relevant field. If you wish to continue your education at the master's level, Shockout has a fast-growing postgraduate provision to accommodate your needs.

Studying at Shockout Arts, you'll train in purpose-built, high-specification dance studios equal to professional industry standards. Alongside your intensive practical dance training, you'll have regular performance opportunities to help you develop a diverse range of performance and production skills.

The teaching staff at Shockout Arts are professional practitioners and choreographers. They are keen to make the time you spend with them as stimulating and rewarding as possible and enjoy a well-deserved reputation for being approachable and interested in your progress. As teaching often takes place in small groups, you'll have access to individual support and guidance at every stage.

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Highlights

Shockout Arts is a dynamic and innovative dance school – the first in the country to offer higher-level qualifications in professional and commercial dance.

This course allows you to interact, learn and work alongside professional artists from the dance industry. These can include professional dancers, directors, producers and choreographers.

We offer you the chance to strengthen your CV and benefit from valuable networking opportunities.

Shockout students have worked with some of the biggest artists in the music and performing arts industry. Credits include Dua Lipa, Janet Jackson, Kendrick Lamar, Little Mix, Stormzy, Mabel, X Factor and many more.

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Key Features

The practical elements of this course involve workshops and structured training in a range of dance types, supported and underpinned by theory elements delivered through lectures, presentations, seminars and tutorials.

You can develop transferable skills such as critical analysis, creative problem solving, working with other people, planning and time management, oral and written presentation, decision-making, and computer skills.

You'll also have access to the University of Bolton's e-learning resources, an extensive e-library and the support of University librarians.

We offer you opportunities to learn and work with industry professionals from the UK and around the world.

Program Outline

If you already have a relevant level 5 qualification, the BA (Hons) Street Dance Artistry and Hip-Hop Theatre (top-up) programme delivered by Shockout Arts allows you to complete your honours level and graduate with a bachelor's degree awarded by the University of Bolton. It offers an industry-relevant specialised education that will develop your skills, knowledge and expertise in a range of dance genres to a professional level. In addition, you could gain a range of key transferable skills such as confidence, self-presentation, teamwork, self-awareness, communication skills, and the ability to cope with criticism.

Providing our students with the best possible progression route is highly important to us. As a result of their hard work, our past and present students have performed with some of the biggest names in the dance and performing arts industry.

Credits include: Janet Jackson, Dua Lipa, Zara Larsson, Alexandra Burke, Tinie Tempah, Rita Ora, Kendrick Lamar, Ludacris, Mabel, Hrvy, Steff London, Jax Jones, Mariah Carey, Cheryl Cole, Pixie Lott, French Montanna, Demi Lovato, Kylie Minogue, Paloma Faith, Zayn Malik, Will.I.Am, Jess Glyne, Black Eyed Peas, Lady Leshur, Flo Rida, Bebe Rexha, Fifth Harmony, Little Mix, Spice Girls Tour, Rai Elle, Stormzy, MTV VMA’s and EMA’s, BRIT Awards, The MOBO’s, X Factor, The Voice, Jingle Bell Ball, V Festival, Wireless, Parklife, Lovebox.

What can I do with this qualification?

Graduates can take advantage of opportunities in a wide range of careers relating to performance, creative producing, education, community, and curatorial and arts administration. Opportunities exist in dance for TV, cruise ships, promotion, commercial events and popular music performances.

A career in performance is often complemented with employment in teaching or choreography. Self-employment may be another option, where you could establish your own dance-related business. Alternatively, you may choose to further your studies at the postgraduate level or train to become a dance teacher in the education sector.

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Alternative career options

Graduates can also use the qualification as a stepping-stone into a range of other careers. For some of these roles, relevant experience and/or postgraduate study may be required. Some of these careers include:

Teaching and education

Arts administration

Broadcasting

Theatre stage management

Event management

Acting

Dance therapy

Sports training

Marketing and PR

Advertising

Community arts

Musical theatre

Journalism and writing

Mental health and wellbeing

Dance critic