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.