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The BA Contemporary Dance programme is designed to develop your contemporary dance skills and knowledge of your dance practice, as well as to include other forms of artistic expression.

As a student, you will be based at the world-class facilities of the Irish World Academy building, equipped to the highest standards with cutting edge performance and rehearsal spaces and technological infrastructure. You will also be able to develop your scholarly knowledge and enquiry around your discipline.

Importantly, you will be introduced to various dance and performance approaches and scholarly traditions in order to gain new insights into the worlds of dance and the performing arts, enhancing your creative potential. You will also study a number of vocationally focused modules aimed at allowing you to translate your artistic and scholarly creativity into a fulfilling career.

Students are ask to bring a curiosity, questioning and a reflective attitude that will enhance your pre-professional practice. Applicants will required to be proficient performers within one or more dance styles.

Why Study Contemporary Dance?

This programme, with over 25 hours of physical training a week, will allow you to develop your performance skills 麻豆原创 developing your scholarly knowledge and enquiry around your creative practice. However, and very importantly, you will be introduced to other performance practices and scholarly traditions in order to gain new insights into the worlds of music and dance, further enhancing your creative potential. Within the Academy you have the unique opportunity of being surrounded by four other creative arts practices, Traditional Irish music, Traditional Irish dance, Voice, and World Music.

In our classes you will have the opportunity to work with local and International teachers as well as professional dance and theatre practitioners that will give you a strong performing foundation and engagement with real-world experiences.

What you will Study

You will learn a range of Modern and Contemporary Dance Techniques, Choreography, Ballet and movement awareness techniques such as Yoga, Pilates and Feldenkrais. You will have the opportunity to engage with other dance practices such as Aerial Dance, Hip hop, Flamenco, and Irish traditional dance. You will gain the contextual understanding and the critical, analytical and reflective skills which will inform your artistic practice.

In first year, you will focus and develop your performance practice and be introduced to a critical academic engagement with classical, popular, traditional and world music and dance through a performative lens. From second year onwards, in addition to continuing your physical dance training, you will undertake specialist modules in dance studies, experiential anatomy and movement analysis, research skills, arts and health as well as dance pedagogy. You will also engage in other training such as voice and acting, Dance for Camera and choreographic thinking鈥攁ll skills that will add to your employability after you graduate.

In your third year, the Co-operative education period allows you to construct your own work-experience, giving you invaluable knowledge about the opportunities open to you when you graduate. The programme prepares you for many different career paths including professional performance; further study; work in cultural institutions; media related posts; archival work; performance production; teaching dance and portfolio careers which combine these elements in entrepreneurial ways.