Study Dance

At Ryburn Sixth


Choose Ryburn Sixth for your course in Dance, where you’ll have outstanding teaching from staff with significant industry experience, guest teachers and professional performers. You’ll be inspired in your own creative performance, with the insight and skills to succeed in a career in the industry.

You will have the opportunity to explore a range of dance styles and professional repertoire. You will learn the importance of applying safe dance practice, lead practical classes and create and perform choreography both in groups and solo.

This is an exciting course which develops students as dance performers, leaders and choreographers. You will develop analytical skills, increasing creativity and confidence in collaborative and independent work and prepare you for a higher-level course in Dance and the Creative and Performing Arts whether at a vocational training college or university.

If you want to continue to study further, this course provides the skills and qualification to go into level 4 courses at both universities and vocational training colleges. Former students are currently studying at Arden School of Theatre and Shockout Arts.

Studying dance does not necessarily have to lead directly to a performance career but opens many doors in the creative industries and beyond. This rigorous course is well recognised by universities and students develop an extensive range of desirable transferrable skills. Former dance students have gone on to graduate with excellent degrees across a range of subjects, including English Language, Psychology and Media.

If you enjoy dance and are good at it, this is a great choice of course, whatever your future ambitions.

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What will I study?

Qualification: Level 3 Diploma in Creative and Performing Arts - Dance pathway.
Equivalent to 1.5 A Levels.

Exam board: RSL

Topics Covered:
- Applying safe dance practice
- Leading Dance
- Choreography
- Repertory Dance Performance
- Dance Technique and Performance 1
- Planning for a Career in the Performing Arts
- Performance Preparation (External Unit)

 

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