Course contact details
DMU Admissions
Email:admissions@dmu.ac.uk
Phone:0116 2078443
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH
Course summary
On this course, you’ll explore a variety of dance techniques including contemporary, ballet, commercial practices, improvisation, and Africanist dance forms.
Our teaching team of professionals bring valuable industry and academic experience to help you succeed in the Arts industry, which is complemented by visits from exciting guest speakers. Regular opportunities to perform and showcase your talents are embedded into each year of the programme, helping you to grow in confidence and develop skills as a professional dance artist.
You’ll be taught in our award-winning PACE building, which features numerous large-scale studios to support both traditional performance and rehearsal activities. You can also book these facilities outside of teaching time, enabling you to hone your practice in a professional-standard environment. You’ll also benefit from a team of technicians who can help you bring your performances to life.
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Students feel very positive about the support they receive from our dance lecturers, with their votes placing us 3rd in UK for academic support (NSS, 2025).
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Collaborate with national and international organisations, engage with local communities and gain wisdom from visiting lecturers and renowned artists.
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Tailor your path towards performance, teaching, choreography, or digital dance to pursue your passions and shape your ambitions.
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Find your home in a community that champions performing arts. Our Chancellor and alumnus, Akram Khan MBE, is a world-renowned choreographer.
Modules
Course Modules
First year
Block 1: The Responsive Dancer
Block 2: Rethinking Dance
Block 3: Space, Place and Connections
Block 4: Ensemble Performance and Production
Second year
Block 1: Style, Production and Artistry
Block 2: The Healthy Practitioner: Wellbeing and Self-management
Block 3: Applying Your Practice: Dance Artists, Communities and Education
Block 4: Digitising Your Artistic Voice
Third year
Blocks 1 and 2: Select two from the list below:
Facilitating Practice: Teaching and Leading Dance
Industry practice: Choreography, Performance and Producing
Personal Research Project
Block 3: Professional Practice: Moving into Industry
Block 4: Dance Festival
Ways to study this course
Campuses
- Leicester Campus
Study options
- Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) • Full-Time • Placement (mandatory) • 4 Years
- Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) • Full-Time • 3 Years
Start dates
Application codes
- Institution code:
- D26
Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)
De Montfort University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
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How to apply
Application codes
- Institution code:
- D26
This course may be available at alternative locations, please check if other course options are available.
Course optionsEntry requirements
Typical qualification requirements
A levelBBC
T LevelM
UCAS TariffOffer: 112
rom at least two A-levels or equivalent
Access to HE DiplomaMerit: 30
Pass QAA Access to Higher Education course with at least 30 level 3 credits at Merit. We will normally require students have had a break from full-time education before undertaking the Access course.
International Baccalaureate Diploma ProgrammeOffer: 26
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)DMM
Additional entry requirements
- Audition
- In the performance of your solo, we will be looking for your potential to: • Demonstrate co-ordination, technique and use of space • Create and confidently perform inventive solo choreography
- Interview
- In your discussion with a member of the dance team, we will be looking for your potential to: • Talk about your interest in dance • Discuss your experience of dance • Be curious about other dance and creative practices
Contextual admissions
Universities and colleges consider more than grades when assessing applications and may make offers based on a range of criteria. Learn more about contextual offers.
Here at DMU we welcome all applications, no matter what your background. To make sure you get fair and equal access to higher education, when looking at your application we consider more than just your grades–we take into account any challenges that you may have faced in your education. Contextual Offers will be offered to candidates who are in receipt of Free School Meals, who are Care Experienced or who are deemed to live in areas of low HE participation neighbourhoods (POLAR Quintiles 1 & 2).
Historical entry grades data
This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).
It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.
Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.
This course may have Historical entry grades data available, please select a course option to view.
Course optionsFees and funding
Tuition fees
Per year tuition fees
| Location | Fee | Year |
|---|---|---|
| England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Channel Islands & Republic of Ireland | £10050 | |
| EU & International | £16800* |
* This is a provisional fee and subject to change.
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
Additional fee information
Please note, this fee is subject to parliamentary procedure and will also be subject to a compounded annual inflationary increase.
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