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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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Full Time
SEP-25
3 Years
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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Full Time
SEP-25
3 Years
- You’ll perform regularly in public at the Rose Theatre, the International Youth Arts Festival and national fringe festivals. These projects will develop your project management skills.- Strong industry links within the performing arts, which embed employability and professionalism at the core of all modules.- Our RIBA award-winning Town House building has a performance studio theatre and six dance studios, all equipped to professional standards with fully sprung floors, mirrors and barres.- Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.
About this courseThe BA Dance and Drama at Kingston is designed with a strong practical emphasis, and a focus on London's vibrant multicultural arts scene. It allows students to engage critically with a range of approaches to the performing body as it moves across the related fields of drama and dance. As well as becoming skilled practitioners, students develop an understanding of the ways drama and dance engage with and shape identity, bodies and culture in the global city.Drama at Kingston is a dynamic, challenging and supportive community, located in its own designated building, the Reg Bailey, which contains one large, fully-equipped, flexible black box studio, one smaller studio and a number of rehearsal rooms. The Dance studios are located in the Town House designed by award-winning Grafton Architects. It features three large dance studios, each equipped to professional standards with fully sprung floors, mirrors and barres. Students on the BA Dance and Drama will benefit from the use of both facilities.
Future SkillsEmbedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability. As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge. At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.
Career opportunitiesMany graduates pursue performing, directing, producing, arts journalism or teaching. Our alumni have joined renowned dance companies as performers or as administrators and project managers.
Exam type
A levelA level:
BBC - ABB Grades / Points required
UCAS Tariff:
112 - 128 Grades / Points required
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):
DMM - DDM Grades / Points required
T Level:
M Grades / Points required
A-level: Dance / Drama and Theatre Studies / Performance Arts / English Literature or Language or similar grade B (40 points) is required.Where A-level does not include Dance or Performing Arts, other dance experience will be considered.General Studies not accepted.
Level 3 qualifications, including Dance, Performance Arts, Drama and Theatre Studies, English Language/Literature or a related subject.
Relevant Subject: Dance/ Performing Arts
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£9,250 per year
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Students from Scotland
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£9,250 per year
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