Dance & Performance

The entertainment industry is fiercely competitive but if you stand out, your options are unlimited. At Buckinghamshire New University, our courses are designed to give you an edge, reveal your talents and set you apart from your competition by grounding your technical skills with academic knowledge and understanding.

Course areas

+ Acting

+ Dance

+ Musical Theatre

At BNU we offer a range of dynamic courses which help to prepare you for a creative career in the performing arts industry. You will be taught by academics, practitioners and guest artists with a wealth of experience of contemporary performing arts practices. Your work will be informed by current research and professional industry knowledge, ensuring your talent as an artist is relevant and current.

Our courses will open your eyes to the extensive career opportunities in your chosen field, will open your mind to the study of ground-breaking theory with practical application and enable you to finetune your skills as a performing artist.

Each interdisciplinary course offers opportunities for collaboration and encourages you to develop your authenticity and creativity as an artist. Whether you wish to perform, create or teach, our degrees focus on developing your professional skills while also equipping you with the intellectual tools and essential knowledge to build a successful career.

With London’s theatre world only a short train journey away, we are perfectly placed for acting, musical theatre and dance. It also means we can bring in industry professionals to run a range of masterclasses in our leading studios.

Acting

Our Acting courses enable you to develop skills across a range of different media as well as performing for stage and screen. Your next step could be to create and perform in major theatrical productions, on film and radio, or stage and screen work in local and national venues.

You will also engage in acting across different platforms developing skills for film, television and stage. You’ll also develop expertise in analysing how performances, films and radio productions create meaning in an increasingly technology-driven world.