BA (Hons) Musical Theatre and Dance Bachelor's degree at BIMM University

The first Creative Industries module will introduce you to the strategies and tools to set you on the right path toward pursuing a successful career. Whether focused on a particular career goal or considering several future possibilities, you will broaden your knowledge of the opportunities available to you as a future creative industry professional.

This module is intended to introduce you to a range of performance and technical skills required in a variety of dance genres. You will undertake technical and artistic classes in ballet, tap, contemporary and jazz. The module ensures a steady and well-founded development of fundamental dance skills, building upon any existing knowledge and developing individual progress. You will look to develop a dancers' mind and body with reference to strength, flexibility, alignment, co-ordination and range

The aim of this module is to introduce you to the different styles of vocal and character work that you will cover during your time at Performers College. Fundamental elements of vocal techniques will be clarified and developed. Respectful and healthy exploration of each individual voice and voice type will be promoted. You will gain a basic knowledge of appropriate working practices necessary for professional acting work in all forms of live and recorded media.

In this module, you will further develop your investigative skills, exploring relevant underlying concepts and principles and interpreting these within the context of your area of study. You will explore the nature of creativity, and the wider context of the industry and practice reflective techniques. You will also evaluate sources and consider issues such as potential biases and cultural diversity.

This module is intended to build on the technical skills already achieved but with strong emphasis on performance quality and expression, developing the student as an individual artist. You will undertake technical and artistic classes in ballet, tap, contemporary and jazz. The module ensures continued development of fundamental dance skills, building upon any existing knowledge and developing individual progress.

This module builds upon the key skills needed for acting and singing. You will work towards delivering sustained and varied performances across a range of genres and styles, in both singing and acting. You will perform on increasingly public platform levels when appropriate: small class groups, large class groups, year groups, and to the whole college.

This module will build on the skills you developed in your first year. In The Creative Industries and You module, you utilised concepts and principles to explore the nature of creativity, developing a short and longer-term plan for your personal and professional practice. In this module you will carry out an individual investigation, utilising secondary research to investigate the lineage of your creative practice.

This module is intended to extend a range of performance and technical skills acquired throughout Level 4. Students will continue to undertake technical and artistic classes in ballet, tap, contemporary and jazz. The module ensures a progressive and challenging development of dance skills, building upon existing knowledge and developing individual progress.

The aim of this module is to develop the skills acquired in acting and singing in level 4 and to explore further styles and techniques. In singing you will discover a wider range of musical genres and styles and start to build a personal repertoire of performance material, improving your knowledge of musicianship. In acting you will study a variety of texts and you will work on a range of duologues from different eras.

In the Defining Your Practice in Context module, you evaluated the lineage and traditions of your creative practice, investigating how it connects to artistic and industry practices. This module will require you to utilise your acquired knowledge to plan and create, collaboratively, a piece of work that links to your practice. Collaborating with others can help you develop new and innovative ideas.

This course module looks at the creation of a devised performance through the processes needed to successfully create a piece of theatre combining the disciplines of movement, acting and song. You will gain a knowledge of the creative processes involved in production, deliver a confident and focused performance whilst being able to reflect on your success in extending your own skills base.

This module will begin to develop your knowledge of creative processes and how to utilise these in performance. You will gain knowledge of working within the performance industry and start to hone your skills to begin setting yourself on the path for developing yourself as an artist. You will work on creating an abridged musical alongside a director.

This course module looks at the construction of movement vocabulary, through thorough physical investigation. It will make use of improvisation in order to aid devising and will look at choices made in use of the body and movement vocabulary, spatial decisions, use of time and dynamics, general structural devices and intention through movement.

The Applied Musical Theatre module will help you to develop a deeper practical application of Musical Theatre Practitioners and the contextualisation of them within Musical Theatre today. You will explore pivotal eras and influential professionals who have shaped Musical Theatre and develop a more complex understanding through reading, research and critical thinking.

This module is designed to introduce you to acting for camera, facilitating both your ability and confidence in this medium. The module seeks to embed the processes and terminology involved in screen acting. You will become well versed in the medium and have experience of acting for camera and the specific skills set that this entails.