If you’re looking for an intensive, comprehensive route into the dance industry, our FdA Dance programme offers the perfect balance of technical training, creative development, and real-world preparation. Designed as a two-year full-time course, attendees graduate with the versatility, discipline, and artistic identity needed to succeed in contemporary performance landscapes. What FdA Dance Offers Our FDA Dance training is built to develop dancers who are both technically capable and creatively independent. Training includes ballet, jazz, commercial, and contemporary technique, complemented by aerial, acrobatic, and choreographic skills. Students also work on supporting disciplines, including acting, singing, and tap, ensuring that graduates are well-rounded performers ready for varied professional demands. Alongside studio work, our students explore contextual practice, which helps them understand the wider artistic, cultural, and academic frameworks that shape the industry. Co-Learning and Industry-Ready Training One of the standout features of the programme is its co-learning structure. FdA students often train alongside our 1st Year BA Hons Dance students in classes grouped by level, not course title. This mirrors the professional world, where dancers of different backgrounds work together in rehearsal rooms, auditions, and productions. Students also share rehearsal spaces, performance opportunities, and collaborative projects, creating an environment where dancers learn to adapt, communicate, and work dynamically within an ensemble. Year 1: Core Foundations and Essential Skills The first year focuses on building strong, consistent technique. Students gain a solid grounding in ballet, jazz, and contemporary, as well as foundational choreographic tools to develop their own creative work. Improvisation forms a key part of this training, giving dancers the ability to generate movement, explore ideas, and establish personal stylistic qualities. Year 1 also introduces aerial hoop, silks, and acrobatic basics, skills that support circus and theatre productions, as well as commercial performance. Contextual Practices modules help students develop academic confidence, research skills, reflective writing, and an understanding of industry structures, preparing them for both creative and scholarly progression. Year 2: Advanced Technique and Creative Expansion In Year 2, dancers move into more advanced technical work, refining control, expression, stamina, and stylistic range across all core dance genres. Students extend their choreographic skills by creating original work and developing a deeper personal style. The Dance Performance module provides two major project opportunities each year, allowing dancers to experience the full creative cycle, from ideation and rehearsal through to performance in a professional-standard environment. Advanced contextual practice supports students in developing research-informed artistic inquiry. Many use this to refine their choreographic interests, explore practitioner influence, and experiment with making work that is both intellectually grounded and creatively bold. Your Pathway Forward Whether you progress onto our three-year course or step directly into the industry, our FdA Dance course prepares you with the technique, work ethic, and creative insight needed for a sustainable career. It’s a fast-track route for dancers ready to train intensively, collaborate openly, and grow into confident, employable artists. If you want a focused, forward-thinking training course, our FdA Dance programme is the perfect way to build your skills as a performer.