Dance
Learn from a diverse and inspiring community and foster academic and artistic excellence, creativity and innovation in our Dance programmes.
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Top 6 in London for Dance
(Complete University Guide 2025)
Silver in the 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)
For delivering high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for our students.
#1 modern university in the UK for Research
Research Excellence Framework
Why choose Dance at Roehampton?
· Our Dance programmes offer an innovative and broad curriculum taught by artists and researchers who are leading specialists in their fields and provides an excellent springboard for you to thrive in your career in dance and the arts.
· Our London campus puts you within easy reach of world-class dance venues and research libraries. On campus, we are equipped with four beautiful studios dedicated to Dance.
· You'll have access to the perfect mix of traditional and new ways of learning, and will be able to take advantage of cutting-edge technology for sound and video recording and dance-computer interaction while having access to one of the finest dance libraries in the country, which holds more than 52,000 books, journals and videos.
· You’ll also have the opportunity to work with fellow students to curate and produce our annual dance festival, Footprint; and to lead or perform in our student-led dance company, Third Row.
Dance spaces and studios
Large state-of-the-art, purpose-built dance and teaching spaces, designed for dance classes, workshops and movement exploration. Equipped with highly-sprung harlequin floors and underfloor heating.
A dedicated, well-equipped dance studio, perfect for practical dance classes and rehearsals. Equipped with highly-sprung harlequin floors, and a large TV for presentations.
Modern and accessible teaching space supporting dance theory, workshops and rehearsals.
Multipurpose hall, used for workshops, rehearsals and choreographic sharing.
Large and historic (18th-century) room used for teaching, special events and occasional performances.
Professionally rigged 350-seat theatre providing a first-rate performance venue for showcases and productions. Equipped with highly-sprung harlequin floors. Used for teaching, rehearsals and performance.
High-quality dance studio equipped with technology for rehearsals, choreography development, installations, and interdisciplinary creative practice. Equipped with highly-sprung harlequin floors and lighting rig.
Computer labs with extensive software for audio-visual editing of film and sound, and a 95-seat cinema.
BA Dance
Course spotlight
We are ranked top 6 in London for Dance (Complete University Guide 2025) and number one in the UK for the impact of our research in dance (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
Course staff
You will be taught by artists and researchers who are leading specialists in their fields and provide an excellent springboard for you to thrive in your career in dance and the arts.
Dr. Chi-Fang Chao
Dr. Chi-Fang Chao specialises in dance anthropology and dance ethnography. She has studied dance cultures in several Asian regions, such as Taiwan, Okinawa and the latter’s diaspora communities. Her major research interests include ritual, spirituality and embodiment, and indigenous dance theatre in the post-colonial era.
Dr. Nicola Conibere
Nicola Conibere is a choreographer and academic. Her research uses choreographic practices to explore the potentials of how bodyminds relate. She is interested in the politics of performance and the potentials of spectatorial exchange: her work often investigates theatricality, public appearing and social choreography.
Hanna Gillgren
Hanna Gillgren (SE) is choreographer and curator for H2DANCE and Fest en Fest an artist-run festival for expanded choreography for UK and Nordic-based choreographers. She is part of the inaugural artistic cohort at Rose Choreographic School Sadler’s Wells East London (2024-26).
Professor Sara Houston
Sara is an award winning researcher and teacher. She won the BUPA Foundation Prize in 2011 for her pioneering work in dance and Parkinson’s. In 2014 she was a Finalist in the National Public Engagement Awards for her work engaging the general public in her Parkinson’s and dance research.
Professor Alexandra Kolb
Alexandra has lectured at universities and conservatoires in the UK and internationally, following her Ph.D. from Cambridge University. She draws on a background in Literature, Art History and Philosophy alongside Dance and Theatre to convey to her students a sense of the dance field’s breadth and its many overlaps with other artistic and scholarly developments.
Lalitaraja
Lalitaraja (Joachim Chandler MA) is a dance artist, educator and Feldenkrais practitioner based in the dance department at Roehampton University where he teaches choreography, contact improvisation and improvisation. As a performer he has worked with Scottish Ballet, Michael Clark, Adventures in Motion Pictures, Laurie Booth, Yolande Snaith and Charles Linehan among others.
Dr. Heike Salzer
Heike Salzer is a German dancer and artist-scholar. She fluidly moves between performance, choreography, and site specific screendance. In 2014 she founded WECreate Productions together with Ana Baer Carrilllo (US/MX) jointly directing award winning screendances, installations and multi-media performances that have been encountered by thousands of audiences in Asia, Europe, Middle East and the Americas.
Dr. Tamara Tomić–Vajagić
Dr. Tamara Tomić–Vajagić works across visual culture, digital media, and performance and is a Senior Lecturer in Dance Practices. She teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate degrees as well as researches and supervises doctoral projects on the themes of dance and visual art, mediated choreography, and dance history, aesthetics, and performance studies.
Mike Toon
Michael Toon trained at the Legat School and Urdang Academy before performing with London City Ballet, Vienna Festival Ballet and as an international freelance soloist. Alongside his stage career he co-founded Capitol Chamber Ballet Project and Heart of the Jester Productions, creating opportunities for collaboration between dancers, musicians and technicians.
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