Contemporary Craft and Dance

Contemporary craft and dance is an unusual but genuinely coherent combination that brings together two disciplines concerned with making, in the fullest sense of the word. Contemporary craft is a studio-based discipline focused on hands-on design and making, developing skill in materials and processes alongside the critical and conceptual thinking that distinguishes craft as an art form from craft as mere technique. Dance is the art of movement, expression, and embodied performance, asking how the body can communicate, tell stories, and create aesthetic experiences through choreography and live performance.

Both disciplines share a commitment to making things with the body and with materials, to attending closely to physical sensation and movement, and to the creative potential that comes from deep engagement with a practice.

At Liverpool Hope University, this three-year programme includes a sandwich year in industry with work placement and a year abroad, giving you a structurally rich combination of professional and international experience alongside the studio and performance-based learning at the core of the programme. The contemporary craft strand aims to build a supportive community of emerging makers and designers who can reach their creative potential, producing specialised craft works, innovative projects, and new career paths. The dance strand develops your technical and expressive capabilities as a performer while also engaging with the critical and theoretical dimensions of dance as a discipline.

Liverpool's vibrant creative scene provides an inspiring environment for the work.

A typical entry tariff of 120 points reflects an accessible entry standard within a programme focused on creative potential and commitment.

Graduates work as makers, designers, performers, arts educators, community arts practitioners, arts administrators, and across the range of creative roles that combine physical and material practice. Many develop portfolio careers that draw on both strands of the degree. Postgraduate study in fine art, craft, dance, or arts practice is a further option.