Dance Studies

Move your body, move your thinking. Experiment, engage and inspire others as you learn how to build a career in dance.

Move your thinking

Combine your love of performing and choreography as you develop arts administration, marketing, business, and management skills. Explore dance education, research and community dance with regular teaching and performance opportunities at New Zealand's #1 ranked university for Performing Arts*.

Emma stands amongst costumes backstage and smiles to camera. She wears a green jacket and white tee shirt.
Emma Broad (Ngāi Tahu) | Graduate: Bachelor of Dance Studies (Honours)

There were plenty of opportunities outside our classes, like workshops, internships and intensives where we worked closely with people in the industry and learned how to manage our time and commitments.

Emma Broad (Ngāi Tahu), graduate Development Manager at NZ Opera and freelance contemporary dancer and choreographer

Where can Dance Studies take you?

  • Arts management, marketing and publicity
  • Choreography for film, television and new media
  • Independent practitioner in commercial dance, contemporary dance, hip hop, and cultural groups and collectives
  • Live and digital events industry
  • Fitness, wellness and movement therapy industries
  • Teaching and research

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*QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023

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