Perform. Design. Create. The Bath School of Music and Performing Arts can turn your creative passion into a career.
in the overall rankings for Drama and Dance (Guardian University Guide 2025)
for Value Added in Drama and Dance (Guardian University Guide 2025)
and #1 in the South West for Satisfaction with Course in Drama, Dance and Cinematics (Complete University Guide 2025)
From Acting to Stage Management, Circus to Opera, the Bath School of Music and Performing Arts offers you the right course to fulfil your creative career aspiration.
At our campuses in Bath, or through one of our excellent partners, we offer an unrivalled portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate courses that will put you on the right path to the music and performing arts industry.
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Our staff are practitioners and researchers who work in the industry and can offer you a real-world understanding of the music and performing arts professions.
Through our teaching and practice we will give you the skills and knowledge to achieve this: we will develop your practice, encourage an enterprising and entrepreneurial mindset and nurture your creativity, preparing you for the demands of your chosen career and much more.
Our approach to research in the performing arts connects inter-disciplinary practice with current theoretical contexts. Our research specialisms within theatre, dance and music span a wide range of interests - from choreographic practices to screen dance and digital performance to performance and the medical humanities, to name a few.
Music and performing arts research
Bath Spa Productions is a major producer of Dance, Music and Theatre events across the city. This exciting innovation project links you with professional artists and companies from the real world. SparkFest is our annual and ever-growing festival of new work.
Bath Spa Productions
Through our network of professional, exchange and collaborative partners, Bath School of Music and Performing Arts link you to expert practitioners, educators and researchers in the UK and beyond.
This means we draw on a broad network of industry advisers, institutions and partners to underpin your learning. So that everything you do always relates back to the profession for which you train.
We know that working in this industry is not just about talent, but also about your entrepreneurialism and how you enhance your professionalism, develop your networks and stimulate your creativity to make work, as much as find work.
See some of our collaborative partners below, or visit our Educational Partnerships page for more informaiton.
Students perform or work regularly at venues such as: Theatre Royal Bath, Wiltshire Live Music Centre, Moles, and the Bristol Old Vic.
We are committed to working with the city of Bath as part of its cultural life. We work with many local companies and institutions, including: Bath Dance, The Bath Festival, Visit Bath, The Holburne Museum and The Southgate Centre.
Across all of our programmes we connect to industry through placement offers, co-production and advisory bodies. A few examples are our work with Theatre Lab, Wiltshire Rural Music, Bay Productions and Salisbury Playhouse.
We offer international exchanges with universities such as Columbia College Chicago, SUNY Geneseo and Oklahoma City University. We connect you to the global arts community.
As an Adobe Creative Campus, all Bath Spa students have access to the entire Adobe Creative Suite of elite industry-leading apps, including Photoshop, InDesign, Adobe Express and more.
With the ability to amplify your digital fluency from the moment you join Bath Spa, you’ll have the space to develop a wealth of indispensable skills to help you in your studies, and in the world of work.
Find out more about Adobe Creative Campus
"The support network is huge, and the course is always there to help you think about the next steps, creating contacts that will set you up with work straight out of your degree."
Tilley Sheridan, BA (Hons) Acting graduate
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