Study Dance or Visual Arts.

Offered in collaboration with TAFE SA, these degrees will kick-start your career in these iconic fields.

What does a career in dance look like?

A career in dance is more than just being on stage. With a degree in dance, you could be a choreographer or dance teacher, as well as a professional dancer.

It’s a physically demanding job that could see you performing on stage in front of a live audience, in movies, on television, on cruise ships, at theme parks and more.

You’ll most likely specialise in a particular style of dance, such as jazz, ballet, modern, tap or ballroom, or you may have expertise in multiple areas. You’ll use your creative and technical skills to express ideas through movement.

What does a career in visual arts look like?

Visual artists come in all forms. With this degree, you’ll specialise in ceramics, jewellery, painting, photography, printmaking or sculpture and you’ll use these specialised skills to create your own career.

You’ll use your artistic license to convey ideas through your work. You’ll be a creative, out-of-the-box thinker and have innovative ways of seeing, thinking and doing. Your creative and technical skills will come to the forefront of your chosen path, whether that be in traditional art or in arts administration and management.

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Study Options

Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance)

Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts)

Be career ready with a degree in Dance or Visual Arts

Dance and Visual Arts are industry-focused degrees that prepare you for employment in a variety of positions in a highly dynamic and diverse international industry.

Potential Occupations

Studying Dance can lead to a variety of jobs, including professional dancer, performing arts teacher, cabaret artist, community dance artist and private dance teacher.

Studying Visual Arts can lead to occupations as a visual artist, arts and culture development officer, art gallery administrative officer, visual arts technician or illustrator.

Why study costume dance or visual arts at Flinders?

Your creative career starts here

Connect with industry leaders
Join a legacy of artistic excellence
Be mentored by practising creative artists
Work on real-life performances and gain in production settings
Access dedicated costume design and fashion workshops
Learn about computer-aided design technologies that contribute to design, production and marketing process
Get a taste of real-life collaboration in the industry

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Studying visual arts at Flinders connects you with lecturers that all work within the arts industry and are highly skilled in their practice. Having close connections with these lecturers and being able to discuss ideas and projects with them is an invaluable part of the course. Being able to learn from your lecturers in studio spaces that allow for constant strengthening of practical and technical skills is extremely beneficial.

Anna Revesz, Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts)

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Connect with industry leaders

You will benefit from our strong connections to industry leaders that will provide you with practical, real-world industry experience through placements.

With a huge range of industry placement opportunities in South Australia, Australia and overseas, you’ll have the opportunity to make valuable industry connections, build practical skills and be ready to step into your career in the creative industries.

Our students and graduates are strongly supported throughout their studies and beyond, and you’ll have access to an exclusive network of Flinders alumni that will continue long into your career.

Teaching staff

Our incredible teaching and research staff within the costume design, dance, fashion and visual arts sector are experts in their professions and well-connected to industry.

Gregory Ackland

Gregory Ackland

“Learning to deal with ambiguity, being curious and questioning everything – that’s what artists do. I’m interested in fostering open and inclusive learning spaces for our students to develop a sense of who they are, to take risks and to make the work they need to make.”

Gregory Ackland is a practising artist and arts educator with 17 years of teaching experience in the visual and creative arts. He is a passionate advocate for the value of creativity, innovation and culture.

Gregory is interested in digital media practices, conceptual photography and the moving image. He has facilitated workshops, presented papers and collaborated with colleagues at Coventry University, UK and Deakin University, AUS on topics including contemporary Chinese photo media, the role of photography in a media economy, arts careers and new media practices.

As the Principal Lecturer for Visual Arts he provides academic leadership for staff and students, develops partnerships with industry and maintains an active teaching role. His teaching focus includes arts funding, creative entrepreneurship, career pathways and cultural critique.

He has judged a number of arts awards, including the AIPP Contemporary Art Photography prize, delivered workshops for the Art Gallery of South Australia and regularly sits on arts funding assessment panels. Gregory is a represented artist with Hill Smith Gallery, South Australia.

Peter Sheedy

Peter Sheedy

“Dance was always something that I was drawn to for self-expression but I had no idea where to begin to turn it into a career. Start somewhere like a tertiary college? That’s how I launched and I haven’t looked back. My career covers all matter of creative processes and performance formats involved in contemporary dance performance and all have informed how I teach and what is critical in the exchange.”

Peter’s professional career commenced in Canberra at Human Veins Dance Theatre. He then spent the next twenty years performing and collaborating in leading contemporary dance companies including Dance North, Australian Dance Theatre, Chrissie Parrott Dance Company, Taipei Crossover and Leigh Warren and Dancers.

In that time, he has worked with choreographers/directors such as Graeme Watson, Nanette Hassel, Douglas Wright, Jean-Pierre Perreault and Per Jonsson and has performed lead roles in Glen Tetley’s “Pierrot Lunaire” and William Forsythe’s “Enemy in the Figure”.

Peter has taught extensively in contemporary dance studies and received choreographic grants from ARTSA and the Australia Council.

Take your study global with a semester exchange

Living and studying overseas presents you with the unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the local culture while continuing your tertiary study at one of Flinders University’s 70+ overseas partner universities.

Why wait until you graduate to see the world? Let our program offer you the educational adventure of a lifetime.