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Why study Dance or Visual Arts? 

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

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Dance

A career in dance is more than just being on stage. With a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance), you could become a choreographer or dance teacher, as well as a professional dancer. 

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Dance is 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. 

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

Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance)

Visual Arts

Visual artists come in all forms. With a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts), you’ll specialise in ceramics, painting, photography, printmaking or sculpture and you’ll use these specialised skills to create your own career. 

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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.

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.  
 

Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts)

⬆︎
8.8%


Jobs for Arts Professionals up 8.8% by 2026.

National Skills Commission Jobs Outlook

Ranked No.1 in SA
in Creative Arts for full-time employment, student support and teaching quality.

The Good Universities Guide 2024 (undergraduate), public SA-founded universities only

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17.5%

Visual arts and crafts professionals

* National Skills Commission, 2021 Employment projections for the five years to 2026

Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance)

Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts)

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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 invaluable.

Anna Revesz, Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts)

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Why study Dance or Visual Arts at Flinders?

 
  • Be mentored by practising creative artists
  • Get a taste of real-life collaboration in the industry
In Dance:
  • Work on real-life performances and gain experience in production settings
  • Work as a conceptual artist by specialising in topics on group performance, auto-performance and choreography
In Visual Arts:
  • Practise in purpose-built studio spaces that are unique to Adelaide College of the Arts
  • Develop an impressive portfolio and exhibit throughout your degree 

Watch a show

There is no better way to experience Dance than to watch a performance.

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When: June 18, 7pm and June 19/20, 1pm/7pm

Where: AC Arts, Main Theatre

Find out more about Daniel

2nd and 3rd year students choreographed by Michelle Heaven keyboard_arrow_up

When: September 9, 7pm and September 10, 1pm/7pm

Where: AC Arts, Main Theatre

Find out more about Michelle

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When: December 8, 7pm and December 9, 1pm/7pm

Where: AC Arts, Main Theatre

Teaching staff

Our teaching and research staff are experts in their professions and well-connected to industry.

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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.

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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.

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