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Dance with Fitness: NQ (Level 6)

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Full Time
Duration

1  Year - 2.5 Days per week
Start date
Aug 2026
Campus
Easterhouse
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Course overview

Train, move and perform with strength, style and stamina.

This exciting and physically demanding course blends dance performance, choreography and fitness training, giving you the creative and technical grounding needed for work or further study in both the performing arts and fitness industries.

You’ll train in Jazz, Contemporary and Commercial dance, while developing your understanding of fitness instruction, anatomy, nutrition and holistic wellbeing. Guided by industry-experienced tutors, you’ll work on a mix of creative and prescriptive projects that build your performance ability, body awareness and professional discipline.

The course is highly practical and physically intensive, featuring conditioning, leaps, turns, floor work, partnering, and choreography-based sessions designed to enhance both dance skill and physical fitness. A good level of stamina and capability is essential for full participation, and you’ll be supported to build strength, flexibility and endurance throughout.

This programme also introduces key professional practices including choreography, group instruction and holistic training — making it the perfect bridge to higher-level study in either Dance, Performing Arts or Fitness at Glasgow Kelvin College.

This course is ideal for:

  • Aspiring dancers and performers who want to combine creative performance and fitness training.
  • Learners passionate about physical wellbeing, choreography and teaching.
  • Students planning to progress to HND Performing Arts or HND Fitness, Health & Exercise.
  • Energetic, collaborative individuals who thrive in a physically active environment

What you will learn

You’ll gain the technical, creative and fitness-based skills needed to excel in dance and performance:

  • Dance Techniques – Jazz, Contemporary and Commercial styles.
  • Fitness Techniques – Exercise to Music, Conditioning and Circuit Training.
  • Anatomy for Dance and Fitness – understanding body mechanics and safe practice.
  • Nutrition & Holistic Training – health, wellbeing and body awareness.
  • Choreography & Performance – creating, rehearsing and performing original work.
  • Fitness Teaching Techniques – leading group sessions and developing instructional skills.
  • Professional Etiquette – teamwork, reliability and communication.
  • Group Training Technique – class planning and delivery within a fitness or performance context.

Learning is delivered through practical workshops, rehearsals and live performances supported by written reflection and feedback.

Dance lecturer at Glasgow Kelvin College introducing NQ Dance with Fitness course with passion and enthusiasm

Study NQ Dance with Fitness at Kelvin 💃✨

Discover our NQ Dance with Fitness course at Glasgow Kelvin College.

In this video, Dance Lecturer Amanda gives a tour of our studio and gym facilities while talking through what you’ll learn on the course.

From developing technique and performance skills to building fitness, strength and confidence, this course blends creativity with physical training in a supportive environment.

Move. Perform. Progress.

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Entry requirements

✅ 1 National 5, at grade ’C’ or above

✅ Entry by audition/interview – including a group workshop covering Dance and Fitness discipline

✅ Demonstration of enthusiasm, potential and commitment to training

ℹ️ This course is physically demanding and requires stamina, focus, and full participation.

If you have specific needs or would like to discuss potential adjustments, we encourage you to contact us before applying. Our team is committed to fostering an inclusive environment and will work with you to explore reasonable adjustments where feasible.

ℹ️ For this course, if English is not your first language

  • If you do not have a formal ESOL qualification but your language skills meet this level, you should apply for your course and then contact our Admissions team to organise an internal language assessment  here at the College.

Career Opportunities

Graduates can progress into a wide range of roles within the performing arts and fitness sectors, including:

💃 Dancer or Performer

🏋️ Group Exercise Instructor

🎭 Choreographer or Production Creative

🧑‍🏫 Teacher or Educator

🚢 Cruise Ship or Entertainment Performer

🌍 Community Arts or Fitness Facilitator

Future prospects

Successful completion can lead to further study at HN Acting and Performance or Musical Theatre or Fitness programs at Kelvin

You can then progress to BA level with UHI Perth at Glasgow Kelvin College, or entry to related degree programmes at universities throughout the UK.

Dancer stretching one leg high along the ballet barre, demonstrating strength and flexibility.
Line of dance students at a ballet barre, extending their arms with poise and focus.
Dance instructor guiding a student holding a blue tablet, surrounded by fellow dance students watching attentively.
Dancer performing an impressive leap in the air, legs fully extended, against a white wall with ballet barres
Group of dance students practicing a dance routine in unison, wearing black dancewear and performing graceful arm movements.
Two dance students using resistance bands, with one smiling confidently during the fitness exercise.

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Read What Our Lecturer Said

Video Transcript – Amanda: NQ Dance with Fitness

Hi my name's Amanda and I'm one of the lecturers on our new NQ Dance With Fitness course.

So this is one of our studios over in Platform. Do you want to come in and have a look?

So this is where we do some of our dance classes. We've got our mirrors, our sprung floor and our ballet bars. We're in the middle of rehearsals just now for our up-and-coming show with the Performing Arts department which is I Love You You're Perfect Now Change.

So we've got some set going on but normally there's no set and it's a big open space which we love performing and rehearsing in.

Within the course you will study dance techniques such as jazz, contemporary and commercial dance. Also on the course you will do performance technique and you will do choreography.

You'll also do fitness classes such as exercise to music, conditioning and circuits as well as nutrition, anatomy and well-being, yoga and Pilates.

And this is our gym if you want to come in and have a little look. So in here we'll be doing our circuit classes, our exercise to music and our conditioning.

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