3-Year Diploma Programme – Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School

The goal of the 3-year Diploma Programme at CCDS is for the students to develop into highly skilled and aware dancers who can take full charge of their own development and handle their careers as professional dancers and artists for a long career in the future.

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The finest task of Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School is to support the international group of highly ambitious dancers who wish to develop their full potential, gain profound technical and artistic skills and knowlegde and attain a long and distinguished career as company- or freelance dancer and artist internationally.

This combination gives the students the opportunity to both immerse themselves in dance as a craft and to use Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School as a creative and network building point of departure for the future.

The goal of the 3-year Diploma Programme at CCDS is for the students to develop into highly skilled and aware dancers who can take full charge of their own development and handle their careers as professional dancers and artists for a long career in the future.

Structure of a typical day:

In a typical week (Monday-Friday) students are expected to work physically 6 hours per day and dedicate 2 hours per day for research, to individually optimise their body potential and for theoretical work. Some weeks are dedicated fully to a workshop or rehearsals, others are organised as classes. During periods of productions at Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School, performances and rehearsals can take place in evenings and weekends.

Every school year the students take part in several public productions. Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School collaborates with a number of choreographers, cultural institutions and organisations. Collaborators are for example choreographers such as Gustavo Ramirez Sansano (ES), Mauro Astolfi (IT) and Tamas Moricz (HU). To see more, please visit Teachers. Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School has performed at The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen Music Theater, Ministry of Culture, Royal Cast Collection,  Østre Gasværk Theatre, Royal Danish Ballet, Nimb in Tivoli, The National Museum, The Lapidarium of Kings, as well as a long list of sight specific performances.

The Diploma Programme includes individual coaching and mentoring of the students to optimise their artistic and technical development to the fullest. By the end of every semester (Winter and Summer) there will be an exam followed by individual feedback.

Subjects 1st and 2nd year

• Ballet
• Contemporary
• Repertoire
• Partnering
• Performance practice; inc. work with choreographers & public performances
• Rehearsals
• Personal Coaching & mentoring
• Uptimizing performance
• Composition, including individual specialisation
• Improvisation / Contact improvisation
• Management
• Training Planning, Injury Prevention, Anatomy & Physiology
• Music
• Voice training
• Dance history and performance analysis

Subjects and apprentice periode 3rd year

• Apprentice periode (January  – June)
• Ballet
• Contemporary
• Performance practice; inc. work with choreographers & public performances
• Personal coaching & mentoring
• Composition focused on solo work
• Webpage creation & management incl. filming of choreographic work for audition
• Individual specialisation
• Repertoire
• Uptimizing performance
• Improvisation / contact improvisation

More details: http://www.cph-dance.com/3-year-diploma-programme/

Auditions in Spring 2020 for entering 3-year Diploma Programme 2020-23:
– December 3rd 2019 in Copenhagen, DK (apply now)
– January 8th 2020 in Copenhagen, DK (apply now)
– February 10th 2020 in Livorno, IT (as part of Livorno in Danza – please contact organizers in Livorno)
– March 3rd 2020 in Copenhagen, DK (apply now)
– April 4-5th 2020 in Bari, IT (as part of La Danza nel Cuore – please contact organizers in Bari)
– April 22nd 2020 in Copenhagen, DK (apply now)

We advise you to apply at least 3 weeks before the audition in Copenhagen as we need to watch your videos and application and let you know if you are invited for the audition. However, we do accept applications up to 5 days prior to the audition.
To attend auditions in Italy, please contact the organizers of the respective festival.

You can apply here

Application close date: 3rd April 2020