1-year Post Programme – Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School

The Programme is an individual specialization and optimization of your future professional dance career. The essence of the Programme is personal coaching, audition preparation, networking, career guidance and targeting your technical and artistic skills for the specific job situations that you are planning for in the future.

The Programme is an individual specialization and optimization of your future professional dance career. The essence of the Programme is personal coaching, audition preparation, networking, career guidance and targeting your technical and artistic skills for the specific job situations that you are planning for in the future.

The 1-Year Post Programme is for dancers with backgrounds such as:

-A professional dance education from outside the EU and wishing to investigate in and audition for the European companies and choreographers.

-A ballet education and wishing to specialise in contemporary dance in order to audition for neoclassical and contemporary companies.

-Extraordinary skills and massive training behind them and needs the final guidance and help auditioning for companies and freelance choreographers.

The Programme is an individual specialisation and optimisation of your future professional dance career. The essence of the Programme is personal coaching, audition preparation, networking, career guidance and targeting your technical and artistic skills for the specific job situations that you are planning for in the future.

This programme is specially designed for unquestionably dedicated dancers with high ambitions to expand their skills and boost their career opportunities.

With the Programme you have the possibility to optimise your:

-artistic and technical skills
-webpage presenting you as an dance artist
-solo for audition purpose
-recording of solo work for audition purpose or any other application and PR purpose
-recording of partnering work
-concrete performance experience through showcases or performances
-network through choreographers, dancers, teachers and producers
-choreographic development either as individual or as artistic collaboration

Entry requirements
The programme is for professional and newly educated dancers in the fields of professional contemporary dance and neo-classical ballet dance.

Courses
Personal Coaching & Career Management
Webpage Creation
Composition focused on audition solo work
Audition Preparation
Contemporary Dance
Ballet
Performance Practice including work with choreographers and public performances
Rehearsals
Repertoire & Partnering
Optimising Performance
Improvisation & Contact Improvisation

Programme periodes
The school period is from 30th of August 2021 – 11th of June 2022.

An example of a typical schedule Monday – Friday:
Optimising Performance
Class
Class
Lunch
Class
Class
Individual work and studies

Teaching language
The daily working language as well as all correspondence is in English.

Diploma
To obtain the final diploma students must past the annual exams and pass the school year.
If absence exceeds 10% in any subject a diploma will not be issued.

Course fee
The total education fee for the 1-Year Post Programme 2020/2021 is 57,000 DKK to be paid in three installments.

The first instalment of 20,000 DKK is due to be paid 2 weeks after acceptance.
The second instalment of 20,000 DKK is due to be paid May 25th 2020.
The third instalment of 17,000 DDK is to be paid November 25th 2020.

When: Auditions in Spring 2021 for entering 1-Year Post Programme.

Where & How to apply: Online.

While Covid-19 is present without a vaccine, there will be no in-person auditions in Copenhagen to help minimise travel and risk of infections. Therefore, we accept students based on video audition. We may ask for more material and a phone meeting after receiving your application as well as you are most welcome to ask for a phone meeting if any questions. For same reason there is no fixed deadline for sending application and audition video.

We recommend sending your application by March 2021.

Read more about the auditions and application process here: https://www.cph-dance.com/audition-en/1-year-intensive-programme-audition/

More details: https://www.cph-dance.com/1-year-intensive-programme/

While Covid-19 is present without a vaccine, there will be no in-person auditions in Copenhagen to help minimise travel and risk of infections. Therefore, we accept students based on video audition. We may ask for more material and a phone meeting after receiving your application as well as you are most welcome to ask for a phone meeting if any questions. For same reason there is no fixed deadline for sending application and audition video.

We recommend sending your application by March 2021.

Read more about the auditions and application process here: https://www.cph-dance.com/audition-en/1-year-intensive-programme-audition/

Application close date: 31st May 2021