The Danish National School of Performing Arts

Description

The programme works with the combination of dance and choreography and considers technique as something that one develops as one learns how to work. The body is considered a fundament of existence. Engaging in the question of bodily capacities, functionalities, and expressions, through an artistic practice, is understood as a way to leave presumed oppositions between body and mind, theory and practice, thinking and doing.

The two main subjects are dance and choreography. The subject of dance approaches a large range of techniques under the umbrella of the craft modules called Dance Body Movement. The goal is to prepare the students to apply their bodily awareness to all sorts of physical practices. The subject of choreography focuses on composition, crafting own works and the contextual sides of an expanded notion of choreography that investigates choreographic perspectives outside dance.

Being a part of The Danish National School of Performing Arts also means collaborating with the other educational programmes in trans-disciplinary work and artistic development work.

Each year in the education there is a project/production that is performed and open to the public.

Career opportunities

Students graduate as creative artists that are prepared to go into a company that demands a high level of psychical accomplishment and technique or are equally prepared to create their own projects or make their own work. 

In order to develop a familiarity with the professional field today, the students will meet present and prominent artists working in Denmark, Europe, and around the world.

Meet Dance & Choreography graduate Agnes Grélinger from Hungary in this interview about moving to and staying in Denmark.

Admission

Every second year in early spring auditions take place at The Danish National School of Performing Arts. There are no age requirements in order to apply and the school does not require a specific educational background or level of experience. But the competition is hard. Approximately 200 people apply for the 16 places offered at the school. For those who are offered a place in the school, studies begin mid-August.

The Contemporary Dance programme is primarily taught in English. However, the student can be expected to participate in joint activities with other students from the school once or twice a year, where Danish will be the primary language.

Learn more in the application guide

Tuition

There is a tuition fee for all fulltime degree students with a citizenship from outside of EU/EAA/Switzerland. Students within an exchange programme are not required to pay tuition.

For Further Information

Information from the Danish Agency for Higher Education can be located at http://ufm.dk/en

You will find information about the Danish assessment of foreign qualifications in Guide to diploma recognition

About the Educational System in general visit the section The Danish Higher education system

About the programme

The MFA in Choreography focuses on two aspects and their relation: Physical practice and Choreographic production.

As a student, you will be encouraged to develop a complex and deepened understanding of different possible relations between the two and the potentials that those relations bring along. The programme also emphasizes the importance of context in choreographic production. For example, how the site of presentation, the choice of performers, the duration of the work and the construction of the working process all are choreographic elements within the work. In other words, in which way the “how” is the “what”.

Nordic Choreographic Platform(NCP)

The programme is a part of the Nordic Choreographic Platform (NCP) – a collaboration between DASPA and the master's programmes in Choreography in KHIO (Oslo), Uniarts (Stockholm) and Uniarts (Helsinki). Once per semester, the involved programmes gather for joint studies.

The periods of exchange will, when possible, be coordinated with important events in the different countries, such as festivals, conferences, and symposiums. In each city there is also a collaborating venue and the students will have a chance to meet and present their work to the directors and/or other staff of those venues. This is seen as a way to ensure a certain Nordic network is in place for the graduating student.

Career opportunities

The programme prepares you for a freelance career as choreographer. This concerns both your individual artistic expression and the know-how relating to production, including, for example, project management, communication and ethics. In order to create a sustainable career, next to the individual artistic production, functioning as a free-lance choreographer may also entail activities that support s one’s own practice, such as workshop facilitation, curating, research or assisting fellow artists in production. The role of such activities in one’s career path is also reflected upon in the programme.

Admission

The entry requirement for the programme is a passed admission test as well as a degree in Dance and Choreography equivalent to Bachelor’s level from The Danish National School of Performing Arts or another relevant higher education institution.

All applicants with a qualifying degree must go through the same application process. Learn more in the application guide

Tuition

There is a tuition fee for all fulltime degree students with a citizenship from outside of EU/EAA/Switzerland. Students within an exchange programme are not required to pay tuition.

For Further Information

Information from the Danish Agency for Higher Education can be located at http://ufm.dk/en

You will find information about the Danish assessment of foreign qualifications in Guide to diploma recognition

About the Educational System in general visit the section The Danish Higher education system

About the programme

• Are you curious about participant involving practice within dance and choreography?

• Do you want to challenge the role of the choreographer in the creative process?

The international MFA in Dance and Participation takes its starting point in the artistic and social potential of dance and choreography. The field of study is participant involving practice, understood here as a spectrum spanning artistic, social, collaborative and educational approaches to the art form.
The programme targets professional dancers and choreographers who want to extend their artistic practice to involve people outside the professional dance field in the creative process, to develop new approaches, methods and expressions.
As a student, you will work practice-oriented with projects and inquiries involving different (groups of) people. Backed by artistic and academic tools and concepts, you will be encouraged to develop your own artistic facilitation and research methods. You will work on finding new ways to bring each participant’s individual abilities, experiences and interests into play in the creative process. and learn to situate and critically engage with your own approach.
The course of study alternates between classes and workshops and periods in which the students carry out pedagogical and artistic inquiries in the field, including periods in which the students plan and implement projects with particular participant groups.
The programme is affiliated with various national partners and international networks, and as a student you may partake in workshops, conferences, exchanges and study trips where you encounter leading artists and scholars in the field. Collaborations with students from other fields of study and a focus on entrepreneurship further enable you to conduct independent projects after graduation.

Career opportunities

The international field of dance and participation is developing rapidly these years and encompasses a growing range of artistically founded approaches to participant involvement and co-creation of works. This calls for dance professionals who can organize, manage and complete complex and unpredictable participatory projects. The job prospects for Dance and Participation graduates are good and varied.
After completing the programme, you will be able to work independently and entrepreneurially with participant involving dance projects. The programme equips you to take responsibility for your own professional development and specialisation, including - but not limited to - working as an independent artist, working in education or culture institutions or pursuing a research career. As with most other artistic educations, graduates mostly work freelance and are hired on project basis or develop their own projects. 

Admission

The entry requirement for the programme is a degree in dance equivalent to Bachelor’s level and a passed admission test. The admission test consists of a written application (pre-qualification) and an audition. Up to seven students will be admitted every second year.

Learn more in the application guide

Tuition

There is a tuition fee for all fulltime degree students with a citizenship from outside of EU/EAA/Switzerland. Students within an exchange programme are not required to pay tuition.

For Further Information

Information from the Danish Agency for Higher Education can be located at http://ufm.dk/en

You will find information about the Danish assessment of foreign qualifications in Guide to diploma recognition

About the Educational System in general visit the section The Danish Higher education system

The MFA in Performing Arts provides the framework for you - as an emerging artist - to pursue your personal, artistic trajectory, and deepen and develop your professional competencies while working cross-disciplinary with your fellow students on projects, festivals and the overarching research project “Imagining the future”.
The programme offers

• a creative space to tomorrow’s artists

• seven specialisations where you get to deepen and develop your practice, through inspirational learning and co-creation

• cross-disciplinary work with fellow students and faculty members, including the creation and curation of a festival

• room to pursue your own artistic vision – inspired by the rest of the programme, mentored by a member of the Master's team

• international learning environment and network.

The two-year master’s programme is made up of three interacting main tracks: specialisation, programme and individual module.

As a student, you and your artistic work will be part of the overarching artistic research project “Imagining the future”. The programme will actively contribute to the creation of stories that catalyse society to engage with and participate in a new adventure, and in co-creating the future. 

Internships/practice and Final Project will partly be developed together with different institutions in Denmark and abroad according to the individual student's artistic project.Every student will follow an independent path through the programme, according to his or her specialisation and the programme as a whole.

Throughout the programme, students can participate in a range of subjects that align with the areas of knowledge and forms of practice that the student wishes to develop and qualify for at the highest professional level. 

Career opportunities

With a Master's degree in Performing Arts you will be equipped to independently initiate, organise, and complete artistic works, projects, and productions.
You will be an agent of change introducing new paradigms and forms of expression, as well as new collaborative ways of working in terms of co-creating to the field of performing arts.

Admission 

To be admitted to this programme, you must have undertaken an artistic education at bachelor's level from the Danish National School of Performing Arts or another relevant higher education institution.

Furthermore, applicants must pass an entrance exam to get into the programme. Based on the application material an admission committee invites a limited number of applicants to an audition/interview. 

Applying for the programme includes applying for a specific subject-related artistic specialisation based on one of the school's campuses:

• Acting (Odense)

• Directing (Copenhagen)

• Lighting (Copenhagen)

• Producing (Copenhagen)

• Scenography (Copenhagen)

• Sound (Copenhagen)

• Writing (Aarhus)

The programme welcomes both newly graduated performing artist and professionals with substantial experience from the industry. 12-18 students will be admitted every second year.

If the admission committee is not convinced that an applicant has a sufficient level of English to complete the programme, they might ask for detailed documentation of the applicant’s proficiencies in English.

Learn more in the application guide

Tuition

There is a tuition fee for all fulltime degree students with a citizenship from outside of EU/EAA/Switzerland. Students within an exchange programme are not required to pay tuition.

For Further Information

Information from the Danish Agency for Higher Education can be located at http://ufm.dk/en

You will find information about the Danish assessment of foreign qualifications in Guide to diploma recognition


About the Educational System in general visit the section The Danish Higher education system