Invited schools

CalArts – California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles

The Program builds high-level proficiencies in performance technique, choreography, dance production technology and critical understanding of the artform, all within a global cultural context. Concentrated production seasons of aesthetically diverse work thrive in an atmosphere of creative exchange between professionally motivated students and a faculty of practicing artists. Unique among dance conservatories, students and faculty in the Dance School function both as a close-knit, intimate community— focusing on the work of each individual student in collaboration—and as part of larger circles of practicing artists, in the rapidly growing LA performing arts scene and beyond. The learning experience at CalArts is anchored by a faculty of internationally acclaimed artists who bring immense experience and dedication to mentoring our students through their programs. The faculty maintain the highest standards in artistic and academic achievement, and yet they also provide enough space and creative freedom for students to be able to grow in their own unique ways, form their own creative visions and develop into the singular dance artists they are passionate to become. Student-centered learning is a founding principle of CalArts, and today it continues to be at the heart of The Sharon Disney Lund’s mission to train the next generation of artists

Certificat Danse et Pratiques Chorégraphiques / Charleroi Danse

The Danse et pratiques chorégraphiques certificate is a new course centred on the practice and the development of artistic dance research. This higher training course crosses practice and theory answering to the expectations and the needs of the profession (history, aesthetics, dramaturgy, anthropology and analysis of bodily practices). The objective is to allow for students to build up a choreographic language based on contemporary preoccupations. The course takes place in Brussels and Charleroi. The certificate is based on a partnership between Charleroi Danse, the cultural operator in charge of choreographic questions over the territory of the Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, the school of La Cambre (ENSAV), the INSAS/Institut Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle, the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles and UO/Université Ouverte of Charleroi. In the long term, the objective is to favour the emergence of a new generation of choreographers and thus contribute to the artistic renewal of contemporary dance in Belgium.

Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP)

The courses offered by the Conservatoire de Paris give classical and contemporary dancers and notators an opportunity to become autonomous artists, true partners of choreographers. Classes on the history of dance, music and the functional analysis of the body in dance movement round off the course, giving young dancers all the tools they need to adapt to developments in the professional world and in today’s leading national and international companies, which they are aspiring to join. To bring students into closer contact with the realities of their profession, the Conservatoire has added ‘preprofessional experiences throughout the course, which confronts students with professional situations, giving them an insight into dance practice and the artisanal dimension of learn-ing, while encouraging autonomous and critical thinking about this art form.

Dançando Com a Diferença

Emerged in 2001 on Madeira Island as a project that aimed for the implementation of Inclusive Dance in the region. This intention gave place to the creation of a professional company and an ample wide-ranging educational and social project known worldwide for its innovative methods. Under the artistic direction of Henrique Amoedo, this group became an important reference in the contemporary arts, occupying a reference level in the European artistic panorama when we speak of inclusion through the arts. Since 2017 there is a nucleus in the city of Viseu. Between Europe and America, have already had the opportunity to receive classes, shows, workshops, conferences and / or other actions in the scope of the Inclusive Dance, promoted through Dançando com a Diferença. In its pedagogic activities and classes, Dançando com a Diferença attends weekly 300 people with and without disability with ages between 06 and 85 years Madeira Island and Viseu, with initiation, senior and advanced groups.

Danish National School of Performing Arts, Copenhague

The school’s dance and choreography programme combines artistic, technical and critical perspectives, and aims to blur the borders between body and mind, practice and theory, thought and action. Next to the faculty, there are international guest teachers and choreographers that come to work with the students. In addition to the teaching of dance and choreography, students also take interdisciplinary modules in collaboration with the school’s four other programmes spanning all forms of performing arts.

École de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal

Specialised in the training of contemporary dance performers, the École de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal (EDCM) is positioned as a centre of excellence in the universe of the stage arts in Canada. Recognised for its avant-gardism and the rigour of its teaching, the EDCM sets out to be a fertile territory for artistic research and development, as well as the emergence of new currents. Open to innovation and in touch with the professional milieu, its approach is based on humanistic values so as to bring out fully creative performers’ technical potential and artistic uniqueness. During an intensive cursus lasting three years, the students embark on a journey aimed at developing their sensitivities and creativity. Since it was founded in 1981, it has trained over 350 professional dance performers, who now are well-known on the national and international scenes. Lucie Boissinot has been the artistic and educational director of the EDCM since 2005.

École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD)

Founded in 1766, the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, an intellectual, creative and artistic crucible, is a state higher education establishment that is under the jurisdiction of the Ministère de la Culture. Its mission is to offer exceptional artistic, academic and technical education for aspiring artists and designers in the fields of art, animated film, graphic design, product design, textile and materials design, fashion design, the printed image, photography and video, stage design. The school has on average 750 students, both French and foreign, who study for five years (master degree diploma). EnsadLab, EnsAD's research laboratory offers several research groups. Camping gives students from the school’s stage design section the chance to go from an initial idea to a final creation through a conceptual and artistic exploration.

L’École Supérieure d’Art Dramatique du Théâtre National de Strasbourg

The Higher school of dramatic art of the Théâtre National de Strasbourg is a national school of professional training under administrative supervision of the Ministry of Culture. Ever since its establishment in 1954 by Michel Saint-Denis, the School has had two distinctive features: its existence is inseparable from that of the theatre and they share the same premises and infrastructure ; its educational approach is that of interdisciplinarity: within the same year (or “Group”), the School trains actors, stage managers-creators, stage-costume designers, directors, playwrights. This context of close collaboration between the School and a national theatre run by a director is decisive for the training: because they are in the theatre, the students of the School are always aware of the artistic dynamic and technical activity of the TNS. The presence of associate artists, of regular collaborators, as well as a technical and administrative team involved in an artistic project, helps to strengthen these links, be it through the internships supervised by the members of the artistic or technical team, or through the more informal exchanges inherent to the theatre life. Conversely, the presence of students and the existence of educational research − the results of which are regularly presented within the theatre − broaden and boost the artistic project of the TNS. The students are recruited through competitions two years out of three. Two Groups − that is around fifty students − are always present in the School at the same time. The training lasts three years and the curriculum alternates or combines weekly classes and intensive work periods in workshops, based on the master class principle and supervised by an instructor.

École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC)

Founded in 1975, the ENSAPC is a state higher education establishment that is under the jurisdiction of the Ministère de la Culture. The school serves as a laboratory open to a variety of contemporary artistic scenes. Artistic practice is at the heart of its pedagogy, and the aim is to familiarise students with cutting-edge practices in the arts and expand their field of artistic experimentation. Among other subjects, students can study dance, writing, video, performance, algorithmic practices, music, painting, drawing and film.

École Supérieure d'Art de Clermont Métropole, Clermont-Ferrand (ESACM)

The École Supérieure d’Art de Clermont Métropole offers a general training in the visual arts, while providing teaching which is both demanding and open (drawing, volumes, writing, performance, stage arts, choreographic practice, sound, installations, a Fab Lab, theories…) which allows each student to nourish their artistic projects, and enrich their personal practices with an involvement in contemporary creation. Reflections about movement, the creation space, and relations with the body, which are carried out by the ESACM, take on many forms: a “gesture” workshop, and a cycle of lectures on contemporary dance, to which can be added our participation in the Camping initiative. Counting among his teachers a dancer and choreographer, the school makes choreographic practice into both a subject and a educational tool for bringing the body into play in contemporary artistic practices, while opening up the field of knowledge to new creation spaces for its students.

École nationale supérieure de paysage, Versailles (ENSP)

The École Nationale Supérieure de Paysage (ENSP) trains conceptual landscapists. It is based at the Potager du Roi in Versailles. The landscapists handle different scales of territory (the creation of gardens, arrangement of public spaces, urban planning, territorial projects). They have to take into consideration complex time-lines: the growth of vegetation, seasonal cycles, individual and collective movements, urban mutations… They also need to understand from the territorial forms that are produced, how it is possible to transform them, influence them or highlight them, as well as how to create new landscapes and renew the identity of a site.

The teaching of a landscape project lies at the heart of this pedagogical approach. An artistic dimension is broadly applied: practice is primordial so as to acquire references, skills and a critical attitude towards the context of contemporary creation. Many artists (visual, choreographers, writers…) are invited to contribute to this teaching, which is generally done in the form of workshops. 

École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Founded in 1805, and in its new home of Subsistances since 2007, the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon is a state school for higher artistic education, approved by the Ministry of Culture. Conceived as a research and experimental laboratory, intentionally open to contemporary artistic realities, its vocation is to train artists, designers and creators. Attentive to current creative forms and issues, it aims more generally to bring out singular talents and produce the right conditions for a high-level professionalism in the field of art, design and creation. Welcoming three hundred students, ENSBA Lyon provides major options which structure the field of artistic teaching in France, with several courses in art and design. The students and artists of ENSBA, who are participating in Camping, come from the research group Post Performance Future. This group examines labelling, that is to say the a priori naming of a series of practices associated with the body, action, movement and language, which have emerged in the 21st century. Its training programmes are spread out over two cycles: an initial cycle leading to a DNA (diplôme national d’arts) in art, spatial design, graphic design and textile design; and a second cycle leading to a DNSEP (diplôme national supérieur d’expression plastique) – a master’s in art, graphic design or spatial design. The school also offers an international post-diploma aimed at young artists and a third cycle for young researchers and artist-researchers, structured around three research units: ACTH, devoted to the articulation between contemporary art and historical time, Post-Performance Future, and a digital unit, devoted to the contemporary aesthetic challenges raised by digital cultures.

Les Beaux-Arts de Paris

The Beaux-Arts de Paris are both a place of artistic instruction and experimentation, exhibition, conservation of historical and contemporary collections and a publishing house. Heiress of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which was founded in the 18th century, and is home to collections containing more than 450,000 works and one of the largest contemporary art libraries in France. The school, under the responsibility of the Ministry of Culture, provides high-level training and occupies an essential place on contemporary artistic scene. The course is studio-based under the guidance of renowned artists and is supplemented by a range of basics of theoretical and technical teaching. The Beaux-Arts de Paris associated with universities Paris Sciences &Lettres (PSL) , are one of the founding institutions of the doctoral program Sciences, Arts, creation, research (SACRe) including the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, which also take part in Camping. The students of the Atelier Danse, Chorégraphie et Performance (director Emmanuelle Huynh), created recently at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, participate for the third time in Camping.

École Nationale Supérieure de Paysage, Versailles (ENSP)

The École nationale supérieure de paysage (ENSP) trains conceptual landscapists. It is based at the Potager du Roi in Versailles. The landscapists handle different scales of territory (the creation of gardens, arrangement of public spaces, urban planning, territorial projects). They have to take into consideration complex time-lines: the growth of vegetation, seasonal cycles, individual and collective movements, urban mutations… They also need to understand from the territorial forms that are produced, how it is possible to transform them, influence them or highlight them, as well as how to create new landscapes and renew the identity of a site. The teaching of a landscape project lies at the heart of this pedagogical approach. An artistic dimension is broadly applied: practice is primordial so as to acquire references, skills and a critical attitude towards the context of contemporary creation. Many artists (visual, choreographers, writers…) are invited to contribute to this teaching, which is generally done in the form of workshops.

Exerce, ICI—CCN Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier

MA exerce in choreography has an emphasis on research and experimentation, and is open to other artistic disciplines and fields of thought. It follows the trajectory of artists-researchers by encouraging the exploration of all dimensions of the choreographic field: conception, creation, dissemination and public performance. Initiated in 2011 in collaboration with Paul-Valéry University in Montpellier, MA exerce is, since 2013, the only academic program in France to support artists who author their own projects and researches in dance. One of its unique features is that it dovetails with the activities of the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, thereby giving students-artists-researchers immediate access to current developments in international choreography.

Extensions, La Place de la Danse, Toulouse

For over seventeen years, the professional training programme has been accompanying the entirety of the artistic policy of the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique National Toulouse Occitanie, newly baptised La Place de la Danse and, in this way, participates in the renewal of the local choreographic scene. Initially set up to give professional and advanced dancers permanent access to training, this programme now provides, in an artistic plurality, a teaching connected to the professional world. The presence of guest choreographers and performers in this training project, but also sometimes in the programming, means that its educational propositions are as close as possible to the demands, evolutions and perspectives of the dancing profession. The organisation of encounters and lectures on dance contributes, alongside the presentation of performances, to the broadening of choreographic culture. This two-year programme is addressed mainly at a group of ten young dancers, selected by audition, but the daily lessons remain open to all professional and pre-professional dancers, as well as some of the courses on the Extensions programme. The 2018-2019 year is made up of 5 male and 6 female dancers coming from varied backgrounds. They conclude their training with a week at Camping where they present some of their Intentions: personal projects at the end of the course at Extensions, ranging from solos to group propositions.

HKAPA – Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, established in 1984, is a leading tertiary institution in performing arts in Asia. It provides professional undergraduate education and practice-based postgraduate studies. The study encompasses Chinese Opera, Dance, Drama, Film and Television, Music, and Theatre and Entertainment Arts. Its educational philosophy reflects the cultural diversity of Hong Kong with emphasis on Chinese and Western traditions, and interdisciplinary learning. The School of Dance offers three tracks, Ballet, Contemporary, and Chinese Dance at diploma level, bachelor of fine arts (Honours) degree and a practice based master of fine arts degree. The students come from a variety of backgrounds and nations, with a common goal to acquire the skills to communicate their artistry through the body. Regardless of a dancer’s area of expertise, the School of Dance exposes students to a broad swath of experiences and opportunities necessary to a contemporary dance artist. A wide range of artistic practices and methodologies, both studio based and theoretical, underpin the curriculum. The school’s mission is supported by a strong faculty and a diverse programme of visiting artists and artists-in-residence, drawn from both Hong-Kong and abroad.

Institut Français de la Mode, Paris

Institut Français de la Mode brings together Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and IFM. Both schools have made their mark on the world of fashion. ECSCP has embodied excellence "à la française" since 1927 and IFM was a pioneer in fashion management education from 1986 onward. Today their union offers Paris a new, open-minded and visionary "grande école" which nurtures tomorrow’s fashion talents. Institut Français de la Mode is a higher education institution, a training center for apprentices, a provider of executive education, as well as a center of expertise for the textiles, fashion and luxury industries. It provides educational programs from vocational training to doctoral level, by cross-fertilizing design, management and know-how. The Bachelor en Stylisme et Modélisme was created by Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in order to meet the needs of the fashion industry. The first two years focus on learning the basic techniques of styling, draping and pattern cutting that will allow the student to express his or her creative proposals.
The objective of the third year is to guide students to identify their individual potential, make them aware of what is a brand signature, enrich their "fashion" culture, and reinforce their autonomy.
The fourth year its more professional and allows students to define their own style through an end-of-year collection project. In September 2019, l’Institut Français de la Mode will offer a new Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Design in three years and a Master of Arts in Fashion Design in two years.

The National Institute of performing Arts of Uruguay (INAE)

The National Institute of performing Arts of Uruguay (INAE) strives to promote and strengthen the development of Performing Arts throughout the entire country, under the cultural policies developed by the National Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) and the National Department of Culture (DNC). Said growth includes lines of research and experimentation, ongoing training, creation, circulation, dissemination, promotion, orientation aid and professionalization of individuals and institutions linked to Uruguayan performing arts. Our mission is to be an institution attentive to the changes and needs that the fulfillment of its mission requires, within an influential and participatory framework, articulating activities in which the State is called to play an inescapable role. At the same time, to enable a permanent renovation in dialogue with the world, focusing on becoming a center of national and regional reference, where research, experimentation and training allow the full development of creative abilities in the Performing Arts field. Among its activities are the organization and execution of advanced training workshops, research process projects and aesthetic arts laboratories with national and foreign artists and teachers; support to festivals, exhibitions and other kinds of civil society projects that promote the development of performing arts. The INAE is the national representative of the Iberesecena Program and the Ibero-American Dance Platform.

KASK – School of Arts, Gand

The Drama program at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) educates students to develop an artistic practice in the domain of the performing arts that is personal. The program encourages students to position themselves, both practically and discursively, in relation to contemporary developments in the performing arts, but also to experiment in a search for artistic forms. Cross-pollination between artistic disciplines is therefore strongly encouraged. In this regard, the program benefits greatly from being embedded in the multidisciplinary School of Arts. It aims to educate ‘autonomous dramatic artists’ (rather than players who primarily execute the director’s vision). For that reason, students are not required to decide at the start of the program which forms of theatre or performance they want to make or which roles in the creative process they want to take up. Instead, during their training, students endeavor into different forms and functions, so that they can gradually define their own personal (often heterogeneous) practice as performer, theatre maker, actor, writer, director, and so on. It combines an intensive performance training in the studio, where basic performance skills are acquired, with theoretical classes and an artistic coaching that should lead to the development of an autonomous artistic practice. The program consists of a three-year academic bachelor (Dutch only) and a one-year academic master (both in Dutch and in English).

La Manufacture – Haute École des Arts de la Scène, Lausanne

A veritable ‘laboratory school’, the Manufacture offers young artists a space to create and experiment, enabling them to acquire and develop the basics of their profession while exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of contemporary artistic creation. Basic knowledge and skills are instilled through modular training courses, seminars and practical and experimental workshops led by professionals famous on the international scene. Oriented towards practice and creativity, the Bachelor of Contemporary Dance, creative option, enables students to familiarise themselves with numerous choreographic languages, meet renowned personalities from teaching and the professional milieu and to develop their own artistic creativity.

Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD)

Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance is a school about work – creative work, technical work and intellectual work. SEAD students are highly challenged to invest themselves into the growth of their personal and artistic maturity. SEAD is a shelter and support system for developing artists and a vital training ground for performers and choreographers. The curriculum of SEAD rests on the philosophical position that making art engenders knowledge. The premise that learning is by doing, thinking is by making, dictates the structures of SEAD’s classes and requirements. The emphasis is on how-to-work daily and in a sustained manner. With a faculty that rotates throughout the year, SEAD provides students with opportunities to work with renowed and innovative artists from around the world and to engage in a range of classes, workshops and performances. SEAD offers opportunities for students to choreograph and present their work, to teach in the public adult and children’s education program offered by the house, to perform in and outside school, to participate in exchange programs abroad and to create and make life long contacts. Students are included in every aspect of SEAD’s national and international performing and educational activities. As part of a network of leading institutions in contemporary dance, SEAD offers the student opportunities to connect with innovative figures and future developments.

Sareyyet Ramallah

Sareyyet Ramallah is a Palestinian pioneer civil organization effective in nurturing empowered generations that contribute to community development. Sareyyet Ramallah is a Palestinian civil organization that seeks to develop and implement a diversity of programs and activities for all society groups and to contribute to community development on the basis of human and scout values and in accordance with the needs of target groups. The Dance School, which was established in 2006, seeks to disseminate the culture of dance with all its elements among children and youth. It is considered a space in which all dance elements blend together to help children and youth explore this broad art field. The Dance School teaches dance according to an educational dance curriculum, which was developed by Sareyyet Ramallah and which includes the different elements and dance genres such as dabkhe, ballet, contemporary dance, drama and physical fitness. The school operates from September to May and culminates with a graduation show in the end of the school-year. The Dance School teaches annually in average 130-140 students between 3 and 30 years of age.

SNDO – School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam

The SNDO – School for New Dance Development – offers a full time four-year professional education course leading to a Bachelor's degree in Art – Choreography. The school was founded in 1975 as an attempt to find new directions for dance next to the existing forms and styles that dominated the field.

SNDO has built an international position and has students from different parts of the world coming from more than forty different countries. The staff and (guest-) artists and teachers are both Dutch and international and the courses are taught in English. The SNDO collaborates with number of local and international organizations from the fields of dance, performance, visual arts and education. The SNDO is part of the Academy of Theatre and Dance (ATD) at the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK) and accredited by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture