The “campers” or participants in Camping are 40 students drawn from 4 art schools in France, Europe and around the world, as well as 60 professional dancers attending this platform of workshops and discussions as individuals. Every day, the morning is set aside for the invited schools to teach classes that are open to all the participants.
Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse de Lyon (CNSMDL)
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The CNSMDL adopts a project-based approach taught by an outstanding team of teachers. This open training programme is enriched by links with grandes écoles, the university and the professional milieu. The CNSMDL focuses in particular on preparing students for the professional world, aided by a network of more than seventy partners, increasing interaction and artistic exchange in a campus environment. The fourth and final year of the contemporary and classical dance course culminates with the Jeune Ballet, which provides a foretaste of students’ professional career. It enables young dancers, who work with established choreographers and young talents, to use the knowledge they have acquired to begin exploring creation and the repertoire.
Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMD)
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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.
La Manufacture – Haute école des arts de la scène, Lausanne
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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.
Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei (TNUA)
Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA, formerly known as National Institute of the Arts before 2001) was founded in 1982. Since the establishment of the School of Dance in 1983, a world-class faculty of choreographers, performers, and scholars has led the BFA, MA/MFA, and Ph.D. programs and developed dance artists, educators, writers, and administrators in the performing arts. The accomplishment of the faculty and alumni have made a name for TNUA not only in the contemporary dance scene in Taiwan, but also worldwide.