The “campers” or participants in Camping are 70 students drawn from 5 art schools and training program in France and abroad, as well as 50 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 de musique et de danse de Lyon (CNSMD Lyon)
cnsmd-lyon.fr
The CNSMD Lyon approach is based on teaching excellence, innovative pedagogy and transversal creation. Under a new directorship since 2019, with an outstanding faculty, this open training program is full of vitality, enriched by its links to top visual and performing arts schools, a 6-university network (CHELS, Lyon 2) and the professional milieu. The CNSMD Lyon is committed to developing the autonomy and collaborative work of students supporting an annual student creation festival entirely produced and self-managed by the student dancers and musicians. Professional integration of dancers is favored with the CNSMD Lyon’s network of more than seventy partners, increasing artistic exchange possibilities – emerging technologies AI/VR/VR included – in a creative lab-campus environment. The course mobilizes the dance student’s newly-acquired knowledge via creative processes and exploration of repertory works with established and young avant-garde creators/choreographers. In addition to a strong technical and intellectual foundation, students develop a sense of artistic commitment and endurance. The final year of the 4-year cursus in contemporary and classical dance culminates in a Junior Ballet, at once a touring pre-professional company and a community.
Rutgers University (New Jersey)
masongross.rutgers.edu
The Dance Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University provides a professional degree program (BFA) that offers an array of approaches to dance training, dance scholarship, and creative practices that decenter Western and Eurocentric forms and practices called the Movement Practices Curriculum. Nurturing an environment that fosters inclusion and an expansion of engagement across difference while striving for a more varied and integrated training experience, this curriculum includes African Diasporic forms, Contemporary Fusion, Classical/Traditional, and Somatics. Students make connections between the mechanics, expressions and contexts across courses and between semesters – developing skills to embody and apply the distinctive values of each form. Applying antiracist and decolonized approaches to the dance curriculum, the program strives for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at every dimension of creative practice, research, and dance scholarship.
École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre – ENSATT
ensatt.fr
ENSATT, the French national school of performing arts is a state-funded institution governed by the ministry of higher education and research. The school awards bachelor’s and master’s degrees in ten fields: acting, administration, costume workshop, costume design, lighting design, sound design, technical supervision, dramatic writing, stage direction, and scenography. Teachers and instructors from the world of performing arts provide instruction in a growing number of artistic and transdisciplinary practices, with an international outlook. Research programmes are an integral part of the curriculum.
La Manufacture – Haute école des arts de la scène, Lausanne
manufacture.ch
The Bachelor's degree in dance at La Manufacture privileges experimentation in a holistic approach to the body, the arts and the world. The objective is to train creative, autonomous dancers with a reflective approach in search of a rich understanding of the complexity of today's world. The formation is built around three main axes: Training occupies a primordial place, the objective being the development of bodily capacities and its autonomy in regular practice. At the Manufacture’s dance bachelor, training is based on the infinite possibilities of movement of the human body and on its ability to learn, develop and integrate new capacities, rather than on the reconstitution of historical dance styles or particular artistic currents. The training emphasizes the importance of the body and physicality as raw material, and this rigorous and diversified training results in original forms of virtuosity. Artistic practice is approached by considering the dancer as a participant in the choreographic process, bearing a real responsibility for the work. The training encourages inventiveness and a taste for experimentation, as well as a commitment to research. It aims to stimulate the integration of the physical, sensory and intellectual dimensions, both conscious and intuitive, and considers choreographic practice as a discipline open to other fields: theater, music, visual arts, anthropology, sociology, politics… The reflective approach - through theoretical contributions, often linked to practical experiences - aims to allow a critical perspective of the artistic practice and to develop an awareness of the complex interrelationships that constitute the functioning of the world.
Tainan University of Technology
dance.tut.edu.tw
At Tainan University of Technology, performing and visual arts are at the heart of the three departments that constitute the College of Arts: Fine Arts, Music, Dance, as well as Popular Music. TUT Dance was established in 1971 to satisfy the need for dance professionals in southern Taiwan. Over the last 50 years, the program has promoted the development of dance professionals. TUT Dance is made of two different programs: a four-year college program that emphasizes on dance education in general, and a seven-year “High School to College Continuous Program” specialized on performance, choreography and dance education. The development of well-rounded students with talents in music, dance, and the visual arts who are able to respond positively and proactively to the multicultural trends of today’s world drives our cross-disciplinary initiatives and projects in education and performance.
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon
ensba-lyon.fr
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 Art option. Its training programs are spread out over two cycles: an initial cycle leading to a DNA (diplôme national d’arts); and a second cycle leading to a DNSEP (diplôme national supérieur d’expression plastique – a master). The school also offers two post-diploma and a third cycle for young researchers and artist-researchers, with two research units: « Art contemporain et temps de l’histoire » (ACTH) and « Numérique art et design » devoted to the contemporary aesthetic challenges raised by digital cultures.