Schools invited to Lyon

Bard College, New York 
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The Dance Program at Bard College believes a dance artist’s growth is a product of the simultaneous development of three interdependent factors: technique, composition, and artistic voice. It is the Dance Program's aim to provide this threefold development of the student dance artist within the context of a broad-based liberal arts education. Since 2009, the Bard Dance Program has hosted an in-residence dance company bringing their unique technique and composition to the academic program in the form of teaching, educational licensing projects, master classes, full-Company production residencies, and public performances. Past partnerships include Bill T. Jones Dance Company, Trisha Brown Dance Company, American Dance Festival, and Gibney Dance. Beginning in Fall 2023, the Bard College Dance Program launched a two-year partnership with Villa Albertine, a cultural institution that supports exchanges in arts and ideas between the United States, France, and beyond.

Les Beaux-Arts de Paris
beauxartsparis.fr

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 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, in partnership with universities Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL), create the doctoral program Sciences, Arts, creation, research (Sacre) with five of its members including the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. The students of the Atelier Danse, Chorégraphie et Performance, director Emmanuelle Huynh, participate for the fourth time in Camping.

Beijing Dance Academy
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Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse de Lyon (CNSMDL)
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.

Centre national des arts du cirque (CNAC) – Châlons-en-Champagne
cnac.fr

The Centre national des Arts du Cirque (National Circus Arts Center) in Châlons-en-Champagne is a center for initial and continuing training, resources and research in the field of contemporary circus arts. Since 2022, it has had a new school project and a new pedagogical project driven by its new general manager, Peggy Donck. More than a school, the CNAC is a space open to all. The CNAC, the cradle of contemporary circus, is a place of passage, exchange, training, resources, encounters, research, innovation, and synergy between disciplines, as well as artistic creation and cultural life.

Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP)
conservatoiredeparis.fr

The Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris trains very high-level professional dancers who go on to join major national and international companies. Its ambitious pedagogy combines a foundation level with two training courses for dance performers (classical and contemporary), and an advanced level in dance equivalent to a Master’s degree, as well as a course in movement notation (Laban and Benesh) that is unique in the world. Boasting a tradition of excellence and innovative teaching, the Conservatoire passes on a very diverse repertoire and invites creation through the works of the great choreographers of our time. Its openness to the world is characterised by partnerships with other major institutions such as Chaillot - Théâtre national de la danse or the CN D Centre national de la danse, as well as numerous international partner schools. Every year, the Conservatoire’s students take part in major choreographic projects in its two performance spaces and outside the school, events which are an integral part of the Conservatoire’s public season. Throughout their studies, they also benefit from the cultural and artistic life of Paris. 

École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon (ENSBA)
ensba-lyon.fr  

The École gratuite de dessin de Lyon was founded in 1756. It became the École Royale Académique de Dessin et de Géométrie in 1769, the École Gratuite de Dessin in 1795, and the École Impériale de Dessin in 1807. Located on Les 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 programmes 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’s. The design program is made up of three majors: space design, graphic design and textile design. The school offers several programs: a post-graduate diploma (art) and a third cycle for young researchers and artist-researchers, structured around two research units: ACTH, devoted to the articulation between contemporary art and historical time, and a digital unit, devoted to the contemporary aesthetic challenges raised by digital cultures. 

École supérieure d’art dramatique du théâtre national de Strasbourg
tns.fr

Founded in 1954 under administrative supervision of the Ministry of Culture, the Higher school of dramatic art of the Théâtre national de Strasbourg has two distinctive features: its existence is inseparable from that of the theatre, whose premises and infrastructure it has always shared, and its pedagogical approach is based on interdisciplinarity, since it trains actors, stage managers, set designers, stage directors and playwrights in the same class of students (or ‘Group’). This close association between the school and a national theatre run by an artist is crucial to the training: by being at the heart of the theatre, students are in constant contact with the artistic and public dynamic of the TNS. Caroline Guiela Nguyen, Director since 1 September 2023, hopes that the school will help all artists to recognise their own tastes and discover what they do not yet know how to love madly. Her project and educational vision are based on three pillars: the school of creation, the school of storytelling and the school of otherness. Pupils work together across the board, without hierarchy between sections and with equal esteem for all artistic forms. Learning to tell stories to the public while preserving the singular voice and exceptional character of each artist in training is the challenge of the TnS school.

Escola Livre De Dança Da Maré – Rio de Janeiro
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École supérieure du CNDC Angers
cndc.fr

Founded in 1978, the CNDC d'Angers offers a three-year training programme for choreographic artists, based on auditions and taught entirely by artists, researchers and academics active on the contemporary scene. Located at the heart of a national choreographic centre, the school benefits from the professional and international dynamic of this institution dedicated to the programming and production of choreographic works. Choreographer Noé Soulier, appointed director of the CNDC in 2020, has developed a teaching programme that closely interweaves physical practice, compositional and creative practice, artistic and theoretical analysis and an understanding of production and communication contexts. Through workshops, classes, the creation of shows and specific collaborations with partner institutions, the school offers a wide range of tools so that each student can make their own way and contribute to the vitality and diversity of tomorrow's contemporary dance. As the only higher education institution in France dedicated exclusively to contemporary dance, the school awards the Diplôme national supérieur professionnel de danseurs (National Higher Professional Diploma for Dancers), in conjunction with a Bachelor of Arts degree in dance awarded in partnership with the University of Angers.

Extensions, La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse Occitanie 
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Extensions, a unique training program partnering with a CDCN, hosts about ten dancers from various backgrounds, and trains them to become dance artists. Housed by La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse Occitanie, Extensions fosters a learning environment which is aligned with current choreographic practices. Over a 9-month period, technical classes and daily workshops explore various artistic universes and enable artists to develop their body language, autonomy and choreographic writing. Theoretical courses, lectures, analysis of dance pieces, access to the documentation center, performances and meetings with resident or programmed companies complete the training program. Morning classes and intensive courses are regularly open to professional dancers outside the school.

Full Dance, Escuela de danza – Buenos Aires
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Full Dance, founded in 2008 by Verito Gregorio, is a leading dance school in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It boasts the largest variety of classes of any private dance school in the country, with over 180 weekly classes in 50 disciplines, taught by 70+ expert instructors. Full Dance offers a professional university degree in dance and 4 specialized programs. Its inclusive motto, "everyone can dance," reflects its commitment to providing a supportive environment for dancers of all ages, genders, and backgrounds. Students come from all over Argentina and Latin America to train at Full Dance, drawn by its high-quality instruction and focus on teamwork and personal development. Beyond its academic programs, Full Dance provides opportunities for practical experience through its 5 established companies: a Street Dance Crew, a Contemporary Dance Lab, 2 competition teams, and a women's Latin dance group. Full Dance also holds international scholarship agreements with top-tier institutions.

Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA)
hkapa.edu

The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) was established in 1984 and is a leading tertiary institution for the performing arts in Asia. It provides professional undergraduate education and practice-based postgraduate study. The School of Dance is committed to ensuring that its young dance artists receive not only the highest-quality professional education and training in Dance Performance and Choreography but also develop a broader interest in the arts and cultural studies. All of our dance programmes are stimulating, forward-looking, and highly integrated, aligning with the highest international standards in dance education and training. By virtue of the School's three dance specialisations, and its east-west educational, cultural and artistic nexus, the programme is unique among dance conservatoires worldwide. Students have the opportunity to develop not only the skills and attributes needed to become professional dance artists and cultural leaders but also to become creative, intelligent, independent-thinking dance artist-scholars with a passion for knowledge and a deep understanding of their art form and its relationship to other disciplines and the world beyond.

La CinéFabrique, école nationale supérieure de cinéma à Lyon
cinefabrique.fr

CinéFabrique was born out of a desire to open up the field of cinema and audiovisual to more social, cultural and geographical diversity, as well as more diverse academic backgrounds, points of view, and to foster gender equality. Each class and site train 49 students for 7 professions: scriptwriting, production, image, sound, editing, set design and special effects supervision. The school has been based in Lyon since 2015, and in Marseille since September 2023. It also offers short courses, such as the Orientation and Preparation Class, the CinéFabrique Workshops and continuing education modules. Focused on the professionalization of students, courses are taught by professional guest lecturers, and the third year is a sandwich course.

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.

Mason Gross School of the Arts – 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.

Master danse et pratiques chorégraphiques, Bruxelles Charleroi danse
charleroi-danse.be

Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle
insas.be

École nationale supérieure des arts visuels, La Cambre
lacambre.be

This master's program opened in 2021: it is the fruit of an unprecedented three-way collaboration between the Charleroi danse choreographic center and two art colleges, La Cambre/ENSAV and INSAS. In tune with current artistic issues and the realities of the contemporary world, the Master's degree offers tomorrow's choreographers and creators an international, multicultural, post-graduate teaching framework that questions the place of artists in society, and fosters the development of new artistic directions, practices and approaches. The training takes place over two years, mainly in Brussels, and is supervised by the choreographers: Ayelen Parolin, Serge Aimé Coulibaly, Louise Vanneste, Julien Carlier, Florencia Demestri & Samuel Lefeuvre. Alongside them, a number of artists take part in bodywork, technical creation and theory modules.

Master Exerce, ICI-CCN Montpellier/Occitanie Pyrénées-Méditerranée
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A host of artists, choreographers, performers and authors have embarked on this internationally renowned research master’s degree opened in 2011 as a joint venture with Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. Their investigation focuses on the approach to work and the broadening of the choreographic field as well as the common ground between artistic processes and research methodology. The course is an integral part of the national centre for choreography in Montpellier, headed by Christian Rizzo, which enables students/artists/researchers to feel the pulse of international choreography. To celebrate the degree’s tenth anniversary, the school published a collection of student dissertations.

Mukogawa Women’s University
mukogawa-u.ac.jp

The MWU Dance Collective is a student group from Mukogawa Women’s University, a comprehensive private university for women located in western Japan. Our dance program includes a teacher training curriculum within the Department of Health and Sports Science, covering various subjects such as dance education, somatics, and dance management. The student dancers in the MWU Dance Collective are actively involved in creating dance works, performing, and producing dance shows. They have collaborated with New York University and have participated in exchange programs with Taipei National University of the Arts.

Ochanomizu University – Tokyo
ocha.ac.jp

The dance programme of Ochanomizu University in Tokyo offers a multifaceted and comprehensive approach that places great emphasis on physical activity and expression. Ochanomizu University is the only national structure of its kind to offer students a four-year dance course. As the teaching of dance has only recently been incorporated into Japanese university curricula, the school has made innovative scholarships available. The techniques of modern dance, improvisation, creation, kabuki dance and martial arts are all featured in the university programme.

Pôle supérieur d’enseignement artistique Paris (PSPBB) – Boulogne-Billancourt
pspbb.fr

PSPBB is a public higher education institution established at the initiative and with the support of the French Ministry of Culture, the city of Paris, and the city of Boulogne-Billancourt, which is part of the Grand Paris Seine Ouest (GPSO) Urban Community. The PSPBB is a member of the Alliance Sorbonne Université, of the ANESCAS, and of the European Association of Conservatories (AEC) Over 200 renowned teachers and guest instructors ensure the quality, prestige, and diversity of the educational opportunities at PSPBB. The pedagogical approach of the dance department: – a curriculum geared towards the training of versatile and competent dancers who can adapt to the realities of the professional world ; – a multidisciplinary teaching approach (jazz, modern, classical ballet, contemporary dance, tap dance, theater, singing, hip-hop, etc.) along with workshops, masterclasses, and transversal artistic projects ; – an essential focus on on-stage training in order to embrace the affirmation of artistic sensitivity, technical mastery, and a creative approach ; – a reflection on the evolution of jazz dance and its place in the contemporary artistic landscape.

Salzburg experimental academy of dance (SEAD) – Salzburg
sead.at

SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance is a training center for contemporary dancers and choreographers and was founded in 1993 by Susan Quinn. Coupled with the professional training company, SEAD is also a year-round production and event venue for contemporary dance and performance art. The dance academy and its international students enrich the cultural offer of the city of Salzburg with numerous events, in-house productions, guest events and guest performances. Today, SEAD is a well-known academy with more than 100 international students from over 30 countries who can attend different educational programs: the four-year undergraduate-program, the one-year postgraduate-programs for choreographers (I.C.E.) and training programmes for dancers (FIRE year, MoveMentors Dance Intensive Workshops). SEAD is a meeting point for experimental collaborations, residencies, and performances. As a cultural space open for the general public SEAD offers an educational program for adults, teens and kids, and organizes various events in the field of contemporary dance and performance art which enriches the cultural scene in Salzburg. Since 2008, SEAD is home-base and residency for the internationally touring repertory-company BODHI PROJECT, since 2018 part of the blackmountain non-profit organization.

The Place - Contemporary Dance School – Londres
theplace.org.uk

University of Taipei – Department of Dance
utaipei.edu.tw

The Department of Dance was established in 1998. Since then, the Department has been exerting a positive and crucial influence on dance education in Taiwan through its growing body of graduates who are committed to their careers in dance that span from performance, choreography, education, somatic practices, to advanced academic research. It has developed into an academic institute with a complete curriculum that yields proficiency and excellency and has been widely acclaimed by the dance field. The Department offers Bachelor and Master degrees in two areas; Dance Education and Choreography.