Schools invited to Bordeaux

Bard College, New York 
bard.edu 

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
en.bda.edu.cn 

Beijing Dance Academy is a higher education institution with commitment to cultivating professional dancers, choreographers and dance researchers. The Academy offers BA, BFA, MA and MFA degrees, and is the only institution of higher learning specialized in professional dance education in China, being honored as “the Cradle of Dance Artists”. It is also one of the largest dance academy with comprehensive programs and concentrations all around the world. The Academy is composed of such divisions as the Department of Chinese Classical Dance, the Department of Chinese Ethnic and Folk Dance, Ballet Department, Ballroom dance Department, Musical Department, Stage Design Department, Creative School（consisting of departments of Choreography and Modern Dance）, Humanities School (consisting of departments of Dance Studies, Art Communication, and General Education), Education School, BDA Youth Dance Company, School of Continuing Education, School of Dance Grade Examination and Affiliated Secondary School of BDA, involving academic areas of dance performance, choreography, dance studies, dance education, art design, art management, etc.

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 de Bordeaux – Jacques Thibaud 
conservatoire.bordeaux.fr 

 

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.

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.

Conservatorio superior de danza María de Ávila (CSDMA)
csdma.es 

The CSDMA is part of the Directorate-General for Artistic Education within the Regional Ministry of Education, Science and Universities of the Community of Madrid and is integrated into the European Higher Education Area. It offers programmes leading to the Bachelor’s Degree in Higher Artistic Education in Dance, with the following specialisations, styles and pathways : Specialisation in Dance Pedagogy (Classical Dance / Contemporary Dance / Spanish Dance / Flamenco Dance) and Specialisation in Choreography and Performance (Classical Dance–Contemporary Dance / Spanish Dance–Flamenco Dance).
Since its inception, it has developed exchange programmes that promote student mobility—an essential element of a comprehensive education closely aligned with the spirit of the European Higher Education Area—and it organises complementary activities including courses, workshops, lectures, masterclasses, and collaborations with festivals, choreographic centres and dance companies.
CSDMA has an extensive programme of teaching placements in other educational institutions, as well as stage/performance internships that enable students to develop their creativity, present their work, and gain stage experience and interpretative maturity.
With a faculty of the highest prestige, the programme also ensures the continuous presence of guest teachers, making CSDMA a vibrant centre for study, creation and research, in continuous evolution and experimentation.

Danish National School of Performing Arts, Copenhague 
ddsks.dk

The school’s dance and choreography program combines artistic, technical and critical perspectives, in order to dwell in the in-betweens of 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 engage in individual projects and contextual studies such as entrepreneurship and performance studies.

ESNAM – École nationale supérieure des arts de la marionnette 
marionnette.com 

 

École supérieure du Théâtre de l’Union (ESTU), Limoges 
theatre-union.fr 

 

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.

KASK of Conservatorium – School of Arts, Gent 
schoolofartsgent.be 

The Drama program at KASK & Conservatorium educates students to develop a personal artistic practice in the domain of the performing arts. The program encourages students to position themselves, both artistically and discursively, in relation to contemporary developments in the performing arts, but also to experiment in a search for their own artistic forms. It aims to educate ‘dramatic artists’ (rather than players who primarily execute the director’s vision) who are both autonomous and collaborative. 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 and so on. It combines an intensive performance training in the studio with theoretical classes and an artistic coaching that should lead to the development of an autonomous artistic practice.

L’école du tnba – école supérieure de théâtre Bordeaux Aquitaine
tnba.org/ecole 

Located within the tnba – Théâtre national Bordeaux Aquitaine, a national theater center, the tnba School is one of 12 national higher education institutions for the performing arts. Throughout their program, students are trained and supported to master their technique, assert their individuality, and thus be prepared to tackle the artistic challenges they will face in their future careers. The school is authorized by the Ministry of Culture to award the National Higher Professional Diploma in Acting (DNSPC) and a Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts in partnership with Bordeaux Montaigne University. Since 2018, the school has implemented the Égalité program with the goal of opening the doors of higher education theater schools to young people who may not necessarily have the financial means or a supportive environment to pursue this type of study.

La Bulle Bleue, Montpellier
labullebleue.fr 

 

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.

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 
ici-ccn.com 

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 project and research 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.

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.

Pôle d’enseignement supérieur de musique et de danse de Bordeaux Nouvelle-Aquitaine (PESMD), Bordeaux 
pesmd.com 

 

Performing arts research and training studios (PARTS), Bruxelles 
parts.be 

P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) is an international school for contemporary dance based in Brussels, founded in 1995 by choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
P.A.R.T.S. is first and foremost an artistic project, grounded in the artistic practice of De Keersmaeker and other leading choreographers, and articulated through a strong pedagogical framework. The school offers a Bachelor Training focused on in-depth technical, artistic and reflective development, and a Master STUDIOS programme dedicated to supporting young makers in the early stages of their professional practice. P.A.R.T.S. makes no distinction between dancers and choreographers and encourages the development of independent, critical and creative artists, situating dance in dialogue with other art forms and the wider world.

Università IUAV, Venezia 
iuav.it 

The master's degree program offers a doble curriculum in Theatre and Choreographic Studies and in Performance and Gender Studies, both unique in Italy.
The program is articulated in theoretical teachings, strongly based on the new epistemologies, interwoven with an intense integrated range of practice-based teachings as laboratories, workshops and seminars led by artists and professionals from the international theater, dance and performing arts scene.
The program deals with the exceptional nature of performance practices concerning the theater of groups, collectives, companies, and communities on the Italian and international scene, and the complex interweaving of textual, vocal, bodily, acoustic, and video languages, scores and writings on the scene of the present days. The main challenge of the master's degree program is the confrontation between medial and performative studies at the intersection of cultural meanings that invest identities and sexuality, in open relationship with critical decolonial perspectives capable of liberating bodies and thoughts from hegemonic visions.

University of Taipei – Department of Dance 
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.