Bachelor > contemporary and classical dance

Dates:

• Start of studies: only in winter semester
• duration of studies: normally 8 semesters
• Abschluss: Bachelor
• audition dates: may 7th & june 4th 2011 for wintersemester 11/12

Scholarships

Studies can be subsidized by the Ausbildungsförderungsgesetz (Bafög).

Requirements for International applicants

Please attach the following documents to your application form:

• passport-size photograph
• detailed curriculum vitae
• certified copies of the certificates of previously passed preliminary or final examinations
• Proof of command of the English or German language
• evidence of payment of the application fee of 30.00 euros (payment slip
  or copy of bank statement)

Foreign Applicants may apply directly with the Hochschule with this application form. Please attach all required documents to the completed and signed form with proof of payment of application fee. The processing fee of € 30, must be transferred to the following bank account of the HFMDK Frankfurt. In case of acceptance this fee will be added to the tuition fee.

Account number                                    200 138 081
Bank identification number                    500 502 01
Name of bank                                        Frankfurter Sparkasse
IBAN                                                      DE23 5005 0201 0200 1380 81
BIC/SWIFT code                                    HELADEF1822

Audition

The attributes required are flexibility of the body, musicality, artistic expression and must be judged adequate to allow a career as a professional dancer. If need be a medical report regarding physical resilience must be furnished.
Auditionees with previous training at a professional level may participate in advanced classes.

Audition consists of four parts:

• group training in classical dance
• rhythmical combinations in folk and contemporary dance
• improvisational tasks
• talk

Tutition fee

The tuition fee, about  270,-€, includes a student ticket for regional mass transportation (Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund) for the duration of one semester
(6 months). In case it is a second studies and/or exceeding the regular study duration according to the Studienguthabengesetz (StuGuG) as of 18 Dec 2003, GVBL.I, S. 526 ff., additional tuition fees have to be paid.
 
The training in Classical Dance is done in cooperation with the The Forsythe Company; Honorary professor: William Forsythe.
The training in Contemporary Dance is done in cooperation with Tanzlabor_21.

Teaching language

German/English

What is the institution trying to do?

The aims of the course of studies in contemporary and classical dance is the training of professional dancers within a degree program that encourages their personality as a dancer with great individual artistic expression, who master a wide range of classical and contemporary dance techniques at their command and who are able to understand dance as an art form in an artistic, historical and social context. Furthermore, the aims of the course of studies are to enable the students to act self-confidently and responsibly in groups, give their positive input as well as to develop social and political commitment.

How is the institution trying to do it?

To reach the above-defined aims a teaching model based on seven pillars, which are linked to each other, has been created. This will lead to an integrated course of studies.

• Technique
• Creativity
• Body Awareness
• Theory
• Projects
• Interdisciplinary work
• Performances

 

Special Attention

The intensive mentoring and sponsorship of the individual talents of the Students through the teachers.
The extensive process oriented work with international guest teachers and choreographers.
The possibility for interdisciplinary projects under the sponsorship of the  Hessischen Theaterakademie, with the Festival Junger Talente or with the help from the HfMDK Projektfonds Tanz der Künste.
The Kooperation with The Forsythe Company.
The fact that the sudents can, in the first semester, collect stage experience.
These will take place in various venus in Frankfurt.

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