Dance Program Berlin Germany * Dance Training Diploma Degree Program
Dance Degree Program * Professional Dance Training in Berlin with Diploma
The Dance Degree Training Program is an international, recognized, professional training with focus on Contemporary Dance in Berlin, Germany, and lasts three years.
The Contemporary dance training is aimed at aspiring dancers who wish to pursue dance as a profession and prepare professionally for a career in the industry. An officially approved Dance Diploma Degree is awarded upon successful completion of the program.
Completing the professional dance training in Berlin at one of the most traditional academies in Germany, talented aspiring dance students get the opportunity to turn their passionate hobby into a fulfilling and lucrative profession. The training to become a dancer covers a broad spectrum of dance styles to ensure a well-rounded foundation and to qualify the next generation as professional stage dancers. Technically, theoretically and creatively.
All the know-how that is needed for the ever-increasing and diverse professional requirements internationally is provided at the full-time dance training.
The Academy is located in a dance villa extending over 3 floors. The authentic and familiar environment provides the dance students with an optimal working atmosphere in a protected setting. The premises can also be used by the students outside of dance classes to deepen their personal work.
Young talents encounter a supportive community and various performance opportunities helping them to develop individually and prepare for a successful career in the dance world.
Training to become a professional dancer is an exciting, fulfilling, but also challenging and exhausting journey at Balance 1 in Berlin.
Note: The full-time dance training program at the professional Academy in Germany is officially certified and approved by the Senate of Berlin since 1996. Germany is the only country in Europe that enables suitable private institutions in the arts sector to issue officially recognized diplomas.
Are you interested getting to know the Academy personally before registering for the audition? We invite you to join one of our Open Days held annually in May or November! You have the possibility to join and watch classes and inform yourself about everything you need to know.
Beside the Open Days we offer personal visits to applicants only after having passed an audition with success during their reflection period, so the Academy does not get overcrowded too often!
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International Dance Program
The Academy has welcomed international students in the Dance Progam since its foundation in 1996. Students have arrived from many countries including Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Canada and the USA.
Classes are therefore mostly held in english. This is why speaking and understanding english is essential to follow the program.
Depending on where you come from you might have to apply for a student visa before entering Germany for your dance studies. Please read more details in our entry requirements. Coming from abroad you need to be aware that the Academy offers no apartments for students. Therefore you need to start looking for a place to stay prior to your arrival in Berlin.
Versatile Curriculum
Versatility is the key in today’s world, and the curriculum of the Contemporary dance training reflects this. It exposes to a variety of techniques and movement vocabularies. During dance studies, not only building a strong dance technique is important, but developing an individual and holistic movement language has just as much significance.
Daily classes include:
- Classical Ballet
- Contemporary Dance and Modern Dance (Graham & Horton technique)
The program includes many other courses:
- Improvisation
- Contact Improvisation
- Partnering
- Jazz dance
- Commercial HipHop
Knowledge of dance as an art form and exploration of the body is deepened in theory and practice:
- Applied Anatomy
- Dance Methodology
- History of Dance
- Composition
- Choreography
- Pilates
The dance studies are provided by the academy's professional faculty of lecturers.Thus a dynamically stimulating learning at the highest level is guaranteed.
Study Structure
The academically structured Training Program lasts three years, divided into six consecutive semesters with a final examination in the practical and theoretical subjects. Prerequisite for participation in the final examination are the successfully passed intermediate examinations at the end of the second and fourth semester.
Training takes place all day from Monday to Friday. The training-free periods are six weeks in summer, two weeks in autumn, three weeks at Christmas, and two weeks at Easter. Regular attendance at classes is a prerequisite for successful education at our Academy of Dance.
The first semester begins each year at the beginning of October.
Dance Degree
A dance diploma degree for Contemporary Dance is awarded after successful completion of all theoretical and practical examinations at the end of the 3-year dance studies.
The Dance Academy is a recognized vocational dance institution, but not a private university. The Dance Degree is therefore not a Bachelor of Arts (BA), which can be awarded by higher education institutions or universities of arts only.
However, since the training programs content is comparable to an undergraduate European Bachelor program, many universities and institutions accept the Academy's recognized diploma as an equivalent (180 ECTS points) to a Bachelor of Arts, even if this is not legally enshrined. This enables graduates to apply for some advanced dance or choreography-specific Master of Arts programs at universities in Germany and abroad.
Scientifically based MA programs are excluded from this.
Dance opportunities on stage
Dance Performance Opportunities
Performances are an essential part of a dancer's studies. They allow dancers to share their art with the world, connect with audiences and gain valuable stage experience.
At our academy, important performance opportunities are organized for our young dancers from the second year of training onwards.
Putting the knowledge they have learned into practice, going through rehearsal processes and presenting fully rehearsed choreographies in front of an audience help them to adapt to different performance situations, work in a team and deal with the pressure of live performances. The public dance performances convey self-confidence, stage presence and a deeper understanding of the work that goes on behind the scenes.
In the third semester, students develop and present their first creative works in the form of a solo as part of composition lessons.
In the fourth semester, the dancers make themselves available for the final work of the third year of training and are thus directly involved in the development of their own creations for the graduation choreographies.
In the fifth semester, the first full-length dance performance Admission To Dance is developed: In-house and guest choreographers create their own pieces for the dance students. Different choreographic styles and as well as different approaches in the rehearsals and production process provide valuable preparation for the future working world as dancers.
Admission To Dance is performed publicly every year in March in Berlin. This performance focuses in particular on the great diversity and technical level of our aspiring dancers.
Thanks to the cooperation of our Academy with the renowned Ernst Busch Hochschule in Berlin, there is also the exciting opportunity to work with prospective choreographers from the master's degree course in choreography in the fifth semester.
The sixth semester is dedicated to the development of the choreographic final projects.
Graduates Choreography and Dance project
After passing the final examinations, the most exciting and challenging part of the training program follows at the end:
in the sixth semester, each graduate develops and creates their own choreography as their official final project, which is rehearsed with dancers from the 2nd and 3rd year of training.
The graduates also dance in other choreographies of the graduating class for the Graduation Choreographies.
The Graduation Choreographies are a brilliant climax and a worthy end to professional dance training.
All choreographic graduation pieces are duly presented and performed in public every year as full-length premieres, in keeping with the festive occasion.
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