Dance Program in Berlin, Germany * Contemporary Dance Education
International Dance Education Program * Dance Diploma * 3-years of studies
Our Academy offers a 3-year international dance program for contemporary dance in Germanys capitol Berlin.
The professional dance education program is aimed at aspiring dancers who wish to study and turn their passionate hobby into a fulfilling and lucrative profession in the dance world.
The Dance Diploma is officially approved. If your goal is to pursue dance as a profession, we will prepare you for a career in the field of performing arts.
The extraordinarily versatile and creative program covers a wide range of dance styles ensuring a well-rounded foundation.
It is our aim to qualify you professionally as a dancer. Technically, theoretically and creatively.
As a future professional dancer, you will be provided with the know-how you need for the ever-increasing and diverse international requirements in the dance world.
The modernized facilities in our charming Dance Villa, supportive community and performance opportunities will help you to develop professionally and build a successful career in the fascinating world of dance art. Join us on a challenging, fulfilling, exciting, but also strenuous journey completing your professional dance education program at Balance 1 in Berlin.
Note: The 3-year full-time dance program at our vocational school 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 to get to know us and the Academy personally before registering for the audition? We invite you to join one of our Open Days in May or November! You have the possibility to join and watch classes and inform yourself about everything you need to know.
Otherwise we offer personal visits only after having passed an audition with success during your reflection period, so the Academy does not get overcrowded too often!
dance audition information, dates & registration
International Dance Education 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 our Contemporary dance education program reflects this. It exposes you to a variety of techniques and movement vocabularies. During your studies, you will not only build strong dance technique. Developing your individual and holistic movement language becomes equally important.
Your daily classes will include:
- Classical Ballet
- Contemporary Dance and Modern Dance (Graham & Horton technique)
In addition, we complement the program with many other classes:
- Improvisation
- Contact Improvisation
- Partnering
- Jazz dance
- Commercial HipHop
You will deepen your knowledge of dance as an art form and your understanding of the body in theory and practice:
- Applied anatomy
- Dance Methodology
- History of Dance
- Composition
- Choreography
During your studies, our professional faculty of lecturers will always be at your side. Thus we guarantee you a dynamically stimulating learning at the highest level.
Study Structure
The Education Program at the Academy 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 Diploma
At the end of the dance studies, you will receive a dance diploma. The official title is: state-approved stage dancer.
Note: We are an approved vocational dance institution, but not a private universtity. The Dance Diploma is therefore not a dance degree as a Bachelor of Arts (BA), which can be awarded by higher education institutions or universities of arts only. However, the programs content is comparable to an undergraduate European Bachelor program. Therefore, many higher education institutions accept the diploma of our academy as an equivalent to the Bachelor of Arts. Thus, after successful graduation, with an equivalent of 180 ECTS credit points, it is possible for our graduates to apply for advanced dance or choreography specific Master of Arts programs at certain dance departments of higher education institutions In Germany and abroad.
Dance opportunities on stage
Dance Performance Opportunities
At our Academy, we provide important dance opportunities on stage for our emerging dancers. We belive that performances are an essential part of a dancer’s studies. They allow students to share the art of dance with the world, connect with audiences, and gain valuable stage experience. Our students have the chance to showcase their talent and shine in the spotlight. These performance dance opportunities not only allow you to apply and showcase the skills you have learned, but also help you grow as an artist of the performing arts. You will learn to adapt to different performance situations, work as part of a team, and handle the pressures of live performances.
Our academy also invites guest choreographers to create original pieces for our dancers to experience different choreographic styles and approaches. Through performances, you’ll gain confidence, stage presence, and a deeper understanding of the art of performance.
By the third semester, you’ll be creating your own first creative work in the form of a solo. You can also get a taste of the stage air in the theater: at the end of your fourth semester you will paticipate in the final projects of the third year of training and are directly involved in the development of their choreographies.
In the fifth semester, you will work together with your choreographers on your first professional dance performance: our Admission to Dance is performed publicly in Berlin every year in March. There you can finally demonstrate the full range of your dance skills and dance in many different choreographies.
Thanks to the cooperation of our academy with the renowned Ernst Busch Hochschule in Berlin, you will also have the exciting opportunity to work with future choreographers during your fifth semster: the students of the master choreography program.
Your final project as a dancer and choreographer
At the end of your 3rd year of training, you must of course first pass your final exam. But then you will come to the most exciting part of your education: in the sixth semester you will develop and rehearse your own choreography with your fellow students from the 2nd and 3rd year of training! Likewise, you will dance in choreographies of your graduate class.
The Graduate Students Choreographies, the official stage dance final projects, are the absolute highlight at the end of your dance education program and will be publicly performed as a full-length dance performance at the end of September in Berlin.
Entry & Admission Requirements Information