dance in education - the programme

Maybe teaching dance is the career for you. You are passionate about dance, and you think it’s wonderful to share that and create dance performances together with others. Especially for young enterprising people like you, Rotterdam Dance Academy – one of Europe’s leading professional institues for contemporary dance – has adapted the curriculum of its Bachelor of Dance in Education programme to meet the demands and wishes of our times.

Download the 2009-2010 study guide of Rotterdam Dance Academy (pdf file).

The demand for well-trained dance teachers who can relate to the continually changing metropolitan multicultural society is very high. As a dance teacher you can set to work in primary and secondary education (including ‘broad schools'), in community centres, in the educational department of a dance company, in ballet schools, with a youth theatre group – to give a few examples. And the Bachelor of Dance in Education programme prepares you for this perfectly in four years.

When you have taken this programme, you will be an enthusiastic and inspiring coach with strong didactic skills who inspires confidence in his/her pupils and with infectious pleasure, knows how to bring out the best in them. You work together on performances in which your pupils can present themselves in an optimal way through the dance. In addition, you have learned to use different dance techniques – ballet, contemporary, urban, non-western – in a creative manner in order to give form to your own identity as a dance teacher and dance artist. If you yourself are a technically good dancer and a convincing performer, as a teacher you can set an example or be a role model for your pupils.

The programme includes intensive collaboration with different cultural institutions in Rotterdam which reflect the multicultural metropolitan society in the city, with exponents such as ‘urban’ and ‘community arts . Through internships and projects, you frequently come into contact with them.

The programme is taught in the Dutch language.

To conclude

- After completion of the programme the student receives the title Bachelor of Dance Education (BDaE)

- Click here for the Teaching and Examination Regulations
- The language of instruction is Dutch

- Codarts maintains the international code of conduct with respect to higher education

- Students follow the programme Docent Dans 34940

- The programme was accredited on 01-01-2008 (www.nvao.net)