Professional Dance Training

A course for those who want to become a professional dancer

“Dance in Art educates their dancers to be artists of life.
Helping them to be who they are!”

Professional Dance Training

Professional Dance Training

Qualification: DiA Certificate

Duration: 3 years (full-time)

Months: September – June

DURATION: 3 year course ( 2 year training course + 1 year internship with the DiA Junior Company).

Dance in Art (DiA) is a private center for dance-, art education and performance training. DiA educates and prepares students to enter the professional dance world. The professional dance training course is designed to achieve the maximum potential of each and every student who is accepted into the school. It is a three year education program with during the third year a full time training program with the DiA Junior Company and the possibility of extending the year with a 3 months tour through Asia.

The daily training is on a high international level and designed for talented dancers with extraordinary abilities in search of guidance, knowledge, experience and inspiration. The program is customized to each dancer’s physical and emotional needs. DiA works on perfecting the art and technique of young students as a formula for future professional practice, providing an ideal platform for future dancers and talented young choreographers to gain knowledge for the future.

It is of the utmost importance to give the students a valuable education, an education they can benefit from for the rest of their life’s. Focusing solely on them, to give all the students the technical and artistic knowledge they will need to succeed in whatever direction they would like to take their professional dance career and to ensure all the hard work is for a higher and magnificent purpose. Therefor we work with a maximum of 12 students per year group. The program provides ongoing progress assessment, individual coaching, outstanding support and personal encouragement for each and every dancer. We accept students with the age of 17 – 23 years. Students who are 24 years of age or older can apply for the Mentorship Program.

Season
2024 – 2025

– Theatre Performances
– Location projects
– Interdisciplinary projects
– Workshops with Corpus Acrobatics (www.corpus-acrobatics.nl)

– Professional photoshoot with Rona Lane
– The Short Dance Collective

1st YEAR:

  • Ballet technique classes
  • Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT)
  • Pointe technique classes
  • Contemporary technique classes
  • Floor barre
  • Jazz technique classes
  • Contemporary dance workshops
  • Workshops Acrobatics
  • Choreography
  • Movement Study
  • Improvisation dance workshops
  • Aerial Dance/Yoga/Acrobatics
  • Yoga
  • Pilates
  • DiA repertoire
  • Minimum of 3 works presented on stage (specially created for the students).
  • Workshops of guest choreographers repertoire.
  • Art Education
  • Literature and Movement
  • Visual Arts and Movement
  • Dance Science

 

2nd YEAR:

  • Ballet technique classes
  • Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT)
  • Pointe technique classes
  • Contemporary technique classes
  • Floor barre
  • Jazz technique classes
  • Contemporary dance workshops
  • Workshops Acrobatics
  • Choreography
  • Movement Study
  • Improvisation dance workshops
  • Aerial Dance/Yoga/Acrobatics
  • Yoga
  • Pilates
  • DiA repertoire
  • Minimum of 3 works presented on stage (specially created for the students).
  • Workshops of guest choreographers repertoire.
  • Creating your own choreography (solo or group choreography).
  • Art Education
  • Literature and Movement
  • Visual Arts and Movement
  • Dance Science
  • Art business management | Essentials of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

 

3rd YEAR:

Full time training with the DiA Junior Company (technique classes, rehearsals, performances and Art management projects).

A certificate is obtained at the end of the 3rd year vocational course. Dancers will be at a level of joining professional dance companies, freelance dance projects, or continue studies in higher dance education.

Fees and enrollment

Enrollment will be once a year and starts in the autumn term of mid-September. The tuition fee is €4.900, – annually. Payments can be made into divided portions per term (3 terms per year). After you have been accepted a deposit of one term should be paid in advance to secure your place at the DiA Professional Dance Training Course, thereafter every term should be paid in advance.

Special financial arrangements can be made for students wishing to pay in portions. An agreed payment plan should be made with the Artistic Leader of Dance in Art to make payments easy and suitable for the individual student.

We offer 50% work scholarships (2nd and 3rd term payment). For more information please send an email to: info@danceinart.nl

For the Professional Dance Training Course we can only accept applications from students that are European citizens.

To apply for the DiA Professional Dance Training please send a 2 minute dance solo via email to info@danceinart.nl together with a motivation letter and the application form.

Alumni

DiA alumni can be seen leading or performing with dance companies across Europe, presenting independent work at theatres and arts centres, and also as inspirational teachers and choreographers across the dance industry.

NOTE ON OUR FEE POLICY: Dance in Art is an independent dance center that exists in the Netherlands art scene without the support of any public/private funding besides the tuition fees paid by the participants. The prices of the programs are the lowest we can currently offer. All teachers and management staff are paid with low wages to keep the fees contained, and there is a huge amount of enthusiasm, care and dedication that goes in the making of the different programs. Signing the terms and conditions form is binding and the payment cannot be refunded in case of non-participation in the program.