The study plan leads to obtaining the Degree in Higher Artistic Dance Education in the following specialties: Choreography and performance techniques y Dance pedagogy.
Branch of knowledge: Dance
Responsible Center: “Alicia Alonso” University Dance Institute
Teaching modality and Campus: In person – Fuenlabrada
Credits: 240. Credits year: 60. Duration: 4 years.
Offer dance professionals superior quality training with high levels of artistic and academic excellence through continued performing practice.
The purpose of artistic education is to provide you with quality artistic training and guarantee your qualification as a future professional.
Higher Dance Education is taught with official academic validity and leads to an academic qualification. These teachings are aimed at qualifying future professionals for their incorporation into the labor field of these disciplines.
The purpose of this training is the study and research of dance as creation and the transmission of knowledge related to the artistic fact.
These studies last 4 academic years and at the end you obtain the Higher Degree in Dance followed by the specialty studied. This qualification is equivalent for all purposes to a university degree.
Specific requirements:
The educational administrations of each Autonomous Community carry out at least one annual call for the specific test for access to higher artistic education in Dance.
Pass the specific access test related to the specialty you opt for (this test is called by the educational Administrations and is valid to enroll in the academic year in which it has been called).
Choreography and performance techniques.
Dance pedagogy.
Our graduates are trained in the principles of artistic excellence, with extensive knowledge of the technique, methodology and repertoire of dance and theater, which reinforce their technical mastery and stage maturity, consolidated throughout their four years. of studies.
The Higher Degree in Dance provides the necessary skills to link future performing arts and dance professionals with the creative audiovisual industry: cinema, performing and communication technologies, design, advertising, business management, tourism industry, etc., trained to face new challenges in the labor market.
Our graduates occupy prominent positions in leading national and international dance, ballet, theater or circus companies. Also as producers, company directors, cultural managers, experts in production and distribution of shows, therapeutic applications, among other job opportunities with wide demand.
Our graduates are qualified to work as teachers in the field of artistic education, both in public and private centers, at a professional level, from regulated basic education to teaching in universities throughout Europe.
The “Alicia Alonso” University Institute is a center of higher artistic education whose Degree in Higher Artistic Dance Education It can be revalidated in the European Higher Education Area (recognition in the 46 countries that signed the Bologna agreements), through access to postgraduate programs. The Institute's Higher Degree students have the possibility of accessing the specialized Master's program.
The specialties of the Degree in Higher Artistic Dance Education, train graduates to perform highly qualified functions, providing a curricular depth that expands their knowledge, multiplying their employability possibilities by covering a greater number of fields of knowledge.
The specialties taught at the “Alicia Alonso” University Dance Institute offer students the opportunity to specialize in different sectors of the world of Performing Arts.
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These studies have a duration of 4 academic courses of 60 credits each, which represents a total of 240 ECTS credits.
Once these studies are completed, you can access Master's and subsequent doctorate studies.
The profile of the graduate in Dance corresponds to that of a qualified professional who masters the knowledge and skills of dance, with a deep knowledge of the functioning of the body in all its aspects, who must have some theoretical knowledge based and integrated with dance praxis that allow him to develop and grow as a creator, performer and pedagogue, capable of assuming the ethical and deontological dimension of personal and professional responsibility.
El Degree in Higher Artistic Dance Education provides the necessary skills to link future performing arts and dance professionals with the creative audiovisual industry, cinema, stage technologies and communication, advertising, and cultural industries.
Graduates will be able to find multiple professional opportunities in the traditional occupations of their specialty as performers, choreographers, artistic directors, technical directors, producers and directors within the framework of any musical, theatrical, dance or audiovisual and cinematographic industry show.
The work profile obtained offers the necessary skills to work in Communication Companies, Advertising Agencies, the Audiovisual Creative Industry and the Entertainment Industry, as well as to serve as teachers, as critics specialized in theater, dance or cinema within the field of journalism, artistic research and cultural institutions.
Their training allows them to work as heritage conservators both tangible and intangible, provide services as documenters of artistic collections and in general participate in the study and rescue of cultural traditions. They may also be employed in the cultural areas of the different municipalities as programmers of cultural activities, project managers, and free time monitors.
-Graduates of the Professional Dance, Performance and Dance and Technology itinerary are trained in the principles of artistic excellence, have extensive knowledge of the dance repertoire that, reinforced by technical mastery in multiple registers and stage maturity consolidated throughout Throughout their four years, they will have performed at least 70 performances in theaters, festivals and cultural spaces. Their continued presence on national and international stages, theater networks, festivals and cultural spaces makes them highly recognized cultural agents in the labor market. It is enough to follow the career of a large number of our graduates who currently occupy prominent positions within large international dance, ballet, theater, film companies, production companies, management of cultural institutions and companies or as directors of companies in charge of producing, manage and distribute shows, all of recognized prestige. Creators who have produced shows for such prestigious institutions as the Paris Opera Ballet, the Nederland Dance Theatre, the National Dance Company of Spain or the National Ballet of Cuba, among other prestigious institutions.
-Trained as researchers, they can opt for the postgraduate training developed by the Institute itself through the Masters in Performing Arts and Management and Leadership of Cultural Projects, which allows them access to the doctoral programs of the International Doctoral School . The “Alicia Alonso” Higher Institute of Dance is located at the European forefront of research in the performing arts, due to its great contributions to this field. An aspect demonstrated by the more than one hundred doctoral theses promoted by the Institute.
-Managers and promoters of tangible and intangible heritage, financed with funds from the European Commission within the Creative Culture Program, such as the European Video Dance Heritage, Legend about circular ruins y Genius Loci, to cite examples.
-Agents of the tourism industry, advertisers, creators of audiovisual products. In short, a professional horizon that ranges from business management to teaching, theater, cinema and the audiovisual industry in general. As well as show technologies, lighting design, musical editing, stage direction, etc.
The general objective of higher artistic education in Dance will be the qualified training of professionals who, starting from a previous practical training as a fundamental basis, have a complete practical, theoretical and methodological training, which enables them to integrate into the different professional fields of this discipline. .
Fuenlabrada Campus
Classroom IV.
Camino del Molino SN 28943, Fuenlabrada Madrid, Spain
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