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Degree in Higher Artistic Dance Education

Degree in Higher Artistic Dance Education

The syllabus leads to a Degree in Higher Artistic Dance Education in the following specialties: Choreography and Performance Techniques and Dance Pedagogy.

General information

Branch of knowledge: Dance
Center responsible: Instituto Universitario de la danza "Alicia Alonso".
Mode of delivery and Campus: Classroom - Fuenlabrada
Credits: 240. Credits year: 60. Duration: 4 years. 

Objectives of the Degree

To offer dance professionals a superior quality training with high levels of artistic and academic excellence through continuous stage practice.

The purpose of artistic education is to provide you with quality artistic training and to guarantee your qualification as a future professional.

The Higher Studies of Dance are taught with official academic validity and lead to an academic degree. These teachings are oriented to the qualification of future professionals for their incorporation to 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 have a duration of 4 academic years and at the end you obtain the Superior Title of Dance followed by the specialty studied. This degree is equivalent to a university degree for all purposes.

Academic requirements

Academic entrance requirements
 
Meet one of the following requirements:
  • Baccalaureate degree.
  • Pass the university entrance exam for students over 25 years of age.
  • To be 19 years old and pass an entrance exam organized by the educational administrations to prove that you have the maturity in relation to the objectives of the baccalaureate and the knowledge, skills and aptitudes necessary to successfully complete the corresponding courses.

Specific requirements:

The educational administrations of each Autonomous Community carry out at least one annual call for the specific entrance exam to the higher artistic teachings of Dance. 

Pass the specific entrance exam related to the specialty you are applying for (this exam is announced by the educational administrations and is valid for enrollment in the academic year in which it is announced).

Training itinerary

Choreography and performance techniques.
Dance pedagogy.

Superior quality training

Our graduates are trained in the principles of artistic excellence, with a broad 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. 

Future-proof studies

Labor market

The Higher Degree in Dance provides the necessary skills to link future professionals in the performing arts and dance with the creative audiovisual industry: cinema, scenic and communication technologies, design, advertising, business management, tourism industry, etc., able to face new challenges of the labor market.

High specialization

Our graduates occupy prominent positions in 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 in high demand.

Prepared for the teaching profession

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 basic formal education to teaching in universities throughout Europe.

Guarantee of future and employability in the sector.

Degree in Higher Artistic Dance Education

The University Institute "Alicia Alonso" is a center of higher artistic education whose Degree in Higher Artistic Education in Dance can be revalidated in the European Higher Education Area, (recognition in the 46 countries that signed the Bologna agreements), through access to postgraduate programs. Students of the Institute's Higher Degree have the possibility of accessing the specialized Master's Degree program.

Degree in Higher Artistic Dance Education

The specialties of the Degree in Higher Artistic Dance Education enable graduates to perform highly qualified functions, providing a curricular deepening that broadens their knowledge, multiplying their employability by covering a greater number of fields of knowledge.

Choreography and performance techniques

Dance pedagogy

Academic Program

Subjects by Specialty

The specialties taught at the University Institute of Dance "Alicia Alonso" offer students the opportunity to specialize in different sectors of the world of the Performing Arts.

Choreography and performance techniques

1st course

 

History of Dance I
History of Art and Culture I
Anatomy, Biomechanics and Pathology Applied to Dance
Dance Techniques I (according to styles)
Motion Analysis I
Composition and Improvisation I
Creative Workshops I (according to style)
Repertoire Analysis and Practice I (according to styles)
Interpretation Workshop I (according to styles)
Music applied to Dance I

2nd course

 

History of Dance II
History of Art and Culture II
Physiology and Nutrition Applied to Dance
Dance Techniques II (according to styles)
Motion Analysis II
Composition and Improvisation II
Creation Workshops II (according to styles)
Repertoire Analysis and Practice II (according to styles)
Interpretation Workshop II (according to styles)
Music applied to Dance II

3rd course

 

Dance, Art and Humanities I
Body Techniques I)
Dance Techniques III (according to styles)
Creation and improvisation tools
Repertoire Analysis and Practice III (according to styles)
Interpretation Workshop III (according to styles)
Music applied to Dance III
Scenic Space
Dramaturgy
Dance and Technology I
Organization, Management and Development of Artistic Projects I

4th course

Dance, Art and Humanities II
Body Techniques II
Dance Techniques IV (according to styles)
Repertoire Analysis and Practice IV (according to styles)
Show Techniques
Dance and Technology II
Organization, Management and Elaboration of Artistic Projects II
Introduction to Artistic Research Methodology
Psychology of groups and organizations
Practices
Final Degree Project

Dance Pedagogy

1st course

History of Dance I
History of Art and Culture I
Anatomy, Biomechanics and Pathology Applied to Dance
Dance Techniques I (according to styles)
Pedagogy I
Basic psychological processes
Methodology and didactics for the teaching of Dance I (according to styles)
Educational Dance I
Motion Analysis
Repertoire Analysis and Practice I (according to styles)
Music applied to Dance I
 

2nd course

History of Dance II
History of Art and Culture II
Physiology and Nutrition Applied to Dance
Conditioning for dancers
Dance Techniques II (according to styles)
Pedagogy II
Developmental Psychology
Methodology and didactics for the teaching of Dance II (according to style)
Educational Dance II
Improvisation
Repertoire Analysis and Practice II (according to styles)
Music applied to Dance II
 

3rd course

Dance, Art and Humanities I
Body Techniques
Dance Techniques III (according to styles)
Methodology and Didactics for Dance Teaching III (according to styles)
Repertoire Analysis and Practice III (according to styles)
Music applied to Dance III (according to styles)
Music and dance in early education
Psychology of groups and organizations
 

4th course

Dance, Art and Humanities II
Dance Techniques IV (according to styles)
Organization and Operation of Centers
Methodology and Didactics for Dance Teaching IV (according to styles)
Repertoire Analysis and Practice IV (according to styles)
Introduction to Research Methodology
Organization, Management and Elaboration of educational projects
Practices
Final Degree Project

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Frequently Asked Questions

ECTS credits by type of enrollment and academic year

These studies have a duration of 4 academic years of 60 credits each, for a total of 240 ECTS credits.

Once you have completed these studies, you can access the Master's degree and subsequent doctorate studies.

What will be my profile as a qualified professional?

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, which must have a theoretical knowledge based and integrated with the practice of dance that allow him to develop and grow as a creator, performer and educator, able to assume the ethical and deontological dimension of personal and professional responsibility.

Where will I be able to work when I graduate?

The Degree in Higher Artistic Education in Dance provides the necessary skills to link future professionals in the performing arts and dance with the creative audiovisual industry, film, performing and communication technologies, advertising, and cultural industries.

Graduates will find multiple professional opportunities in the traditional occupations of their specialty as performers, choreographers, artistic directors, technical directors, producers and directors in the framework of any musical, theatrical, dance or audiovisual and film industry show.

The labor profile obtained offers the necessary skills to work in Communication Companies, Advertising Agencies, the Creative Audiovisual Industry and the Entertainment Industry, as well as to work as teachers, specialized critics in theater, dance or cinema within the field of journalism, artistic research and cultural institutions.

Their training allows them to work as curators of tangible and intangible heritage, to provide services as documentalists of art collections and in general to participate in the study and rescue of cultural traditions. They can also be employed in the cultural areas of different municipalities as programmers of cultural activities, project managers, and leisure time monitors.

Career opportunities

-Graduates of the itinerary in Professional Dance, Performance and Dance and Technology, are trained in the principles of artistic excellence, possess a broad knowledge of the dance repertoire that, reinforced by technical mastery in multiple registers and stage maturity consolidated throughout their four years, 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 trajectory of a large number of our graduates who currently occupy prominent positions within major international dance, ballet, theater, film, production companies, management of cultural institutions and companies or as directors of companies in charge of producing, managing and distributing shows, all of them of recognized prestige. Creators who have come to produce shows for prestigious institutions such 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.

-Qualified 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 Instituto Superior de Danza "Alicia Alonso" is at the forefront of European research in the performing arts, for its great contributions to this field. This is 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 under the Creative Culture Program, such as the European Video Dance Heritage, Legend on Circular Ruins and Genius Loci, to cite a few examples.

-Tourism industry agents, 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 business technologies, lighting design, music editing, stage direction, etc.

 

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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.

Alicia Alonso University Dance Institute

Fuenlabrada Campus
AularioIV.
Camino del Molino SN 28943, Fuenlabrada Madrid, Spain

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Email : instituto.danza@alicialonso.org

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