Ambition of the Pre-professional Advanced Cycle leading to :Dancer Professional Advanced National Diploma (DNSP Danseur)
And Bachelor in Arts (elective in Dance)
- To train outstanding, versatile dancers capable of meeting choreographers’ and company Directors’ requirements in total harmony with current choreographic trends.
- To build remarkable careers based on the self-fulfillment, adaptability and autonomy of the dancers, as well as anticipation of career diversification
This performance training programme encourages the development of the future dancer’s artistic identity and the acquisition of an experience, which will be a valuable asset to begin his/her career. For that purpose, the students are mentored and guided in their research by the teaching staff and also by artistic personalities, choreographers, guest teachers, and speakers from the Dance Department of Nice Sophia Antipolis University for the academic subjects.
Through daily contacts with artistic personalities, choreographers and guest teachers, the dancers are encouraged to improve their knowledge of the répertoire, their capacity to adapt to different dance styles and languages. They are also asked to develop a choreographic culture and their knowledge of body movement where daily dance practice is linked to theoretical aspects (dancer’s health, anatomy, movement analysis, dance and body history, music, ballet analyses, choreographic notation, etc.). We encourage the students to engage critically with the art form, to push its boundaries and to explore what it means to be a dance artist.
Presentation of the training programme
The training programme leading to the Dancer Professional Advanced National Diploma is a 3 year long programme. It starts in the last year of the Dance and Academic Programme and lasts for two more years through the Pre-professional Advanced Cycle.
1st year : Supérieur 2
2nd year : Pre-Professional 1
3rd year : Pre-Profesionnal 2 / Cannes Jeune Ballet
2nd and 3nd year training programme
The programme is composed of 4 credits :
1 : Practice the art of being a dancer
Pas de deux, ballet and contemporary dance repertoire, choreographic workshops, dance of bygone eras, creations, performances, apprenticeships in dance companies
2 : Maintain and develop artistic skills and quality of interpretation
Ballet technique, contemporary dance, dancer’s health, movement analysis, Feldenkrais, dance history, ballet analysis, choreographic notation, ethnology, body theories, transmission of good practice, art culture, music education
3 : Expand and strengthen one’s professional field of knowledge and skills
Theatre, circus arts, discovery of the diverse occupations in the field of the performing arts
4 : Build one’s career development
Professional environment, résumé-building workshops…
Focus on building career opportunities : Cannes Jeune Ballet
Through joining Cannes Jeune Ballet, the 3rd and last year of the programme, the Pre-professional Advanced Programme students have the opportunity to perform on national and international stages and meet an eclectic public.
The variety of roles they will interpret promotes their artistic development and facilitates their employability in the professional choreographic field.
Professional apprenticeships in dance companies
The apprenticeship opportunity allows students to experience and share the daily life of dancers while producing and touring a professional performance programme. This hands-on approach to a dancer’s life in a company, this commitment to a repertoire and a particular artistic environment places them in the conditions of their future career.
While experiencing the processes involved in working with an artistic and administrative team, they become familiar with the working conditions which will be theirs within any given professional dance company.
Master class
The Pre-professional Advanced Programme includes ad hoc master classes held by renowned guest teachers and choreographers. These artistic encounters are opportunities to take part in inspiring and motivating performances which will facilitate their professional debut.
Admission
Admission is by audition only, in year 2 or 3 according to the previous experiences of the student.
This training programme is open to students between 18 and 23 years old.
Candidates for whom French, English or Italian are not their first language are required to demonstrate language proficiency at audition.
If necessary, the students will have to follow a catch-up programme of one year in anatomy-physiology, dance history, music.
Diploma and equivalences
The school awards the Dancer Professional Advanced National Diploma (DNSP Danseur).
The student will also be given the opportunity to obtain the Bachelor's degree in Arts (Elective in Dance) awarded by the Nice Sophia Antipolis University (Licence Art “parcours en danse”).
At the conclusion of these two years of training, the outgoing student will also obtain equivalences with the Dance Teacher Certificate (diplôme d’Etat de professeur de danse) for the theoretical part of the programme (dance history, music, anatomy).
Those who fail the graduation examination at the end of the 3 year programme are given a termination certificate instead of a diploma and may repeat the exam in the future and receive their diploma at that time.
