5 Dance Bachelor's Degree Programs in Europe

At Fontys Dance Arts in Context, we teach you to create, think, and produce with your fellow students, and to place dance in different contexts. The programme offers three different profiles: Contemporary, Contemporary Urban, and Choreography. Here, you are encouraged to develop your artistic profile, both as a creator, and dancer.

Dance Artist, the ArtEZ modern and contemporary dance course, trains you to become a dance artist with your own position in the work field. In this age, it is more important than ever for a dance artist to be firmly based in a dance world that is always developing. At the top Dance Artist course at ArtEZ, you are trained as a (co)creating dancer and maker. Key to this is the development and embodiment of your own (artistic) identity as a dance artist.

The Bachelor’s Programme in Dance Pedagogy at HAMU is a three-year, full-time course taught in English, designed to prepare students for professional careers as dance educators, methodologists, and movement specialists. The programme combines intensive practical training, pedagogical methodology, theoretical study, and historical insight. Students choose one of three specialisations: Methods of Classical Ballet Technique, Methods of Modern and Contemporary Dance, or Methods of Folk Dance.

The dance profession is developing and changing. At DOCH we see this as a challenge and a stimulus to promote the flexibility needed for a contemporary dance program.

To train dancers and choreographers in line with YTU's vision of a pioneering university in science and art, in line with a qualified and continuously developed education plan. - To gain knowledge and skills about the scientific, structural, aesthetic, social, historical and technological dimensions of music.