The audition for CODARTS (Rotterdamse Dansacademie)
Codarts is happy to return to Bytom for its annual auditions. This year they will take place in the weekend of 3 rd March 2012 in the Silesian Dance Theater in Bytom.
The dance department at Codarts (formerly known as the Rotterdam Dance Academy) was founded in 1931 by Corrie Hartong and Gertrud Leistikow. Now it is one of Europe’s leading professional institutes for contemporary dance. At the bachelor’s level, Codarts offers two degree dance programmes: the Bachelor of Dance programme and the Bachelor of Dance in Education programme. The Bachelor of Dance programme will prepare you to become a contemporary dancer with a high level of training in both ballet and modern dance techniques. The programme lasts four years. You will take daily ballet and modern dance classes (different techniques and styles), given by our own teachers and a variety of guest teachers. In the fourth year you can do an internship in a professional dance company.
The audition will consist of classical and modern lessons and for those who are selected in the first round additionally a solo of 2 minutes will be asked from.
From 15th of December you are able to apply for audition through website www.codarts.nl at the section ‘application and audition’. This is the only way you can apply for audition. Applications for the bachelor’s or master’s study at Codarts should be made through Studielink. Studielink is the online enrollment system of Dutch higher education.
Additional information about audition requirements is to be found on this website too. In case you have questions you can send an email to dance@codarts.nl
Other questions.
- Documents needed: none so far, but will be written in the application section on the website.
- Admission criteria are not related officially to age, but given the four-year programme and the intensive physical training, we advise that on 1 September 2012 girls should not be older than:
- 20 years if you audition for the 1st year
- 22 years if you audition for the 3rd year
The age of the boys will be regarded in relation to their previous training but is 25 years at the most.
- Cost of tuition cannot be confirmed yet. This should be known sometime in January, and we will of course publish it on our website as soon as it is known.
- The required level of the English language for the Bachelor’s course is a minimum score of IELTS 5,5 or an equivalent TOEFL score.
Schedule Auditions:
08.00 - 10.00 Registration (office)
10.00 – 11.15 Classical ballet / Keith Derrick Randolph
11.45 – 13.00 Contemporary dance / Sanja Hasagic
13.00 – 13.45 Break and selection
13.45 – 15.00 Presentation 2 minutes solo (prepared by the participant, own music)
15.15 – 16.45 Interview
Price of Audition: 100 PLN
Please pay on account
ING Bank Śląski O/Bytom 88 1050 1230 1000 0002 0000 1832
Communication:.
Katowice – Bytom: buses: 820, 830, trams: 6,19
Bytom – Bytom Szombierki: trams: 5, 9,18,
Bytom – Piekary Śląskie: Buses: 114, 148, 700