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BA Dance (Bachelor Tanz) at Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden

Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden, Germany

Programme overview

The BA Dance is a three-year, English-taught artistic degree at Germany's only independent university of dance. Students train in classical ballet, contemporary and modern dance, improvisation, pas de deux, partnering, repertoire and composition alongside theory seminars.

Duration: 3 years  |  Study mode: full-time; English-taught  |  Intake: Wintersemester  |  Location: Dresden, Sachsen, Germany

What you will study

Modules run over three years: Dance Practice I-III, Artistic Process I-III, Theory I-III (dramaturgy, dance and art history, Laban analysis, dance and media, dance management), Elective subjects I-III and a Bachelor thesis. Artistic projects include repertoire by choreographers such as Balanchine, Kylian, Naharin and Forsythe and students' own choreographies.

Career pathways

The programme prepares students for careers as professional dancers in the varied dance world.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Physical suitability, movement imagination and expressiveness, musicality, and prior training in classical, contemporary dance and improvisation at Bachelor entry level. Applicants need the Realschul/Gymnasium school-leaving qualification or an equivalent recognised qualification, plus special artistic aptitude (SächsHSFG section 18). Applicants aged 20 or over cannot start in semester 1 or 2. Selection is by online video aptitude test then an on-site audition in Dresden. English B1 (Cambridge PET, TOEFL iBT, IELTS or UNICERT) is required by enrolment; a medical certificate of fitness is also required. Application fee EUR 50; portal open 1 Jan to 7 Feb 2027.

Intake: Wintersemester

Duration: 3 years

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