Graduate Program in Choreography

Prof. Jenny Coogan
e-mail: J.Coogan@palucca.eu

Mission Statement | Curriculum | Requirements | Registration | Fees

Mission Statement

The aim of this programme is to support the student's development as a choreographer. Course work is designed to help students discover, define and develop their individual artistic voice, to review and re-inform their artistic sensibilities and to reflect critically both upon the creative process and the staged work. Course content consists of the following modules: Movement Analysis, Dramaturgy, Research/ Improvisation and Dance and Supportive Arts. An interdisciplinary investigation of the individual choreographic practice is encouraged and supported through artistic exchange with students from partner institutions, residencies and projects with visiting artists. Students explore choreographic processes from a variety of perspectives and experience that choreography is a collaborative and continuous process of creation. Throughout their study students have the opportunity to present their work in a variety of performing venues. To complete the programme, students must independently produce a group work that can take the form of a staged dance, a dance film, a sight specific project or an interdisciplinary installation. Upon graduation students are equipped to meet the challenging, changing and multi faceted realities of the professional field.

Curriculum

For further information please refer to the modul description (*.pdf, 105kB).

Programme Length

4 semester residency programme.

Degree

At present students are awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Choreography. Accrediation of this programme as a Masters Course (MA) is in planning.

Requirements

• A university degree in dance or a related field or equivalancy earned through career experience
• A minimum of three years of Theatre Dance experience
• A record of staged choreographic works
• Demonstration of imagination, fantasy and creativity in movement
• Excellent musicality
• A sense for the laws governing the procenium stage space
• Knowledge of cultural, artistic and social issues that inform dance

German language competency requirements

Students must have a reasonable proficiency in the German language. The school offers language classes that support students whose first language is not German. Prior to matriculation foreign students must have successfully passed the A2 level of the standarized German language proficiency test.

Registration

Matriculation takes places every second year. Entrance auditions for the winter semester 2008/2009 will take place in the autumn of 2007. Applications and inquiries are welcome at any time.

A valid residency permit is required of all foreign students. The student services officer can offer students the necessary assistance to obtain the permit.

To download the registration form please click: *.doc (32 kB) or *.pdf (10 kB)

Fees

A tuition fee of EUR150,- is charged per semester. Scholarships and stipends may be granted through the Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdienst, or DAAD. A semester fee of EUR 136,50 is charged by the student services office. This organization processes applications for financial aid (BaföG), rents rooms in the student housing buildings, issues both subsidized meal tickets and the semester ticket for travel on Dresden's public transportation system.