HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE KUNST FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany
The objective of the BAtanz is the education and individual advancement of creative, expressive dance personalities who have a broad spectrum in ballet technique but also in the contemporary field and can implement their qualities in a sovereign way. They have developed abilities to creatively support artistic work processes and are able to reflect on themselves and the artform of dance in an interdisciplinary, historical and societal context.
HOCHSCHULÜBERGREIFENDES ZENTRUM TANZ BERLIN, Germany
The close connection between academic education and artistic practice characterizes the three study programs at HZT Berlin (Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin). The programs offer an experimental approach to study and nurture a critical reflection of art and art practice. Focus is placed on creatively and critically addressing what dance, performance and choreography are, and can be, as artforms in today’s social and cultural environments.
PALUCCA HOCHSCHULE FÜR TANZ DRESDEN, Germany
The Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden is Germany’s only independent university for dance. With an integrated high school and boarding school, a nine-year dance education is offered beginning at grade five; it is completed with a BA in dance. In addition, there are MA programs in dance education and choreography. The teaching plan is based on the three foundations of classical dance, contemporary/modern dance and improvisation.
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA BOGOTÁ, Colombia
Our programme opened in 2014, after years of research aimed at generating new approaches to the education and profession of performing artists. It is based on a view of education as a dynamic and relational process which prepares us to respond to a rapidly changing and diverse environment. It weaves together somatics, improvisation and performance studies in a curriculum designed to bring this awareness into performance practices.
STAATLICHE BALLETTSCHULE Berlin, Germany
“Preserve tradition, dare to do new things.” (Gregor Seyffert)
The Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin offers a unique outstanding stage dance education. Selected top talents from all parts of the world are prepared to have an international career. They master the style and virtuosity of classic/romantic ballet as well as the most innovative and expressive new creations of contemporary dance. With their evening-length performances on opera stages in Berlin and other cities, the school has gained a distinctive reputation as the largest and simultaneously youngest ballet company in Germany.
ZENTRUM FÜR ZEITGENÖSSISCHEN TANZ DER HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK UND TANZ KÖLN, Germany
The Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz / Centre for Contemporary Dance in Cologne sees its direction as fundamentally interdisciplinary and would like to set clear impulses for artistic and practice-oriented research. The concept of the study programs (BA, MA and PhD) are based on an innovative interaction between the three disciplines dance, dance studies and communication of dance. More information at: https://zzt.hfmt-koeln.de.
GLS _LA FABRIQUE CULTURELLE, Ivory Coast
Founded in 2014, the artistic educational center GLS _La fabrique culturelle was initiated by Franck Edmond YAO alias Gadoukou la Star und Chantal Djédjé. Their concept focuses on cultural democracy: a culture for everyone, accessible to everyone. The artistic educational center offers instruction in various disciplines: singing, theater, urban African dance, zumba, salsa, hip-hop. The objective is to educate professional interdisciplinary artists, dancers, vocalists and actors.
ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE DANÇA Lissabon, Portugal
Escola Superior de Dança (ESD) [Higher School of Dance] was created in 1983, in Lisbon. ESD is an organic unit of Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa [Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon] which develops its activities in the fields of higher education in Dance. The persistent updating of its faculty and its close relationship with national and international artistic community distinguishes ESD in the dance training field in Portugal.
Raymond Hilbert
Raymond Hilbert, born in Leipzig, studied at the Palucca-School for Dance in Dresden. He became a member of the Company of Komische Oper Berlin under Tom Schilling for 4 years where he was promoted to Soloist in 2004. Later he returned to Semperoper Dresden for 12 years, where he became a Principal Dancer. He danced solo roles in several ballets of John Neumeier, Jirí Kylián, Mats Ek, Stephan Thoss, Mauro Bigonzetti, Claude Brumachon, and Glen Tetley. In 1995, he became a teacher at Palucca-School, in 2001 he was offered a professorship for contemporary dance and became head of the Department of Education. Between 2014 and 2016, he held a professorship for Modern Dance Technique, Interpretation and Choreography at Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano in Chile. He was a guest dancer in Australia, Poland, Canada, Costa Rica, the USA and in the Netherlands. Raymond also teaches Modern Dance, Choreography, Motion Analysis and Eukinetics. In the beginning of the 2017/2018 season, Raymond Hilbert became the Ballet Master of the National Youth Ballet
Sebastian Matthias
Sebastian Matthias, born 1980, works internationally as a choreographer with production houses and established institutions such as Luzerner Theater and CORPUS / Royal Danish Ballet. He studied dance at Juilliard School in New York and dance studies at Freie Universität Berlin. In his choreographic work, he deals with modular improvisation systems he develops collectively with the dancers. He elaborated his artistic-scientific research approach as an associated artist at K3 | Zentrum für Choreographie and graduated in 2018 within the graduate college Versammlung und Teilhabe: Urbane Öffentlichkeiten und performative Künste at HafenCity Universität Hamburg. In 2018, his dissertation project with the title ” Gefühlter Groove –Kollektivität zwischen Dancefloor und Bühne” was published by transcript Verlag.
Since 2019, Matthias works as a research assistantant at the research project Participatory Art Based Research of HCU Hamburg, K3 and Fundus/Forschungstheater. Due to the KSB funding Doppelpass, he will be cooperating closely with Bürgerbühne/Staatschauspiel Dresden and Theater Basel until 2021.
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