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Expanded Contemporary Dance is a programme for dancers wanting to develop to a professional level in the broad field of contemporary dance. It welcomes passionate, open-minded students with an inquiring mind, from all cultural backgrounds, dance and performance styles, and parts of the world. Students entering this bachelor programme should already have had a regular practice in dance through formal dance training, dance-crew practices, battles, self-learning or any other learning format. To enter a bachelor level programme, a student needs to have a high school diploma, in the Netherlands HAVO, MBO 4 or (an international) equivalent.

The graduate of Expanded Contemporary Dance is able to function as an autonomous professional within the broad field of contemporary dance: 

• Because of their range of technical, improvisational, compositional skills and expressive capacities as well, the ECD graduate can shape dance material, give a personal interpretation, create a role and fulfill an artistic vision in a creation process.
• The ECD graduate can apply various theatre and performance techniques in order to give meaning to choreographic work, and in relation to an audience in a variety of performance contexts.
• Graduates are able to develop their own practice, style and vision as dancers.
• They contribute constructively to the realisation of an artistic product or process and to an inspiring working environment in intercultural contexts.
• They have an investigative attitude and can undertake (practice-oriented) research.
• They are able to analyse and position their personal artistic development and their dance practice in relation to an artistic, social, (inter)cultural context.
• Whenever possible, through their professional commitments they seek to contribute to diversifying the choreographic canon, and to artistic and cultural representation in contemporary work.
• They have the ability to consistently develop and deepen their artistic practice.
• They are caring and respectful towards themselves and others in their way of working and thereby contribute to the improvements of their professional field as well as to society.
• They can effectively shape their ambitions, set and realise their goals, and sustain themselves in an (inter)national work field.