Teacher/Instructor
All HBO teachers and guest teachers / repetitors
Year, duration
AD1
Study load (weekly)
90 minutes
Builds these competencies
1. Creative skills
2. Technical skills
3. Problem Solving Skills
4. Communicative Skills
5. Capacity for growth and innovation
6. Collaborative skills
Course content
Workshops are Repertoire classes with a short-term intense focus on a specific work or part thereof, or else on a specific choreographer and style.
The workshop acquaints the student with a different style and/or working method, and challenges him/her to apply the learned techniques in a situation comparable to what the student will encounter in professional practice, and is often outside his/her comfort zone. Workshops often take place in the context of demonstrations or final productions, and can offer opportunity to prepare or rehearse a specific work for these performances.
Some workshops focus on a specific choreographer and associated techniques, working method, way of thinking, and application.
Workshops can also be build at other times throughout the year around specific themes, involve talks with professional from the field, involve teaching of make-up skills or other required theatrical skills or have specific short term training goals (for example through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy sessions).
Learning objectives
The student:
- Develops knowledge and new styles, works, repertoire or working method of a specific choreographer in an intensive period.
- Displays a feeling for dance that extends beyond the language of classical ballet, and can apply the technique he/she has acquired to other styles and is able connect them and/or actively comprehend the differences between them, and apply them physically.
- Is able by the end of the period to physically execute the style and articulate an understanding of the differences.
- Demonstrates that he/she has a feeling for a variety of styles and has developed a personality in same.
- Is able to execute a repertoire piece during performances.
- Has an understanding of the fact that repertoire can be taught in quite different ways in different companies, and is able to play an active and individual role in rehearsals.
- Improves preparedness for auditions by acquiring knowledge about various companies and choreographers, and can do auditions in a more targeted way, actively reflect on them and form an opinion on them.
- Acquires skills other than dancing skills needed to work in the theatre
Working methods
The student is taught material and repertoire in group classes.
Research assignments into other styles, working methods and techniques. Classes led primarily by guest teachers and repetitors, guest speakers.
Study material (specialist literature, case histories, assignments, videos, etc.)
None. However, it should be impressed upon the student that he/she should conduct further research into other styles, choreographers and companies.
For certain short term courses/sessions material that is required for the sessions (for example make-up)
Assessment method
Evaluation and feedback based on presentation. The work is then executed as part of demonstrations and performances.
Assessment criteria
1) 1, 2 3, 4, 5
2) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
3) 1, 2, 3, 4
4) 1, 2
5) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
6) 1, 2, 3, 4
Remarks relating to overall context of the study programme (e.g. connectional and sequential requirements), or other remarks
Links to Dance History, Study Guidance and Repertoire classes.