Dance

Body and mo­ve­ment as the re­so­na­ting space of a new, bold, poe­tic aes­the­tic - com­bi­ning prac­ti­ce and theo­ry in a so­cial con­text: un­ders­tood in this way, dance be­co­mes an event and field of ac­tion.

In the Ba­che­lor of Dance de­gree pro­gram­me, or BA­tanz, we pro­vi­de in­di­vi­du­al and com­pre­hen­si­ve sup­port by tea­ching a wide ran­ge of bal­let and con­tem­po­ra­ry dance tech­ni­ques. Stu­dents learn to help shape ar­tis­tic work pro­ces­ses and to re­flect on them­sel­ves and their own art form in or­der to dis­cuss and crea­tively use dance, mo­ve­ment and the body in an in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry, his­to­ri­cal and so­cial con­text.

The pro­mo­ti­on of the in­di­vi­du­al, ar­tis­tic pro­fi­le is also es­sen­ti­al in the de­gree pro­gram­me. You will gain stage ex­pe­ri­ence from the very first se­mes­ter - made pos­si­ble by per­for­mance se­ries and pro­jects in Frank­furt thea­ters and the Dres­den Frank­furt Dance Com­pa­ny, as well as th­rough guest per­for­man­ces, sup­port­ed by in­ter­na­tio­nal guest lec­tu­r­ers. Du­ring the cour­se of your stu­dies, we en­cou­ra­ge you to de­ve­lop so­cial and cul­tu­ral-po­li­ti­cal com­mit­ment and to en­rich the dance sce­ne with your ide­as.

You can de­fi­ni­te­ly take on so­me­thing aca­de­mi­cal­ly: The de­part­ment in­cludes a pro­fes­sor­ship for dance theo­ry, which pro­vi­des im­portant im­pul­ses for re­se­arch at the uni­ver­si­ty of the arts.

In­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry, in­ter­na­tio­nal net­work

Whoe­ver stu­dies BA­tanz stu­dies wi­thin a net­work of per­for­ma­ti­ve arts. At the HfMDK the­re are in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry con­nec­tions in all di­rec­tions (ac­ting, voice, di­rec­ting, mu­sic), In many ca­ses, it is also our stu­dents them­sel­ves who in­itia­te in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry pro­jects and pur­sue their own ar­tis­tic con­cepts - ac­com­pa­nied by the HfMDK pro­ject fund Kunst­PAKT, among others. In ad­di­ti­on, we are very ac­ti­ve ex­tern­al­ly, co­ope­ra­ting with num­erous in­sti­tu­ti­ons, thea­tres and com­pa­nies at home and ab­road, such as the Hes­si­an Theat­re Aca­de­my (HTA), the Dance Plat­form Rhi­ne-Main, the Hes­si­an Film and Me­dia Aca­de­my (hFMA), the Dance Trai­ning Con­fe­rence and the Young Ta­lent Fes­ti­val.

BA­tanz co­ope­ra­tes with the Con­tem­po­ra­ry Dance Edu­ca­ti­on (MA CoDE) mas­ter's pro­gram­me at the HfMDK and the Cho­reo­gra­phy and Per­for­mance (MA CuP) mas­ter's pro­gram­me at the Jus­tus Lie­big Uni­ver­si­ty Gies­sen.

Ner­vous about ap­p­ly­ing?

In our FOY­ER­FUNK pod­cast, BA Dance stu­dents Naia Nieto and Jo­hann Hol­land share their per­so­nal in­sights into their own apti­tu­de tests, stu­dent life in the dance de­part­ment, their high­lights of their stu­dies so far and their tips for an­yo­ne loo­king to fol­low in their foots­teps.