What you'll learn

On the Artisteducator in Dance (formerly: Dance in Education) course in Arnhem, you'll learn to make an impact in different spheres within society: in education, in the professional field outside the institution and in community art.

Alongside a varied basic programme, you will also be given freedom to choose, allowing you to focus, go into greater depth and specialise as an artisteducator. This ties in with the needs of the professional field, which calls for dance professionals with their own vision. During the course, you’ll build the experience, knowledge and skills you need in order to make a successful start to your career.

Structure: three core components

The course consists of three main components: Dance Practice, Artistic Practice and Learning Practice.

Dance Practice: Focused on dance

In Dance Practice, you’ll go deeper into the world of dance. You’ll develop your dance qualities in a broad palette of dance forms, ranging from Hip Hop and Contemporary to Jazz, Floorwork and Classical ballet. After a foundation programme in the first year, from the second year of the course onwards you’ll choose a programme made up of different dance forms in which you wish to develop further. In the Dance in Context course component, you’ll explore dance history, dance analysis and reflection on dance in connection with current developments in society.

Artistic Practice: Focused on the field

Artistic Practice takes place in the professional field, where you will be immersed in various contexts such as the Extramural Professional Field, Education and Society. From the start of the course, you’ll start gaining practical experience, applying your knowledge and developing your skills. The Artistic Practices are structured as 9-week periods, with a specific focus in each period. During the course, you’ll complete 14 Artistic Practices. From Artistic Practice 10 (in the third year), you’ll have the opportunity to go into more depth or instead broaden your focus. In the Artistic Practices, you will be working with an enquiring and entrepreneurial attitude and developing your research and entrepreneurial skills.

Learning Practice: Focused on your development as an artisteducator

Learning Practice centres on your professional and personal development as an artisteducator in dance. You’ll investigate how you want to give meaning and how you can develop your ability to do so  in various course components, such as Learning Lab, Makerslab, Community, Dance Education Research and Free Space.  

• In Learning lab, you explore your identity as an artist in education through artistic research, you reflect and you receive coaching.
• In Makerslab, you further develop your artistic identity by making dance. During the first half the year, you’ll be given all kinds of tools; in the second half of the year, collectives are formed which engage in a longer making process together.
• In Dance Education Research, you explore educational theory, pedagogy, methodology, developmental psychology and philosophy.
• In Community, you organise a community activity, performance or event of your choice with students from other years.
• For three separate weeks per year there is Free Space, the content of which you get to shape yourself. You can also decide to be part of a performance created over the course of the week by a guest choreographer, or participate in an international programme: the Joint Module in Sweden and Denmark, in which ArtEZ collaborates with DOCH and Rama.