1-Year Post-Graduate Programme
A profound individual specialization targeting your technical and artistic development for the specific job situations you are planning for in the future. The essence is personal coaching, audition preparation, networking, career guidance and extensive performance experience supported by coaching.
Who is the programme for?
The programme is for dancers who recently finished their education or other profound training and are looking to deepen their development and get support and guidance in their career management.
What do we work on?
The Programme is an individual specialisation and optimisation of your professional dance career. The essence of the Programme is training, personal coaching, audition preparation, networking, career guidance and deepening your technical and artistic skills for the specific job situations that you are planning for in the future.
Based on individual plans some of the main focus points include:
- Optimizing your artistic and technical skills.
- Deepen your understanding of the dance industry field.
- Work on your personal branding: SoMe, webpage etc.
- Prepare for the different types of auditions and job applications
- Recording solo work or improvisations for audition purposes and for other applications and PR purpose.
- Gain performance experience.
- Networking with choreographers, dancers, teachers and producers.
- etc.
The programme is specially designed for unquestionably dedicated dancers with high ambitions to expand their skills and boost their career opportunities.
The 2 different Post-Graduate Programmes share the same core. Beside the difference in length of the programmes the biggest difference is the fact that the 1-Year Post-Graduate Programme include extensive performance experience at different locations and therefor emphasise a performance coaching profile.
The 1-Year Post-Graduate Programme students have a chance to be part of Copenhagen International Dance Festival every Spring; this includes taking part in masterclasses and in public performances by renowned choreographers. To read more about Copenhagen International Dance Festival please visit: www.cidf.dk
courses AND SUBJECTS
Courses
Personal Coaching & Career Management
Personal branding: SoMe, webpage etc
Filming of audition material
Composition focused on audition solo work
Audition Preparation
Contemporary Dance
Ballet
Performance Practice including work with choreographers and public performances
Rehearsals
Repertoire & Partnering
Optimising Performance
Improvisation
COURSE-RELATED EXPENCES
Students are expected to bring their own training clothes (indoor and outdoor use), shoes (indoor and outdoor use), knee pads, and also nude and black underwear and nude and black socks.
Point shoes can be used in some balletclasses when it is aproved by the teachers. Pointshoes are not required to participate in any classes.
The school can recommends apps to download for a small fee for educational purpose.
A High-Performance Training Approach
The intensity of the schedule is highly inspired by principles from elite sports science and training. This is in order to maximise development posibilities while minimizing injury risk and making peak performance periods part of a healthy long term work method.
AN EXAMPLE OF A TYPICAL SCHEDULE MONDAY – FRIDAY:
Optimising Performance
Class
Class
Lunch
Class/rehearsal
Class/rehearsal
Individual work and studies
TEACHING LANGUAGE
The daily working language as well as all correspondence is in English.
PROGRAMME PERIODES
The school period is from August 27th 2025- June 17th 2026.
Diploma
To obtain the final diploma students must past the annual exams and pass the school year.
If absence exceeds 10% in any subject a diploma will not be issued.
Course fee
The first instalment of 5.000 DKK is due to be paid within two weeks of your acceptance.
The second instalment of 15,000 DKK is due to be paid May 1st, 2025
The third instalment of 20,000 DKK is due to be paid June 1st, 2025
The fourth instalment of 20,000 DDK is to be paid November 1st, 2025
Not a holder of EU passport?
CCDS is an independent institution. Under Danish regulation only students applying for a state school are eligible for student visa, and therefore student visa unfortunately does not apply to CCDS-students. However, Denmark has special agreements to selected countries regarding visa for long-term stays in Denmark. Please go to www.nyidanmark.dk/en-GB (“new in Denmark” – the official site for immigration to Denmark) to find information on what options applies to you depending on your home country. It is a very good idea to consult your local Danish embassy to help guide you.
Note that Visa application takes 2-3 months to process, and therefore we must have received your application to audition before the 1st of May in an audition period if you are a non-EU citizens.