Getting started with dance

For students training to become teaching assistants and childcare professionals, we offer practical projects linked to our performances. Such a project typically consists of three parts. We begin with an introduction, during which we discuss what dance and theatre can mean for their pupils. The students then watch a dance performance. The project concludes with a workshop, in which we discuss the performance together. We also give the students tips on how they can further explore the themes from the performance with their pupils. We are also happy to help think of follow-up assignments for the students.

Dance for the Dutch mbo Entry Programme

For the Entry Programme, we put together a tailor-made project. In consultation with you, we look at your students’ wishes and capabilities. The basis of a project is always a performance and/or a dance workshop. After a performance, the dancers engage with the students in a discussion about the theme of the performance. Examples of such themes include: social media, drug use and polarisation. In dance workshops, students experience how movement and dance emerge from a story, an emotion or a theme.

Collaboration

We are looking for secondary vocational schools that would like to work with us to develop dance learning pathways. Such a learning pathway brings together various aspects of cultural education: watching dance, reflecting on dance and creating a dance piece oneself. We envision the following structure. Students choose a performance from our repertoire and watch it. They then spend around ten weeks working on their own version of this performance. In doing so, they choose their own target audience, theme, music, costumes and set design. The students promote their own performance and present it to family, friends and other audiences.