dans och cirkushögskolan - doch

University of Dance and Circus

The University of Dance and Circus is the only school of its kind for dance and circus in Sweden's higher education system. This prestigious institution has sole responsibility for instructing and expanding its student body in a broad range of dance-related fields: Dance Performance, Circus, Dance Pedagogy, Choreography and Dance Therapy.

At the University of Dance and Circus, tradition is challenged by innovation and experiment. It is a meeting place for art, pedagogy and science, old and new theoretical concepts. Popular traditions gain new meaning and new artistic careers develop to change our ideas about what is known.

We do not train people for the demands of today, but rather we aim at that which will come. Our students and their visions will challenge the present and change the world!

Dans och Cirkushögskolan
Brinellvägen 58
P.O. Box 27043
SE- 102 51 Stockholm
Sweden

Phone: +46 8 562 274 00
Fax: +46 8 562 274 10

Head of Department: Walter Ferrero
Head of Artistic Studies : Marie-Andrée Robitaille
Head of Acrobatic Studies: Jan Rosen

Curriculum offered:

• University Degree - Bachelor of Arts in Circus: 180 ECTS.

Selection criteria: Applicants must have a high level of physical fitness and a background in circus training or in some other artistic/physical area.

Admission process: Audition every other year. Selection is based on application form and on video/DVD. Audition in Stockholm over 6 days in May 2011. Applications have to be turned in before 1st April 2011. All audition information  will be available on DOCH website from December 2010.

Visits: The system to welcome foreign visitors organises three different kind of stays for three types of candidates (stage or exchange for Art Universities or other circus arts schools' students, short stay for potential candidates to the Circus Programme).