At Danseuddannelsen by Sara Gaardbo we take pride in meeting the students with presence and commitment.
We have the ambition, expertise, and determination to help you reach your goals across technique, physicality, and genres.
With our wide range of talented teachers combined with personal mentoring by Sara Gaardbo we are responsible for giving our students the best possible circumstances for development and creative display.

We are the 1-year education program in Denmark with most former students represented in the professional dance community.

Our dancers are characterized by a strong physicality, versatility, and diversity.

Our dancers are characterized by a strong self understanding and awareness about what each of them are able to contribute with to the community.

Our dancers are shaped by a healthy and solidary approach to the professional work life - we contribute to the future of the Danish dance community by prioritizing these qualities.

At Danseuddannelsen we have the strength and the abilities to make things happen because together we are more - than separately - for the benefit of everyone’s art and culture.

goal.

Danseuddannelsen is an education designed to create professional dancers who can adapt, explore, be innovative, inspired, creative, humble, collaborative, ready to break down conventions, and dare to take chances.

• The goal of the education is to create strong, personal dancers. Dancers who can combine hip hop and contemporary and thereby bridge the commercial and artistic expression.

• The aim of the education is to create brave and curious dancers, who match the demands of versatility and openness that in the professional dance industry.

• The aim of the program is to create dancers who can add a unique and new expression in the performing arts world.

Why choose Danseuddannelsen?

• Because becoming a professional dancer requires more than just taking dance classes.

• Because Sara Gaardbo gives you personal mentoring, observes, analyses, demands and helps you for the entire duration of the course.

• Because the structure of the education both reflects - and prepares you for the professional environment.

• Because the education is working seriously towards strengthening and maturing you by constantly challenging you.

• Because you acquire important knowledge about your body, and because a healthy body is required for even becoming a professional dancer.

• Because the high artistic level that is reflected in the final performance matches the disciplin, ingenuity, and professionalism that is required in the professional industry.

• Because the education offers the best and most diverse teachers, who shows great humbleness and respect for the craft.

HIP HOP X CONTEMPORARY

DANSEUDDANNELSEN creates versatile dancers. The primary focus is on the superb, extrovert stage language and musicality from HIP HOP, combined with the best elements from CONTEMPORARY, such as greater physical and technical understanding, articulation, strength and quality.

Structure.

Training is divided into modules and is structured to accommodate your physical ability - both to reduce the risk of overuse injury and to create the best framework for the body's learning ability.

Emphasis is on a slow but effective build-up of the body's strength and agility. Physics and fitness are an important prerequisite for professional expression. Therefore, throughout the program there are classes that work with fitness, endurance, balance and strength.

The daily teaching is carefully planned so each lesson has the same focal point - namely to create mature, intelligent and complete dancers.

EVERYDAY LIFE AT DANSEUDDANNELSEN

A day at DANSEUDDANNELSEN consists of three lessons of 1½ hour duration with ½ hour lunch break.

You will meet half an hour before the first lesson to prepare for the day. Likewise, the day ends with a half hour mandatory stretching.

A weekly meeting is held every Friday afternoon. Here the management talks about practical information and makes a statement about the past week. At the meeting there is also time for students to discuss individual thoughts and evaluations among themselves.

In order to achieve a dynamic teaching structure, the weekly schedule varies. Modules are worked on, and the individual teachers are booked consecutively over a shorter period. In this way, the student achieves the greatest possible benefit and the opportunity for immersion.

Students are assigned schedules for one month at a time. However, there is room for change if an interesting international teacher is in the country.

Weekly schedule example:

Graduation PERFORMANCE.

Every year the students finish the year with a graduation performance. The work involved in creating the graduation performance is designed to prepare the students for a professional dance environment.

In the previous years the performance has taken place at Østre Gasværk, Bellevue Theatre & Dansekapellet.

After the Christmas Holiday the students start creating material for their graduation performance in close cooperation with Sara Gaardbo and selected teachers. In that way the students take part in the creative and choreographic process of making the final performance, and each student’s personality and individuality is shown.

As a student you have the possibility of experiencing a development and strength through your personal work with the material, and this will be a part of refining your craft and adding to you as a creative, unique dancer.

Throughout many years Sara Gaardbo has built a strong collaboration with costume designer Maria Ipsen and Karina Højgaard, professional drummer and music mixer Flemming Olsen, photographer Henrik Ohsten and light designer Brian Njie. The collaboration between these different artistic genres, gives the graduation performance a high professional standard and makes it more than “just” a graduation performance. It gives the authentic experience of a professional theatre production.

Teachers.

We are dedicated to teaching diversity, innovation and collaboration. Every member of staff is an experienced teacher with a strong national and international professional profile. Explore out teaching staff her

At DANSEUDDANNELSEN you will experience a completely unique teaching method developed by Sara Gaardbo's experience with hundreds of students and years of experience as leader of DANSEUDDANNELSEN. Our teaching method is based on a holistic approach. It is important that students are presented with a wide range of different dance styles, but also physical training, mental training and knowledge about injury treatment, diet and nutrition. Furthermore we educate about the professional dance world and what it takes to become a professional dancer.

The daily training includes classes in new school hip hop, house, contemporary and technique. The technical classes are based on the classical training, but have been transformed into a more useful and renewed language. In that way you will experience most benefit, better bodily awareness and understanding. Partner work and improvisation are also part of the teaching.

Your body is your instrument

As a dancer you are depending on your body to always be prepared for new challenges, different movement patterns and sometimes massive physical strain.

To make sure you gain the knowledge, you will find different classes on the schedule that will prepare you for that: food & nutrition, injury preventive massage, anatomy and physical training among others.

Furthermore, you will receive a full body screening from a physiotherapist that will let you know where your weakness is and give you the tools to know how to avoid injuries.

It is our experience that if you work specifically and disciplined with your weak spots, you will be able to avoid injuries. If you are not being guided by a professional, you will get an injury sooner or later. This is the only instrument that you will ever get, take care of it. 

AUDITION

If you are applying from outside of Denmark. Send a videoaudition by following this application here.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT SARA GAARDBO.

• info@danseuddannelsen.dk

• +45 29 24 66 40

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