Diplôme d’État de professeur de danse

Organised in units of value (UV) and supplemented by reinforcement courses, the isdaT DE dance course offers more than 1,300 hours of training spread over two years.

First year

The first year is geared towards enriching personal culture and artistic practice.

It is made up of 3 UVs:

• UV1 History of dance & choreographic culture: over 100 hours of lessons, workshops, performance analysis and repertoire transmission courses.
• UV2 Musical training: approximately 170 hours of lessons, practice of body percussion and transversal training with musicians.
• UV3 Anatomy-Physiology: 80 hours devoted to the knowledge of the functioning of the human body.

+ additional courses to reinforce technical skills and to introduce young children to pedagogy:

• Initiation to early learning and introductory dance pedagogy: around 40h.
• Internships and workshops: around 80 hours on writing and the development of personal creativity.
• Technical courses: around 80 hours.

Second year

The second year focuses on pedagogy and totals one unit of value.
UV4 Pedagogy, with more than 580 hours distributed as follows:

• Pedagogy of technical development: more than 260 hours supervised by a certified trainer and a tutor for each student including scenarios with students from conservatories and dance schools in the region.
• Awakening and initiation to dance: around 130 hours including weekly scenarios with nursery and elementary school students who are the subject of a choreographic production presented on stage.
• Functional analysis of the body in dance movement: 120h.
• Musical training in connection with pedagogy: 70h.

+ additional courses to strengthen technical skills:

• Courses and workshops: around 35h.
• Technical courses: around 80h.
• Introduction to movement writing systems (Laban, Benech), to the symbolism of movement from scores and extracts from classical, contemporary and jazz choreographies.
• Neurolinguistic programming, stress management.
• Regulation of the profession, professional integration.
• Preparation for evaluations, exam situations, identical to the final exams.

The dance unit of the isdaT trains dancers capable of conducting dance lessons, improvisation and composition workshops for children and adults at all levels of the curriculum in contemporary, jazz and classic disciplines.

Find out more about the pedagogy of the dance unit.

• 1^st year
• 2^nd year

The isdaT allows its students to benefit from a so-called “gap” period. This period allows the student to temporarily and voluntarily suspend their studies in order to acquire personal or professional experience, either independently or supervised in a host organisation in France or abroad.

The gap can take 4 forms:

• training in a different field from the original field at the time of registration,
• experience in a professional environment,
• civic service commitment,
• project to create an activity as a student entrepreneur.

The gap period lasts for one year and always coincides with the start of the school year. It concerns students regularly registered at isdaT, during their studies. Accessible at the end of the 1^st year.

Administrative staff

Director of dance studies
Marion Muzac
marion.muzac@isdat.fr

Coordination of dance studies and EAT
Marie-Laure Vanderbeken
+33 (0)5 31 47 19 41
marie-laure.vanderbeken@isdat.fr

Administrative assistant and EAT
Katerina Atroshenko
+33 (0)5 31 47 19 42
katerina.atroshenko@isdat.fr

VAE (APEL) and continuing education
Naïg Ménesguen
+33 (0)5 34 30 93 82
naig.menesguen@isdat.fr

Educational staff

Lists and biographies of professors.