National Higher Professional Diploma in Dancing (DNSPD)

Our partnership with the Paris 8 Vincennes — Saint-Denis University means that our students can obtain a Bachelor’s degree in Musicology (Licence Musicologie) — dance track at the same time.

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The teaching approach

• Train versatile, competent dancers who are adapted to the realities of the professional context
• Provide regular multidisciplinary teaching (jazz, modern, classical and contemporary dance, tap, drama, singing, hip-hop, etc.) as well as workshops, master classes and cross-disciplinary artistic projects
• Give pride of place to learning to perform on stage, a place where artistic sensitivity, technical mastery and the creative process are affirmed
• Include training in a reflection on the evolution of jazz dance and its place in the contemporary artistic landscape

The course, supported by a number of partnerships, combines high-level technical teaching with theoretical teaching, organised between the PSPBB and the university.

Courses

The course on offer leads to:

• The Bachelor’s degree in Musicology – dance track in partnership with Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis University (RNCP level 6)
• National Higher Professional Diploma in Jazz Dance

By following this course, students will gain student status and will be eligible for CROUS financial support awarded on the basis of social criteria.

See the course outline in the General Study Regulations (RGE)

Post-DNSPD studies are possible at other institutions:

• State Diploma for Dance Teachers (Diplôme d’État de professeur de danse), some credits (UV) of which can be validated by obtaining the DNSPD,
• Master’s degrees (cultural action, art therapy, management and administration, research).

Bachelor’s degree in Musicology — dance track

The university’s Bachelor’s degree in Musicology — dance track is available from the DNSPD 2 level upwards. Students enter directly into the third year of Bachelor, where classes are spread over the 2nd and 3rd years of the course. The technical and theoretical courses taken during the 1st year of the DNSPD will enable the student to pass the 1^st and 2^nd years of Bachelor.

Professional integration

As well as mastering choreographic expression, the course also includes additional training in singing and dramatic art, so as to respond as effectively as possible to the reality of the professional offer (musicals, cabarets, audiovisual productions, etc.).

Internships are organised throughout the three years of the DNSPD course. Students reconstruct repertoire extracts with guest artists and/or using notation. They immerse themselves in creations commissioned from internationally renowned choreographers. They produce their own pieces independently, take part in jam sessions and cross-disciplinary projects with actors, singers and visual artists.

A fundamental step on the road to professionalism, learning to perform enables students to develop their artistic sensibility and technical skills. In front of an audience, they gain autonomy, develop their individuality and nurture their creative process.

The internship in a professional structure is an opportunity to get to know the different players in a dancer’s life within a professional structure. The internship is part of the curriculum for national higher professional diplomas and is included in the decrees relating to these diplomas. All students enrolled in the DNSPD programme at the PSPBB must undertake at least one internship during their DNSPD 2 or DNSPD 3 programme.