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EDUCATIONAL YEAR DANCE & VOICE

10 months education in the field of body and voice

The EDUCATIONAL YEAR DANCE AND VOICE is for people who want to spend 10 months intensively exploring their bodies and voices in both practical and theoretical ways.

Singing, dancing, playing, combining movement and voice, developing characters, interpreting music, making texts audible and visible.

Space to combine creativity, voice, and movement in a motivated group, but also in individual lessons.


In a fixed group, you can explore dance technique and dance art, space, music, and other artistic genres in interaction with movement. Useful as a creative space per se for further development, as preparation for studies, as a break, as further training, with intensive opportunities for networking...


The focus of the year is on experiencing musical/music theater as an art form. The big final performance at the end of the year offers you the opportunity to try your hand at acting and to present yourself as a soloist and in an ensemble.

  • Who is the EDUCATIONAL YEAR DANCE & VOICE suitable for?

    · For people who are motivated, reliable, and open to new experiences.


    · For people who want to prepare intensively for a degree or vocational training.


    · For people who want to find out whether combining voice and body is “more than just a nice hobby.”


    · For people who have already sung, danced, and performed a lot in their lives and want to use the year as a creative space for themselves, want to develop further, want to expand their network, or want to take the step into staging, in a protected space with advice and organization from others.


    · For young performers who want to explore voice and movement and want to prepare for entering the working world.


    · For experienced artists in the fields of theater, singing, dance, and performance who want to expand their skills.


    · For people aged 17 to 47. 

  • The facts at a glance:

    · 10 months of intensive practical and theoretical training


    · The EDUCATIONAL YEAR OF DANCE AND SINGING focuses on the areas of singing (individual and group), dance (classical, contemporary, improvisation, urban, etc.), physical preparation (strength, conditioning, concentration, coordination, fascia, etc.), acting (group and individual), and bringing together body and voice.


    · As well as theoretical seminars on the body, history, music, and other genres support the continuous growth of skills and knowledge.


    · Working hours: Monday to Thursday, core hours from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (except on public holidays and during Berlin school vacations) as well as individually arranged private lessons


    · Stage routine: a showing in December and a joint final project in Berlin in the summer.


    · In order to support our students individually and to strengthen cooperation and mutual learning, we work in fixed groups.


    · The training languages are German and English. We provide extensive support to our international applicants, but also expect them to make an intensive effort to learn the German language.


    · Support in further planning your artistic path, preparing application documents, career counseling, and grant applications.


    · Costs: €4000 - Installment payments are of course possible at no additional cost. 

  • Basic information on the structure of the EDUCATIONAL YEAR DANCE & VOICE:

    The  EDUCATIONAL YEAR DANCE & VOICE is divided into 5 phases.


    Phase 1 - Lots of training (in groups and in meaningful partner lessons) but also theory - when the head is well filled, the body also works better and creativity can unfold in the best possible way. As we consider theoretical backgrounds to be very important for performing artists, there are basic theoretical seminars. And planning the individual lessons.


    Phase 2 - build-up phase - finding groups, lots of training, exploring the body in group and individual classes, your own limits and possibilities. Singing, sweating, dancing, growing! The multi-day OPEN HOUSE, a workshop performance, start of planning for the solo pieces.


    Phase 3 - lots of training, and the development of several stage pieces for the final performance in a group or as a soloist


    Phase 4 - Work, work, work! - Intensive, varied voice and body, own artistic projects, group trip.


    Phase 5 - Creation phase - In the final phase, the individual pieces are developed, rehearsed and brought together with the group pieces to create a joint full-length final performance - the KONDENSAT. Experiencing the stage together is a central component of the Educational Year Dance & Voice.


    You can get even more information and guaranteed answers to all your questions at our OPEN HOUSE and, of course, in great detail at our AUDITIONS.



Next year:  24.08.2026 to 28.06.2027

Application start: 01.01.2026

Audition: 09.05.2026 & 13.06.2026 & 11.07.2026

Information on the application process can be found here.


Do you have any questions? Then send an e-mail to Tina Weiler: bewerbung@senecaintensiv.de.

We look forward to getting to know you!