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Choreography

The Performing Arts - Choreography specialization is an educational offer that responds to the need of aspirants to acquire professional skills necessary to carry out artistic activities in the field of dance art.

Accumulating a rich theoretical base (within the Choreographic Art courses), students have the opportunity to concretely apply the theoretical principles studied (a process that takes place within the Choreographic Creation courses - creation workshop). At the same time, they also have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the most relevant research methods of choreographers and dancers from our country and around the world.

Students of this specialization are also offered a very flexible, interdepartmental working context, materialized in the possibility of collaborating, in work teams, with colleagues from the specializations: Acting, Scenography, Theater and Film Directing. Thus, they have the opportunity to deepen general notions in the field of dramaturgy, in that of the techniques of structuring a spectacular discourse, but also in that of stage design, such as sound design and light-design, notions that they can apply in choreographic creations.

Probe 1

oral and practical
is noted with grades from 1 to 10
examination time: 15-20 minutes/ candidate

a) Presentation of an original choreographic composition conceived by the candidate (solo)* in the year of taking the entrance exam (max. 3 min, free musical option, USB stick music support, in mp3, mp4, wav format, only with the musical piece related to the composition presented in the exam).

b) Interview based on the filmed performances from the competition bibliography.

*Argumentation of the paper – the candidate will defend his artistic approach before the committee at its request. 

Sample 2

oral and practical
is noted with grades from 1 to 10
examination time: 15 minutes

Choreographic improvisation (solo)** on a musical fragment (3 minutes) from musical works belonging to the universal repertoire.

** The candidate will draw a ticket on which a number corresponding to the same number of a musical track from a playlist previously designed by the committee will be written. Following the audition, the candidate will imagine a choreographic scenario for a solo work, a scenario that he will argue in front of the committee. The candidate will perform an improvisation (solo) based on the scenario presented to the committee.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Aristotel: Poetica, Scientific Publishing House, Bucharest, 1957
  • Burrows, Jonathan: A choreographer's Handbook, Ed. Routledge, Taylor and French Group, New York, 2010
  • Fleming, William: Arts and Ideas (vol. I and II), Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1983
  • Ginot, Isabelle; Michel, Marcelle: La danse au XX siecle, Ed. Larousse, 2006
  • Noverre, Jean-Georges: Letters about dance and ballets, Music Publishing House of the Composers' Union, 1967
  • Lucian of Samosata: About dance in Selected Writings, Univers Publishing House, Bucharest, 1983 
  • Tudor Vianu: Aesthetics, Orizonturi Publishing House, Bucharest, 2010

The books can be consulted at the UNATC Library.

FILMED SHOWS

Filmed performances

  • Angel Sergiu: Baroque Party
  • Pina Bausch: Contacthof
  • Yoann Bourgeois: I wonder where the Dreams I don't Remember Go
  • Mats Ek: Sleeping Beauty, Cullberg Ballet, 1999 
  • Don Quixote, Mariinsky Theater Ballet 
  • Akram Khan: Giselle
  • Magui Marin: May B
  • Crystal Pie: Experience of Persons Affected

The performances can be watched on media platforms or at the UNATC Library.

CLAIMS:

  1. The final grade is the arithmetic average of the two tests;
  2. The minimum admission average for places financed from the budget and for those with a fee cannot be less than 5,00 (five). 

DIVISION CRITERIA IN CASE OF EQUAL AVERAGES:

  • Criterion 1: Baccalaureate exam average.
  • Criterion 2: Overall grade point average during high school.