At Codarts students are trained to become high level circus arts, both as performers as creators, with an own authentic artistic identity. Independent and broadly employable artists, who are able to shape their own working environment and who are capable of working interdisciplinary, have a reflective and inquisitive attitude and are active in multiple professional contexts.

During your study you will follow circus specialization classes in small groups and group classes in the following subjects:

• Various basic circus techniques (floor acrobatics, partner acrobatics, balancing skills, spatial awareness and object manipulation)
• Artistic creative skills: dance, theatre training, music and improvisation/composition
• Physical preparation: ballet training, core training, flexibility, resistance training and specific preparation for the circus specialization
• Research skills: circus history, art orientation and theoretical graduation project (thesis)
• Health and wellbeing: anatomy, nutrition, injury prevention and physical fitness, performance preparation
• Entrepreneurial skills
• Safety and rigging and workshops in lighting and sound technique and costume
   

Guided by an artistic coach you create and present every year personal artistic work. During these creating processes you learn how to combine the knowledge from the artistic creative classes with your specialization. In each year you also work in a group creation directed by a choreographer, a theatre- or circus director.

Already during your studies we bring you in contact with the professional network like festivals, presenters, circus artists and professional platforms such as FEDEC.