The Bachelor’s Programme in Dance experiments through practice and reflection with what “contemporary dance” could be today. Over the course of the 3 year program, you will nurture your dancing and thinking in a context that actively examines the genre – its histories, capacities and limitations.
Audition from anywhere! The 2024 admissions process for the Bachelor’s Programme in Dance Performance will be entirely online. Find detailed information about the application process and required documents further down this page.
During the programme you will develop your dance practice by working with a wide range of movement and dance practices, aesthetic styles, and forms of expression. Through practice, critical reflection, discussion and reading you will be encouraged to embrace, question, and sweat with these styles, aesthetics, and discourses. You will practice dancing in relation to various working methods and creative processes in a range of performative and choreographic frameworks. Additionally, you will regularly perform and watch performances as well as collaborate with students studying other artistic subjects at SKH.
You will be required to work independently and in groups. The programme welcomes students who are curious and excited to explore experimental formats for dance creation and performance. Regardless of the style of your dance or performance, you are welcome to apply. The combined content of the programme prepares students for work as dance artists, capable of moving between various roles in a range of contexts.
During the programme you will work primarily with three perspectives that integrate theory and practice: Dance practice and theory, Choreography practice and theory, and Performative practice and theory.
Dance, Practice and Theory: In daily training, you will study various movement and dance practices supporting the development of the awareness of your body and the other bodies in the room, finding range, specificity and articulation through movement and learn about specific dance cultures.
Performative Practice and Theory: Working in a range of spatial frameworks (proscenium stage, site-specific, exhibition space and so forth) you will explore how varied materials, energies and relationships appear in performance. You will practice performing in your own and others’ projects, including public performances, collaborations with other students, and guest choreographers’ creations.
Choreography, Practice and Theory: You will continuously be engaged in creative processes, exploring making by taking on a range of roles, individually and in groups. You will practice taking initiatives and receiving impulses from others, learning in the space between leading and following. You will have opportunities to create your own work and to work in creation processes with guest choreographers. You will be introduced to varied concepts of and approaches to choreography.
In addition to these three continuous perspectives, the programme offers: practical anatomy, project organization and production, field studies, frameworks for nurturing your individual interests, an elective course as an opportunity to encounter other artistic practices at the university, and other content that emerges in relation and response to our times.
If you have any questions regarding the programme, please contact Zoë Poluch, Head of the Programme at zoe.poluch@uniarts.se.
If you have questions regarding the entry requirements, tuition fees, or the application process, please contact the Education Administration Offices at studieinfo@uniarts.se.
General entry requirements for studies on the first-cycle level in higher education, with an exemption from Swedish 1, 2 and 3 and English 6, or the equivalent.
Swedish language skills are not required.
If you don’t fulfil the formal entry requirements for the programme you may apply for recognition of prior learning, in other words that the knowledge and competence you have acquired through other activities are assessed as the equivalent of the formal merits that are required. Submit your application for recognition of prior learning with your application for the programme.
You may also apply for an exemption/a waiver, that allows you to proceed to the selection process even though you don’t meet the general admission requirements. Submit your application for an exemption/a waiver together with your application.
Don’t delay in submitting your application! You may run into trouble if you wait until the last day and your internet connection happens to be down, or you find that your files are in the wrong format. You will not be able to apply once the last date for applications has passed. Keep in mind that your application has to be turned in by 23:59 (Swedish time).
Note - the following information refers to the previous application period. We will publish updated information before applications open for the next admission round.
Apply to the programme via universityadmissions.se, upload work samples via Varbi
You apply to the programme in two steps
Apply to the programme via universityadmissions.se
Last day for application: 15 January 2024
Please note! Choose “Autumn 2024” for your search!
Submit your work sample via Varbi (accordning to instructions below)
Last day to submit work sample via Varbi: 15 January 2024
Other important dates for your application
Supporting documentation deadline: 1 February 2024 *
Admission results: Published on My pages on universityadmissions.se 7 May 2024
* 21 June is deadline for submitting your final grades for you who are currently studying the last term of your Upper Secondary Education in Sweden.
5 July is deadline for submitting your final grades for you who are currently studying the last term of your Upper Secondary Education in another country or IB- education.
5 July is deadline for you who need to submit proficiency test in English or Swedish.
Instructions on how to submit your work samples* via Varbi
* Please read below which type of documentation and/or files that is required for the programme you have applied to.
When you have entered Varbi:
Register by stating your name and e-mail address.
Fill in your personal data (including your Swedish civic registration number if you have one).
Fill in the application form and upload the required documents.
Before uploading your documents, they must be prepared as follows:
You must scan your original documents. If the document is in colour, scan it in colour.
All documents must be in PDF-format.
Please name the document/file with content and your name for example: CV_ first name_ family name
Send in the following via Varbi:
1. Selection of experience
Upload a document that selects and describes 5 influential experiences with dance from your life, in chronological order.
2. Letter of motivation
Upload a letter of motivation. Write maximum one page (English only). Please mark the document with your name.
Answer the following questions:
Why do you choose to study dance at SKH and what are your expectations?
What dance forms, choreographers or dance cultures are you excited about now, and why?
Describe an experience of when and how artistic practice made a difference for you, for others, or for society.
3. A video (maximum length 9 min and 150 MB)
Upload a video where you complete the tasks/exercises described below. Follow the instructions for each of the tasks/exercises carefully and practice as much as you need to before recording.
Film from a fixed and stable camera position using any camera you want.
It is important that the entire body is visible throughout the whole video.
Please film the tasks/exercises in a space which can adequately accommodate the scale of the dance you choose. For task 1, a dance studio may be most helpful.
You may use music or film in silence.
Upload your video together with your application. Again, maximum length is 9 minutes and 150 MB.
Task/exercises for your video:
Task 1 – Learn and dance a phrase. Time frame: 2 minutes.
Please watch the video below of a short dance phrase instructed by Ulrika Berg. Learn the phrase and film yourself dancing the phrase twice in a row, without a cut in the recording.
Task 2 – Time Frame: 3 minutes in two parts
a) Dance a specific dance. This could be a dance of any style, genre, or technique; a dance from your personal archive; a dance you have learned from somewhere else such as the internet or library; a historical or contemporary dance. Duration: 2 minutes.
b) Explain where the dance comes from and why you chose it. Duration: 1 minute.
Task 3 – Repeat all of Task 2, choosing another dance. Time Frame: 3 minutes in two parts
Please note that you might have to reduce/compress your video size before uploading it. Read more about How to convert your film.
Confirmation that you have submitted your work samples via Varbi
When you've submitted your work samples you will receive a confirmation to the e-mail address that you’ve stated. If you don’t receive a confirmation e-mail, you should first check your spam filter. If the confirmation e-mail is not there, contact Varbi's technical support.
The assessment of eligibility and the selection take place in several stages.
The assessment of formal merits/grades is carried out by the Swedish Council for Higher Education. The assessment of artistic merits is carried out by an admission group from SKH consisting of teachers and professionals from the field. A student representative can also participate in the admissions group, but will not take part in the assessment.
After each stage of the process there will be a decision on who will proceed to the next step. Everyone is informed of whether they will proceed or not.
If you are a citizen of Sweden, another EU or EEA country or or Switzerland you are not required to pay application or tuition fees. Some other groups are also exempt from the requirement to pay application and study fees.
If you are not a citizen of Sweden, another EU or EEA country or or Switzerland you are required to pay application and tuition fees. The level of the study fees depends on which course/programme they are for, and the level is set in order to cover the actual costs of the course/programme in question. SKH has some possibilities of offering scholarships that cover the study fees for programmes.
If you are required to pay an application fee, the Swedish Council for Higher Education needs to receive your payment by the last date for paying the application fee. The application fee is SEK 900. If you are required to pay the application fee and the Swedish Council for Higher Education has not received your payment by the last date for paying the tuition fee, they will not process your application. Read more here.
Tuition fee for the Bachelor Programme in Dance Performance starting autumn term 2024: 189,500 SEK per term or 1,137,000 SEK for the whole programme.
