Adjusted application procedure

Step 1: Login and registration

Studielink

• Create an account in Studielink. 
• After registration you will receive login details for Osiris Enrolment.

STEP 2

After registering in Studielink and logging in to Osiris, we will ask you to answer a number of questions and provide a number of items:

1. Audition application questions 
2. Motivation letter in English and in PDF format – upload in Osiris
3. Medical statement that allows you to do intense physical training, not older than 3 months and in Dutch/English/German/French – upload in Osiris
4. Picture (head + shoulders, in PDF format, high resolution, vertical) – upload in Osiris
5. Upload two videolinks to universally used video systems (such as f.e. YouTube or Vimeo + publically watchable):

Video 1: Personal introduction and artistic vision 

– total length of 2.30 min max
 

Part 1: Tell us your name, nationality, specialization and personal info

Format:

• as in a video conference
• only your head + shoulders
• without music
• 30 sec max

Part 2: Present yourself in a creative context: How do you see circus, what are your artistic interests (circus and/or art in general). Tell us your artistic dreams and show us your extra qualities.

Format:

• free choice
• music or sound scape optional
• 2 min max

Video 2: Technical and artistic skills

– total length of 4.00 min max
 

• General physical skills:

1. Exercises floor acrobatics: show us 2 lines in which you integrate cartwheel (both left and right), handstand, jump and if possible salto
2. Exercises in flexibility: frontal and lateral split, bridge
3. Only if relevant: exercises on trampoline
4. Exercises handstand: for each exercise, independently or with assistance from a partner or the wall:

• show in profile position: getting into handstand and hold for 10 sec
• show your level in a 1 arm position
• show your 2 best handstand variations

Format:

• without music!
• a composition of the above mentioned several skills
• each technical exercise needs to be recorded in one take
• only record the exercises (not the preparation)
• in total 1.5 min max

Answered all the questions above and submitted all the files?
Send an email to ssmit@codarts.nl in which we receive your permission to share your personal contact information with other solo candidates in the same partner discipline (because of privacy regulation we can only share contact information with permission).

Attention!: if the documents are not delivered in the correct format (PDF) or language and/or if the videos are longer than the allowed maximum time or not watchable, we cannot accept your application.

STEP 3: 

When receiving the application of a single person for a partner/group discipline, the application will be directly forwarded to the specialisation teachers, who evaluate in a first selection if the applicant shows an overall sufficient level to be considered as a candidate to pass to the pre-selection committee.

STEP 4:

• You will receive a positive advice, which means that you will be brought in contact with another single candidate in your discipline (if available)

OR

• You will receive a negative advice, which means that the audition procedure stops.

Regulations:

With a positive advice potential candidates are brought into contact with each other:

• Codarts Circus Arts can facilitate the single partners to meet and train at Circus Arts in Rotterdam for 1 to max 2 weeks,
• Training at Codarts Circus Arts is possible during weekdays from Monday 9 to Thursday 12 December 2024 and/or from Monday 8 to Friday 12 Januari 2025.
• Circus Arts only facilitates the training space and a offers a limited amount of training hours with the specialisation teacher.
• Costs for lodging and travelling are on personal initiative and budget of the candidate.
• Candidates can propose a preference week but this will first be confirmed by e-mail from Circus Arts, before calling this definitive.

OR

• Candidates can organize a training elsewhere on their own initiative.

STEP 5: deadline: 1 February 2025 (00.00h CET)

When single candidates found a partner and they apply as a partner combination they must submit all points below. This contains amongst others a video showing the work they did with the new partner:

Extra video, to upload at video 2, part 2: 

Highlights of figures in the circus discipline that you are applying with:

Format:

• without music!
• a composition of technical exercises within your discipline
• each technical exercise needs to be recorded in one take
• only record the exercises (not the preparation)
• show all figures you can execute safely without external support
• show all figures you can show safely with a spotter or longe
• in total max 1 min 30

Only after anwering all questions and updating all the requested material in Osiris before the deadline of 1 February 2025 (00.00h CET) the candidates can enter the regular pre-selection procedure for the audition.  

Continuation of the procedure:

This video material will be added to the general application file (letter of motivation, personal video etcetera) and will pass to the pre-selection committee (artistic and technical team). They will evaluate if this duo/group will be invited for the live audition in April. The candidates are informed if they are invited for the audition the same as all other candidates. The fact that candidates are brought in contact is not a guarantee to be invited. They will be invited together or not at all.