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Admission

The next start date for our 2-year (biennial) Master's Degree programme is August 2025. The selection process for our new cohort will take place in Spring of 2025.

Important dates:

Deadline application: 31-01-2025
Deadline upload material first round (for selected candidates): 16-02-2025
Online Wicked Weekend (second round, for selected candidates): 29 and 30-03-2025

If you are interested in applying your enrolment starts at www.studielink.nl. Please read the instructions on How to apply for 3 steps in the complete process.

How to apply 

1. Add new enrolment via Studielink 

Your enrolment for this joint degree Master Choreography led by Fontys and Codarts begins at www.studielink.nl. If you officially live in the Netherlands, you need a DigiD to login. If you don’t have a DigiD because you have a foreign address, you create your own account in Studielink (if you don't already have one).  

• Once logged in to Studielink, complete or make sure your personal details are entered correctly (i.e. capital letters where required, according to your passport/ID card), and check or add your previous education. Always confirm your details. 

• Choose the study programme you wish to apply for (or select the option "Add new enrolment application" in your dashboard). You can enter one or more search queries and select Fontys University of Applied Sciences to select your programme. (you don’t select Codarts as Fontys handles the student administration) 

• Choose the correct start date: September 1, 2025, answer the institutional questions and confirm.  

Two important notes 1. Did you receive a message via Studielink about sending in your passport? faa-sa@fontys.nl will send you a request.2. Did you receive a message via Studielink about sending in proof of language requirements and/or previous education? You don’t have to send these documents yet! We will inform you about this when you passed the admission test. 

2. Apply for an admission online  

After one day, you will receive an e-mail from no-reply@fontys.nl containing your PCN number and password to log in to the Fontys portal. Keep this e-mail for future use, you will need it if you take classes as a student!  

Two working days after you have added a request for enrolment in Studielink, you will receive an e-mail from faa-admission@fontys.nl containing a link to your personal admission page. Attention! You log in here with your e-mail address known in Studielink and your date of birth (so not with the previously received login details for the Fontys portal). After this you will create your own password. As soon as you have completed and confirmed the application form on your personal admission page, you will receive confirmation of receipt.  

3. Complete your assignments 

In addition, you will receive another e-mail with a link to the assignments in your personal admission page. Once you have completed all assignments, you will receive an e-mail with the subject line ‘Confirmation preselection finished’ and only then you will take part in the audition! Didn't receive any e-mail(s)? Then check your junk mail (spam ) and add us to your address book as a safe sender. 

The application procedure for the preselection will officially open on 1 October 2024 and closes at 31 January 2025. Applicants who appear to meet our entrance requirements will be asked to submit a full application (first round, deadline 16-02-2025)to provide more detailed information. Hereafter eligible applicants will be informed if they are invited to participate in our Wicked Weekend.

Wicked Weekend

The Wicked Weekend takes place online on the 29th and 30th of March 2025 (Save the date!.) It consists of a one-day workshop built around the investigation of a wicked problem and is designed to provide a taster of the approach and philosophy behind the course in a co-creative setting. On the second day, interviews are held with individual students. This weekend will give us the opportunity to start discussions with prospective students who would be a good match for the programme.

If you have questions first visit the Q&A page.

For specific questions, you can send an email to faa-mc@fontys.nl.

  • Requirements Master Choreography

    Candidates that will be considered for this masters should meet the following criteria:

    • an academic background that is equivalent to an arts college or university degree, at least 5 years professional experience and evidence of creative output
    • or a dance/circus education from an internationally recognized academy, at least 5 years professional experience and evidence of creative output at a professional level
    • n.b. in some cases dance education and choreographic experience may be judged using different criteria in order to allow for a broad spectrum of students. Equivalency will be determined by the institutions of Codarts and Fontys once the applicant has been short listed. If you are not sure about you whether you might be eligible for the course advice can be requested from the course team.
    • International students must be able to pass an English language proficiency test.
    • the student has an ongoing relationship with an institution or person in the working field that can provide them with studio resources (outside of the intensives), feedback and if possible the opportunity to present their final production in a discipline appropriate public forum.
    • n.b. this is something that the course team can help you to find if you do not already have an idea who or where this could be


    What you need to include with your submission:

    • a curriculum vitae with information about education and professional experience
    • documentation of your creative experience (a portfolio) with a least 2 video recordings in a readable format
    • critical responses to your work if available (reviews)
    • a motivation letter which includes:
      • personal background and motivation
      • professional background and motivation
      • a prototype research question with

        • a description of the background of the question

        • possible research trajectories

        • the potential for your research question in terms of productive or generative outcomes for your working field

        • a discussion of what co-creation means for you in your current practice

        • a description of what you expect from the course and what you could bring to it

Register

from 1 October 2024

Deadline

31 January 2025

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