Functional Screening

Alongside Spring auditions, students who are accepted in the Dance programmes, take part in a physical screening. This baseline information feeds into students curriculum and personal development support.

Looking to supplement this information with metrics that are relevant for the dancers the Training for Excellence Living Lab developed a collaboration between HvA and ATD students where students measuring and students being measured learned from each other.

Click HERE for video, "Training for Excellence: beter worden in muziek, sport en dans - T4X onderzoek aan de HvA." 

Giving continuity to this project, the ATD in partnership with European School of Physiotherapy, is now (November 2023) looking to developed test batteries that match the different profiles of the ATD dance departments. From observing and researching the skills inherent to the dance styles developed in each dance department, ESP students are developing and piloting alongside the dance students different protocols.

A mid-term goal is having this interaction between students become a structural activity where physiotherapy and dance students work together to developed each other’s skills from September 2025.

A long term goal is being able to look at a student cohort and adequately adjust:
- curriculum content
- audition process
- H&P education embedded in artistic department
- H&P psychological/mental consultancy offer
- H&P health/wellbeing initiatives ATD-wide regarding student wellbeing research

Below are zines made while working with departments (in order) Dutch National Ballet Academy, Expanded Contemporary Dance, and Docent Dans.

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