Summer: Rutgers- Camping: Dance, Choreography, and Performance
The Program
The Camping: Dance, Choreography and Performance program centers around the Camping Festival, hosted by the Centre National de la Danse (The National Dance Center) of France, an international festival and platform of workshops, talks, film screenings, professional encounters, public presentations, and performances. A unique experience bringing together artists from around the world, Camping offers a unique artistic experience that immerses students into the international contemporary dance scene.
Program Locations
France
Lyon
In Lyon, the program is held at Les SUBS (a massive warehouse space turned art center), the Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse, and the École Nationale Supérieur des Beaux-arts.
France
Paris
In Paris, workshops take place at CN D, Centre National de la Danse in Pantin with performances happening throughout Paris.
Academics
This course immerses dancers into diverse understandings of contemporary dance practice by exposing them to dance artists at an international choreographic platform for dance. Designed as a laboratory for cross-cultural exchange through movement practices, this immersive experience provides entryways into dance practices that are being developed by peer institutions around the world. Students will experience other modes of somatic practice and improvisation as well as other experiential movement systems that will challenge and expand their ways of thinking about and being/moving in their bodies. Students will co-create an original work prior to the departure date that will be presented at the festival. They will also have the opportunity to lead a peer-to-peer class via movement practices, choreography, or improvisation.
This program would count towards elective credits for Dance BFA/BA students or Dance minors.
Housing and Meals
Students will be housed at local dormitories or youth hostels where they may share with other dancers from our program. Breakfast and lunch are included in the cost of registration and will be provided by Centre National de la Danse.
Financial Information
Program Costs
| NJ Resident | non-NJ Resident | |
|---|---|---|
| Undergraduate | $2,380 | $2,690 |
| Graduate | $2,580 | $2,870 |
Program Cost includes:
- Tuition
- Housing
- Some meals
- Excursions
- Administrative Fees
- Emergency Medical Access Abroad
Out-of-Pocket Costs
| Airfare | $1,000 |
| Meals | $150 |
| Local Transportation | $100 |
| Personal Expenses | $100 |
| Total | $1,350.00 |
Out-of-Pocket Cost includes:
The above costs are estimations and represent the known out-of-pocket costs students encounter during their time abroad.
Some of these expenses will be paid for prior to going abroad, such as an airline ticket, while some of these expenses, such as meals and personal expenses, will be paid in-country as part of your daily expenses. As you plan, you will need to budget these costs and spend wisely throughout your time abroad.
Scholarships
Faculty Leaders
Gerald Casel (he/they/siya) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Dance at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. He is a dance artist, equity activator and antiracist educator and the artistic director of GERALDCASELDANCE. Casel’s choreographic work complicates and provokes questions surrounding colonialism, collective cultural amnesia, whiteness and privilege and the tensions between the invisible/perceived/obvious structures of power. A graduate of The Juilliard School with an MFA from UW-Milwaukee, they received a New York Dance and Performance Award “Bessie” for sustained achievement for dancing in the companies of Stephen Petronio, Michael Clark, Stanley Love, Zvi Gotheiner, Sungsoo Ahn, and The Metropolitan Opera Ballet. Dancing Around Race, an ongoing community engaged-participatory program that interrogates systemic racial inequity continues to grow.
Photo by Katherine Helen Fisher.