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The National Centre for Dance will continue its Performing art school for children starting September 21, 2026. The arts education program is designed for children and teenagers ages 7 to 18. In addition to developing creativity, expressivity, technique and body language specific to contemporary dance, the Performing school for children stimulates artistic creation by working on choreographic moments to be staged by the end of the programme.
The Performing art school for children programme runs from September through May, following the school year’s breaks and is structured into five modules of five or seven weeks. Working groups are formed in mid-September through open auditions. The groups formed in this way will remain together throughout the entire program. Subsequent enrollment is possible only subject to availability and following an evaluation by the choreography instructors.
Launched by the National Centre for Dance Bucharest in March 2018, the Performing art school for children is the first local training and artistic education programme in contemporary dance and performing arts. The Performative School runs throughout the school year and integrates courses in contemporary dance, creation and improvisation, as well as other workshops and artistic education activities for children.
“Taking on a children’s art education programme involves a ritual of directing attention to the body on a regular basis. The assumption has a double meaning: parents and children on the one hand and teachers on the other. The multi-component programme is not intended to produce specialists in one discipline, but to develop the ability to convey multiple types of information and artistic body training.
The school of performance provides the framework to generate an individual type of acuity of observation and use of bodily resources, the development of pleasure in using the intuitive baggage with which all children are endowed, the activation of the child’s bodily and visual imagination in structuring an artistic discourse of their own, but also a complex bodily training that relates to other artistic fields and current cultural expressions.
What distinguishes dance from sport is the ability/capacity to create artistic communicative meanings, in which mind and thought are one with the body; the cultivation of bodily skills serves a type of performance that has the vocation of communicating ideas.
Dance as a form of knowledge, of adaptation to the context, to the world”.
Vava Ștefănescu, Manager CNDB
Performing art school for children 2026–2027 – Module 1 (September 21 – October 23)
Starting September 21, 2026, the National Center for Dance in Bucharest will launch a new school year for its Performing art school for children, an arts education program for children and teenagers ages 7 to 18.
Structure
Module 1 takes place from September 21 to October 23 and consists of 5 weeks of classes.
Classes
Monday
5:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. – Contemporary Dance Technique for Ages 10–15 – Intermediate Level (Catrinel Catană & Andreea Belu)
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – Contemporary Dance Technique for Ages 10–15 – Beginner Level
(Catrinel Catană & Andreea Belu)
Tuesday
5:00 p.m. – 6:10 p.m. – Contemporary dance technique for ages 7–9 – beginner/intermediate level (Eva Danciu)
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – Contemporary dance technique for ages 9–11 – intermediate/advanced level (Eva Danciu)
Wednesday
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. – Contemporary dance technique for ages 15–18 – beginner level (Eva Danciu)
7:15 p.m. – 8:45 p.m. – Contemporary dance technique for ages 15–18 – advanced level (Eva Danciu)
Thursday
5:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. – Contemporary dance technique for ages 7–9 – beginner level (Catrinel Catană & Andreea Belu)
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – contemporary dance technique for ages 10–15 – advanced level (Catrinel Catană & Andreea Belu)
Friday
5:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. – choreography class, ages 7–9 – guest instructor
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – choreography class, ages 10–15 – guest instructor
The intermediate and advanced levels will consist of children who have participated in previous editions of the Performing art school for children.
Teachers
Catrinel Catană, Andreea Belu, Eva Danciu, along with guest teachers invited throughout the school year.
Participation Fees
5 sessions: 450 lei
10 sessions / combination of 2 courses: 780 lei
Ticket for one session: 100 lei
*The discount for combining multiple courses also applies to children from the same family enrolled in the program.
**Children from disadvantaged social groups are eligible for free enrollment, provided they fully participate in at least one module.
Subscriptions and tickets will be available for purchase starting September 19, after the results of the preselection and the formation of the groups have been announced:
- online, through the Kompostor platform, by the day classes begin
- at the “Stere Popescu” Hall, with payment (cash or card) at least 30 minutes before the class begins.
Registration
To form the groups, registration takes place following a preliminary selection process in the form of auditions. The auditions are open to children and teenagers between the ages of 7 and 18. Groups will be organized based on age, experience, and skill level.
The auditions will take place on September 14 and 16, 2026, according to the following schedule:
September 14
– 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. for the 7–9-year-old group
– 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. for the 10–15-year-old and 16–18-year-old groups
September 16
– 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. for the 7–9-year-old group
– 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. for the 10–15-year-old and 16–18-year-old groups
Auditions will take place at the National Centre for Dance in Bucharest – “Stere Popescu” Hall (80–82 Mărășești Blvd., Bucharest)
To register, please send an email to cursuri@cndb.ro. Please specify the day and time slot you prefer.
For more information, please contact us at email above or call 0758 101 945.