The alumni activities at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden are a central element of the University’s strategy. Graduates of the respective study programmes as well as the graduates from the Artistic Master Class and the Apprentice Programme are actively supported in their networking and professional training by a network of alumni.
Today with far more than 500 members, the Palucca University of Dance Dresden Alumni Network is a continually growing network of former university students, teachers, and staff members. Netzwerk members enjoy not only the respective services offered to them as members but they also enjoy many benefits regarding participation in current university events. This takes you to your network registration.
A central component of the alumni activities at Palucca University is the sharing of information on professional topics in the Alumni Newsletter and also at Networking and Continued Education/Further Training events conducted here at the University. In addition, the Palucca University of Dance Dresden helps its alumni by promoting their artistic projects. This is accomplished through free articles in the Alumni Newsletter and with the help of contributions on the University’s social media channels.
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The university archive and alumni work
We would like to thank our alumni and guests who have made numerous valuable gifts in recent months. Your commitment helps us to keep the history of our university alive and provide future generations with exciting insights into times gone by.
Do you also have documents, photos or anecdotes that you would like to share with us? We look forward to every addition to our archive! Feel free to contact us - we look forward to hearing from you!
NEW IN THE ARCHIVE - FUNDS - Summer Courses
They should be innovative, inspiring, and the teaching should be of high quality. That which began in 1926 under the concept “Holiday Courses” developed over 70 years to become the much-loved summer courses offered by the Palucca School in Dresden The courses provided dance enthusiasts from far and wide a chance to take lessons with Gret Palucca - if they had the necessary funds. In 1949 the courses cost 50 German marks and over the years they increased to up to 700 German marks (1999). In spite of this, the courses were sought-after and some served as the prescribed continued education for those dance teachers and dancers already in their professions.
The GDR approved of the summer courses which increasingly gained international renown and thus were instrumental to the cultural policy makers for proving the excellent achievements of the GDR in the area of dance. The Ministry of Culture was willing to make concessions for the increased prestige provided by the Palucca School Dresden - whether it be the issuance of residence permits or the provision of inter-zonal permits.
The first International Summer Course took place in 1957. The entry permit was issued by the Administration of the Palucca School Dresden and it assumed the return travel costs of its guests from the (non)socialist countries and Western Germany. The international orientation of the courses has remained the same up to today. Not only among the course participants, but also among the guest lecturers. For example, Dick O’Swanborn (Jazz), Sándor Vásáhelyi (Folklore), Patricio Bunster (Modern Dance) or later, Vivien Loeber (Classical Ballet), Bruno Stefanoni (Improvisation) and Jean Christophe Pellerin (Feldenkrais Method). The last evidence of Summer Courses can be found in the University Archive in 1999 as being the 50th International Summer Course under the direction of Enno Markwart.
Source: Palucca University of Dance Dresden, University Archive, A1 University Administration 1949-990, Summer Courses - Stabel, Ralf:
Here you can find out more about our university archive: Archive - Englisch (palucca.eu)
Dr. Bianca Gleiniger - Head of University Archive
- (0351) 2590 655
- archiv(at)palucca.eu
