Kunstnerisk leder til [xxxxx]s Balletskole

Den Kongelige Ballet søger en kunstnerisk leder til Det Kongelige Teaters Balletskole, med en stærk kunstnerisk og ledelsesmæssig profil. (for English, see below)

Det Kongelige Teaters Balletskole er en kunstnerisk eliteskole, som sikrer ballet- og skolefaglig uddannelse på højeste niveau fra 0. klasse til 3. HF. Balletskolen er Den Kongelige Ballets foretrukne balletskole. Derfor skal Balletskolen uddanne elever og aspiranter, der er kunstnerisk ypperlige, teknisk ekvilibristiske, stilmæssigt distinkte og menneskeligt hele.

For at styrke og udvikle Balletskolens position som Den Kongelige Ballets foretrukne balletskole skal du som kunstnerisk leder sikre:

• At de kunstneriske, tekniske, stilmæssige og menneskelige pejlemærker for uddannelsen ekspliciteres og tydeliggøres, og løbende justeres i forhold til Den Kongelige Ballets krav og behov.
• At den pædagogiske tilrettelæggelse af uddannelsen løbende justeres i forhold til Den Kongelige Ballets krav og behov og under hensyntagen til elevernes og aspiranternes skolegang.
• At der etableres organisatoriske og praktiske rammer om den løbende dialog, gensidige inspiration og udveksling mellem Den Kongelige Ballet og Balletskolen, så fælles målsætninger og forventninger afstemmes og udvikles.
• At rekrutteringsgrundlaget for Balletskolen udvides gennem innovative, opsøgende tiltag, der når bredere ud.
• At Balletskolens faglige kræfter tilbydes efter- og videreuddannelsesmuligheder inden for det balletfaglige, pædagogiske og didaktiske område.
• At forholdet til Balletskolens mange interessenter er præget af opsøgende dialog, faglig nysgerrighed og løsningsorientering.

For at løfte opgaven skal du understøtte og udvikle det stærke balletfaglige miljø på skolen gennem ambitiøse målsætninger, tydelige rammer og involvering af alle skolens faglige og administrative kræfter.

Som kunstnerisk leder er du personaleleder for Balletskolens balletlærere samt en række andre personalefunktioner. Du er ansvarlig for den balletfaglige sparring med Balletskolens fem satellitskoler og talentcentre placeret andre steder i landet. Du indgår i et tæt ledelsessamarbejde med Balletskolens administrative leder, og i fællesskab løser I en lang række ledelsesopgaver, herunder samarbejdet med N. Zahles Skole, der står for elevernes boglige uddannelse, og I sikrer at skolens økonomi overholder de af teatret udstukne rammer.

Kvalifikationer, baggrund og erfaring
Som kunstneriske leder skal du have en stærk kunstnerisk og balletfaglig profil og relevant ledelseserfaring vægter også højt.

Du skal derfor have og kunne dokumentere følgende faglige og personlige kompetencer:

• Omfattende erfaring som balletdanser, balletinstruktør eller koreograf
• Omfattende erfaring med undervisning og uddannelse af balletelever og -aspiranter
• Omfattende erfaring med Bournonville-traditionen som balletdanser, underviser eller balletinstruktør
• Erfaring med ledelse af undervisere og kunstnerisk personale
• Erfaring med at drive forandringer og udviklingsprocesser
• Økonomisk indsigt og forståelse
• Et nationalt og internationalt netværk inden for balletundervisning
• Stærke kommunikations- og samarbejdsevner på alle niveauer

Løn- og ansættelsesvilkår
Stillingen er tidsbegrænset til 30. juni 2026.

Aften- og weekendarbejde vil forekomme.

Løn og ansættelsesvilkår i henhold til relevant statslig overenskomst eller individuel kontrakt.

Ansættelsessted er på Det Kongelige Teaters Balletskole på Kongens Nytorv og du vil referere til balletmesteren for Den Kongelige Ballet.

Vi er klar til at byde dig velkommen d. 1. april 2022.

Sådan søger du
Søg stillingen ved at klikke på ”søg stillingen” til højre i annoncen.

Vi ser frem til at modtage din ansøgning, og høre dine tanker om, hvordan du vil styrke og udvikle Balletskolens position. Vedlæg CV, evt. anbefalinger og evt. andre relevante dokumenter.

Ansøgningsfristen er søndag d. 16. januar 2022.

Samtaler afholdes løbende i slutningen af januar og i februar måned.

Alle interesserede uanset personlig baggrund opfordres til at søge stillingen.

Kontaktperson
Yderligere oplysninger om stillingen kan fås ved henvendelse til administrationschef ved Den Kongelige Ballet Søren Normann Hansen på [email protected].

Om Det Kongelige Teaters Balletskole
Det Kongelige Teaters Balletskole er en kunstnerisk eliteskole, som sikrer balletuddannelse og skolefaglig uddannelse af balletelever fra 0. klasse til 3. HF på højeste niveau. Fra 0. – 9. klasse har eleverne såvel skolegang som balletræning i Det Kongelige Teaters bygninger på Kongens Nytorv. Udover skolen på Kongens Nytorv har Det Kongelige Teaters Balletskole 5 samarbejdsskoler andre steder i landet. Efter 9. klasse følger en aspirantuddannelse, hvor skolegangen foregår på Falkonergårdens Gymnasium i et 3. årigt HF-forløb. Efter endt aspirantuddannelse er eleverne klar til at arbejde som professionelle balletdansere.

Som et led i uddannelsen indgår elever i 2. – 7. klasse samt aspiranterne i forestillinger sammen med Den Kongelige Ballet. I 8. og 9. klasse indgår eleverne i Kompagni B, der er et kompagni for, med og af børn. Her lærer eleverne at skabe deres egne forestillinger.

Udover en boglig grund- og ungdomsuddannelse modtager eleverne undervisning i ballethistorie og ”balletfransk”.

Balletskolen bliver anset for at være blandt de bedste skoler i verden. Skolen har ca. 140 elever og 50 medarbejdere. Læs mere om Det Kongelige Teaters Balletskole på kglballetskole.dk

Om Den Kongelige Ballet
Den Kongelige Ballet er et af verdens mest anerkendte balletkompagnier. Kompagniet har med sin unikke Bournonville-tradition, samt et ambitiøst blik for fornyelse, altid formået at præsentere et alsidigt repertoire af høj kvalitet.

En af Den Kongelige Ballets kerneopgaver er at videreføre og udvikle Bournonvilles balletter, der er karakteristiske med deres fine sans for mimisk fortælling og ubesværet lethed, og arven fra Bournonville vil altid være grundstammen i kompagniets repertoire. Men samtidig har kompagniet også kapacitet til at fortolke de prægtige balletter fra den russiske tradition, samt en ambition om til stadighed at udvide og forny repertoiret med værker af George Balanchine og Jerome Robbins såvel som nye værker af koreografer inden for moderne ballet.

At kunne præsentere et så bredt og krævende repertoire af høj kunstnerisk kvalitet, kræver et stort kompagni af dygtige og talentfulde dansere, der i alle godt 100 forestillinger om året mestrer de mange afvekslende opgaver og stilarter.

Den Kongelige Ballet har et kompagni bestående af ca. 80 dansere. Ud over danskere består kompagniet af dansere fra USA, England, Frankrig, Belgien, Polen, Østrig, Sverige, Spanien, Australien, Canada, Brasilien, Korea, Rumænien, Monaco og Kasakhstan.

English version

The Royal Danish Ballet seeks an Artistic Director with a strong artistic and managerial profile for the Royal Danish Ballet School.

The Royal Danish Ballet School is an elite artistic academy that offers ballet training as well as educational schooling at the highest level from elementary school to and including upper-secondary school. The Ballet School is the Royal Danish Ballet’s preferred ballet school, which is why the school is to train and educate students to become artistically excellent, technically outstanding, stylistically distinct and whole people.

To strengthen and develop the Ballet School’s position as the Royal Danish Ballet’s preferred ballet academy, you as Artistic Director must ensure:

• That the artistic, technical, stylistic and human benchmarks for the ballet training and academic education are clear and explicit and are continuously aligned with the Royal Danish Ballet’s requirements and needs.
• That the organisation of the training and education is continuously aligned with the Royal Danish Ballet’s requirements and needs, taking the academic schooling needs of the students and apprentices into consideration.
• That an organisational and practical framework is established for ongoing dialogue, mutual inspiration and exchange between the Royal Danish Ballet and the Ballet School, so that common goals are developed, and expectations are aligned.
• That the recruitment basis for the Ballet School is expanded through innovative outreach initiatives that reach further afield.

• That the Ballet School’s ballet staff is offered in-service training and further education within professional ballet, didactics and teaching.

• That the relationship with the Ballet School’s many stakeholders is solution-oriented and characterised by proactive dialogue and professional curiosity.

To meet these challenges, you must support and develop the highly professional environment at the school by establishing ambitious goals and clear frameworks and by involving all the school’s professional and administrative staff resources.

As Artistic Director, you are the staff manager of the ballet teachers at the Ballet School as well as the head of a number of other staff functions. You are responsible for coaching the ballet training at the Ballet School’s five satellite schools and talent centres located across Denmark. You are to nurture a close managerial partnership with the Ballet School’s Administrative Director with whom you will undertake a large number of managerial tasks, including collaborative ties with N. Zahles School, i.e. the institution responsible for the academic education of the ballet students. You and the Administrative Director shall furthermore ensure that the school’s finances comply with the budgetary framework at the theatre.

Qualifications, background and experience
As Artistic Director, you must have a strong artistic and professional profile within ballet. Relevant managerial experience is also given great importance.

You must therefore have, and may be required to document, the following professional and personal competencies and skills:

• Extensive experience as a ballet dancer, ballet instructor or choreographer
• Extensive experience in the teaching and training of ballet students and apprentices
• Extensive experience with the Bournonville tradition as a ballet dancer, teacher or ballet instructor
• Experience with the management of teachers and artistic staff
• Experience in driving change and development processes
• Financial insight and understanding
• A national and international network within ballet education
• Strong communications and collaborative skills at all levels

Salary and terms of employment
The contract is limited to 30 June 2026.

The applicant must expect evening and weekend work.

Salary and terms of employment shall comply with relevant state collective bargaining agreements or individual contract.

The place of employment is at the Royal Danish Ballet School at Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen and you will refer to the Artistic Director of the Royal Danish Ballet.

We are ready to welcome you on 1 April 2022.

How to apply
Apply for the position by clicking on "Søg stillingen" to the right of the advertisement.

We look forward to receiving your application and hearing about your thoughts on how you intend to strengthen and develop the Ballet School’s position. Attach your CV in addition to any recommendations or other relevant documents.

The application deadline is Sunday 16 January 2022.

Interviews will be held regularly at the end of January and during February.

All interested applicants, regardless of personal background, are encouraged to apply for the position.

Contact person
Further information about the position can be obtained by contacting the Administrative Director of the Royal Danish Ballet, Søren Normann Hansen, at [email protected].

About the Royal Danish Ballet School
The Royal Danish Ballet School is an elite artistic school that offers ballet training and the academic education of ballet students from the first year of elementary school until and including the last of three years of upper-secondary school at the highest level. During elementary school (i.e. 0 - 9th grade), students attend schooling and ballet training at the Royal Danish Theatre located at Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen. In addition to the Ballet School by Kongens Nytorv, the Royal Danish Ballet School is partnered with five other ballet schools across Denmark. The last year of elementary school (i.e. 9th grade) is followed by apprentice training, where academic schooling takes place at Falkonergårdens Gymnasium in the form of a three-year upper-secondary programme (HF).

After completing apprentice training, students are ready to work as professional ballet dancers. As part of their education, 2nd - 7th grade elementary school students and ballet apprentices take part in performances alongside dancers from the Royal Danish Ballet. In 8th and 9th grade of elementary school, students join Kompagni B, which is a company for, with and by children. Here, students learn to create their own performances.

In addition to the elementary school and upper-secondary school academic programmes, students at the Ballet School also receive teaching in ballet history and "ballet French".

The Ballet School is considered among the best schools in the world. The school has approx. 140 students and 50 employees. Read more about the Royal Danish Ballet School at kglballetskole.dk

About the Royal Danish Ballet
The Royal Danish Ballet is one of the world’s most recognised ballet companies. With its unique Bournonville tradition and high ambition for innovation, the company has always managed to present a versatile, high-quality repertoire.

One of the core tasks of the Royal Danish Ballet is to conserve and develop the Bournonville ballets, which are characterised by a fine sense of mimetic narrative and effortless grace. The Bournonville legacy will always remain the backbone of the company’s repertoire. Equally, the company holds the capacity to interpret the magnificent ballets of the Russian tradition and additionally aspires to constantly expand and renew the ballet repertoire with works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins as well as contemporary works by choreographers of modern ballet.

To present such a broad and demanding repertoire of high artistic quality requires a large company of skilled and talented dancers, who in well over 100 performances annually master the many varied tasks, roles and styles.

The Royal Danish Ballet company consists of approx. 80 dancers. In addition to Danes, the company consists of dancers from the USA, England, France, Belgium, Poland, Austria, Sweden, Spain, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Korea, Romania, Monaco and Kazakhstan.