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Full-Time STudieS Guide 2020
Europe calling
Perth-born Jacob Noble W is now with the
Badisches Staatstheater
Karlsruhe, Germany.
I completed my Certificate IV in Dance with the Charlesworth Ballet Institute, in Perth, and then received both my Bachelor
and Master of Arts in Dance from the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim, Germany.
What were the most important benefits
of your studies?
Throughout my studies I learnt how to work through tiredness, and developed an efficiency that allowed me to continue to perform at a consistent level regardless of how busy I was. Consistency is key, and it is what we as professional dancers must strive for.
I developed an efficiency that allowed me to continue to perform at a consistent level.”
here did you undertake your full-time training?
Discipline is something that we learn as students and must maintain upon professional employment. My dance studies gave me a great appreciation of the dance world and its history, as well as the great variety of possibilities, and the devotion that goes into this art form for which we dancers share our passion.
How quickly did you gain employment upon graduation?
I was very fortunate to have received a position in a professional company directly after graduating. Frau Professor Birgit Keil took me from her graduating class of the Master Studies in the Mannheim Academy of Dance, and offered me a contract with the Badisches Staatsballett Karlsruhe.
How did you find the transition from full-time studies to the profession? Starting out as a professional dancer, a dance company expects you to be attentive and
ready to work. You have to be able to learn choreography quickly, perform confidently and work with your fellow dancers efficiently in order to succeed. Being a student, you focus on developing good technique and a solid base that will allow you to perform whatever choreography you may have to dance in
a professional company.
Tell us a little about your present job.
The Badisches Staatsballett Karlsruhe is made up of 32 dancers. Throughout this season we are performing seven different ballets. We have had over 50 performances, and have toured three times internationally. We perform most of our productions with the accompaniment of live orchestra, with the majority of our performances being within
the theatre where we go to work, train and rehearse five to six days a week.
What do you know now that you wish you’d known when you were
a student?
Perform and look confident, and know that technique isn’t everything. Dance big. Develop your individual artistic personality, and be authentic. Think about what makes you stand out, and play to your strengths while working on your weaknesses. Don’t let the fear of failure hold you back, work to create opportunities for yourself, then grasp those opportunities, as you never know where they may lead you.
Jacob Noble: ‘play to your strengths; work on your weaknesses.’
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