Dance
The Jerusalem Academy of Music and DanceBachelor of Dance (B.Dance)
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Admission requirements
For every track
- Personal interview
- Israeli bagrut certificate or a certificate equivalent to bagrut (a designated pre-academic mechina recognized by the Council for Higher Education, a bagrut certificate from abroad recognized by the Ministry of Education, 30+ mechina)
- Entrance exam in classical ballet, modern dance, and improvisation
The Hebrew terms
personal interviewראיון אישיbagrut certificateתעודת בגרותbagrutבגרותmechinaמכינהCouncil for Higher Educationמל"גMinistry of Educationמשרד החינוך30+ mechinaמכינת 30+entrance examמבחן כניסה
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What you study
The degree provides practical and theoretical training for dancers, choreographers, and teachers, with exposure to a wide range of topics related to the world of dance in performance, teaching, and creation. The degree offers 2 options: a dance department and a movement department. The dance department provides opportunities to gain experience in a variety of dance styles, movement, composition and improvisation, choreography, martial arts, and the Feldenkrais Method. The movement department focuses on developing and providing a range of tools for understanding the body and its movement and broadening the boundaries of thought in ways that are not bound by traditional concepts of dance.
- Source:Avodata, Ministry of Laboravodata.labor.gov.ilchecked 2 Oct 20262023 data
After the degree
What graduates work as
- Teaching Art Outside the Education Systemmost commonTeaching the theory, practice, and performance of dance, drama, visual art, and other arts outside regular educational institutions, as well as providing private lessons to individuals or small groups in collaboration with educational institutions.
- Teaching in secondary schoolTeaching at the secondary-school level, excluding the teaching of subjects intended to prepare students for work in specific fields of employment.
Graduates’ salaries are below average 7,900 ₪ average monthly salary 5–6 years after completing their studies
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Admitted students and graduates
for this program at this institution
- Program length: 4 years
- Average bagrut score of admitted students: 96 points
- Average psychometric score: 550 points
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Money
How the institution is funded
Budgeted institutions
Tuition2026/27
Annual tuition for a full-time bachelor's degree program in the 2026/27 academic year: ₪12,203.
Periphery 44 grant
Periphery 44 grant — a contribution to first-year tuition
Who: Discharged soldiers and those who have completed national service.
per the Ministry of Defense page as checked on 4 Oct 2026
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Links
This field at other institutions
- “Orot Israel” Academic College of Education, established by Orot Israel College and Moreshet Yaakov CollegeMulti-Age Track: Dance (Dance and Movement) (kindergarten–12th grade)Bachelor of Education (B.Ed)
- Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the ArtsMulti-Age Track: Dance and Movement (grades 1–12)Bachelor of Dance Education (B.Ed.Dance)