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Fontys University of Applied Sciences · Netherlands

Circus and Performance Art

Professional circus training with a flexible curriculum built around your own artistic goals, in a dedicated training hall in Tilburg with internationally qualified teachers.

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Where
TilburgNetherlands
Degree
BA
Length
4 years
Taught in
English
Starts
Autumn 2027
Apply by
1 April 2027Two audition videos due by 5 April 2027
Admission
SelectiveAudition
EU/EEA fee
Not recorded yet
More facts
Degree
BA
Length
4 years
Taught in
English
Starts
Autumn 2027

Deadlines

  1. 1 December 2026*

    Create your Studielink account
    Your own plan
    Details

    Not an official deadline. With a Dutch address you log in with DigiD, which the government says takes about five days. Without one you upload a scan or photo of your passport or EU identity card and Studielink verifies it automatically. Either way, do it well before 15 January.

    Source

  2. 1 April 2027

    Applications close
    Hard deadline
    DetailsSource

  3. 15 June 2027

    Fontys housing application due, September 2027 start
    Hard deadline
    DetailsSource
All dates for this programme (1 more)

  1. 6 July 2027*

    IB results released
    Details

    Both Dutch deadlines fall well before this. How a conditional place pending results is handled is set by each institution; ask yours.

    Source

* Last year’s date, not yet confirmed.

Every date in the Netherlands

What it is

Training centres on studio work in the circus discipline you choose, supplemented by trampoline, acrobatics, rigging basics and stage presence. Guest artists from abroad come in for intensive teaching periods, and you work on projects with students of dance, theatre, music and visual arts, since the school shares its Tilburg campus with many other arts programmes. In the third year a minor lets you train away from the school for a while, and performances and internships give professional experience. Graduates work as independent or company performers, form their own companies, or take technical and creative roles such as rigger, light or sound technician, stage designer or choreographer.

What you need

  • Audition: Studielink by 1 April 2027, two videos by 5 April, then a live audition in Tilburg on 18–20 May 2027.
Requirements in full

Every IB applicant at Fontys

The IB Diploma is named as giving access. Many programmes also want satisfactory maths grades, engineering also physics or chemistry, with no IB grade set. An IB Diploma usually exempts you from an English test.

Where it says so

Its entry requirements

Check it on fontys.nl

How places are decided

    • Audition
    Two videos by 5 April 2027 (online preselection); if selected, a live audition in Tilburg on 18–20 May 2027, and you must be there all three days.
Sources (3)
  1. Circus and Performance Art at Fontys — checked 2026-09-26
  2. Entry requirements
  3. IB applicants at Fontys

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