The purpose of the preparatory year (APS), given at ENACR, is to prepare students to enter a curriculum leading to post-graduate diplomas. The admission to APS is based on an entrance examination.
At the end of this preparatory year, students may apply to entrance examinations in schools offering higher education trainings.
It is thus possible, but not necessary, to apply for the common course ENACR/CNAC, consisting in a three-year program leading to a Higher National Vocational Diploma for Circus Artists (level II diploma).
Succeeding in ENACR’s first two years (APS and DNSP1) allows the student to get a BATC (Circus Techniques Artistic Certificate). This level IV diploma, awarded jointly by the Ministry of National Education and the Ministry of Culture and Communication, is recognised throughout Europe as a high-school graduation diploma (French baccalauréat level).
CNAC and ENACR have built a three-year common educational track, in collaboration with the Unit of Training and Research for Arts of the Jules Verne University in Amiens. This course allows the awarding of a Circus Artist Higher Vocational Diploma (level II) and the possibility of obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree in Performing Arts, with a specialisation in Circus Arts. The latter is being issued by Jules Verne Picardie University. This process comes within the scope of the European plan for higher education (Bologna’s Process).
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Links to download the application documents are at the bottom of this page.
ENACR is in charge of the entrance examination to the APS, the preparatory year.
This entrance examination will take place from the 9th to the 13th of July in Rosny-Sous-Bois.
Chapiteau Bernard Turin - 22 rue Jules Guesde 93110 Rosny-sous Bois
In order to sit for the entrance examination, you need to:
-Be between 17 and 22 years old
-Have passed your first year of high school, or other, foreign equivalent
-Have a defined specialisation, isolated bases and isolated flyers are welcome
-Have a good physical condition, basics in acrobatics, notions in acting, physical rhythm and dance, and be familiar with the stage space.
Entrance examination stages: deadline for applications: 15th of April 2018
Every candidate must email their admission file and additional files to ENACR’s registrar: mapy.mouisson@enacr.com
Every candidate will also have to send these admission files and attachments by post to the following address: Marie-Pierre Mouisson, ENACR - 22 rue Jules Guesde 93110 Rosny-sous-Bois
Any incomplete or belated admission file will not be considered
1. Examination of the applications: from the 16th to the 22nd of April 2018
Conciliation meeting with ENACR’s teachers to examine all the applications.
Sending letters of invitation in May 2018 to the candidates selected for the pre-selection examinations, followed by the selection examinations. Candidates not admitted on the basis of a written application will receive a letter later on.
2. Selection examinations from the 9th to the 13th of July 2018-03-13
Every candidate will be evaluated during three pre-selection days:
-Two days of workshops
-One day of stage presentation
Following these three days and the stage presentation, candidates selected by the jury will stay another two days for the selection examinations.
After these two days, the jury will decide how many students will take part in the class of 2018/2019.
ENACR will be responsible for accommodation and lunches during the examinations. Other meals and transport will be at the candidates’ expense.
3. Nature of the examinations (9th to 13th of July 2018)
-Level and abilities in the chosen discipline: weight2.5
-Acrobatics and physical preparation: weight 1.5
-Dance: weight 1
-Acting/ Dramatic Art: weight 1
-Interview: weight 1
-Presentation: 3 minutes max per candidate of 5 minutes max for a collective: weight 1
All marks below 5/20 will be eliminatory
4. Jury
The jury, presided by ENACR’s Director and assisted by the Educational Director,will include all the teachers evaluating the pre-selections and selections as well as circus professionals.
The jury will deliberate after the last day of the examinations to finalize the list of candidates selected to integrate the 2018/2019 preparatory class (APS).
These will be admitted if no medical issues are established after the check-up with the ENACR doctor at the beginning of the school year.
For all questions about the APS entrance examination, please contact
Marie-Pierre Mouisson + 33 01 56 63 05 49
or the main office +33 01 56 63 05 40
THE TRAINING’S GOALS
The conception of an artistic training takes into account the profession’s practice conditions, as defined by the BATC and the DNSP for Circus Artists, and depends on the goal it wants to achieve according to the art it is serving.
Considering a circus show as a work of art implies significant training. The educational project, conceived by CNAC and ENACR, translates this artistic choice. Its objective is to lead students towards a meaningful circus of creation that acknowledges the era it evolves in.
This course aims to shape creative performers, thinking artists that will be able to use their art, their artistic personality, and their skills to serve someone’s else project: a circus director, a theatre director, a choreographer, a movie director, a musician, or a performer. Students who want to engage in the path of the author and who have a research project will be assisted during the second period of the professional integration.
The educational program thus allows to:
● favour the professionalization of future artists by the acquisition of higher technical and artistic skills in a circus discipline (virtuosity helps in creating a vocabulary that allows to express a purpose. The richer the vocabulary, the freer the expression);
● favour the blossoming of the future artist’s personality by individualising the education, while developing openness and flexibility
● help the future artist with understanding artistic commitment, with creating his or her own approach, and with being part of society and modern creation, notably by creating conditions favourable to the critical analysis of art, to creativity and to boldness.
● sharpen the performer’s qualities and frame acting as a space of freedom and invention
● Gain autonomy in the following: training, proper physical preparation, creative processes, safety and equipment assembly, as well as career management.
The educational program gives the students a toolbox, filled with techniques, knowledge and know-how. It is conceived as a 3-or-4-year program, with full artistic and educational coherence between ENACR and CNAC.
The unified course between Rosny-Sous-Bois’s ENACR and Châlons-en-Champagne’s CNAC was put in place with the help of the Picardie University for the Arts.
