Application & admission procedure
Want to apply to the Bachelor of Dance at the Royal Conservatoire? Find out how to apply by following the step-by-step guide below.
Check the requirements
Read the entry requirements (see above) before starting your application.
Sign up via Studielink
Deadline: 26 February
Studielink is the online registration system for higher education in the Netherlands. When you register, you will also automatically be registered with DUO (Dienst Uitvoerend Onderwijs), the agency that arranges student financing, among other things.
Note: you will now leave the website of the Royal Conservatoire. You are not done with the admission process after registering with Studielink. Please read the further instructions below first.
If you are a Dutch student, log on with your DigiD. If you do not yet have one, it can be requested at www.digid.nl. It could be several days before you receive the log-in codes.
If you are an international student, log on with a user name and password that you will be able to create for yourself in Studielink.
Apply for the course of your choice (the first step in your ‘to do’ list) under Royal Academy of Art/Royal Conservatoire The Hague. Complete each step in the screen. Detailed instructions and help with the process is available on the website of Studielink.
Documenten verzamelen
Making a Recording
To get a good impression of your artistic, musical, and technical capacities, we would like to receive a recording of 15-20 minutes. Your entire body should be visible and the recording needs to comply to the criteria listed in the document below. The colour of your clothing should be contrasting to the colour of the background.
Criteria Video Audition
Upload your video to a YouTube (preference) or Vimeo account (or comparable online platform). Create a PDF with all the links to your video recording(s). You can upload your document into the relevant question in the Osiris Online Application, later on in the process. Please name your upload ‘[surname] – video recording’.
Motivation form Bachelor Dance
Download the form and answer the questions. Upload the completed form to Osiris Online Application.
Curriculum Vitae
Your CV should include your name, date of birth, height and weight, as well as information about your dance education and experience. Please describe: your previous degree(s), courses completed, successes, performances, exams, and prizes. Please name your document ‘[surname] – CV’.
Dance Photographs
Upload three photographs, including one portrait photo and two dance photos. Both should show your full body. Please name your upload beginning with ‘[surname] – footage’.
Osiris Online Application
You will receive an e-mail with a link to OSIRIS Application. Go to Osiris Online Application and choose your language preference (Dutch or English). Please use the link you received via email after you registered in Studielink.
After you have logged in to Osiris, you answer a few obligatory questions. For instance, you will have to indicate which live audition date you would like to register for, if you get through the video selection round.
Upload the documents you collected into the relevant question in Osiris. If you cannot send all your documents at once, we will send you reminders to complete your application. Keep in mind that we can only assign an audition slot for you once all documents have been received.
You can save your answers in between sessions.
Your application is complete and final, only if your answers in Osiris have been sent.
Audition
18 april 2026
Based on your completed details and answers, uploaded documents and the video, it will be determined whether you will be invited to audition. You will receive written notification of this by e-mail after the application procedure has closed. The audition will take place on April 18, 2026 at KC Dance in Amare, The Hague.
English language proficiency
Bachelor’s and Master’s students and participants in a Preparatory Course must have sufficient command of both written and spoken English to follow their study programme at the Royal Conservatoire.
More information about language proficiency, courses and the tests.
Students from EU/EEA countries or Switzerland or Surinam whose proficiency in English is inadequate are obliged to follow a language course. If it is found during the admission procedure that your command of English is insufficient, you will be required to follow a course and obtain a certificate of proficiency during the first year of the course.
If you have been admitted for a Bachelor’s or Master’s programme or Preparatory Course and you are from a country outside the EU/EEA (with exception of Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, South Africa, Surinam, Switzerland, United Kingdom of Great Britain or United States of America), you must demonstrate – before 1 September - that your level of English is sufficient to follow the study programme. You can demonstrate your command of English with your score on any of the following English language proficiency tests: IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC or Cambridge English (FCE/CAE/CPE). The test scores are valid for two years and your score must be valid as of 1 September.
The minimum standard is a score of 6.0 in the IELTS test or level 80 in the TOEFL.
Certificates from the Institutional TOEFL test, the TOEFL ITP test or other language proficiency tests will not be accepted.
Extra note for international students
Non-EU/EEA students who are admitted to the programme they applied for need an entry visa and/or residence permit. You also need to make other practical arrangements before you come to the Netherlands and when you arrive here. Please check the website for international students coming to the Netherlands for all procedures, information and contact info.