CADT - Certified Academic Dancer's Training

CADT is a 2 years educational program in Copenhagen/Denmark aimed at the intermediate and up Oriental dancers, who wants to explore their full potential within the Oriental dance.

Over the 2 years we offer a comprehensive and highly structured education for Oriental dancers, giving them the tools to grow as a dancer.

Each semester consists of 60 hours of classes over a 5 month period. Classes are held one weekend per month.
The first semester is the basic semester giving you the possibility to try out the education before committing to the full program.

The main teachers will be Maizena, Beata & Horacio Cifuentes. In addition guest teachers with special knowledge of a certain style/topic will teach during the semesters.

Main guest teachers:

  • Nadine Bernhard
  • Yasmina of Cairo
  • Patricia Zarnovican
  • Laura Zaray

Topics

Dates 1st semester

Each semester consist of 60 hours of teaching over a 5 month period. 

In general you will meet up one weekend per month (Saturday and Sunday), except for the fifth and last weekend, where Friday is included as well.

The dates for 1st semester are:

  • 18/19 January 2025
  • 8/9 February 2025
  • 15/16 March 2025
  • 12/13 April 2025
  • 9/10/11 May 2025

Saturdays 12.00 to 19.00
Sundays 10.00 to 17.00
Friday 9 May 12.00 to 19.00

 

 

Prices

Registration before December 1, 2024 – total 1.200 € / DKK 8.950

Registration after December 1, 2024 – total 1.250 € / DKK 9.320

A nun-refundable deposit of 50 € / DKK 370 is due with the registration.

 

Payment by transfer no later than Jan 13, 2025.

Examen fee 75 € / DKK 560 by transfer until May 4, 2025.

 

Delayed payment costs an additional fee of 50 € / DKK 370.

Payment plan

Registration before December 1, 2024 – total 1.250 € / DKK 9.320

Registration after December 1, 2024 – total 1.300 € / DKK 9.700

A nun-refundable deposit of 50 € / DKK 370 is due with the registration.

1st installment 320 € / DKK 2.390 by transfer until January 13, 2025.
2nd installment 320 € / DKK 2.390 by transfer until February 3, 2025.
3rd installment 320 € / DKK 2.390 by transfer until March 3, 2025.
4th installment 290 or 340 € / DKK 2.160 or 2.530 (sign-up after 1.12.24) by transfer until April 7, 2025

Examen fee 75 €  / DKK 560 by transfer until May 4, 2025.

Any delayed payment costs an additional fee of 50 € / DKK 370.

Registration & Venue

To sign-up for the CADT just send an email to Maizena at maizenamavedans@hotmail.com If you have any questions, do not hesitate to write - we are happy to answer.

All classes are held at: Danmarks Mavedanserskole, Tæbyvej 9, 2610 Rødovre, Denmark.

Where to stay

These hotels are the closest to the studio and can be reached within 20 minutes by bus.
Bus 19 have stops close to all these hotels as well as to the studio and runs every 10 minutes.

Glostrup Park Hotel, Hovedvejen 41, 2600 Glostrup
https://www.parkhotel.dk

Scandic Brøndby, Roskildevej 550, 2605 Brøndby
https://www.scandichotels.dk/hoteller/danmark/kobenhavn/scandic-glostrup

A-Hotels, Vibeholms Allé 19-23, 2605 Brøndby
https://ahotels.dk

Dormitory at the studio
It will be possible to stay at the studio from Saturday to Sunday (and Friday on the last weekend of each semester).

Bring your own mattress/sleeping pad and sleeping bag, towels ect. You can make coffee and tea, but there is no possibility for breakfast. However, there are a couple of supermarkets and takeaways within walking distance.

Send en email to us, if you want to stay at the studio.

 

From CATT to CADT

The concept of CADT is based on the original CATT (a teachers program developed and taught by Beata & Horacio Cifuentes since 2008). Time changes – and for many dancers it makes more sense to enroll in a dancer rather than a teacher training. Therefor we did change the CATT format to CADT - Certified Academic Dancer Training.

Many of the subjects from the CATT program will also be part of the new format, and new topics will be added; tips for contests, current dance styles like Iraqi, costume design, developing your individual artistic expression and more.

Meet one of the creators of the CATT and now the CADT program:
HORACIO CIFUENTES.

Born in Cartagena, Colombia, Horacio Cifuentes started dancing at age five. He first studied Flamenco at the Academy of Maestro Realito in Seville, Spain. He followed with classical ballet in Poland, and later gained a scholarship to the prestigious American Ballet Theatre School in New York.

He eventually joined the San Francisco Ballet where he was featured as a soloist in various classical and contemporary ballets.

He discovered oriental dance at Magana Baptiste’s Royal Bellydancing Academy in San Francisco where he also studied yoga with the great master Walt Baptiste who awarded him the title of Practical Yoga Teacher for the Health. Together with his wife, Beata, Horacio travels the world performing and teaching and is considered to be one of the finest male bellydancers of today.

Meet one of the creators of the CATT and now the CADT program:
BEATA CIFUENTES.

Born in Berlin, Germany, Beata Cifuentes started dancing at the age of six. Already as a child she attended her weekly ballet lessons with great persistence. Her decision to interrupt medical studies as well as an intensive three-year course at Berlin’s Academy for Performing Arts led her to discovering oriental dance.

She was fascinated by Arabic music when she heard the legendary singer Um Kalthoum – this was the start of a life-long passion for oriental dancing. After serious research, studies and travels to the Middle East Beata Cifuentes founded the first-of-its-kind school for oriental dance in Berlin.

She currently co-directs the Dance Academy Cifuentes in Beelitz, performs and teaches internationally, and is an inspiration to dancers world-wide.