NSCD is an international centre of excellence offering specialist, conservatoire-level contemporary dance training as a School of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama in Leeds.
For over 30 years the school has been delivering specialist conservatoire-level training to the most talented and committed students locally, nationally and internationally.
Our Learning & Participation team provides a number of opportunities from classes and courses including our CAT programme to bespoke programmes for schools, community groups and artists Professional Development.
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Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) was founded in 1985 as the first conservatoire dance school within the public sector.
NSCD occupies an architecturally unique site incorporating a Grade II listed former Synagogue; a sympathetic mixture of old and new, at the heart of which is Riley Theatre.
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NSCD is one of eight Schools that work together through a shared consultative and decision-making structure under the auspices of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama (CDD)
Northern School of Contemporary Dance works with a wide range of local, national and international partners and collaborators.