Cert in Commercial Dance at George Brown College in Toronto, Canada is a certificate in Performing Arts programme. The programme runs for 3 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 29,000 per total (CAD 7,751 per total for local students).
Delivered in partnership with Jorgen Dance, the certificate trains dancers as well-rounded, industry-ready performers, often described as triple-threat artists. The programme is built around developing the range of performance abilities expected of a working commercial dancer.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission is competitive on academic achievement and requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent plus Grade 12 English (C or U); applicants must also submit a video audition through the Jörgen Dance auditions page and show a minimum of five years of jazz-dance training, with training in additional dance forms an asset. Applicants 19 or older with no OSSD may apply as mature students and sit the George Brown Admissions Assessment in English or complete the equivalent upgrading credit. This programme page does not restate a language-test table, but George Brown's institution-wide English Proficiency requirement applies to applicants whose prior study was not in English: IELTS Academic 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 per band), TOEFL iBT 80 (minimum 20 per skill), PTE Academic 54 (minimum 50 per skill), CAEL 60 overall, or Duolingo 110 (minimum 90 production).
Application Details
Start Date:Intakes: September (Fall). In the published 2026-27 cycle, Fall 2026 classes begin 8 September 2026.
Application Deadline:No program-specific application deadline is published; George Brown follows the standard Ontario college cycle. DOMESTIC applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca: for programs starting in Fall 2027 the application opens on 26 September 2026, colleges may release offers from 1 November 2026, the equal consideration date is 1 February 2027 (applications completed by that date are ranked together, and later ones are then handled first-come, first-served while seats remain), and an offer for a September start must be accepted by 1 May 2027, with the tuition deposit due in June 2027. INTERNATIONAL applicants have no fixed deadline: they apply directly to George Brown and are assessed selectively on a rolling basis until the intake is full, so a program can close early. In the 2026-27 cycle George Brown opened the September 2026 intake on 6 October 2025, January 2027 on 2 February 2026 and May 2027 on 1 June 2026.
