The funding programme for promoting excellence in dance is aimed at established artists, ensembles and production structures with international appeal throughout Germany. The programme also addresses institutions that develop nationally outstanding and innovative development concepts. The aim is to realise pioneering projects that contribute to the artistic and structural development and profiling of dance as an art form in Germany.
Applications can be submitted for projects in the following subject areas; a combination of the sub-areas T1, T2 and T3 is desirable. Please note that there may only be one applicant per project.
T1 Excellence funding for the development of outstanding ensembles, artist co-operatives and individual artists with an international reputation
Goal: Strengthening artistic quality
Outstanding artists and ensembles are given the opportunity to increase the quality of their work through planning security. Funding is provided for the expansion of the artistic spectrum as well as the development of new and/or the expansion of existing fields of activity (e.g. audience development, education projects, artistic research, further education) in order to raise the profile of dance as an independent art form.
Independent ensembles, collectives and artistic teams, individual artists with a continuous national and international presence as well as the ensembles of municipal and state theatres are eligible to apply.
T2 Excellence funding for nationally / internationally active production structures and venues
Goal: Strengthening and expanding framework conditions
High-profile nationally and internationally active and networked production structures and venues for dance are enabled to further develop their excellence in specific fields of dance work. It also supports the development of new fields of work (e.g. funding for the establishment of management structures for artists, artistic research, the mid-career sector or the production conditions of internationally established artists) that are groundbreaking for the development of dance as a whole.
Production venues, choreographic centres, performance venues, theatres, municipal and state theatres, producing festivals, production platforms, production offices and initiatives for the development of newly emerging infrastructure and production structures for dance with proven continuity and national/international visibility in the production and presentation of artistic projects are eligible to apply.
T3 Excellence funding for the development and realisation of cooperative dance development concepts
Goal: Strengthening and expanding sustainable synergy effects
Actors and structures in the dance scene - from training, ensembles and venues to education, academia and cultural administrations - are given the opportunity to contribute their respective expertise to pioneering collaborations that lead to excellence. The alliances formed in this way contribute to significantly strengthening the potential of the partners and of dance as a whole. Urban, regional and nationwide collaborations are to be funded. Projects that enable visibility and access to dance, even in regions that were previously remote from dance, are particularly welcome.
Alliances of production structures, institutions, municipal and state theatres, artists, other stakeholders and public sponsors are eligible to apply.