Throughout TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund, the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland will be organising both national and regional information events and running them jointly with Bureau Ritter.
Linked to the symposium ‘VIELFÄLTIGER OSTEN’ of the MITTE:OST association in Olbernhau, the specialist event ‘Embodied experiences of power(lessness)’ will take place on 3 June as part of the cultural-political dialogue of TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund. In a 90-minute workshop, Constanze Schulte and the participants will explore the question of how marginalising experiences and verbal and physical assaults manifest themselves in the body. The potential of dance is used to initiate a way of dealing with this. Because where bodies meet in movement, embodied social (power) structures and individual experiences come together.
Constanze Schulte is a freelance cultural practitioner specialising in dance, movement and the body. She also teaches cultural education, critical diversity and dance at the HS Niederrhein and the Ruhr University Bochum. She has also completed further training in the field of anti-discriminatory and trauma-sensitive work. She has been a member of the DTD Ethics Commission since 2024.
All participants are welcome to attend this lively workshop - with or without previous dance experience.
In addition to the workshop, there will be other all-day networking and discussion events on site as part of the conference. Key challenges for art and culture in times of political polarisation will be discussed: What are the legal boundaries for artistic positioning? How can creative means be utilised?
In the first part of the ZWISCHENSCHRITT Conference on 7 April 2025, the MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN TANZT AN team will take stock of the artistic work of recent years and develop perspectives for the future of dance in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern beyond the TANZPAKT funding. The focus will be on the community-building and solidarity-creating potential of dance for society.
In the second part of the event, impulses, working groups and roundtables under the motto Forging alliances will address the following questions: How can dance scenes strengthen themselves in view of the fact that the boundaries of what can be said have shifted far to the right and many dance professionals often find themselves alone with their work - especially in rural regions? How can individual and collective resilience be built?
A detailed programme of the symposium will follow shortly.
Click HERE to register.
An event organised by MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN TANZT AN in cooperation with the Fachstelle Tanz Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Funded by the Ministry of Science, Culture, Federal and European Affairs of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The first part takes place in cooperation with the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland as part of the cultural-political dialogue of TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund.
In cooperation with the state capital of Hanover and the Real Dance Festival, the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland hosted the network meeting ‘Hannover tanzt nach vorn’ on 1 February as part of the Real Dance Festival. The meeting withmore than 40 dance professionals served as the kick-off for a four-part series of events as part of the development of a dance strategy for the state capital of Lower Saxony. This was followed by a preview of the new application rounds for TANZPAKT funding.
Freelance dancers and choreographers from the contemporary dance scene in Saxony-Anhalt, together with the Dachverband Tanz and the Landeszentrum Freies Theater Sachsen-Anhalt e. V . (LanZe), invited participants to a joint conference with the aim of creating prospects for future collaboration, networking, further training and support.
The meeting in the Forum Gestaltung started with a round of presentations in the format ‘5 short minutes’, in which a total of 12 dancers and choreographers introduced themselves with videos and images. This was followed by table discussions with the producers and cultural managers Marie Meier and Susanne Ogan, Nicole Tröger from WUK Theater Quartier and Marie Schultze from Magdeburg Theatre on the topics of production, networking and collaboration between established structures and the independent scene, and the final joint discussion focused on how dance in Saxony-Anhalt can network better.
As part of the concept development for a production and performance venue for dance and the performing arts in Saarland, a small conference will be held in Saarbrücken on 18 September. The aim is to find out about as many different models as possible and to discuss their applicability to Saarland. With impulses from Johanna Roggan, Villa Wigman (Dresden); Sascha Koal, Felina Areal Theatre (Mannheim); Andreas Lübbers, Wiese eG (Hamburg); Slava Gepner, TanzFaktur (Cologne) and Ralf Ollertz, Halle Tanzbühne (Berlin). The event is being organised in close cooperation with the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Tanz (LAG Tanz) and in exchange with the Netzwerk Freie Szene Saar. Registration here.
We increasingly encounter right-wing and discriminatory statements unexpectedly in professional or everyday situations - on stage, in a taxi to a rehearsal or in public spaces. Do I always have to discuss? What options do I have for positioning myself? Together with the 18 participants, we explored the question of what options for action are available in such situations, how right-wing argumentation patterns are structured and how our own dialogue strategies can be used. The aim was and is to strengthen your own stance and be able to defend it confidently.
Back in 2020, the German Dance Association organised a Meeting of fudned projects of Tanzland and TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund, on the question of how artists can take a stand against right-wing influences, what role culture plays in right-wing structures and how cultural institutions can defend themselves against racism, nationalism and anti-Semitism.
Dance in particular focuses on the human body. National, ethnic, religious and cultural attributions are often attached to the body without reflection. As an artistic medium, dance in its many forms can shake up attributions so that each individual is seen as a human being. However, this often requires verbal argumentation in order to counter racism and anti-Semitic agitation.
The day was moderated by Gegenargument.
A joint event by the DIS-TANZEN programme and the cultural policy dialogue of TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
The 33 participants of the symposium – local and national independent artists, curators, organisers, jury members, directors and all interested parties – were invited to discuss and question practices of curation and selection processes. The event began with a short panel of guests who offered an insight into their role and approach to curating in their respective contexts. In small groups, artists and curators then engaged in a direct, topic-related exchange, which was perceived as very beneficial by all sides. Among other things, they discussed how the barriers for dancers outside the major dance centres can be removed and what is needed to give them more access. The format also helped to make the activities and commitment of the local dance scene visible.
A cooperation between Tanznetz Freiburg and the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland as part of the TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund cultural policy dialogue.
Further information here.
Following the first network meeting in January, a second symposium took place on 12 September: 23 dancers, choreographers, dance dramaturges, funding agencies and heads of cultural authorities from Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg were invited to exchange ideas and network at local and national level. In a participatory format, participants went in search of the most urgent challenges, potentials and needs of dance in rural areas. With the dancers and choreographers Edan Gorlicki (Inter-Actions) and Crystal Schüttler (Zeit Tanz Land e. V.), various working groups dealt with topics such as professional dance in urban and rural areas and communication with the audience. Click here for the minutes
As part of the cultural policy dialogue of TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund, the first network meeting Tanzkomplizen SÜW took place on 19 January 2023 at Gloria Kulturpalast in Landau to discuss the future of dance in Rhineland-Palatinate: 22 dance enthusiasts, dancers, choreographers and artists met with the cultural offices of Landau and Neustadt as well as the cultural advisory service of Rhineland-Palatinate for a stimulating exchange. Click here for the minutes.
Furthermore, there is a public padlet for further work entitled “What has happened so far ”. Here, collaborations and concrete implementations are to be documented on a timeline. Everything that happens in the network in terms of dance can be posted here.
This online excursion offers the opportunity to deal more intensively with the topic of financial management and accounting systems. This is a major challenge for newly established medium-sized structures and ensembles, especially when they receive funding from different sources that are interlinked. The first thing is to ask questions, to see who is using which systems and software, and whether there are best practice examples. The exchange will be moderated by Béla Bisom from transmissions. If you are interested, please contact: n.stillfried@dachverband-tanz.de.
The German Dance Association (Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, abbreviation DTD) has been working since 2006 to unite a strong voice for dance and to communicate the important issues of dance to both politicians and dance practitioners. For this reason, a series of symposiums are held within the framework of the funding programme TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund. At the invitation of the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Tanz Saarland e. V. (LAG Tanz), a meeting of the dance scene took place in Saarbrücken on 5 September in preparation for the professional day. Protocol (in German).
The regional administration, co-sponsors, representatives of cultural policy and of various venues were invited to the expert meeting on 19 October, which was planned as part of the Freistil Festival‘s city laboratory at Völklinger Hütte in cooperation with the Netzwerk Freie Szene Saar, in order to emphasise the urgency of a production venue for all divisions and the support of the administration and politicians, and to enter into dialogue with each other.
The two players LAG Tanz and Netzwerk Freie Szene Saar asked their members about their needs and developed the concepts “Saarland wird Tanzland” and “Kunst sucht Platz!”. The German Dance Association is pleased to have been able to support this process.
On 5 July, the first expert meeting for the independent dance scene in Hanover took place in the Lister Turm in cooperation with Tanzpunkt Hannover. In this context, the initiative Tanzkonzeption presented the “Dance Development Concept Hanover” developed together with actors from the Hanoverian dance scene and presented it for discussion to around 40 participants from the dance scene, cultural administration and politics.
The Dachverband Tanz Deutschland (DTD) organised a symposium on the topic of “Successful Cooperation” on 4 October 2021 from 12:00 to 15:30 at KuB Bad Oldesloe in cooperation with tanz.nord.
Dance professionals from Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein as well as networks in the field of dance & performing arts were given the opportunity to exchange ideas and network effectively on a local and national level.
The Dachverband Tanz Deutschland (DTD) and the TanzNetzDresden (TNDD) organised an expert meeting within the #TakeNote project WORKING COMMUNITIES entitled “Talking to Politicians” – Kick-off to a ROUND TABLE on the topic of network structures in the independent performing arts. Embedded in the Dancing About Festival of TANZPAKT Dresden, various networks in the field of dance & performing arts at local, supra-regional and international level were given the opportunity to exchange ideas and network effectively. This also included strengthening their own effectiveness on a political level and entering into dialogue with cultural politicians.
With Simone Barrientos, member of the German Bundestag and cultural policy spokesperson for the Left Party, Annekatrin Klepsch, second mayor of Dresden and councillor for culture and tourism, and Christiane Filius-Jehne, leader of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary group, spokesperson for culture and tourism, etc. Dr Elisabeth Nehring moderated the event.
The German Dance ASSOCIATION, TANZPAKT Dresden, LOFFT THEATER Leipzig and Aktion Tanz/AG Mixed Abled invite you to the analog event at LOFFT THEATER in Leipzig. At the symposium, artists and experts will speak on the topic of inclusion. The program will focus on the offers and needs of the region of Saxony and how the cooperation between dance mediators, choreographers and the mixed abled community can be improved for dance. In moderated small groups it will be worked out how the mixed abled community can be more enthusiastic about dance and how institutional structures can be improved. Accompanying the symposium, consultations on the funding program TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund will be offered.
Mixed Abled Dance offers a platform on which dancers and dance professionals can develop new artistic potentials and approaches together. Working together opens up horizons for those involved; in dialogue, all the preconditions that prevent equality can be recognized and abolished. The lived togetherness in dance can thus, starting from the small space, have a positive influence on the construction of a lived equality in the whole society.
