Over the duration of TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund, the federal dance association Germany will organize regional information events and conduct them together with Bureau Ritter. The funding program TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund supports established artists and ensembles with an international reputation as well as excellent projects and production structures, and develops new initiatives of nationwide significance that strengthen the art form of dance. Both for the emergence of substantial projects and for improved long-term funding, the cultural-political and structural strengthening of dance at the municipal and state level is crucial. A key component of the program is therefore to encourage municipalities and federal states to make a sustained commitment through ongoing dialog.

The Stadt-Land-Bund initiative is a unique working process in cultural policy, in which public funding agencies from municipalities, states and the federal government have entered into an intensive exchange in order to develop a nationwide model of dance funding together with representatives of the dance scene.
Since spring 2013, the initiative group has been a working group that brings together the heads of departments from state ministries, municipalities and the federal government, as well as other funding bodies and experts from the dance scene. The Dance Promotion Initiative Group, which was founded by the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, originally consisted of the following members: Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, DIEHL+RITTER gUG (now Bureau Ritter gUG), K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie Hamburg, Tanzbüro Berlin and TanzSzene Baden-Württemberg.

The project meeting on 20 May at the TanzFaktur in Cologne started with a workshop on “Sustainable communication in projects” with organisational developer Christina Barandun, who addressed questions and concerns and presented various models of communication. In the second part of the day, Michael Freundt, Managing Director of Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, presented a cooperative concept for dance promotion. In the discussion in various local working groups, needs were clarified, ways and perspectives were shown on how dance can develop further and what funding instruments are needed for this. A short video of the meeting under the motto “TANZPAKT creates change” is available here. To the protocol

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On 17 February 2022, the digital project and co-sponsors' meeting of the projects funded by TANZPAKT in the new 3rd funding round and the projects that continue to be funded in the 1st and 2nd funding rounds took place.

After a short welcome and introduction round, there was an exchange in individual break-out rooms about how and what has changed in the individual projects in the last few months through TANZPAKT and what new impulses have been set. In the exchange with the projects and co-sponsors, it was also possible to tie in with the last project meeting in December 2021 and share the results and learnings there. In addition, the individual co-sponsors were able to exchange ideas and take stock in the last part of the meeting.

You can find the protocols HERE and HERE

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On 13 December 2021, the digital project meeting of the projects funded by TANZPAKT in the 1st and 2nd funding rounds took place.

After a short round of welcoming and introductions, the meeting took stock of how and what had changed in the individual projects and what had been set in motion. Afterwards, the projects had the opportunity to engage in a deeper exchange in break-out rooms, the results of which were later shared in the large round. More information HERE

You can look into survey realized during the meeting HERE

On 6May and 3 and 17 June we provided information about the promotion programme, the funding areas and the application procedure. Eight projects from the first and second round shared their experiences and provided information for applicants in thethird funding round. Questions discussed were for example: How can the complex requirements of the match-funding programme be met? How have pandemic-related challenges been overcome? How were solutions to problems found? Which aspects of the collaboration between administrations, politics and the partners involved served to offer guidance – for the long term, structurally, and for the short term, with regard to Covid-19? How did projects collaborate with the local political world? What has TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund effected to date? To what extent is a continuation of funding relevant for the development, consolidation and visibility of dance and creative dance artists in Germany? Many thanks to all the participants!