Supported by TANZPAKT, Tanztheater Erfurt has been making an important contribution to strengthening and establishing contemporary dance in Thuringia since 2018.
With the ‘Bewegungsraum.Erfurt’ (Movement Space Erfurt), a new centre for dance is now being created in the KulturQuartier Schauspielhaus, which ties in with the history of the location: from 1946 to 1949, the building housed Germany's first dance theatre. The renovated Schauspielhaus will become a multifunctional cultural venue where Tanztheater Erfurt will continuously produce, present and communicate dance at a professional level. A residency programme will lay the foundation for artistic innovation, research and supra-regional networking. In cooperation with the University of Erfurt, an exchange format for young dance and performance students is being established, enabling practical work with experienced lecturers. In addition, the successful cooperation with the Theater Erfurt will be continued: the plan is to develop and realise one joint production per year, in which both institutions will contribute equally to interdisciplinary impulses and test new audience formats.
The institutional partnerships between Tanztheater Erfurt - TanzWert, the German National Theatre Weimar and the Theatre Erfurt have made a decisive contribution to the visibility, public success and profile of contemporary dance in Thuringia during the first funding periods of TANZPAKT. Under the artistic direction of Ester Ambrosino, contemporary dance theatre works such as ‘Reprise’, ‘Face Me – Le Sacre du printemps’, ‘Dante Alighieri – Die Göttliche Komödie’ and ‘Follow Me’ were created