MAI:COMPANY, led by Hamburg-based choreographer Patricia Carolin Mai, is a model project at the intersection of artistic practice, education, and safe space. As an intergenerational and diverse dance company, it brings together people without professional dance experience and uses choreographic processes as a tool for communication, knowledge exchange, and collective experience. Situated between dance and cultural education, it creates stage productions and open labs that address social issues and forms of collective action. The aim is to establish an open, anchored company and to create a space for artistically and socially motivated interaction. MAI:COMPANY stands for an expanded concept of a company and sees itself as a place of mutual exchange, in which over 100 participants do not primarily form an ensemble, but are part of an ongoing laboratory for group processes and democratic practices. The TANZPAKT grant is intended to enable sustainable consolidation and new collaborations at the local and national level.