Tanzplan Quarterly Review
2nd quarter 2010
April
Advanced training / Hamburg
With Milli Bitterli (Vienna): Zeitgenössische Körperarbeit (contemporary body work) from 12th to 15th of April; with Renate Graziadei (Berlin): Zeitgenössisches Tanztraining (contemporary dance training) from 19th to 22nd of April and with Jan Burkhadt (Hamburg): Anatomie und zeitgenössischer Tanz (Anatomy and contemporary dance) from 26th to 29th April.
April
Advanced training / Frankfurt
From 12. to 16.4. with Iris Tenge (D), 19. to 23.4. with Regina Baumgart (D) – Cunningham-Klasse. 26. and 27.4. with Youn Hui Jeon (KR) and 28. to 30.4. with Gregory Livingston (USA).
April
Result of applications / Dresden
Vera Ondrasikova (Prague), Gregory Edelein (Brussels) and Hanna Hegenscheidt (Berlin) are the young choreographers receiving a two-week grant during the muse_10 Summer Workshop, giving them the opportunity to work in their own studio at the Palucca Schule, supported by a mentor and a sound/lighting technician.
ab April
Choreographers’ residency 2010 / Hamburg
As part of the K3 residency programme | Tanzplan Hamburg Margret Bjarnadottir (Iceland), Lea Martini (Amsterdam / Berlin) and Sebastian Matthias (Berlin) have been granted an eight-month residency at K3 for 2010. Paulina Pomana (Hamburg), graduate of the Performance Studies programme at the University of Hamburg, has also been awarded an additional four-month funded residency and will present a project during the DanceKiosk Festival in July 2010.
1st of April
Deadline for registration / Frankfurt
The "Choreography and Performance" MA study programme is designed for students interested in scientific research in the area of dance and performance, who in their previous studies and artistic careers have worked intensively in the areas of dance, the body, movement, choreography and Performance, and whose artistic works already qualify them for this programme.
1st to 15th of April
Current grant recipients / Potsdam
Gaëtan Bulourde (BE), in “Already Made”: a performance artist living in Brussels, he is working together with Valérie Castan (Paris) and Werner Hirsch (Berlin) on a new production exploring the idea of the “ready made” in the sense that Marcel Duchamps used the phrase. The work premieres in June 2010 in Lille/F.
9th of April
Dance outreach: talkART Tanzlabor_21 / Frankfurt
Audience discussion with Colin Dunne (IRL) after the performance of "Out of Time".
10th of April
Take-off Youngsters in the NRW Easter holidays / Düsseldorf
The Junge Ensemble at the tanzhaus nrw (JET) and 30 young people, working under the direction of Guido Markowitz, show their new works. JET presents extracts from the piece “Finale” by Henri Oguike. The new piece, “Kraftwerk”, was developed by 30 youngsters under the direction of Guido Markowitz and Damian Gmür.
10th, 23rd, 25th and 26th of April
“Die Farben des Feuers” for children 2 and over / Düsseldorf
After multi award-winning performances of DAS MOND-EI and MEINS!, the Junges Schauspielhaus presents its third work for littlies – this time by Roberto Frabetti, shown in the Junges Schauspielhaus.
Until 11th of April
Current grant recipients / Potsdam
Anat Eisenberg (ISR) & Mirko Winkel (D), “Stages and Capacities“.
12th of April to 7th of May
Current grant recipients / Potsdam
Lindy Annis (USA/D), “The Iconography of Body Gestures”. Annis continues the research she began in March into the “Ikonographie von Körpergesten” (The iconography of physical gestures) in April.
12th of April
Max faltet um / HZT Berlin
For the Choreography pilot study programme’s penultimate ‘Max’ event, Rosalind Crisp, Kai Simon Stöger and Claudia Garbe invite the public to dance and discuss with them.
13th of April
Colloquium / Hamburg
Reinventing Futures – Performance Studies Colloquium. The University of Hamburg’s Performance Studies Colloquium will be held on two evenings at K3 and is open to anyone interested. For these two events, Bojana Kunst invited Igor Stromajer and Goran Sergej Pristas, to talk about the relationship between choreography and the future. 13th of April Igor Stromajer (Ljubljana) and on the 1st of June with Goran Sergej Pristas (Zagreb).
14th and 15th of April
Students from the Choreography masters programme / HZT Berlin
Shang-Chi Sun "4.48".
15th of April
Deadline for applications for co-production funding NPN-Tanz / Tanzplan Deutschland
Tanzplan Deutschland has provided a total of € 900,000 to fund co-productions through the National Performance Network (NPN) from 2005 to 2009. Due to the great success of this project, the Federal Cultural Foundation has decided to extend funding for another year, providing another € 200,000 for 2010.
15th and 16th of April
Workshop - Dance as cultural heritage / Tanzplan Deutschland
Copyright as user rights? Tanzplan Deutschland, in cooperation with and in the Akademie der Künste Berlin, invites interested parties to a workshop on the topic of “Urheberrecht an Tanzwerken im digitalen Raum” (“Copyright on dance works in digital space”). Organised and moderated by Dr. Franz Anton Cramer, Marguerite Joly and Madeline Ritter.
16th of April
Advanced training day “Tanzprojekte in Schulen” (Dance projects in schools)/ Munich
Andrea Marton presents a public demonstration class with an Augsburg primary school class, showing the “Tanz und Schule” (Dance and schools) concept (Access to Dance - Tanzplan München).
17th of April
Dance outreach: talkART Tanzlabor_21 / Frankfurt
Audience discussion with VA Wölfl / Neuer Tanz (new dance)(D) after the performance of "Neues Stück" (new piece).
20th of April
Lecture series / Frankfurt
Recherchen10: Behauptungen (Statements) with Marcus Steinweg (D) about the Definition der Freiheit (Definition of freedom) in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
23rd and 24th of April
Moving Heads – Choreografie im Gespäch / Hamburg
Standpunkt: Kollaboration (Standpoint: Collaboration). Workshop - Conference. Lectures by Bojana Kunst, Martina Rusham and Gabriele Wittmann, workshops by Janez Jansa and deufert plischke, performances by Samo Gosaric and Performance Studies students / University of Hamburg, who present a show of their works with guest arts professor Jonathan Burrows (Brussels | London).
27th of April
Lecture series / Frankfurt
Recherchen10: Behauptungen (Statements) with Christoph Menke (D) about the Philosophie der Menschenrechte (Philosophy of human rights) in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
May
Dance project funding website updated / Tanzplan Deutschland.
The website, initiated by Tanzplan Deutschland as a service to provide addresses and information on funding for professional dance projects in Germany (research, residencies, grants for further and advanced training, work and overseas trips, project funding, basic, conception und guest performance funding, competitions / prizes, research) has been updated and expanded to include new application opportunities (e.g. supra-regional funding, the Tabori Prize, BW, basic and touring funding).
May
Advanced training / Hamburg
With Glen Curtis (Berlin): Ballett für zeitgenössische Tänzer (Ballet for contemporary dancers), from 3rd to 6th of May // with FINGERSIX (HH, B, GR, CH, E, I, RA, USA): FINGERSIX Workshop – Feed the beast from 10th to 12th and 17th to 20th of May // with Angie Müller (Amsterdam): Counter technique from 25th to 27th of May and from 31st of May to 3rd of June.
May
Advanced training / Frankfurt
With Evelin Stadler (D/IT) from 3.-7.5., with Kristina Veit (D) from 10.-12.5., with Mary Overlie (USA) from 17.-21.5. and with Allison Brown (CA) on 28. and 31.5.
2nd of May
Deadline for applications / Essen
..to participate in the 4th Symposium für Lernaktivisten (EXPLORATIONEN 10: 9th to 13th of June 2010 in Essen. EXPLORATIONEN illuminates and investigates formats of transmission in practice and theory. All interested people, experts and the curious are invited to actively examine the topic of learning in artistic contexts, to interrogate it and to provide inspiration with the knowledge they bring to it with their own experience. This year’s edition is devoted particularly to “not-knowing” and the hidden in learning processes.
3rd to 9th of May
Current residency grants / Postdam
Anat Eisenberg & Mirko Winkel (ISR/D)
3rd of May
Max nimmt die Kurve / Berlin
An encounter between Johannes Schmit, Marina Tenorio and Jana Unmüßig. The “Max” series of events is planned and organised by the students from the Choreography masters programme (MAC), who discuss the question of “What is choreography?” from various perspectives and in different formats.
3rd of May
Programme for grant recipients / Bremen
As part of the 8th Norddeutsches Tanztreffen, there is a special offer for young graduates who have completed training to become professional dancers. During the Norddeutsches Tanztreffen, six grant recipients take part in the ballet company’s daily training with Peter Appel and be coached in various workshops on application procedures / auditioning.
7th of May
Dance outreach talkART Tanzlabor_21 / Frankfurt
Audience discussion with Crystal Pite (CA) after the performance of “Dark Matters” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
7th to 9th of May
Entrance examination for the M.A. Tanzkultur V.I.E.W. / Tanzplan Educational Programme
The entrance examination for the M.A. Tanzkultur V.I.E.W. for students beginning in the WS 2010/2011 is held at the Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln (German Sport University Cologne). The M.A. Tanzkultur V.I.E.W. can be studied as a Masters of advanced studies as well as by professionals currently working in this area.
7th and 8th of May
4. Choreography Conference in Cologne / Tanzplan Educational Programme
The 4th Choreography Conference on "Choreography and Institution“, funded by Tanzplan Deutschland, is held at the Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (Department of Contemporary Dance, Cologne University of Music). Concept/planning, Prof. Dr. Yvonne Hardt, organisation, Dr. Friederike Lampert.
9th to 11th of May
Performance / Düsseldorf
“ZauberEi” by Stephanie Thiersch/MOUVOIR. Dance theatre ranging from the comic to the mythic for an audience aged 5 and over in the tanzhaus nrw.
11th of May
Lecture / Frankfurt
Recherchen10: Behauptungen (Statements) with Zufit Simon (D), “Adom Modulations” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
11th of May
Moving Heads / Hamburg
Choreographie im Gespäch: Robert Steijn (Amsterdam | Vienna) in dicussion with Irmela Kästner (Hamburg). Das Prinzip Gastfreundschaft im zeitgenössischen Tanz (The principle of hospitality in contemporary dance).
14th of May
Dance outreach talkART Tanzlabor_21 / Frankfurt
Audience discussion with Anouk van Dijk (NL) after the performance of “wowwowwonders in me” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
17th of May
Deadline for applications for DAAD grants / Dresden
The Palucca Schule and Tanzplan Dresden in cooperation with the DAAD and the German Federal Foreign Office offer five grants for the Summer Workshop 2010 to non-German students studying dance at universities outside Germany.
17th to 21st of May
Workshop / Potsdam
With Diego Gil (AR/NL), Bewegungsrecherche (movement research) – Singulär-Plural.
20th of May
Dance outreach talkART Tanzlabor_21 / Frankfurt
Audience discussion with P.A.R.T.S. (BE) after the performance of “New works / Triple Bill” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
21st of May
Dance outreach talkART Tanzlabor_21 / Frankfurt
Audience discussion with Grace Ellen Barkey & Needcompany (BE) after the performance of “This door is too small (for a bear)” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
22nd of May
Lecture / Frankfurt
Recherchen10: Behauptungen (Statements) with Alexander Karschnia & Co. feat club collage: “dass das da” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Studiobühne.
23rd of May
Dance project with young dancers aged 12 to 19 / Potsdam
This dance project, which Odile Seitz & Frédéric Gies, DANCE (Praticable) developed with young dancers, will premiere during the 20th Potsdamer Tanztage.
26th of May to 13th of July
Current residency grants / Postdam
Dragana Bulut & Milka Djordjevich (RS/USA)
27th of May
Performance / Düsseldorf
“Himmelblau”, a music-dance piece for littlies aged from 0 to 2, by Barbara Fuchs, Karolina Rüegg and Tobias Liebezeit, in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf.
29th of May
Dance outreach talkART Tanzlabor_21 / Frankfurt
Audience discussion with ZuKT students after the performance of “ZuKT moves” Rekonstruktion / Innovation / Realisation (Reconstruction / Innovation / Execution) in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
30th of May
Productions / Hamburg
The results of the work of the choreographic workshop “Sterbende Schwäne” (Dying swans) with Doris Uhlich are shown in the special edition of Probebühne Eins, as is the school project developed by Donghee Nam and Antje Pfundtner with the music class 9 of the Emilie Wüstenfeldt Gymnasium as part of Reise 21.
31st of May
Deadline for applications for the residency programme / Hamburg
As part of its support programme for choreographers, K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie offers three residencies for choreographers at the beginning of their professional practice. Applicants should have already implemented their own projects. The residency covers the period from April to December 2011 and includes a production budget and a qualifying course programme, among other things. This call for applications is made subject to the further funding of K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg for 2011 by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
June
Advanced training / Frankfurt
With Allison Brown (CA) from 31.5. to 2.6., with Jean Renshaw (UK) from 7th to 11th of June, with Imre Thormann (CH) from 14th to 18th of June, with Berit Jenztsch (D) from 21st to 25th of June and with Nira Priore Nouak (BR) from 28th of June to 2nd of July.
June
Advanced training / Hamburg
With Philipp Fricke (Amsterdam): Counter technique, 31st of May to 3rd of June // Antje Pfundner (Hamburg): If you can`t fix it – feature it, 7th to 10th of June // Gitta Barthel (Hamburg): Intelligente Körper (Intelligent bodies)| Zeitgenössische Tanztechnik (contemporary dance technique), 14th to 17th of June and with Sweet & Tender Collaborations: Mixed Contemporary from 21st of June to 8th of July.
June
Current residency grants / Potsdam
Dragana Bulut & Milka Djordjevich (RS/USA).
1st of June
Lecture Performance / Frankfurt
With Jeff Friedmann (USA): “The Eros of Oral History” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Probebühne.
1st of June
Moving heads / Hamburg
Choreographie im Gespräch: Performance Studies programme - colloquium at the University of Hamburg with Bojana Kunst and Samo Gosaric (Ljubljana).
1st of June
Premiere Tanz in Schulen (Dance in Schools) / Frankfurt
13 pupils from the final year class at the Viktoriaschule Darmstadt have developed a dance theatre piece together with their teachers Irene Schmidtmer and Sophie Trautmann, supported by choreographer Wiebke Dröge. “Hochgradig verwirrt” is a piece about goals, future prospects, entanglements and the quirks of youthful energy: “hochgradig verwirrt” (greatly confused).
1st of June
Premiere - Tanz in Schulen (Dance in schools) / Frankfurt
Herderboys: “Vertrauen” (trust). A dancer, a dramaturge and a teacher have been working at the IGS Herder in Frankfurt with the group that is most difficult to attract to dance: boys. Since February, they have been discussing, improvising and dancing on the topics of trust, self-confidence, confidence, mistrust and the breach of trust in weekly meetings. With Hannah Dewor, Johanna Milz, Christian Dirksen and the Herderboys from the IGS Herder... held during the TUSCHpektakel in the Schultheater Studio, Frankfurt-Nordweststadt.
1st of June
Colloquium / Hamburg
Reinventing Futures – Performance Studies Colloquium. The University of Hamburg’s Performance Studies Colloquium will be held on two evenings at K3 and is open to anyone interested. Bojana Kunst invited Igor Stromajer and Goran Sergej Pristas, to talk about the relationship between choreography and the future for these two events,. 13th of April Igor Stromajer (Ljubljana) and on the 1st of June with Goran Sergej Pristas (Zagreb).
3rd to 5th of June
Presentation / Berlin
Anne-Mareike Hess - “Never-ending up north”. Choreography Masters students from the HZT show their graduate works in the Theatre national du Luxembourg.
4th of June
Dance outreach // talkART Tanzlabor_21 / Frankfurt
Audience discussion with CuP students (D) after the performance of “CuP Pieces 2010” (4 pieces of 20 to 30 mins.): JungYun Bae: “Tanzausstellung” // Uri Turkenich: “material movement” // Billy Bultheel: “Untitled” and Lucie Eidenbenz: “Neues Stück”, in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
4th to 6th of June
Presentation / Berlin
David Bloom, student from the Choreography Masters programme at the HZT, shows his graduate work “enemy” in the Olivin Wellness Lounge Sauna, Berlin.
5th and 6th of June
Workshop / Hamburg
Harriet Lesch (Berlin), Project Management. This workshop offers an introduction to the basics and standards of project management for independent dance and theatre productions and uses examples of specific cases to explain aspects ranging from contracts, insurance and legal issues (e.g. KSK and GEMA), budgeting and accounting through to organising guest performances.
8th of June
Lecture / Frankfurt
RECHERCHEN10: Behauptungen (Statements) with Tim Etchells (UK). “City Changes” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Studiobühne.
8th to 13th of June
LIME - Labor für choreografische Praxis und Theorie (Laboratory for choreographic practice and theory) / Bremen
In LIME, steptext offers dance project choreographers, dance theoreticians and Choreography and Performance Studies students a platform to exchange views and ideas on their own aesthetic practice and dramaturgic strategies in contemporary dance. Three high-profile director-duos open up spaces for interdisciplinary working processes in five-day laboratories, during which they provide insights into their specific artistic ways of working, methods and experiences. The laboratories are rounded off with a programme of events.
9th to 13th of June
Symposium / Essen
EXPLORATIONEN illuminates and investigates transmission formats in practice and theory. This year’s edition is especially dedicated to not-knowing and the hidden in learning processes. With Natascha Adamowsky, Blast Theory, Christopher Dell, feld72, Walburga Glatz, Kate McIntosh, PAK Praxis für Angewandte Kunst, Werner Reichmann, Ulrich Schötker, Boris Sieverts, Marcus Steinweg and Gesa Ziemer. Public programme with Bernhard Waldenfels, “Aufmerken auf das Fremde” and P.A.R.T.S. graduates, “On Release Now! Edition 2010”.
10th of June
Take:off / Düsseldorf
As part of Tanzplan Düsseldorf, eleven choreographers, dancers and dance educators work at ten schools, reaching a total of more than 700 children and teenagers through dance! The pupils present some extracts and results of this work during Take-off: Show-off in the tanzhaus nrw.
11th of June
Funding for young dance producers 2010 / Dresden
As part of Tanzplan Dresden‘s production funding programme, “Choreografen auf dem Sprung” (choreographers ready for action), Juraj Korec (Slovakia) and Leandro Kees (Argentina/Essen) each develop a production for Dresden’s semper kleine szene, in which the premieres of their new productions „h a b i t a t“ and “ANTROMORFIA” are also to be staged.
11th to 14th of June
Premiere / Düsseldorf
“kind.gerecht. – I change my world!” Dance theatre for audiences aged 8 and over by theater fayoum & Sabine Seume. Ensemble in the tanzhaus nrw.
12th, 13th and 16th of June
K3-Jugendklub / Hamburg
Händeln | Sport | Schwimmen. In June K3 presents a compilation of various K3-Jugendklub productions: a further development of the choreography “Händeln”, which Friederike Lampert developed with young people; a repeat performance of the production “Sport”, which Thomas Marek and Karolin Schäfer developed with youngsters at the beginning of the year, and the choreography “Schwimmen”, which Friederike Lampert developed and executed for the Deutsche Mastersmeisterschaften im Schwimmen (German Masters swimming competition).
13th of June
Cooperation / Munich
Working in cooperation with the Munich Chamber Orchestra under the direction of its conductor Alexander Liebreich, artists Christa Coogan and Andrea Marton developed a choreography set to music by John Adams with pupils of various ages from the Nymphenburger Gymnasium and several Munich primary schools.
13th to 19th of June
8th Norddeutsches Tanztreffen / Bremen
Six choreographies from urban companies from Braunschweig, Hanover, Osnabrück, Greifswald/Stralsund/Putbus, Kiel, Bremerhaven and Bremen give guest performances in Hanover. Helge Letonja (steptext dance project), Zufit Simon (artblau Tanzwerkstatt), Felix Landerer (COMMEDIA FUTURA), Wesley D’Alessandro, Hans Fredewß (Compagnie Fredeweß) and Gilles Welinski, all representatives of the independent dance scene, have been invited to participate. The area of children’s and youth dance is also represented with one performance by steptext young artists from Bremen, one by the Ballet, and one by the Staatsoper Hanover’s youth club.
16th to 20th of June
Festival Xtra Frei / Bremen
steptext dance project holds this festival for the fourth time in the Schwankhalle, held at the same time with and funded by the Norddeutsches Tanztreffen - Tanzplan Bremen. With productions from Felix Bürkle, Yui Kawaguchi, Renate Graziadei, Yossi Berg & Oded Graf, Mimi Jeong and Hanna Hegenscheidt.
22nd of June
Lecture / Frankfurt
RECHERCHEN10: Behauptungen (Statements) with Friederike Thielmann & Florian Ackermann (D) with a performance of “Gesänge der Landstraße” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Studiobühne.
25th and 26th of June
Presentation / Berlin
Claudia Garbe, a Choreography Masters programme student at the HZT, shows her graduate work, “zwischenzwei.fluss”, in the Cabuwazi circus tent in Kreuzberg in Berlin.
26th of June
Presentation / Berlin
Barbara Bess (MA Choreography at the HZT) “schwärmen” in 96264 Altenkunstad / Maineck.
26th of June to 17th of July
Treffen / Hamburg
Sweet and Tender Collaborations TREFFEN TOTAL. 20 artists, mainly choreographers and performance artists, but also visual artists, musicians, film-makers and theatre professionals from Hamburg and all over the world, work together for three weeks in Hamburg, opening their working processes to the public in regular events.
30th of June and 1st of July
Presentation / Berlin
Jana Unmüßig, Choreography Masters programme student at the HZT, working together with Hsuan Huang and Mirella Oestreicher, stage design students from the UdK Berlin, developed the choreography “Zausend.Hoch.”, which is to feature at the Monaco Dance Festival.
2nd quarter 2010
AprilAdvanced training / Hamburg
With Milli Bitterli (Vienna): Zeitgenössische Körperarbeit (contemporary body work) from 12th to 15th of April; with Renate Graziadei (Berlin): Zeitgenössisches Tanztraining (contemporary dance training) from 19th to 22nd of April and with Jan Burkhadt (Hamburg): Anatomie und zeitgenössischer Tanz (Anatomy and contemporary dance) from 26th to 29th April.
April
Advanced training / Frankfurt
From 12. to 16.4. with Iris Tenge (D), 19. to 23.4. with Regina Baumgart (D) – Cunningham-Klasse. 26. and 27.4. with Youn Hui Jeon (KR) and 28. to 30.4. with Gregory Livingston (USA).
April
Result of applications / Dresden
Vera Ondrasikova (Prague), Gregory Edelein (Brussels) and Hanna Hegenscheidt (Berlin) are the young choreographers receiving a two-week grant during the muse_10 Summer Workshop, giving them the opportunity to work in their own studio at the Palucca Schule, supported by a mentor and a sound/lighting technician.
ab April
Choreographers’ residency 2010 / Hamburg
As part of the K3 residency programme | Tanzplan Hamburg Margret Bjarnadottir (Iceland), Lea Martini (Amsterdam / Berlin) and Sebastian Matthias (Berlin) have been granted an eight-month residency at K3 for 2010. Paulina Pomana (Hamburg), graduate of the Performance Studies programme at the University of Hamburg, has also been awarded an additional four-month funded residency and will present a project during the DanceKiosk Festival in July 2010.
1st of April
Deadline for registration / Frankfurt
The "Choreography and Performance" MA study programme is designed for students interested in scientific research in the area of dance and performance, who in their previous studies and artistic careers have worked intensively in the areas of dance, the body, movement, choreography and Performance, and whose artistic works already qualify them for this programme.
1st to 15th of April
Current grant recipients / Potsdam
Gaëtan Bulourde (BE), in “Already Made”: a performance artist living in Brussels, he is working together with Valérie Castan (Paris) and Werner Hirsch (Berlin) on a new production exploring the idea of the “ready made” in the sense that Marcel Duchamps used the phrase. The work premieres in June 2010 in Lille/F.
9th of April
Dance outreach: talkART Tanzlabor_21 / Frankfurt
Audience discussion with Colin Dunne (IRL) after the performance of "Out of Time".
10th of April
Take-off Youngsters in the NRW Easter holidays / Düsseldorf
The Junge Ensemble at the tanzhaus nrw (JET) and 30 young people, working under the direction of Guido Markowitz, show their new works. JET presents extracts from the piece “Finale” by Henri Oguike. The new piece, “Kraftwerk”, was developed by 30 youngsters under the direction of Guido Markowitz and Damian Gmür.
10th, 23rd, 25th and 26th of April
“Die Farben des Feuers” for children 2 and over / Düsseldorf
After multi award-winning performances of DAS MOND-EI and MEINS!, the Junges Schauspielhaus presents its third work for littlies – this time by Roberto Frabetti, shown in the Junges Schauspielhaus.
Until 11th of April
Current grant recipients / Potsdam
Anat Eisenberg (ISR) & Mirko Winkel (D), “Stages and Capacities“.
12th of April to 7th of May
Current grant recipients / Potsdam
Lindy Annis (USA/D), “The Iconography of Body Gestures”. Annis continues the research she began in March into the “Ikonographie von Körpergesten” (The iconography of physical gestures) in April.
12th of April
Max faltet um / HZT Berlin
For the Choreography pilot study programme’s penultimate ‘Max’ event, Rosalind Crisp, Kai Simon Stöger and Claudia Garbe invite the public to dance and discuss with them.
13th of April
Colloquium / Hamburg
Reinventing Futures – Performance Studies Colloquium. The University of Hamburg’s Performance Studies Colloquium will be held on two evenings at K3 and is open to anyone interested. For these two events, Bojana Kunst invited Igor Stromajer and Goran Sergej Pristas, to talk about the relationship between choreography and the future. 13th of April Igor Stromajer (Ljubljana) and on the 1st of June with Goran Sergej Pristas (Zagreb).
14th and 15th of April
Students from the Choreography masters programme / HZT Berlin
Shang-Chi Sun "4.48".
15th of April
Deadline for applications for co-production funding NPN-Tanz / Tanzplan Deutschland
Tanzplan Deutschland has provided a total of € 900,000 to fund co-productions through the National Performance Network (NPN) from 2005 to 2009. Due to the great success of this project, the Federal Cultural Foundation has decided to extend funding for another year, providing another € 200,000 for 2010.
15th and 16th of April
Workshop - Dance as cultural heritage / Tanzplan Deutschland
Copyright as user rights? Tanzplan Deutschland, in cooperation with and in the Akademie der Künste Berlin, invites interested parties to a workshop on the topic of “Urheberrecht an Tanzwerken im digitalen Raum” (“Copyright on dance works in digital space”). Organised and moderated by Dr. Franz Anton Cramer, Marguerite Joly and Madeline Ritter.
16th of April
Advanced training day “Tanzprojekte in Schulen” (Dance projects in schools)/ Munich
Andrea Marton presents a public demonstration class with an Augsburg primary school class, showing the “Tanz und Schule” (Dance and schools) concept (Access to Dance - Tanzplan München).
17th of April
Dance outreach: talkART Tanzlabor_21 / Frankfurt
Audience discussion with VA Wölfl / Neuer Tanz (new dance)(D) after the performance of "Neues Stück" (new piece).
20th of April
Lecture series / Frankfurt
Recherchen10: Behauptungen (Statements) with Marcus Steinweg (D) about the Definition der Freiheit (Definition of freedom) in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
23rd and 24th of April
Moving Heads – Choreografie im Gespäch / Hamburg
Standpunkt: Kollaboration (Standpoint: Collaboration). Workshop - Conference. Lectures by Bojana Kunst, Martina Rusham and Gabriele Wittmann, workshops by Janez Jansa and deufert plischke, performances by Samo Gosaric and Performance Studies students / University of Hamburg, who present a show of their works with guest arts professor Jonathan Burrows (Brussels | London).
27th of April
Lecture series / Frankfurt
Recherchen10: Behauptungen (Statements) with Christoph Menke (D) about the Philosophie der Menschenrechte (Philosophy of human rights) in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
May
Dance project funding website updated / Tanzplan Deutschland.
The website, initiated by Tanzplan Deutschland as a service to provide addresses and information on funding for professional dance projects in Germany (research, residencies, grants for further and advanced training, work and overseas trips, project funding, basic, conception und guest performance funding, competitions / prizes, research) has been updated and expanded to include new application opportunities (e.g. supra-regional funding, the Tabori Prize, BW, basic and touring funding).
May
Advanced training / Hamburg
With Glen Curtis (Berlin): Ballett für zeitgenössische Tänzer (Ballet for contemporary dancers), from 3rd to 6th of May // with FINGERSIX (HH, B, GR, CH, E, I, RA, USA): FINGERSIX Workshop – Feed the beast from 10th to 12th and 17th to 20th of May // with Angie Müller (Amsterdam): Counter technique from 25th to 27th of May and from 31st of May to 3rd of June.
May
Advanced training / Frankfurt
With Evelin Stadler (D/IT) from 3.-7.5., with Kristina Veit (D) from 10.-12.5., with Mary Overlie (USA) from 17.-21.5. and with Allison Brown (CA) on 28. and 31.5.
2nd of May
Deadline for applications / Essen
..to participate in the 4th Symposium für Lernaktivisten (EXPLORATIONEN 10: 9th to 13th of June 2010 in Essen. EXPLORATIONEN illuminates and investigates formats of transmission in practice and theory. All interested people, experts and the curious are invited to actively examine the topic of learning in artistic contexts, to interrogate it and to provide inspiration with the knowledge they bring to it with their own experience. This year’s edition is devoted particularly to “not-knowing” and the hidden in learning processes.
3rd to 9th of May
Current residency grants / Postdam
Anat Eisenberg & Mirko Winkel (ISR/D)
3rd of May
Max nimmt die Kurve / Berlin
An encounter between Johannes Schmit, Marina Tenorio and Jana Unmüßig. The “Max” series of events is planned and organised by the students from the Choreography masters programme (MAC), who discuss the question of “What is choreography?” from various perspectives and in different formats.
3rd of May
Programme for grant recipients / Bremen
As part of the 8th Norddeutsches Tanztreffen, there is a special offer for young graduates who have completed training to become professional dancers. During the Norddeutsches Tanztreffen, six grant recipients take part in the ballet company’s daily training with Peter Appel and be coached in various workshops on application procedures / auditioning.
7th of May
Dance outreach talkART Tanzlabor_21 / Frankfurt
Audience discussion with Crystal Pite (CA) after the performance of “Dark Matters” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
7th to 9th of May
Entrance examination for the M.A. Tanzkultur V.I.E.W. / Tanzplan Educational Programme
The entrance examination for the M.A. Tanzkultur V.I.E.W. for students beginning in the WS 2010/2011 is held at the Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln (German Sport University Cologne). The M.A. Tanzkultur V.I.E.W. can be studied as a Masters of advanced studies as well as by professionals currently working in this area.
7th and 8th of May
4. Choreography Conference in Cologne / Tanzplan Educational Programme
The 4th Choreography Conference on "Choreography and Institution“, funded by Tanzplan Deutschland, is held at the Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (Department of Contemporary Dance, Cologne University of Music). Concept/planning, Prof. Dr. Yvonne Hardt, organisation, Dr. Friederike Lampert.
9th to 11th of May
Performance / Düsseldorf
“ZauberEi” by Stephanie Thiersch/MOUVOIR. Dance theatre ranging from the comic to the mythic for an audience aged 5 and over in the tanzhaus nrw.
11th of May
Lecture / Frankfurt
Recherchen10: Behauptungen (Statements) with Zufit Simon (D), “Adom Modulations” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
11th of May
Moving Heads / Hamburg
Choreographie im Gespäch: Robert Steijn (Amsterdam | Vienna) in dicussion with Irmela Kästner (Hamburg). Das Prinzip Gastfreundschaft im zeitgenössischen Tanz (The principle of hospitality in contemporary dance).
14th of May
Dance outreach talkART Tanzlabor_21 / Frankfurt
Audience discussion with Anouk van Dijk (NL) after the performance of “wowwowwonders in me” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
17th of May
Deadline for applications for DAAD grants / Dresden
The Palucca Schule and Tanzplan Dresden in cooperation with the DAAD and the German Federal Foreign Office offer five grants for the Summer Workshop 2010 to non-German students studying dance at universities outside Germany.
17th to 21st of May
Workshop / Potsdam
With Diego Gil (AR/NL), Bewegungsrecherche (movement research) – Singulär-Plural.
20th of May
Dance outreach talkART Tanzlabor_21 / Frankfurt
Audience discussion with P.A.R.T.S. (BE) after the performance of “New works / Triple Bill” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
21st of May
Dance outreach talkART Tanzlabor_21 / Frankfurt
Audience discussion with Grace Ellen Barkey & Needcompany (BE) after the performance of “This door is too small (for a bear)” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
22nd of May
Lecture / Frankfurt
Recherchen10: Behauptungen (Statements) with Alexander Karschnia & Co. feat club collage: “dass das da” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Studiobühne.
23rd of May
Dance project with young dancers aged 12 to 19 / Potsdam
This dance project, which Odile Seitz & Frédéric Gies, DANCE (Praticable) developed with young dancers, will premiere during the 20th Potsdamer Tanztage.
26th of May to 13th of July
Current residency grants / Postdam
Dragana Bulut & Milka Djordjevich (RS/USA)
27th of May
Performance / Düsseldorf
“Himmelblau”, a music-dance piece for littlies aged from 0 to 2, by Barbara Fuchs, Karolina Rüegg and Tobias Liebezeit, in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf.
29th of May
Dance outreach talkART Tanzlabor_21 / Frankfurt
Audience discussion with ZuKT students after the performance of “ZuKT moves” Rekonstruktion / Innovation / Realisation (Reconstruction / Innovation / Execution) in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
30th of May
Productions / Hamburg
The results of the work of the choreographic workshop “Sterbende Schwäne” (Dying swans) with Doris Uhlich are shown in the special edition of Probebühne Eins, as is the school project developed by Donghee Nam and Antje Pfundtner with the music class 9 of the Emilie Wüstenfeldt Gymnasium as part of Reise 21.
31st of May
Deadline for applications for the residency programme / Hamburg
As part of its support programme for choreographers, K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie offers three residencies for choreographers at the beginning of their professional practice. Applicants should have already implemented their own projects. The residency covers the period from April to December 2011 and includes a production budget and a qualifying course programme, among other things. This call for applications is made subject to the further funding of K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg for 2011 by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
June
Advanced training / Frankfurt
With Allison Brown (CA) from 31.5. to 2.6., with Jean Renshaw (UK) from 7th to 11th of June, with Imre Thormann (CH) from 14th to 18th of June, with Berit Jenztsch (D) from 21st to 25th of June and with Nira Priore Nouak (BR) from 28th of June to 2nd of July.
June
Advanced training / Hamburg
With Philipp Fricke (Amsterdam): Counter technique, 31st of May to 3rd of June // Antje Pfundner (Hamburg): If you can`t fix it – feature it, 7th to 10th of June // Gitta Barthel (Hamburg): Intelligente Körper (Intelligent bodies)| Zeitgenössische Tanztechnik (contemporary dance technique), 14th to 17th of June and with Sweet & Tender Collaborations: Mixed Contemporary from 21st of June to 8th of July.
June
Current residency grants / Potsdam
Dragana Bulut & Milka Djordjevich (RS/USA).
1st of June
Lecture Performance / Frankfurt
With Jeff Friedmann (USA): “The Eros of Oral History” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Probebühne.
1st of June
Moving heads / Hamburg
Choreographie im Gespräch: Performance Studies programme - colloquium at the University of Hamburg with Bojana Kunst and Samo Gosaric (Ljubljana).
1st of June
Premiere Tanz in Schulen (Dance in Schools) / Frankfurt
13 pupils from the final year class at the Viktoriaschule Darmstadt have developed a dance theatre piece together with their teachers Irene Schmidtmer and Sophie Trautmann, supported by choreographer Wiebke Dröge. “Hochgradig verwirrt” is a piece about goals, future prospects, entanglements and the quirks of youthful energy: “hochgradig verwirrt” (greatly confused).
1st of June
Premiere - Tanz in Schulen (Dance in schools) / Frankfurt
Herderboys: “Vertrauen” (trust). A dancer, a dramaturge and a teacher have been working at the IGS Herder in Frankfurt with the group that is most difficult to attract to dance: boys. Since February, they have been discussing, improvising and dancing on the topics of trust, self-confidence, confidence, mistrust and the breach of trust in weekly meetings. With Hannah Dewor, Johanna Milz, Christian Dirksen and the Herderboys from the IGS Herder... held during the TUSCHpektakel in the Schultheater Studio, Frankfurt-Nordweststadt.
1st of June
Colloquium / Hamburg
Reinventing Futures – Performance Studies Colloquium. The University of Hamburg’s Performance Studies Colloquium will be held on two evenings at K3 and is open to anyone interested. Bojana Kunst invited Igor Stromajer and Goran Sergej Pristas, to talk about the relationship between choreography and the future for these two events,. 13th of April Igor Stromajer (Ljubljana) and on the 1st of June with Goran Sergej Pristas (Zagreb).
3rd to 5th of June
Presentation / Berlin
Anne-Mareike Hess - “Never-ending up north”. Choreography Masters students from the HZT show their graduate works in the Theatre national du Luxembourg.
4th of June
Dance outreach // talkART Tanzlabor_21 / Frankfurt
Audience discussion with CuP students (D) after the performance of “CuP Pieces 2010” (4 pieces of 20 to 30 mins.): JungYun Bae: “Tanzausstellung” // Uri Turkenich: “material movement” // Billy Bultheel: “Untitled” and Lucie Eidenbenz: “Neues Stück”, in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
4th to 6th of June
Presentation / Berlin
David Bloom, student from the Choreography Masters programme at the HZT, shows his graduate work “enemy” in the Olivin Wellness Lounge Sauna, Berlin.
5th and 6th of June
Workshop / Hamburg
Harriet Lesch (Berlin), Project Management. This workshop offers an introduction to the basics and standards of project management for independent dance and theatre productions and uses examples of specific cases to explain aspects ranging from contracts, insurance and legal issues (e.g. KSK and GEMA), budgeting and accounting through to organising guest performances.
8th of June
Lecture / Frankfurt
RECHERCHEN10: Behauptungen (Statements) with Tim Etchells (UK). “City Changes” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Studiobühne.
8th to 13th of June
LIME - Labor für choreografische Praxis und Theorie (Laboratory for choreographic practice and theory) / Bremen
In LIME, steptext offers dance project choreographers, dance theoreticians and Choreography and Performance Studies students a platform to exchange views and ideas on their own aesthetic practice and dramaturgic strategies in contemporary dance. Three high-profile director-duos open up spaces for interdisciplinary working processes in five-day laboratories, during which they provide insights into their specific artistic ways of working, methods and experiences. The laboratories are rounded off with a programme of events.
9th to 13th of June
Symposium / Essen
EXPLORATIONEN illuminates and investigates transmission formats in practice and theory. This year’s edition is especially dedicated to not-knowing and the hidden in learning processes. With Natascha Adamowsky, Blast Theory, Christopher Dell, feld72, Walburga Glatz, Kate McIntosh, PAK Praxis für Angewandte Kunst, Werner Reichmann, Ulrich Schötker, Boris Sieverts, Marcus Steinweg and Gesa Ziemer. Public programme with Bernhard Waldenfels, “Aufmerken auf das Fremde” and P.A.R.T.S. graduates, “On Release Now! Edition 2010”.
10th of June
Take:off / Düsseldorf
As part of Tanzplan Düsseldorf, eleven choreographers, dancers and dance educators work at ten schools, reaching a total of more than 700 children and teenagers through dance! The pupils present some extracts and results of this work during Take-off: Show-off in the tanzhaus nrw.
11th of June
Funding for young dance producers 2010 / Dresden
As part of Tanzplan Dresden‘s production funding programme, “Choreografen auf dem Sprung” (choreographers ready for action), Juraj Korec (Slovakia) and Leandro Kees (Argentina/Essen) each develop a production for Dresden’s semper kleine szene, in which the premieres of their new productions „h a b i t a t“ and “ANTROMORFIA” are also to be staged.
11th to 14th of June
Premiere / Düsseldorf
“kind.gerecht. – I change my world!” Dance theatre for audiences aged 8 and over by theater fayoum & Sabine Seume. Ensemble in the tanzhaus nrw.
12th, 13th and 16th of June
K3-Jugendklub / Hamburg
Händeln | Sport | Schwimmen. In June K3 presents a compilation of various K3-Jugendklub productions: a further development of the choreography “Händeln”, which Friederike Lampert developed with young people; a repeat performance of the production “Sport”, which Thomas Marek and Karolin Schäfer developed with youngsters at the beginning of the year, and the choreography “Schwimmen”, which Friederike Lampert developed and executed for the Deutsche Mastersmeisterschaften im Schwimmen (German Masters swimming competition).
13th of June
Cooperation / Munich
Working in cooperation with the Munich Chamber Orchestra under the direction of its conductor Alexander Liebreich, artists Christa Coogan and Andrea Marton developed a choreography set to music by John Adams with pupils of various ages from the Nymphenburger Gymnasium and several Munich primary schools.
13th to 19th of June
8th Norddeutsches Tanztreffen / Bremen
Six choreographies from urban companies from Braunschweig, Hanover, Osnabrück, Greifswald/Stralsund/Putbus, Kiel, Bremerhaven and Bremen give guest performances in Hanover. Helge Letonja (steptext dance project), Zufit Simon (artblau Tanzwerkstatt), Felix Landerer (COMMEDIA FUTURA), Wesley D’Alessandro, Hans Fredewß (Compagnie Fredeweß) and Gilles Welinski, all representatives of the independent dance scene, have been invited to participate. The area of children’s and youth dance is also represented with one performance by steptext young artists from Bremen, one by the Ballet, and one by the Staatsoper Hanover’s youth club.
16th to 20th of June
Festival Xtra Frei / Bremen
steptext dance project holds this festival for the fourth time in the Schwankhalle, held at the same time with and funded by the Norddeutsches Tanztreffen - Tanzplan Bremen. With productions from Felix Bürkle, Yui Kawaguchi, Renate Graziadei, Yossi Berg & Oded Graf, Mimi Jeong and Hanna Hegenscheidt.
22nd of June
Lecture / Frankfurt
RECHERCHEN10: Behauptungen (Statements) with Friederike Thielmann & Florian Ackermann (D) with a performance of “Gesänge der Landstraße” in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Studiobühne.
25th and 26th of June
Presentation / Berlin
Claudia Garbe, a Choreography Masters programme student at the HZT, shows her graduate work, “zwischenzwei.fluss”, in the Cabuwazi circus tent in Kreuzberg in Berlin.
26th of June
Presentation / Berlin
Barbara Bess (MA Choreography at the HZT) “schwärmen” in 96264 Altenkunstad / Maineck.
26th of June to 17th of July
Treffen / Hamburg
Sweet and Tender Collaborations TREFFEN TOTAL. 20 artists, mainly choreographers and performance artists, but also visual artists, musicians, film-makers and theatre professionals from Hamburg and all over the world, work together for three weeks in Hamburg, opening their working processes to the public in regular events.
30th of June and 1st of July
Presentation / Berlin
Jana Unmüßig, Choreography Masters programme student at the HZT, working together with Hsuan Huang and Mirella Oestreicher, stage design students from the UdK Berlin, developed the choreography “Zausend.Hoch.”, which is to feature at the Monaco Dance Festival.