Tanzplan Quarterly Review
3rd quarter 2006
July 2006
Appointment
The directorate of the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz - Tanzplan Berlin has been appointed: the choreographer –and recently appointed Visiting Professor at Universität der Künste Berlin – Boris Charmatz (Paris), Prof. Ingo Reulecke, Hochschule für Schauspielkunst “Ernst Busch;” and Eva-Maria Hoerster, Executive Director of the centre since May 2006.
July 23
The Art of Dance into the Schools – Introduction
On July 23, a one-day event took place at the Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft (Department of Physical Education) to present “The Art of Dance into the Schools: Part-time training for artistic-creative dance in Munich” and to select students for this course. The Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft at TU München offers a one-year course (with certificate) where experience in the fields of methodology and didactics of dance is combined with their expertise in the fields of kinesiology and sports pedagogy.
This event was part of “Access to Dance. Tanzplan München.”
July 24-27, 2006
Presentation of Dance School Projects as Part of Access to Dance. Tanzplan München
July 24 – dance school project of a fifth-grade class of the Hauptschule and of the Kutz Huber Gymnasium in Locham, in cooperation with Tanz und Schule/Kulturbüro, directed by Andrea Marton and Gunther Henne.
July 26 and 27 - “anna tanzt": a project of eighth-grade students of the Städtisches St. Anna Gymnasium München with a second grade of the Förderschule Herrnstraße, supported by dancers of the Bayrisches Staatsballet. Choreography: Ana Catalina Roman (formerly Forsythe-Company) together with the students. Performance site: Reithalle München.
July 30
Start of the Artists-in-Residence programme for teaching and research at fabrik Potsdam
After the first “Arbeitswochen Choreografie” from July 30 to August 12, further short-term residencies are awarded to: Antonia Baehr/Berlin (August 28 - September 10), Isabelle Van Grimde/Montréal (October 1 - 28), Laurie Young/Berlin (October 1 - 30), Jeremy Wade/USA (November 6 - 25), Alessio Bonnarcorsi, Stefan Pente, and William Wheeler (November 6 – December ) and Raquel Meseguer, Donatella Cabras, and Gabriele Reuter (December 4 - 22).
August 1
Sabine Stenzel starts her new post as project coordinator of Tanzplan Dresden.
August 16
Publication
On the occasion of the opening of Tanzmesse Düsseldorf, Tanz in Schulen is published, which introduces the first results of the Bundesinitiative Tanz in Schulen„ Tanz in Schulen.?Stand und Perspektiven“.?Edited by Linda Müller and Katharina Schneeweis (?K. Kieser Verlag, € 16.00, ISBN 3-935456-12-3). Supported by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung and Tanzplan Deutschland.
August 21 – September 1
Research projects
As part of the pilot project Tanzplan Berlin, and in cooperation with the festival “Tanz im August,” two research projects are conducted: from August 21 to September 1, a daily workshop led by Jeroen Peeters and Martin Nachbar, with the title “Backtracking/ Rückverfolgung,” as well as a symposium for the planned M.A. course SODA | Solo Dance Authorship, developed by Rhys Martin (August 25 - 27). Participants: Rosemary Butcher, Alice Chauchat, Jeroen Fabius, João Fiadeiro, Mette Ingvartsen, Benoît Lachambre, Thomas Lehmen, Mark Tompkins, Georg Weinand. Video statements: Deborah Hay, Carol Brown, Xavier LeRoy, and Susanne Linke.
September
Job advertisements
TANZLABOR_21 / A Tanzplan Deutschland Project advertises the position of “Professor (W3) for Dance Education for Contemporary Dance” at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main. The position is to start September 31, 2007; the application deadline is September 30, 2006.
Tanzplan Düsseldorf is looking for a colleague for organisational tasks on a part-time basis. Starting date: end of October 2006.
Tanzplan Hamburg seeks to fill a position in communications/PR. Starting date for this part-time position: end of October 2006.
September 1
Melanie Franzen becomes head of Tanzplan Frankfurt’s coordination office.
September 3
Independent Scene
On September 3, a one-day meeting on the topic “Independent Scene” takes place in Bremen, initiated by Helge Letonja (responsible for the project “Independent Scene” at Tanzplan Bremen). Letonja invites all Tanzplan-vor-Ort representatives to Bremen to explore and develop synergies in the field independent scenes. Participants are Kerstin Evert/ Hamburg, Barbara Friedrich/ Berlin, Walter Heun/ München, Sven Till/ Potsdam, Madeline Ritter/ Tanzplan Deutschland, and Günther Grollitsch, Deputy Spokesperson Tanzplan Bremen and a member of steptext dance project. Moderated by Heike Lehmke.
September 20, 2006
Press conference about “Tanzplan Essen 2010” in Essen
Presentation of “Tanzplan Essen 2010” at PACT Zollverein with Stefan Hilterhaus (PACT Zollverein), Heinz Loigge (Gymnasium Werden), Claudia Lütringhaus (Folkwang Tanzstudios), Madeline Ritter (Tanzplan Deutschland), Dr. Oliver Scheytt (Head of the Cultural Department of the City of Essen), Felicitas Schönau (Director, Gymnasium Werden), and Alfons Wafner (Kulturbüro/ Spartenbeauftragter Tanz).
September 21 and 22
First conference of all project partners of the Tanzplan-vor-Ort cities
Under the motto “Networking and Communication,” for the first time more than forty colleagues met in PACT Zollverein in Essen for a two-day conference. The mutual presentation of the nine projects clarified the various working fields of the five-year project: professional education, residency programmes, project work, evaluation, education and tour programmes for the public, and the inclusion of the independent scene. On the second day, working groups were formed to define new tasks (for example in the area of public relations). In the final discussion, it was unanimously agreed to organise a loose series of further meetings in other Tanzplan cities.
The Berlin Tanzplan office, which sees itself as a “project,” will take advantage of the positive resonance to Tanzplan to find new sources of funding, and new publics, and to champion dance on the federal level, and to broaden the reach of individual projects. In all of this, the Tanzplan team is well aware of the problems it faces, as an “umbrella organisation,” in doing justice to the flexible structures of dance.
September 23
1st Festival
As part of “Take-off: Junger Tanz. Tanzplan Düsseldorf,” on September 23 the first festival “Take-off: Junger Tanz” begins. For more than three weeks, until October 15, children and teenagers are invited to experience the art of dance in performances, rehearsal visits, film screenings, workshops, and a large dance camp during the fall holidays in North-Rhine-Westphalia. At five Düsseldorf performance sites (tanzhaus nrw, Junges Schauspielhaus, Forum Freies Theater, Neuer Tanz, and Tonhalle) the festival demonstrates in over 20 performances and numerous workshops the broad variety of artistic expression in dance. At the beginning of the festival, the new website goes online: www.take-off-junger-tanz.de.
3rd quarter 2006
July 2006 Appointment
The directorate of the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz - Tanzplan Berlin has been appointed: the choreographer –and recently appointed Visiting Professor at Universität der Künste Berlin – Boris Charmatz (Paris), Prof. Ingo Reulecke, Hochschule für Schauspielkunst “Ernst Busch;” and Eva-Maria Hoerster, Executive Director of the centre since May 2006.
July 23
The Art of Dance into the Schools – Introduction
On July 23, a one-day event took place at the Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft (Department of Physical Education) to present “The Art of Dance into the Schools: Part-time training for artistic-creative dance in Munich” and to select students for this course. The Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft at TU München offers a one-year course (with certificate) where experience in the fields of methodology and didactics of dance is combined with their expertise in the fields of kinesiology and sports pedagogy.
This event was part of “Access to Dance. Tanzplan München.”
July 24-27, 2006
Presentation of Dance School Projects as Part of Access to Dance. Tanzplan München
July 24 – dance school project of a fifth-grade class of the Hauptschule and of the Kutz Huber Gymnasium in Locham, in cooperation with Tanz und Schule/Kulturbüro, directed by Andrea Marton and Gunther Henne.
July 26 and 27 - “anna tanzt": a project of eighth-grade students of the Städtisches St. Anna Gymnasium München with a second grade of the Förderschule Herrnstraße, supported by dancers of the Bayrisches Staatsballet. Choreography: Ana Catalina Roman (formerly Forsythe-Company) together with the students. Performance site: Reithalle München.
July 30
Start of the Artists-in-Residence programme for teaching and research at fabrik Potsdam
After the first “Arbeitswochen Choreografie” from July 30 to August 12, further short-term residencies are awarded to: Antonia Baehr/Berlin (August 28 - September 10), Isabelle Van Grimde/Montréal (October 1 - 28), Laurie Young/Berlin (October 1 - 30), Jeremy Wade/USA (November 6 - 25), Alessio Bonnarcorsi, Stefan Pente, and William Wheeler (November 6 – December ) and Raquel Meseguer, Donatella Cabras, and Gabriele Reuter (December 4 - 22).
August 1
Sabine Stenzel starts her new post as project coordinator of Tanzplan Dresden.
August 16
Publication
On the occasion of the opening of Tanzmesse Düsseldorf, Tanz in Schulen is published, which introduces the first results of the Bundesinitiative Tanz in Schulen„ Tanz in Schulen.?Stand und Perspektiven“.?Edited by Linda Müller and Katharina Schneeweis (?K. Kieser Verlag, € 16.00, ISBN 3-935456-12-3). Supported by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung and Tanzplan Deutschland.
August 21 – September 1
Research projects
As part of the pilot project Tanzplan Berlin, and in cooperation with the festival “Tanz im August,” two research projects are conducted: from August 21 to September 1, a daily workshop led by Jeroen Peeters and Martin Nachbar, with the title “Backtracking/ Rückverfolgung,” as well as a symposium for the planned M.A. course SODA | Solo Dance Authorship, developed by Rhys Martin (August 25 - 27). Participants: Rosemary Butcher, Alice Chauchat, Jeroen Fabius, João Fiadeiro, Mette Ingvartsen, Benoît Lachambre, Thomas Lehmen, Mark Tompkins, Georg Weinand. Video statements: Deborah Hay, Carol Brown, Xavier LeRoy, and Susanne Linke.
September
Job advertisements
TANZLABOR_21 / A Tanzplan Deutschland Project advertises the position of “Professor (W3) for Dance Education for Contemporary Dance” at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main. The position is to start September 31, 2007; the application deadline is September 30, 2006.
Tanzplan Düsseldorf is looking for a colleague for organisational tasks on a part-time basis. Starting date: end of October 2006.
Tanzplan Hamburg seeks to fill a position in communications/PR. Starting date for this part-time position: end of October 2006.
September 1
Melanie Franzen becomes head of Tanzplan Frankfurt’s coordination office.
September 3
Independent Scene
On September 3, a one-day meeting on the topic “Independent Scene” takes place in Bremen, initiated by Helge Letonja (responsible for the project “Independent Scene” at Tanzplan Bremen). Letonja invites all Tanzplan-vor-Ort representatives to Bremen to explore and develop synergies in the field independent scenes. Participants are Kerstin Evert/ Hamburg, Barbara Friedrich/ Berlin, Walter Heun/ München, Sven Till/ Potsdam, Madeline Ritter/ Tanzplan Deutschland, and Günther Grollitsch, Deputy Spokesperson Tanzplan Bremen and a member of steptext dance project. Moderated by Heike Lehmke.
September 20, 2006
Press conference about “Tanzplan Essen 2010” in Essen
Presentation of “Tanzplan Essen 2010” at PACT Zollverein with Stefan Hilterhaus (PACT Zollverein), Heinz Loigge (Gymnasium Werden), Claudia Lütringhaus (Folkwang Tanzstudios), Madeline Ritter (Tanzplan Deutschland), Dr. Oliver Scheytt (Head of the Cultural Department of the City of Essen), Felicitas Schönau (Director, Gymnasium Werden), and Alfons Wafner (Kulturbüro/ Spartenbeauftragter Tanz).
September 21 and 22
First conference of all project partners of the Tanzplan-vor-Ort cities
Under the motto “Networking and Communication,” for the first time more than forty colleagues met in PACT Zollverein in Essen for a two-day conference. The mutual presentation of the nine projects clarified the various working fields of the five-year project: professional education, residency programmes, project work, evaluation, education and tour programmes for the public, and the inclusion of the independent scene. On the second day, working groups were formed to define new tasks (for example in the area of public relations). In the final discussion, it was unanimously agreed to organise a loose series of further meetings in other Tanzplan cities.
The Berlin Tanzplan office, which sees itself as a “project,” will take advantage of the positive resonance to Tanzplan to find new sources of funding, and new publics, and to champion dance on the federal level, and to broaden the reach of individual projects. In all of this, the Tanzplan team is well aware of the problems it faces, as an “umbrella organisation,” in doing justice to the flexible structures of dance.
September 23
1st Festival
As part of “Take-off: Junger Tanz. Tanzplan Düsseldorf,” on September 23 the first festival “Take-off: Junger Tanz” begins. For more than three weeks, until October 15, children and teenagers are invited to experience the art of dance in performances, rehearsal visits, film screenings, workshops, and a large dance camp during the fall holidays in North-Rhine-Westphalia. At five Düsseldorf performance sites (tanzhaus nrw, Junges Schauspielhaus, Forum Freies Theater, Neuer Tanz, and Tonhalle) the festival demonstrates in over 20 performances and numerous workshops the broad variety of artistic expression in dance. At the beginning of the festival, the new website goes online: www.take-off-junger-tanz.de.