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“How to (Make) Dance in Berlin – A Toolbox for a Better Work Culture in the Independent Dance Scene”

 

We are happy to share the digital booklet “How to (Make) Dance in Berlin – A Toolbox for a Better Work Culture in the Independent Dance Scene” by AG Work Culture and Guests – a bottom-up initiative operating within Zeitgenössischer Tanz Berlin e.V. The booklet is available in German and English.

Since the 1st of March 2021, a group of more than twenty cultural workers – representing freelancers and employees of art institutions connected to the local independent dance scene – has been meeting on a regular and voluntary basis online and offline to map the challenges of Berlin’s work life and to share strategies of collaboration and organisation. “How to (Make) Dance in Berlin – A Toolbox for a Better Work Culture in the Independent Dance Scene” testifies to the urgent need and willingness to transform the ways we work and how dance exists within the work and art markets.  

The publication provides guidelines and offers some practical tools to be used directly in the studio, art and dance institutions, and all activities around dancemaking. It is a collection of our ideas and open-source materials that emerged during a collective process. It proposes a baseline for the healthy collaboration between professionals in Berlin’s independent dance scene as we strive for structural improvement. 

We will be thankful if you share the booklet with your networks. Please don’t hesitate to contact us, if you have further questions: agworkculture@gmail.com

 

AG Work Culture (Angela Alves, Olympia Bukkakis, Rike Flämig, Beatrix Joyce, Enrico L’Abbate, Matthias Mohr, Ania Nowak, Benjamin Pohlig, Anna Romeo, Mateusz Szymanówka, Simone Willeit, Kasia Wolińska)

The booklet is available in German and English

Herunterladen and Download

 

We are happy to share the digital booklet “How to (Make) Dance in Berlin – A Toolbox for a Better Work Culture in the Independent Dance Scene” by AG Work Culture and Guests – a bottom-up initiative operating within Zeitgenössischer Tanz Berlin e.V. The booklet is available in German and English.

Since the 1st of March 2021, a group of more than twenty cultural workers – representing freelancers and employees of art institutions connected to the local independent dance scene – has been meeting on a regular and voluntary basis online and offline to map the challenges of Berlin’s work life and to share strategies of collaboration and organisation. “How to (Make) Dance in Berlin – A Toolbox for a Better Work Culture in the Independent Dance Scene” testifies to the urgent need and willingness to transform the ways we work and how dance exists within the work and art markets.  

The publication provides guidelines and offers some practical tools to be used directly in the studio, art and dance institutions, and all activities around dancemaking. It is a collection of our ideas and open-source materials that emerged during a collective process. It proposes a baseline for the healthy collaboration between professionals in Berlin’s independent dance scene as we strive for structural improvement. 

We will be thankful if you share the booklet with your networks. Please don’t hesitate to contact us, if you have further questions: agworkculture@gmail.com

 

AG Work Culture (Angela Alves, Olympia Bukkakis, Rike Flämig, Beatrix Joyce, Enrico L’Abbate, Matthias Mohr, Ania Nowak, Benjamin Pohlig, Anna Romeo, Mateusz Szymanówka, Simone Willeit, Kasia Wolińska)

The booklet is available in German and English

Herunterladen and Download

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AG work culture, AG Tanz und Elternschaft

𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎-𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐙 // AG Tanz und Elternschaft | Info-Treffen
Termin: 22.11.2022, 13-15 Uhr
Ort: Cornus Remise, Gustav-Adolf-Str. 159, 13086 Berlin
In den vergangenen zwei Jahren war die AG im Gespräch mit Förderinstitutionen, Jurymitgliedern, Residenzorten sowie mit Künstler*innen, Organisationen, Vereinen, Initiativen und Netzwerken, die sich für bessere Arbeitsbedingungen von Tanz-/Kunstschaffenden in Elternschaft einsetzen. Diese Erfahrungen und Informationen möchte die AG mit euch teilen. Jede*r, die*der daran interessiert ist, Tanzschaffende in Elternschaft zu unterstützen, ist willkommen!
Den Link zur Anmeldung und weitere Infos findet ihr auf tanzraumberlin.de:
AG Work Culture
Lab 3 – working culture: Angela Alves, Olympia Bukkakis, Ulrike Flaeming, Beatrix Joyce, Matthias Mohr, Ania Nowak, Benjamin Pohlig, Rilaben, Mateusz Szymanówka, Simone Willeit, Kasia Wolinska.
With the warmest thanks to Makisig Akin & Lena Szirmay-Kalos, Mateusz Szymanówka & Kasia Wolinska, ZTB e.V., PSR-Group and Radialsystem.
Choreographic Convention VIII is a production by UFERSTUDIOS GmbH as part of the European network project Life Long Burning, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme and the Kofinanzierungsfonds of Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Europe. Lab 3 WORKING CULTURE is organized as a cooperation with ZTB e.V. and Radialsystem.
Public Event: 11.11.2022: 11:00 Uferstudios Heizhaus
Public Event: 19.11.2022: 18:00 Radialsystem
Note: This event will be in english.
Die Choreographic Convention VIII, WHAT/SPACE:CHANGES/CULTURE, ist eine Versammlung von Choreograph*innen, Tänzer*innen, Performancekünstler*innen, Schriftsteller*innen, Forscher*innen, Kurator*innen, künstlerischen Leiter*innen und Produzent*innen, um sich zu treffen und über Themen rund um die Frage “Welche Art von Raum kann Veränderungen in der Tanzarbeitskultur fördern?” zu reflektieren.
Die Frage lenkt die Aufmerksamkeit auf einen notwendigen Diskurs im Bereich des Tanzes in Bezug auf Künstler*innen und Kulturschaffenden, die asymmetrisch von globalen strukturellen und sozialen Problemen betroffen sind, einschließlich, aber nicht beschränkt auf Fragen des Rassismus, des Abelismus, der Frauenrechte, der Rechte von Transgender, der Kriegsführung, der Auswirkungen des Kapitalismus und der anhaltenden Covid-Pandemie. Im Rahmen der Choreographic Convention wird auch die AG work culture des ZTB ihre Richtlinien zu einer nachhaltigen Arbeitskultur vorstellen.
Lab 3 – working culture: Angela Alves, Olympia Bukkakis, Ulrike Flaeming, Beatrix Joyce, Matthias Mohr, Ania Nowak, Benjamin Pohlig, Rilaben, Mateusz Szymanówka, Simone Willeit, Kasia Wolinska.
Mit herzlichem Dank an Makisig Akin & Lena Szirmay-Kalos, Mateusz Szymanówka & Kasia Wolinska, ZTB e.V., PSR-Group and Radialsystem.
Die Choreographic Convention VIII ist eine Veranstaltung der UFERSTUDIOS GmbH im Rahmen des des europäischen Netzwerkprojekts Life Long Burning, mit Mitteln des Creative Europe Programms und des Kofinanzierungsfonds der Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa. Lab 3 WORK CULTURE ist eine Kooperation mit ZTB e.V. und Radialsystem.
Öffentliche Veranstaltung: 19.11.2022: 18:00 Radialsystem
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The election touchstones about dance, Berlin 2021

Today, we are pleased to publish the election touchstones („Wahlprüfsteine“) initiated together with the network TanzRaumBerlin for the upcoming Bundestag elections as well as the elections for the House of Representatives in Berlin. Both elections will take place on Sunday, September 26, 2021.

The Wahlprüfsteine are our means of asking the parties standing for election for position papers on pressing cultural policy issues. We have received a response from all local divisions of the parties contacted by ZTB e.V. and Netzwerk TanzRaumBerlin – the SPD, CDU, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Die Linke as well as the Free Democratic Party. We would like to take this opportunity to thank them once again for responding.

The TanzRaumBerlin network and the ZTB e.V. have jointly formulated five Wahlprüfsteine, each with two to three questions. These include topics such as the continuation and further development of initiatives launched for the “continuity of artistic work”, the “strengthening of decentralized infrastructure” and a “new central institution for dance”, but also the strengthening of the positions of the Round Table Dance („Runder Tisch Tanz“) and the further development and reorientation of funding instruments. We publish the Wahlprüfsteine and the questions in the appendix together with the answers of the parties.

Both Wahlprüfsteine and the responses have been originally formulated in German language. Attached you can find both also in English language.

The upcoming federal elections as well as the election for the House of Representatives in Berlin are crucially important for the further development of cultural policy in the state and the federal government. Please inform yourself about the positions of the parties. Form an opinion and participate actively in discussions. We will gladly accept your suggestions, ideas and demands in the future. Also contact the member of parliament responsible for your area and seek a discussion. And above all: Go vote!

BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN

CDU

DIE LINKE

FDP

SPD