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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

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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

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Kultur Räume Berlin: Two dance rehearsal rooms “Georg-Knorr-Straße”

Kultur Räume Berlin, represented by Kulturraum Berlin GmbH, awards two subsidized, newly renovated rehearsal/production spaces for dance in Georg-Knorr-Str. 4 in Berlin-Mahrzahn to professionally working artists within the framework of the Arbeitsraumprogramm (ARP, previously supervised by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe) and in cooperation with Gesellschaft für StadtEntwicklung gGmbH. 4 in Berlin-Mahrzahn from June 2021.The location has very good public transport connections: S7 (station Berlin-Mahrzahn, connection to S-Bhf Ostkreuz), streetcar 16, 27, M6, M17 (station Gewerbepark Georg Knorr, connection to S-Bhf Landsberger Allee).

The rooms are located on the 1st floor of a former factory building, on the same floor are, among others, the new Seneca Intensive Studios. The lease is expected to start on 01.06.2021.

Rehearsal room Nr. 1: dance room 123,78 m2 + office 28,68 m2 (plus showers, toilets) -> total monthly costs incl. electricity 997,17 €.

Rehearsal room Nr. 2: dance room 83,03 m2 + office 8,85 m2 (plus showers, WCs) -> total monthly costs incl. electricity 616,84 €.

The rooms are spanned by two beams, at these points the clear room height is 3.46 m and 3.86 m respectively, the door width is 1.25 m in each case. All walls are painted white, the screed floor is covered with a light gray matt color coating, and in the two dance rooms there is a sprung floor and dance carpet.

Detailed information about the rooms can be found here. (Info sheet as pdf for download see below).

Individual artists as well as user groups/associations of up to five tenants per room can apply. The rooms are allocated for 12 or 24 months, extensions are possible up to a maximum of four years. The selection will be made by a sector-specific, independent awarding advisory board for performing arts and dance within the framework of the ARP.

The two viewing dates on 13.04. and 27.04.2021 will take place digitally only.

Pre-registration is required with Kulturraum Berlin GmbH via the following link https://kultur-raeume-berlin.everreal.co/app/public/listings

Visiting dates:

13.04.2021, 16.00-17.30 (online via Zoom)

27.04.2021, 16.00-17.30 (online via Zoom)

Application deadline: 09.05.2021

Infoblatt of Kultur Räume Berlin (German): Vergabe von zwei Tanzräumen+Büro_Georg-Knorr-Str. 4_Infoblatt Kulturraum Berlin GmbH März 2021

With this CryptPad, Kulturraum Berlin GmbH offers the possibility for self-organized networking as a community of users: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/dPX2YXJ9zv-inZyZPDSbjWeT/
It works like a bulletin board, here contacts to other applicants can be searched for in order to clarify or find communities of users in the run-up to the application

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Statement by the Recipients of the Tanzpraxis Scholarship

The Tanzpraxis scholarship holders have published a statement on the continuation of the scholarship program:

tanzpraxisberlin.weebly.com/statement

Emerging from the Round Table for Dance process 2018 which was hosted by the ZTB, and developed within the framework of the working group “Money and More” the Tanzpraxis scholarship pilot project is implemented by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe in 2020 and 2021.

The scholarship is intended to promote the sustainable artistic development of professionally trained and/or working dancers as well as choreographers in Berlin.

​Of the 2,500 dance professionals working in Berlin, 41 have been awarded the 2020/21 Tanzpraxis Fellowship.

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Survey (closed) for a Dance Mediation Center Berlin

The steering team of the Berlin Dance Mediation Centre (Nora Amin, Elena Basteri, Janne Gregor and Gabriele Reuter) would like to invite you to participate in a survey.

As part of the conception phase of the future Berlin Dance Mediation Centre, we want to collect information, opinions, experiences and wishes in order to collectively shape the concept of the centre. We would highly appreciate it if you could take the time (approx.15 minutes) to give us your input, and/or forward this invitation to potentially interested parties.

 

The survey was designed by sociologist Melisa Bel Adasme and co-designed by the supporting team (Angela Alves, Elisa Ricci, Joy Christine Ritter, Sven Seeger and Teo Vlad).

We hope to collect all contributions by 3 March.
This is just the very first step along a longer collaborative and participative journey. Let’s start!The steering team of the Berlin Dance Mediation Centre (Nora Amin, Elena Basteri, Janne Gregor and Gabriele Reuter) would like to invite you to participate in a survey.

As part of the conception phase of the future Berlin Dance Mediation Centre, we want to collect information, opinions, experiences and wishes in order to collectively shape the concept of the centre. We would highly appreciate it if you could take the time (approx.15 minutes) to give us your input, and/or forward this invitation to potentially interested parties.

 

The survey was designed by sociologist Melisa Bel Adasme and co-designed by the supporting team (Angela Alves, Elisa Ricci, Joy Christine Ritter, Sven Seeger and Teo Vlad).

We hope to collect all contributions by 3 March.
This is just the very first step along a longer collaborative and participative journey. Let’s start!

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current working groups (AGs)

You are a ZTB member and are interested in participating actively in one of the working groups (AGs)? Please send us an email: vorstand(at)ztberlin.de Some of the AGs are open to non-members as well. Just ask if you are interested.

AG Work Culture

….was initiated in 2021 by Kasia Wolinska ( ZTB e.V.) and Mateusz Szymanowka ( Sophienseale) to facilitate discussions on the culture of work within Berlin dance scene and to develop tools and activities that would eventually lead to the improvement of how we work. Around 20 participants/ volunteers – dancers, choreographers, producers, dramaturges, curators and activists – joined forces in the frame of regular meetings throughout the year to examine the existing and (possible ) future working structures and relations that stem from those. In 2022 the group is aiming at development of the guidelines for the Berlin free dance that will be then presented to the community and further consulted. The foundational goal of this work is to support, promote and normalize good practices within the working environments – addressing problems of violence, (self-)exploitation, exhaustion and inequality within the scene.

 

 AG Tanz und Elternschaft

Dance and Parenthood Working Group is an association and initiative of dance professionals with the aim of improving the working conditions of dance professionals in parenthood. The Working group works in self-organized manner and on a voluntary basis. Since November 2020, the WG meets online once a month.
In exchange, we name and analyze existing deficits, disadvantages and existing barriers for dance creators in parenthood – in the dance scene and in the funding system – and we develop concrete proposals and approaches on how these can be remedied. We regularly invite cross-disciplinary guests from the scene and cultural politics and establish new networks with other actors and activists.
Working groups members (as of February 2021):
Claudia Garbe, Janne Gregor, Jenny Haack, Jasna Layes Vinovrski, Anja Kolmanics, Raisa Kröger, Heike Kuhlmann, Saskia Oidtmann, Steffi Sembdner, Maria Walser

 

 

former AG 2020 / 2021

17. Nov. / 18:00 ZTB Jubiläums AG
weitere Termine tba

18. Nov./ 18:00 Tanzförderung AG
weiterer Termine: Di 15.12.2020, Mi 13. Januar 2021

19. Nov./ 12:00 Tanz und Elternschaft AG
weitere Termine:  Do 17.12. 2020, Do 14.01.2021, Do 18.02.21, Do 18.03.21

7. Dez. / 17:30 Vereinsstruktur/ Ehrenamt AG
weitere Termine tba

 

020 / 2021

17 Nov / 18:00 Anniversary / ZTB Jubilee AG
further dates tba

18 Nov./ 18:00 Dance funding AG
another appointment: Wed 16.12.2020

19 Nov/12:00 Dance and Parenthood AG
further dates: Thu 17.12. 2020, Thu 14.01.2021, Thu 18.02.21, Thu 18.03.21

7 Dec / 17:30 Association structure/ honorary office AG
further dates tba

21 Dec / 18:00 Dance Platform 2022 AG