Across the garden fence

Project week with children from Diemitz primary school, Halle/ Saale  A performance in which the children shared very personal experiences about encounters with neighbours and told what they appreciate about their neighbourhood and what bothers them. Keywords such as noise, dream gardens, friends, fences and animals in the garden became the starting point for the […]

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The Glue That Holds Us All Together

A participatory dance project with students from the 3rd and 4th grades of Kastanienallee Elementary School in Halle/Saale, in cooperation with WUK Theater Quartier and the Bürgerstiftung Halle. Many children experience conflicts in various areas of everyday life – at school, within the family, or through the news. They feel the impacts, for instance, of […]

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Salt and Pepper

Building a strong, inclusive civil society, we need authentic meeting spaces. Meeting spaces in which an exchange can take place between people regardless of their age, gender and origin. In our ‘Salt and Pepper’ workshop week, we will create such a meeting space in which we will bring together a group of 15 children from […]

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Embodied UnRest(s) 

Contribution to „Gemeine Stadt“  Info Three choreographic short films inspired by Donna Haraway’s work “Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene” from 2016.In the films, thoughts on the topic of UnRuhe(n) are taken up and spun further in an embodied way. The methods used in the films invite participation and show a possibility of […]

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T*OG a guest at Tanz Weit Draussen

Symposium Empowerment, cohesion and sharing! Where:Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art, Dieselkraftwerkand TanzWERKSTATT Cottbus When:8-10 November 2023 Funded by:This project is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media via the “Promoting Connections” programme of the Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste e.V. (Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts)  selbe Logos wir deutsche Seite

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Equal in weight

Project week in Friedland with children aged 6-12 We investigate: What is balance, symmetry, equilibrium or disharmony? How does it feel when I get out of balance? Stumble?  We balance, explore, talk, write, listen, build and dance, consciously getting into imbalance and catching ourselves again. Artistic direction, choreography:Be van Vark Costume design:Bärbel Jahn When:31 October-3 […]

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» DAS FEST FINDET NICHT NUR AUF DER BÜHNE STATT «

Overview of the village residences of the Kulturlandbüro 2021-2023Welcome address by Bettina Martin, Minister for Science, Culture, Federal and European AffairsStefanie Lemke, Permanent Representative of the Plenipotentiary of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to the Federal GovernmentIntroduction Sandra Nachtweih, President of the Vorpommern Greifswald District CouncilAntonia Lahmé, Programme Development Federal Cultural FoundationKeynote speech by Gertje Graef: […]

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Dennoch ! LebensMittel : KUNST  

Panel: “Artistic and sustainable work in rural areas. What role do funding programmes play? What are the interfaces between cultural and ecological issues? What do residency programmes achieve, what needs do they have and what current challenges do they have to face?” (AT)Moderation: Elisabeth Nehring When:30 September 2023  Where:

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A coffee with …. Tanz Weit Draussen

OUTSIDE, IN BETWEEN, IN THE MIDDLE: PARTICIPATORY DANCE PROJECTS IN THE BORDER REGION OF MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN, BRANDENBURG AND POLAND’. FOR A COFFEE WITH…. BE VAN VARK, CHOREOGRAPHER AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF TÄNZER*OHNE GRENZEN E.V.________________________________ Four days before the premiere of the current work ‘Das Fest_ Tanz auf dem Plateau’, a production with hundreds of people from the […]

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Creative Think tank

Thinking and discussing dance:  TANZ Bremen is organising the CREATIVE THINK TANK for all dance professionals and dance enthusiasts.“Dance – a means of empowerment, strategy and motor for crisis management?“  To what extent can contemporary dance contribute to the resilience and resistance of individuals, groups or even societies? What role does dance play as an […]

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