»A cup of coffee with … « 2023 – Digital dialogue series
The successful series of events with experts for dance in rural areas “A cup of coffee with … Tanz weit draußen” continues.
Every second Thursday, choreographers, dance mediators and cultural managers report on their experiences and projects with choreography, dance and dance education in rural regions, reflect on challenges and opportunities and answer questions in moderated discussions from 9:00 – 10:00 am.
From the vision to the realisation of a project, from lone fighters to diverse collaborations, from the singular idea to sustainable structures – everyone who wants to take these steps in the countryside and needs inspiration and support is cordially invited “A cup of coffee with … Tanz weit draußen”!
PROGRAMME
26 January 2023, 9:00-10:00 am: “Community Dance: getting the region moving” – A cup of coffee with … Dörte Wolter, producer and project manager
Perform[d]ance has been committed to promoting contemporary dance art in Western Pomerania since 2001. The Stralsund-based association is committed to the idea of community dance and realises artistic dance productions and dance projects with children, young people and adults. Over 50 productions have been created since it was founded and many non-theatre spaces have been transformed into dance stages during this time. Project manager Dörte Wolter provides an insight into the practice of cooperation in rural areas and shares best practices on questions of conception, preparation, calculation and realisation of community dance projects. As part of further training courses, she will be offering individual counselling and mentoring from April 2023.
Dörte Wolter is a producer and project manager at Perform[d]ance e.V. and the Novoflot opera company and is on the management team of the MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN TANZT AN – TANZPAKT Stadt Land Bund project.
www.performdance.de
www.mv-tanzt-an.de
09 February 2023, 9:00-10:00 am: ‘ Dance Landscape Southwest: Contemporary Dance in Rural Areas between the Rhine and Danube’ – A cup of coffee with … Pascal Sangl, dancer, choreographer and dance mediator
As a choreographer and dance mediator, Pascal Sangl was actively involved in shaping the Tanz in der Fläche programme of Tanzszene Baden-Württemberg e. V. from 2019 to 2021. The programme’s collaboration partners covered the field of schools, cultural offices and cultural centres in smaller municipalities in Baden-Württemberg. Pascal Sangl presents the developments that he has driven forward under his own steam since the end of the Tanz in der Fläche project. A recapitulation of the last two years from the perspective of a dance maker who talks about the challenges and challenges of dance in rural areas and reflects on its success factors. Afterwards, there will be plenty of time for questions and feedback. As part of further training programmes, Pascal Sangl offers one-to-one advice and individual mentoring to support his own projects.
Pascal Sangl is a graduate of the Amsterdam University of the Arts and works as a freelance dance artist & cultural mediator inter:nationally from the Stuttgart region.
www.pascalsangl.com
https://vimeo.com/782929204
23 February 2023, 9:00-10:00 am: “Tanz in der Fläche: Projekte und Manual” – A cup of coffee with … Andrea Gern, Managing Director of TanzSzene Baden-Württemberg e. V.
Between 2016 and 2021, TanzSzene Baden-Württemberg e. V. realised a series of successful projects to promote contemporary dance in rural areas. The experience gained, success factors and challenges were identified, methodically developed and processed into a handout. The resulting illustrative workbook is intended to provide practical support for the organisation of similar projects. Andrea Gern led the dance projects and is the editor of the manual. In this interview, she presents her projects and the workbook. As part of further training programmes, Andrea Gern will be offering workshops on working with the manual and implementing her own projects later in the year.
Andrea Gern is a trained historian, has worked as a journalist and in PR and has been Managing Director of TanzSzene Baden-Württemberg e. V. since 2016.
09 March 2023: ‘Building projects and networks for dance in rural areas’ – A cup of coffee with … Martin Stiefermann, choreographer and artistic director of MS Schrittmacher
Martin Stiefermann has been working on various projects in and for rural regions since 2015. As a member of schloss bröllin e.V., he has been ensuring a greater presence of contemporary dance in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with the project “MV tanzt an” since 2018. The project develops new presentation, production and mediation formats and initiates the exchange and further training of dance professionals. In addition, Martin Stiefermann and his group MS Schrittmacher launched the BRUCHSTÜCKE project in 2022, which aims to establish dance and performance in the rural Oderbruch region. Through workshops, dialogue formats and youth work, guest performances and new productions, the project has built up a dance-interested community in a short space of time. As part of this project, Stiefermann is involved in setting up the TANZ INITIATIVE BRANDENBURG.
In this interview, he presents his projects and approaches. As part of further training programmes, Martin Stiefermann offers individual consultations to explore specific topics in greater depth.
Martin Stiefermann is a choreographer, artistic director of the MS Schrittmacher group, director of the BRUCHSTÜCKE project and a member of the management team of the MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN TANZT AN – TANZPAKT Stadt Land Bund project.
www.msschrittmacher.de
www.bruch-stuecke.de
www.mv-tanzt-an.de
23 March 2023, 9:00 – 10:00 am: “Dance art, contact improvisation and yoga in rural Baden-Württemberg – and how it all goes together” – A cup of coffee with … Crystal Schüttler, choreographer, dancer, dance mediator in Baden-Württemberg
Since 2015, Crystal Schüttler has been running the dance studio “Semilla, Schule für Tanz, Performance & Yoga” in Mühlhausen, Baden-Württemberg, which guarantees her “livelihood” through her teaching activities. In 2019, she officially founded the association “Zeit Tanz Land e.V.”, which organises and produces dance and performance events in rural areas. As a result, productions of various formats have been created and shown: Sight-specific, outdoor & indoor, collaborations with musicians, short pieces, children’s & youth dance pieces, research, film productions. In 2020 she wrote “A set of cards for spontaneous composition & contact improvisation” based on her work as a researching teacher, dancer & choreographer.
Crystal Schüttler will present the developments and challenges in the rural/outer-urban area of her school and the association, as well as the card set and its roots in contact improvisation.
Possible follow-up formats include mentoring, Zoom consultations, labs on composition, CI, improvisation, partnering and/or residencies.
06 April 2023, 9:00 – 10:00 am: “Realising dance mediation projects with the ChanceTanz funding programme” – A cup of coffee with … Martina Kessel, ChanceTanz project manager and Juschka Weigel, dance artist at Flusskultur e. V.
Aktion Tanz has been funding dance projects with children and young people throughout Germany with its ChanceTanz programme since 2013. In the current funding phase, a special focus is on dance projects in rural regions. We explain what it takes to apply and what the funding looks like. To illustrate this, Juschka Weigel gives an insight into her projects in Havelland funded by ChanceTanz.
Martina Kessel is the project manager of ChanceTanz and a founding member of Aktion Tanz e. V.
Juschka Weigel is a dancer and choreographer. After many years as a dancer with international tours, she moved to the countryside, where she realises dance projects with children and young people, among other things.
www.aktiontanz.de
www.chancetanz.de
www.juschka-weigel.de
20 April 2023, 9:00 – 10:00 am: ‘As a migrant with dance in the Uckermark – the success story of UMtanz e. V. ‘ – A cup of coffee with … Yeri Anarika, choreographer, dancer, dance mediator, Templin, Brandenburg
Mexican dance artist Yeri Anarika lives between Berlin and the Uckermark; in this talk, she will talk about her previous experiences with contemporary dance projects for professionals, children and young people as well as for the community in the Uckermark (Brandenburg). In 2007, she and her family decided to give rural life a try and founded the organisation UMtanz e. V. This created a structure that enabled her to develop artistic projects and produce pieces that reach a different audience.
Using examples of current formats and the work of the organisation, Yeri Anarika will explain how structures can be set up to bring dance to places where it is not yet established – and also talk about her experiences as a migrant. A talk full of ideas and inspiration for organising dance projects in rural regions.
Possible follow-up formats include counselling and mentoring.
https://www.umtanz.de/yeri-anarika
04 May 2023, 9:00 – 10:00 am: ‘I thought I was alone here …! – How does the independent scene work in a state like Schleswig-Holstein? On the strengths of peer-to-peer exchange’ – A cup of coffee with … Mark Christoph Klee, choreographer, dancer, dance educator, Schleswig-Holstein
Choreographer, dancer and dance educator Mark Christoph Klee talks about his structure-creating work in Schleswig-Holstein. Since 2018, he has been realising contemporary dance projects as part of the performance collective ‘Merle | Mischke | Klee’, which often offer audiences inexperienced in dance their first encounter with dance. Mark Christoph shares concrete strategies on how to start projects in small towns or villages where there is supposedly no space for dance. He also talks about the mediation formats the collective has developed over the years to get audiences interested in their artistic work. In 2020, Mark Christoph Klee also initiated the ‘Tanz und Performance Netzwerk Schleswig-Holstein’ (TuP.SH), a loose community of interest that has become an important forum for exchange for all those dance professionals who work as lone fighters across the state. The energy of this community and other partners (Kultur- und Bildungszentrum Bad Oldesloe, K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg, Dachverband freie darstellende Künste Hamburg e.V.) gave rise to the cross-state Tanzpakt project tanz.nord.
Possible follow-up formats are mentoring and individual counselling.
www.MarkChristophKlee.com
www.MerleMischkeKlee.com
www.tupsh.de
www.tanznord.de
01 June 2023, 9:00-10:00 am: “Outside, in between, in the middle: Participatory dance projects in the border region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg and Poland”. A cup of coffee with …. Be Van Vark, choreographer and artistic director of Tänzer*ohne Grenzen e. V.
Be Van Vark’s work is characterised by a passion for realising participatory projects, bringing different people together and moving both one and hundreds of people. For her work, she was honoured by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The laudatory speech summarises her work and the systemic relevance of culture in general: ‘Be van Vark shows that culture is not an elitist luxury pleasure, but part of everyone’s existence.’
Four days before the premiere of the current work ‘Das Fest_ Tanz auf dem Plateau’, a production with hundreds of people from the border region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg and Poland, Be talks about the challenges, the process and the practice.
The project is being realised in cooperation and as part of a village residency by the Kulturlandbüro Uecker – Randow. It is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Trafo programme and the Metropolregion Stettin Fund.
https://bevanvark.wordpress.com
http://taenzerohnegrenzen.de
https://www.fest-randowplateau.de/de
15 June 2023, 9:00-10:00 am: Szene 2WEI – about the work of a mixed-abled dance company in the middle of the Black Forest (Lahr, Baden-Württemberg)
SZENE 2WEI was founded in 2009 by Timo Gmeiner and William Sánchez H. in Essen. The company works in the field of contemporary mixed-ability dance theatre. It creates art that questions and stimulates thought, does not shy away from discussion and discourse and brings its very own style to the stage.
The common goal is to seek dialogue with people on and off stage and to use art as a universal language to explore different ways of communicating.
The dance company SZENE 2WEI is based in Lahr in the Black Forest (Ortenau district), around 38 kilometres north of Freiburg. The surrounding nature has a major influence on the company’s artistic work and has thus become one of its main pillars alongside mixed ability. In an interview with William Sánchez H., we find out how the two dance artists built up the company and how it has changed over time.
This project is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media via the ‘Verbindungen Fördern’ programme of the Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste e.V. (Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts).
