Touring

The aim of the »tanz weit draußen« touring programme is to show sophisticated, entertaining dance productions everywhere and without great expense, especially in places where dance art has rarely or never been seen before.

With classroom pieces and pop-up productions for non-theatrical spaces, »tanz weit draußen’ is mobile and flexible. The special thing about it is that the artists take liberties, change perspectives and thus change people’s everyday lives for a few moments. Classrooms, club rooms, village squares, community halls or traffic islands are places that local people think they know inside out; the performances transform them – into spaces with magic and sometimes with completely new rules.

tanz weit draußen tour, video: shittypantsproductions (Video currently only available in German.)

The touring format at schools offers input for everyone: for children and young people who experience an artistic interruption to their everyday school life through dance, for the travelling dance artists and dance educators who show their productions and gain insights into the realities of life in rural regions, and for local dance professionals and representatives of cultural policy who expand their knowledge and network through encounters and exchange. The performances – especially participatory formats such as pop-up or classroom pieces – are framed by workshops, introductions and artist talks.

The touring events are organised in collaboration with the network’s partners (including Tanzregion Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, TanzSzene Baden-Württemberg, tanz.nord and fabrik Potsdam). Over time, the aim is to win over more venues in rural regions and with heterogeneous conditions for contemporary dance and thus offer people all over the country access to dance and thematic spaces for dialogue.

Tour 2024

Tanz Nordwärts – the Tanz weit draußen tour 5-8 November 2024 through the 3-state region of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein.

We are looking forward to 3 pieces with stops in Mölln, Gadebusch and Brügge, Pritzwalk and Lanz.

Tour 2023

In the kick-off year 2023, three touring events were realised in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein and Baden-Württemberg. The aim was to realise a needs-based and sustainable touring format for small to medium-sized productions at venues with a wide variety of structures. In line with the principle of hosting, a production from the region was accompanied by a guest performance from another federal state in the network. This increased the visibility of the dance makers and their artistic signatures and enabled a supra-regional presence and networking.

• Touring event Schleswig-Holstein weiterlesen

• Touring event Baden-Württemberg weiterlesen

• Touring event Mecklenburg-Vorpommern weiterlesen