Board
The business board of Aktion Tanz – Bundesverband Tanz in Bildung und Gesellschaft e.V. is being elected for two years by the general meeting. Since the election in the frame of the general meeting from July 1st 2023, the business board looks the following:
Livia Patrizi
Livia Patrizi grew up in Naples and studied dance and choreography at the Folkwang University of the Arts, among others. She has had numerous engagements as a dancer – among others with Cullberg Ballet – Mats Ek, Pina Bausch, Maguy Marin. As a freelance choreographer she has shown her productions in several European countries. She is the initiator and artistic director of the TanzZeit Berlin programme. As a mediation institution, dance venue for young audiences and further education partner, a practice-oriented, extensive and differentiated knowledge about the mediation of dance art in a social context gathers under the umbrella of TanzZeit. Until the beginning of 2019, she led the four-year research development project “Kunstlabor Tanz”, from which the digital practice tool Calypso emerged. In 2021, she worked as a lecturer in the certificate course “Artistic Interventions in Cultural Education” at the Institute for Cultural Policy at the University of Hildesheim. Within the framework of TANZKOMPLIZEN, she has artistically and dramaturgically accompanied productions that have been shown nationwide and internationally.
www.tanzzeit-berlin.de | https://tanzkomplizen.de/
Wiebke Dröge
Wiebke Dröge graduated with a degree in sports science from the Ruhr University in Bochum in 1996. Before and during this time, she studied contemporary dance and subsequently pursued an international teaching career. She consolidated her approaches in 2001-2006 as head of the dance department at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. With the launch of Tanzplan Deutschland, her focus is on dance performances with young people at theatres; among other things, she was artistic director of Klub_21 at Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt from 2012 to 2016. She developed a dance-in-schools concept for Tanzlabor_21 and is still involved in the transfer of knowledge of dance artistic work and the strengthening of the leading actors. She regularly receives funding for her work outside of classical theatre spaces, for example for invasive spatial installations Familie Montez (2008), interactive installations dEWORDRöGE (2016-2019), photo choreography (2020), video podcast (2021) and performative radio broadcasts (2022). All her works address aspects of identity and identification.
www.wiebkedroege.de
Bahar Meriç
Bahar Meriç is a choreographer and initiator. She works project-related and interdisciplinary with dancers, actors and amateurs of different ages in the fields of dance, theatre, performance and community dance and develops artistic-educational formats and programmes. The focus of her work lies in the fields of identity and diversity and in researching how these themes are located in the body.
Bahar is a member of Future Move e. V. The association aims to make people and their issues visible through dance and movement, people who have so far been insufficiently represented in cultural and artistic life. The association’s offers should enable access and participation, empower people and support them in their artistic development.
www.baharmeric.com | www.futuremove.e
Assessors of the board:
Andrea Marton
Andrea Marton is a freelancing dance artist in Munich. As co-director of Fokus Tanz Munich, she is responsible for the professional support and further training of the pool of dancers.
For more than 20 years she has been conceiving and directing cross-generational projects for everyone regardless of their origin or body, focussing on the urge of participation in artistic processes especially for socially or culturally less privileged people. The pursuit of justice and equality, as well as the sensitization and unveiling of political correlations are essential to her work.
Since 2020 (scholarship Dis-Tanzen Solo) she has been researching and developing digital methods and approaches of dance dissemination in educational and extracurricular contexts that she is already facilitating in various modules of further training. She had been also responsible for the concept of “reconnect participative dance“ (available in German only) for Aktion Tanz in the frame of Neustart Kultur.
Since 2020 (scholarship Dis-Tanzen Solo) she has been researching and developing digital methods and approaches of dance dissemination in educational and extracurricular contexts that she is already facilitating in various modules of further training. She had been also responsible for the concept of “reconnect participative dance“ (available in German only) for Aktion Tanz in the frame of Neustart Kultur.
www.andrea-marton.de | www.fokustanz.de | www.dance-on.de
Anna-Lu Masch
Anna-Lu Masch works as a dancer, choreographer and dance facilitator. She is a certified DANAMOS (“Dance-Native-Motion-System”) teacher and completed the LTTA (“Learning through the Arts”) artist training. In 2012, Anna-Lu founded “Bad Honnef tanzt” and managed the dance festival of the same name, the association and the cultural education projects in the Rhein-Sieg district in cooperation with over 18 schools for over ten years. She is passionate about stage work with school classes and amateur performers of all ages in connection with interdisciplinary arts and diverse artists. She also works as a reference artist in the Rhineland-Palatinate cultural school programme “Generation K”, is a member of the artists’ collective “KoopK” as well as “Kunst-Mobil” and, as part of the “Distanzen-Solo-Stipendium”, has been the permanent director of the Sophie-Täuber Arp movement programme at the “Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck” since 2023. Anna-Lu gives further training in the field of dance education, heads the working group “Dance and School Development” and is a focal point for the further training programme “TandemTANZ” in the federal association. As of the 23/24 season, Masch is a permanent dance facilitator for community projects at the Theater Bonn. She lives with her husband and four sons in Rheinbreitbach.
Linda Müller
Linda Müller is a qualified sports scientist and physiotherapist and has been working for more than 20 years on establishing dance projects in various social contexts. From 2003 to 2017 she worked for the nrw landesbuero tanz e.V. in Cologne. There she built up the department of dance in schools, later dance education, and was involved in numerous projects for the strategic development and safeguarding of dance art in cultural education. She developed offer formats for dance with and for children and young people and was involved in the founding of Aktion Tanz – Bundesverband Tanz in Bildung und Gesellschaft e.V., among others. Together with her nationally active colleagues, she works on the quality framework for dance in schools and on issues of political education. In 2017, she was a strong advocate for diversity in cultural education at the Zukunftsakademie NRW. With her work on the board of the DIN A13 tanzcompany, she continues to pursue her concern to get one step closer to participatory justice in art and culture, and on the board of the Kulturrat NRW she is committed to giving art and culture in NRW more recognition. Today she works for the State Association of Music Schools in NRW as a quality development officer for the JeKits programme.
Graham Smith
Graham Smith has been working on the shore of professional dance, choreography and dance dissemination for 30 years. His projects are characterized by interdisciplinary and cross-generational work. His main interest lies in the discovery of political dimensions of an “embodied society“ that become apparent through artistic dance projects. After being a dancer and choreographer at different theaters, he has been directing the dance department “Young Theater“ at Theater Freiburg since 2006. In this frame he has conceived and directed the education reform project LEARNING BY MOVING. For many years now he has been initiating cross-generational amateur ensembles. The SCHOOL OF LIFE AND DANCE is researching the own personal development in dance and is looking for new forms of production. Smith was the directer of the city project DIE ANDERE SEITE that is exploring different forms of living together and future urban development. In 2015, he had been awarded with the SolidarEnergie Prize and in 2020 with the Reinhold-Schneider prize of the city of Freiburg.