Goals and objectives
The goal of Aktion Tanz – Bundesverband Tanz in Bildung und Gesellschaft consists of making dance accessible for all social groups as an individual expression and form of contemporary art and thus integrating dance as a self-evident component of cultural education in the landscape of culture and education. Aktion Tanz focuses on quality development and assurance of dance dissemination with an emphasis on diversity, inclusion and participation.
Its core mission is to reinforce dance as artistic form and to anchor it further in our society. Aktion Tanz supports participants who advocate for dance and show civil society engagement. The work does not (anymore) concentrate on the school, children and youth sector only, as the range of the employment sector has broadened significantly: for several years now, dance dissemination projects take more and more place in nurseries, youth organization centers, retirement homes, cultural education institutions and in various other – even cross-generational – contexts.
The realization of this objective shall be obtained by
- Quality assurance of dance offers and further the education of choreographers, dancers and dance pedagogues
- Further training and education for the participants via various formats (continuous professional support, regional conferences, regular symposiums)
- Dialogue with other art disciplines as well as educational institutions
- Generating stimuli in order to push forward research issues, in particular in regard of evaluation and impact research of dance in educational institutions
- Study of education policy conditions for dance in the federal states and mediation work on a political level
- national networking of dance projects and joint work in Public Relations
- Networking between the artistic, research and educational oriented dance scene
- Providing resources and tools in support of third parties so they can realize their respective objectives and missions
- Conceptional further development of models and project formats
Link to the SATZUNG (only available in German) from Aktion Tanz e.V.