Nicole Fiedler - Project Manager for DIS-TANZEN, Tanzland and overarching funding issues

Nicole Fieder has worked at Dachverband Tanz since 2016 and is currently project manager for DIS-TANZEN, especially for the program part DIS-TANZ-IMPULS, for Tanzland and responsable for overarching funding issues. She also oversees the Network of German Dance Archives and has established the Kreativ-Transfer funding program with Jana Grünewald from 2019 to 2020. On the side, she serves as the team's representative and is available to answer any confidential questions, help with technology issues, and, when there is time, enjoys doing graphic work for the DTD. With a Bachelor's degree in Italian and Musicology (Humboldt University Berlin) and an MA in Dance Science, she also works alongside her work for Dachverband Tanz as a dance teacher for social dance, passing on the joy of dancing.

Michael Freundt - Managing Director

Michael Freundt studied theatre science, philosophy and dance science at the theatre academy "Hans Otto" and the university of Leipzig. He worked as a freelance journalist and critic, among others for zitty, Wochenpost, Theater der Zeit and Berliner Zeitung. He belonged to the directors' team of numerous independent theatre projects and worked for euro-scene Leipzig from 1997 till 2002. After his collaboration on productions in the genres of theatre, dance and ancient music Michael Freundt became deputy managing director of Internationales Theater Institut (ITI) - Zentrum Deutschland at the beginning of 2003. Since 2004, Michael Freundt has been involved in the meetings of Ständige Konferenz Tanz, he coordinated its development into a registered association, and in March 2006 was named managing director of SK Tanz, now called Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.

Indra Genning - Project Collaborator tanz digital

Indra Genning studies theater, history and philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin. After graduating from high school in 2019, she completed a voluntary cultural year in the public relations department of the Staatsballett Berlin and was subsequently taken on as assistant to the artistic director until January 2021. For the umbrella organization Tanz Deutschland, Indra is responsible for tanz digital as a project staff member and supports the public relations department in the area of social media.

Jana Grünewald - Project Coordinator for KREATIV-TRANSFER

Jana Grünewald has been working at the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland since 2013, where she oversees the Creative Transfer funding program and the InfoPlus Producers initiative. Since 2015 she has been part of the editorial team of touring artists, an information and consulting service for internationally mobile artists and cultural workers (www.touring-artists.de). She worked for Club Sisyphos in Berlin, in the areas of artist support and accounting (2013-2016). Jana holds a Bachelor of Dance (Codarts) and a BA in Social Sciences (Humboldt University in Berlin).

Philip Hanebuth - Intern

Philip Hanebuth is joining the German Dance Association during spring 2025 as an intern. Born in Hamburg, he joined the political education scene in 2012 for the first time as a multiplicator for schools and has since worked at multiple cultural and dance festivals. Starting 2020, he's been studying German-French political sciences in Rennes and Eichstätt with a focus (intercultural) communication und european neighbourhood relations. In 2024, he studied at the AUB in Budapest in and will finish his master degree 2026 with a program in Territorial Diplomacy at Sciences Po Strasbourg.

Sophia Herzog - Projects Collaborator for Kreativ-Transfer

Sophia Herzog is a performer, dance educator and production manager. Born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1993, she started her dance career in 2012 with dance pedagogy studies at ArtEZ University of the Arts (Netherlands). She deepened her studies with further studies in stage dance at the Fontys University of the Arts (NL) and has since worked as a dance teacher in various educational institutions. Since 2017 Sophia is a founding member of the circus and dance group KNOT Kollektiv, where she explores the different ways of cultural mediation. Since September 2020, she has been working at the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and actively supports the Kreativ-Transfer project.

Sarah Holzmann - Project Collaborator

Sarah Holzmann studies cultural studies and aesthetic practice - cultural policy in international comparison with a focus on theater and music in Hildesheim. In the past she has been involved in the organization of various festivals and events in the field of dance, contemporary circus, music and theater in Germany and abroad. She is also part of the performance collective Mate Ebene. She is particularly interested in the recontextualization of contemporary circus in combination with music and dance, and how politically relevant issues can be addressed through artistry.

Alexa Junge - Public Relations

Alexa Junge studied Ethnology and Religion at Freie Universität Berlin and at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with the focus on Hinduism, Medical Anthropology and Dance. Since 2007, she has worked in the area of culture management, among others as assistant to the artistic and organizational direction of Zukunft@BPhil, the education department of the Berlin Philharmonic, and at Tanzplan Potsdam: artists in residence teaching and research program at fabrik Potsdam. Since 2007, she has worked freelance in the area of dance at the International Theaterinstitut ITI Germany. Since 2013, she has been responsible for public relations at Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and from 2014 to 2024 for office management at the Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung.

Kerstin Karge - Projects Collaborator for Kreativ-Transfer

Kerstin Karge contributes experience from architecture (weißensee kunsthochschule berlin), gallery operations and cultural management, and spent in event organization at the bildungswerk des bbk berlin for 11 years. Since 2009, she has been particularly active in the independent scene in the field of art in context as a coordinator for project spaces, co-founded the Netzwerk freier Berliner Projekt­räume und -initiativen in 2010, coordinated it for some years. In this connection, she has been actively involved in Berlin's cultural policy. In the last few years, she has also taken on public relations, press management and exhibition coordination for several Berlin art festivals and individual artistic projects. Since March 2023 she has been working for the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst and since May with great pleasure in the Dachver­band Tanz Deutschland (German Dance Association) in the team Kreativ-Transfer - responsible for the field of visual arts.

Bea Kießlinger (*1964 - † 2022)

Bea Kießlinger studied architecture and taught at the TU Stuttgart on the subject of movement and space. In her work, she has focused on contemporary dance for many years, as managing director of cultural institutions, networker, artistic project manager, curator, dramaturge, juror and advocate. She directed Tanz- und Theaterwerkstatt e.V. Ludwigsburg from 1998 to 2007, was a member of the management team of Tanzplattform Deutschland in Stuttgart in 2006, and worked at Theaterhaus Stuttgart as artistic director. In 2009, she founded the state-wide network "TanzSzene BW," on whose board she was active till 2022. For the German Dance Association, Bea Kießlinger was involved in the board from 2010 to 2017, was a member of the initiative group Stadt-Land-Bund, and has been leading the cultural policy dialogue in the funding program TANZPAKT Stadt Land Bund from 2017 till2022. For the German Dance Association, she was also tasked with maintaining regular cultural-political exchange with other associations such as the German Cultural Council, the Alliance of the Liberal Arts, and the Action Alliance for the Performing Arts, and with further developing dance topics in terms of content.

Christina Menne - Office Management

Christina Menne completed her training as a dancer and dance teacher at Rotterdamse Dansacademie, the school for dance and theater in the Netherlands, and at the dance school in Leipzig. Since then she has worked as dancer, director, choreographer and dance teacher in various theatres and institutions both at home and abroad, among others at Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen, Städtische Bühnen Münster, Stadttheater Konstanz, Luxor Theater Rotterdam and Musical Theater Füssen. Before the birth of her second daughter she was the director of the dance department at Heinrich-Schütz-Konservatorium in Dresden, advisor for Verband Deutscher Musikschulen Landesverband Sachsen e.V. in the area of dance, as well as mentor for the subject of dance education in modern dance, childrens' dance and jazz dance at Palucca-Schule Dresden - Hochschule für Tanz. In collaboration with mime centrum in Berlin, she started the childrens' dance project “Kindertanzprojekt Bethanien” at Kunstquartier Bethanien. Since 2012, she has been office manager of Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.

Raquel Moreira

Susanne Schade - Administration

Susanne Schade has been working for Dachverband Tanz Deutschland since the beginning of 2019, first as an intern, then as a project employee. She takes on changing tasks and supports the area of administration. In October 2019, she also began her studies in cultural studies and public law at the University of Potsdam. Prior to that, she was able to gain diverse experience in the field of intercultural and sociocultural education, especially during a longer stay in England as well as a three-month European Voluntary Service in France.

Nicola von Stillfried - Project management cultural-political dialog TANZPAKT / qualification formats / production office

After studying languages and literature in Berlin and spending time in Barcelona and Caracas, Nicola von Stillfried took over production at the Theater am Halleschen Ufer (HAU 2), where she started to build up an international artist management team. At the Milan-based production company Change Performing Arts, she produced and distributed interdisciplinary co-productions for theaters and festivals worldwide. She worked as an assistant for GLITZ. Contemporary Art Project and as a PR and media manager. Since December 2020, Nicola von Stillfried has been working in the production office and cultural-political dialog of TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund to network, qualify and strengthen the dance scene.