The German Dance Association can continue the Kreativ-Transfer Programme until May 2025. With a significantly higher amount of funding, artists, creatives and producers can be sustainably strengthened in their international market presence and professionalisation. After Kreativ-Transfer I and II (funded with 490,000 euros and 790,000 euros), Kreativ-Transfer III will again be funded with 1.4 million euros by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM). This means another significant strengthening of the programme, which was launched at the beginning of 2019!
Kreativ-Transfer supports individual trips to fairs and festivals as well as strategic projects for international marketing, networking and professionalisation. Accompanied group trips to fairs and festivals form further focal points, including for the first time a "Performing Arts made in Germany" showcase at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024.
The German Dance Association is now planning new calls for proposals together with the cooperating associations, which will be published in spring. At various fairs and festivals - in dance, theatre, performance, visual arts and games - there will be the opportunity to find out about the programme, funding opportunities and workshop offers. | www.kreativ-transfer.de

Marco Goecke's actions towards the critic Wiebke Hüster cannot be justified by anything. The legal consequences will have to be clarified by the courts. Marco Goecke was awarded the German Dance Prize 2022 by an independent jury for his universally recognised artistic work. As the German Dance Association, we follow our code of conduct: "The members of the German Dance Association consider it their duty to work for a working environment in which all people can work free of discrimination, abuse of power and sexual assault and experience mutual respect and appreciation wherever they or their employees are active." We also take this position in the clarification of the conflict with a view to the future. Further steps and consequences are currently being intensively discussed within the German Dance Association and with the partner institutions.