Call for applications
The German Dance Association is pleased to announce the opening of applications for our travel and accommodation grant. This grant is designed to support individuals outside of Germany who wish to attend movement analysis or teacher training programmes in Germany. The aim is to facilitate international exchange, networking and qualification in the field of dance pedagogy.
Open to:
Grant Details:
Application deadline:24 Apr 2025 (23:59 CET)
How to Apply:
The application process has ended.
Including the following documents:
Applications will be carefully reviewed. The grantees will be selected by an expert jury.
Further information on the jury in the section ‘The Jury’.
If you encounter any accessibility challenges during the application process or concerning travel arrangements, please contact us by email. We’re here to assist and discuss available options.
Feel free to contact us at tanzpaedagogik(at)dachverband-tanz.de.
Contact persons: Susanne Schade, Nicole Fiedler, Michael Freundt
We look forward to receiving your application!
Best regards,
German Dance Association
The call for applications by the German Dance Association for "Dance Educators – Travel Grant to Germany" brought a large number of very diverse applications for various training programs. Particularly pleasing were the many applications from different regions of the world, including noteworthy ones from the global south. Several criteria were ultimately decisive for the expert jury, such as the content goals of the training program chosen by the applicant, their learning objectives, and also the impact of these for various fields of application and the respective region. The lively discussion led to a selection based on thematic fit and accuracy, social and artistic impact as well as socio-educational or body-therapeutic aspects and thereby the role of dance.
An expert jury consisting of three people decided on the selection of the grantees.
The members of the jury are:
Claudia Feest
Dancer, choreographer, graduate biologist, breathing and movement teacher and therapist
Initiator and co-founder of Tanzfabrik Berlin and its artistic director until late 2003. Artistic director of Tanznacht Berlin and Tanz made in Berlin until 2004.
Co-founder of Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and board member until late 2021. Coordinator for Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz (HZT) Berlin. Teaching activities,
committee and jury work, including Aktion Tanz - Bundesverband Tanz in Bildung und Gesellschaft, Tanzkommission NRW, Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung (GTF), Kuratorium Tanztreffen der Jugend, Runder Tisch Tanz Berlin and member of the TanzArchiv Berlin coordination group.
Rajyashree Ramesh
Performer, choreographer, Laban/Bartenieff movement analyst and cultural scientist (dance/movement)
Living in Berlin since 1977, her artistic work over the decades brings unique transdisciplinary cross-cultural approaches to performing arts. Based on her practice of Nāṭya, she expanded the pedagogical and choreographic scope of dance theatre through experimental training methods, multigenre stage productions with international artists and outreach programmes. She currently writes about, presents and teaches the new movement-analytic methods developed during her cross-disciplinary doctoral research.
Be van Vark
Choreographer and lecturer
The breadth of her choreographic work is characterised by a passion for realising participatory projects, moving both one and hundreds of people, developing projects for the stage as well as for public spaces.
Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier honoured her with the Federal Cross of Merit for her work. The laudatory speech gets to the heart of her work and the systemic relevance of culture in general - it says: ‘Be van Vark shows that culture is not an elitist luxury pursuit, but is part of everyone's existence’.
Websites: http://bevanvark.wordpress.com | https://www.taenzerohnegrenzen.de
The Dance Educators Travel Grant to Germany is aimed at professionals in the field of dance education, who are based outside of Germany. It is open to individuals working in all areas of movement and dance who wish to pursue consecutive and longer-term training in dance pedagogy or movement analysis in Germany.
No, since the grant is specifically meant the facilitate international exchange and qualification by bringing foreign professionals to consecutive and longer-term trainings in Germany.
The funding is intended for consecutive and longer-term training programmes in the fields of dance education, dance mediation and movement analysis.
Eligible programmes may include those offered by professional associations or vocational schools, among others.
Consecutive training programmes must be designed to further develop professional qualification. Initial training programmes are therefore excluded.
Training programmes must take place over a longer period, i.e. cover several days or several weekends. One-day seminars are therefore excluded.
The consecutive and longer-term trainings must take place within Germany.
Further training programmes must take place between 1 May 2025 and 31 July 2026.
Consecutive and longer-term training programmes must take place between May 1, 2025 and July 31, 2026. The designated programme may start before or finish beyond this funding period. Please note that only the actual costs that occur within the funding period are eligible for reimbursement by the Dance Educators Travel Grant to Germany.
Applications can be made for travel and accommodation costs incurred when attending consecutive and longer-term training programmes.
The following costs can be funded:
The following costs are not covered:
To apply you are not required to submit a detailed cost calculation, but you will have to provide an estimated amount (rounded up). If your application is successful, this will be the maximum funding you can receive for your actual expenses. We recommend researching current prices for transportation and accommodation for your travel dates to create a realistic estimate.
In the online application form you can choose a funding amount suitable to your estimated travel and accommodation costs (rounded up). The maximum funding amount differs for geographically European and non-European applicants:
European applicants may apply for up to 1.000,00 €
Non-European applicants may apply for up to 1.500,00 €
Please note that, if your actual costs are higher than the approved funding amount, you will have to cover the additional costs from your own resources.
Please be aware that the estimated required funding amount determines the maximum amount you will receive in case of funding. You will only be able to claim the actual costs of your expenses up to this maximum amount. Additional costs need to be covered from your own resources.
The deadline for applications is 24 April 2025 23:59 (CET).
The application can be submitted in English or German.
If you are already receiving a fund covering your travel and accommodation expenses, you are not eligible to apply.
The expert jury consists of Claudia Feest, Rajyashree Ramesh and Be van Vark.
Further information on the jury in the section ‘The Jury’.
The review process and decision on your application by the jury will take some time. We will notify you of the result in the end of May 2025.
If you are selected for funding, you will receive a contract, including the travel expense claim form.
Please keep any original receipts (tickets, invoices, parking tickets, etc.)!
You submit them to us after the travel.
After completion of the training programme, a filled-in questionnaire as well as relevant image and video material must be submitted as part of the evaluation, to provide an insight into the training and the success of the funding.
Contact us by e-mail at tanzpaedagogik(at)dachverband-tanz.de or join our online consultations via Zoom on the following dates (link will be available on the website):
If you encounter any accessibility challenges during the application process or concerning travel arrangements, please contact us by email. We’re here to assist and discuss available options.