The German Dance Association (DTD) is providing travel grants for ten dance educators from abroad to travel to Germany for further training.
The call for applications “Dance Educators – Travel Grant to Germany,” addressed dance educators and mediators living in both European and non-European countries. The funding aims to facilitate their participation in movement analysis and teacher training programmes offered in Germany. The funding covers travel and accommodation costs.
The jury was able to select in the current funding round 2025 around one-quarter of the applicants for funding. The program supports dance professionals from diverse stylistic backgrounds and regions. The aim is to promote international exchange, networking, and qualification in the field of dance pedagogy. A similar travel grant initiative was successfully implemented by the DTD in 2023.
Currently, no further call for applications is planned.
The following dance educators and dance mediators are being supported by the ‘Dance Educators - Travel Grant to Germany’ programme:
Ort der Fortbildung | Titel der Fortbildung | Bildungseinrichtung |
Mainz | CCL Mainz '25 | Motion Bank |
Remscheid | Elementary Music Program - Basic (EMP) | Akademie der Kulturellen Bildung |
Berlin | Creating Dance in Art and Education | TanzTangente in Kooperation mit dem Berlin Career College der Universität der Künste Berlin |
Berlin | Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies (LBMS) | Eurolab |
Berlin | Carriers of Chaos and Harmony: Rhythmic Identities and Coexistence Meaningful Movement Embodied Perspectives | Tanzfabrik Kreuzberg |
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.
Be van Vark, Claudia Feest, Rajyashree Ramesh – Jury members
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