For many dance ensembles, companies and independent cultural producers, platforms, fairs and festivals are important places to meet, to initiate new contacts, guest performance agreements and possible co-productions.
Dachverband Tanz Deutschland is committed at various levels to the international networking of the German dance scenes and has launched several initiatives and funding projects in recent years to finance travel for producers and directors of dance ensembles and to initiate spaces for encounter and dialogue.
In 2022, we presented the project ‘Tanz aus Deutschland / Dance Update Germany’ in cooperation with various partners at the Internationalen Tanzmesse NRW (Düsseldorf, Germany) and at the CINARS festival (Montreal, Canada).
The German Dance Association was the sponsor of the pilot project "Export Promotion in the Market for the Performing Arts - Focus on Dance," which was funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM). The goal of the program was to strengthen the visibility of contemporary dance produced in Germany, especially by supporting networking activities. Funding was provided for participation in dance fairs, platforms and festivals in Germany, Europe and internationally, as well as for coaching and the establishment of a media presence for German dance ensembles via Internet portals and websites. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic the project was in part postponed and extended till 2022.
ENICPA is a network of specialists from Europe in the field of performing arts information, documentation and collections.
The European Network of Information Centres for the Performing Arts (ENICPA) network aims to function as an open meeting place for information and documentation institutions and their professionals. It provides a platform for cooperation between its members for
The Media Library for Dance and Theater is situated at the Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin, Germany, and is a project of the ITI Zentrum Deutschland (Internationale Theater Inistitute) and a place for artistic research and discussion on cultural-political and technological developments in dance and theater.
Our streaming and knowledge platform tanz:digital will be working more closely with the French video platform Numéridanse in future.
Numéridanse is the first video platform dedicated exclusively to dance. It is free and open to all, offering a unique collection of videos including filmed performances, documentaries, interviews, short films and feature films. All dance genres, styles and forms are represented, offering a comprehensive overview of the richness and diversity of the choreographic heritage.
Its mission: to make an invaluable choreographic heritage accessible to as many people as possible. Our goal: to be an indispensable tool for the world of dance – for artists, audiences, cultural professionals and educators.
Through Numéridanse, dance is shared, passed on and experienced at the intersection of the arts and eras.
Numéridanse is free of charge and freely accessible without geographical restrictions. All content available on the platform can only be streamed online and cannot be downloaded. Artists, companies, theatres, festivals, institutions, producers and cultural organisations enrich the video archive by making their works accessible. All uploaded content remains the property of the authors or the institution that owns the rights to it. The platform serves as a space for the presentation and dissemination of these works.
Since its creation in 2011, the platform has been managed and operated by the Maison de la Danse in Lyon. Numéridanse is also developed in collaboration with the media library team at the Centre National de la Danse (CND) and supported by the French Ministry of Culture.