TANZWERKSTATT
EUROPA
Together with the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich, every year since 1991 JOINT ADVENTURES has organized TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA – a workshop for new ideas and aesthetics in contemporary dance and performance and hot spot for choreographers, teachers and professionals – for all people who take great delight in dancing. The audience comes from Munich, Bavaria and the whole world.
Workshop
Program
2023
This summer you can not only discover a wide range of contemporary dance techniques for 10 or 5 days, but also: gain insights into current artistic working methods; try out your own choreographic material and share it with participants from all over the world; experience and expand the possibilities of your body anew in partnering classes; do something good for your body with Feldenkrais, Pilates, Yoga or Tai-Chi Dao-Yin; dance your heart out in various repertory and partnering classes; dive into the world of contemporary dance and contact improvisation with dancers of different physical abilities; develop your skills in urban dance; train ballet in a new, contemporary way or free yourself with voguing.
The workshops are offered in different levels, so there is something for everyone – whether you are a professional dancer, performer, student, long-time hobby dancer or a dance-loving beginner!
Support
Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München, Bayerischer Landesverband für Zeitgenössischen Tanz (BLZT) aus Mitteln des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Bezirk Oberbayern, NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ Gastspielförderung Tanz, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, sowie den Kultur- und Kunstministerien der Länder, Sozialreferat der Landeshauptstadt München – Koordinierungsbüro zur Umsetzung der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention
The next edition of TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA takes place from August 1 – 11, 2023.
Summer Dance Classes for professional & amateur dancers
With its workshop program TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA offers a wide range of workshops and intensive classes in various contemporary dance techniques and bodywork. Both professionals and amateurs can gain valuable and unique insights into artistic working methods, which are led by renowned national and international dancers, choreographers and lecturers. The courses offer the opportunity to train oneself at a high level in various contemporary dance styles and movement methods.
Dance &
Performance
With its performance programme, the TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA presents current works by renowned pioneers of contemporary dance for 10 days. Newcomers are also invited to present their works to the Munich audience. For spectators* and the interested public from the area, this offers a unique opportunity to see current practices and forms in contemporary dance at a high international level.
against all odds
30 years of TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA
In a parcours of dance, performative, artistic, theoretical as well as personal contributions – live and digitally – artists and theorists who have accompanied TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA over the past 30 years have reflected on the possibilities of dance and choreography, but also on forms of living together in the future. How can we – against all odds – continue to dance or dance against the circumstances?
With contributions by:
Esther Balfe, Jérôme Bel, Jonathan Burrows, Ramsay Burt, Boris Charmatz, Janez Janša, Jin Lee, Lucas Lopez, Àngels Margarit, Anna Mendelssohn, Jeremy Nelson, Ceren Oran, Moritz Ostruschnjak, Virginie Roy, Ana Vujanović, Frank Willens
The SymPodium took place on August 6, 2021 at Muffathalle. It has been recorded and can be re-watched here: