DIS-TANZ-START was part of NEUSTART KULTUR, an initiative of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
► The EMERGING DANCE ARTISTS Knowledge Platform is Online
► Evaluation: The Finale Report (with a Summery in English) is Online
► Documenation of the national conference FORUM BERUFSEINSTIEG TANZ
DIS-TANZ-START supported emerging dancers joining the professional dance scene in Germany after their studies/training from mid 2021 until the end of 2023. Requirements for a registration in the programme included a residence in Germany and the qualification as a career starting dancer. The professional dance training must not have been completed before 2019. Formal and non-formal training could both be accepted.
The main part of the funding was a first position of additional emerging dancersin ensembles of German public theatres as well as companies of the established independent dance scene (subject to social insurance contributions). As a rule, the employment should last at least six months, normally a complete season.
In order to be able to cover the personnel and additional costs, ensembles had the possibility to submit a funding application to DIS-TANZ-START until mid-December 2022. Due to the expiration of the NEUSTART KULTUR programmes, a further funding application is no longer possible. Further information can be found in the funding principles.
The accompanying qualification and networking programme continued until the end of 2023 resulting in the new EMERGING DANCE ARTISTS knowledge platform.
DIS-TANZ-START complemented the funding programme DIS-TANZEN, which was also managed by the German Dance Association: DIS-TANZ-SOLO aimed at freelance creative-dance artists and DIS-TANZ-IMPULS at dance schools and dance education in cultural institutions. Together with the funding programmes TANZPAKT RECONNECT and NPN – STEPPING OUT, they formed the dance support programme as part of “Neustart Kultur”, an initiative of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
The two billion rescue programme NEUSTART KULTUR supported the relaunch of cultural life in Germany through supporting very different areas of culture and the media during the pandemic. The focus was primarily on cultural institutions. They were to be enabled to reopen their venues and resume programmes in order to offer artists and creatives prospects for employment and the future.
Further information on NEUSTART KULTUR can be found here.
Since 2006 the German Dance Association (Dachverband Tanz Deutschland) has been working as a nationwide platform for artistic dance in Germany. Founded on the awareness of the players, that dance must speak with one voice in the political landscape of the Federal Republic, it today functions as an association of outstanding organisations, institutions and people for artistic dance in Germany.
Further information can be found here.
