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FUNDING TO PROMOTE AN ARTISTIC APPROACH
TO 20th CENTURY DANCE

EUROPA NOSTRA AWARDS

In 2016, as one of 28 award winners from 16 countries - and the only German winner - TANZFONDS ERBE received the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards in the category Education, Training and Awareness Raising for its achievements in preserving and communicating the cultural heritage of dance.

WHAT IS TANZFONDS.DE?

Tanzfonds.de is the website dedicated to two funds initiated by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation), namely Tanzfonds Erbe (Dance Heritage Fund) and Tanzfonds Partner (Dance Partner Fund). Although Tanzfonds Partner – a fund for partnerships between schools and dance institutions – expired in 2014, Tanzfonds Erbe has been extended to 2019. DIEHL+RITTER is the non-profit agency which was managing the funds. The archive of Tanzfonds Partner, documentary videos on the Tanzfonds projects as well as additional contributions on the theme of dance heritage can all be found at tanzfonds.de.

SPECIAL FOCUS: DANCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright is an unavoidable aspect of dealing with dance heritage. At the same time, dance is largely omitted from public debates on copyright issues. In addition to contributions to debates, we provide useful tools for dance artists.

NEWS

Lecture by Madeline Ritter
"Movement as Memory: On Memory Culture in Dance"
23 June 2023
TEA, Tenerife

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Dance Technique 2010

A book by Ingo Diehl and Friederike Lampert.
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Modern Dance inscribed on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage

We are very pleased that the Intergovernmental Committee of UNESCO has decided on 30 November 2022 to inscribe "The Practices of Modern Dance in Germany" on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Bureau Ritter - at the time the project executing agency of TANZFONDS ERBE - has been advising and supporting the application and nomination process since 2018 due to its expertise in dance heritage.

What the body remembers

In late summer 2019, the Akademie der Künste in cooperation with DIEHL+RITTER and the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) dedicated an exhibition, a festival, an international campus and a book to the "Century of Dance".

Theater Bielefeld: "past forward" – Interviews

The focus of the past forward evening is on Gerhard Bohner’s late choreographic work Angst und Geometrie (Fear and Geometry), which was commissioned by Berlin’s Hebbel Theater and premiered in 1990. Twenty-eight years later, Theater Bielefeld and its ensemble TANZ Bielefeld (artistic direction: Simone Sandroni) has now restaged the piece under the direction of the former Bohner dancer Petr Tyc. The reconstruction will be supplemented by works by three contemporary choreographers – Simone Sandroni, Overhead Project and Lali Ayguadé – who will be looking at Bohner’s choreography and its intrinsic themes and forms in wholly different ways. In short interviews, the artists involved talk about their access to Angst und Geometry as well as their own new creations.

DANCE ARCHIVES AROUND THE WORLD

An overview of archives and libraries that are either dedicated to dance or cover dance within their remit. Some of the material can be accessed online.

DRAWINGS FROM THE DANCE CONGRESS

A graphic recording team commissioned by TANZFONDS asked Dance Congress 2013 participants about their own dance heritage. Here, we publish the collection of personal, funny, sad and poetic drawings for your own use.

FUNDING TO PROMOTE AN ARTISTIC APPROACHTO 20th CENTURY DANCE

NEWS

Dance Technique 2010

FUNDING TO PROMOTE AN ARTISTIC APPROACH
TO 20th CENTURY DANCE