Consultation

The following forms of advice are offered free of charge, the aim being to give the city’s dance artists in-depth information and opportunities to network, and provide newcomers to Berlin with an initial guide to the dance scene:

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Individual advice

At our email address beratungnoSpam@tanzbuero-berlin.de, we are available for all questions relating to your professional dance work (overview of the Berlin dance landscape, its actors, institutions and funding instruments, funding opportunities for a specific project idea, making your own work visible, budget, contract and insurance issues, etc.). Depending on your needs and capacities, we can provide advice in writing, by telephone or in a personal meeting (usually online). If necessary, we will refer you to specialist advisors from our pool of experts. For capacity reasons, it is not possible to provide concrete support for a project during the application process (support with text work, financing plans); we are happy to refer you to dramaturges and production managers.

We usually get back to you promptly within 3-4 days by email or telephone.

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Tanzbüro workshops

We hold regular group workshops on topics relevant to freelance dancers, and themes which regularly come up during individual advice sessions. Experts in various professions run these workshops on topics such as application writing, budgeting/billing, touring/networking, press/public relations, the Artists' Social Security Fund/insurance, etc.

Next Dates:

Mai 23, 2025: Concept Making with Ulrike Flämig
June 12, 2025: No fear: Cost and financing plans with Selina Glockner
June 2025: Exchange format with Maxwell McCarthy
June 2025: From dance to text with Yu Bai

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Facebook group for discussion and networking

By popular request, we founded the Facebook group Zeitgenössischer Tanz in Berlin – Die Gruppe für Austausch und Vernetzung in 2018 as a means of rapid networking among contemporary dance artists. The group acts as a notice board, for example for people looking for production managers, wanting to share a rehearsal room or find artists for a joint project – or even ask the Tanzbüro questions. To make the entries easier to read, posts advertising performances or workshops are deliberately excluded.

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