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Further funding for Dance On
5.625 million euro in funding for dance
With the 2024 budget resolution, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) is providing funds of 5.625 million euros for the continuation of the TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund funding program. This continues the joint initiative of municipalities, federal states and the BKM for the sustainable artistic and structural strengthening of dance as an art form in Germany. There will be two rounds of calls for proposals in the 2025–2030 funding period.
All information on the application process and advisory services is available at www.tanzpakt.de.
Launched in 2017, the match-funding program is considered an exemplary funding model for successful cultural federalism in all artistic disciplines. Developed in close coordination between the federal, state and local authorities, TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund enables long-term collaborations and innovative development concepts that benefit dance professionals throughout Germany, as the current evaluation shows.
The program is aimed at artists, ensembles, production structures and networks. In addition to multi-year funding for new projects, projects from previous funding rounds are also given the opportunity to apply for further development of their concepts. A nationwide information event on the continuation of TANZPAKT is planned for early 2025.
Madeline Ritter at the Culture Committee
Dance was an issue at the Committee for Culture and Media. In its 58th meeting on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, an expert discussion took place under the motto “Stable structures, efficient funding and strong networks for dance nationwide”. Madeline Ritter gave a statement entitled “What dance needs now!” and emphasized the need for sustainable structural support.
The lively discussion is now available in German in the media centre of the Bundestag.
Other guests among the panel included Walter Heun (Project Director NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ, Artistic Director and Managing Director JOINT ADVENTURES), Dr. Kerstin Evert (Member of the network explore dance – Tanz für junges Publikum, Director K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg), Michael Freundt (Management and Project Management Dachverband Tanz Deutschland), Gerda Brodmann-Raudonikis (Director esistso!company, Tanztheater der Lebenshilfe Braunschweig) and Yohan Stegli (Organizational Director BUNDESJUGENDBALLETT).
Support for Ukraine
The German Minister of State for Culture and the Media is collaborating with the federal states and the German Foreign Office to deliver an emergency support programme for cultural workers fleeing the war in Ukraine.
Within its funding programmes Bureau Ritter has enabled the following initiatives to quickly provide aid in an unbureaucratic manner: Tanzfaktur in Cologne, Perform[d]ance in Stralsund, the Lunapark initiative in Berlin and the choreographers Yolanda Gutiérrez in Hamburg and Anna Konjetzky in Munich are supporting refugee artists through residencies, projects, performances and exhibitions.