Dance for young audiences – Aesthetic insights and exchange with artists and stakeholders of the Berlin independent scene
 

Organisation: Offensive Tanz für junges Publikum
Address: Wiesenburg, Wiesenstraße 55, 13357 Berlin-Wedding | Event Map
Meeting point: Participants will meet on the main plaza of the Wiesenburg. Please enter the site from Wiesenstraße 55. Please note - if you enter the address on Google Maps by foot, it may lead you to the other side of Panke River, which is not the right place. When you walk down the alley you will see the group. There will be Offensive Tanz posters on the gate of Wiesenstraße 55.

This session will start with a visit to the site of Wiesenburg in Wedding, where choreographer Isabelle Schad has her studio and will speak in the beautiful garden about her intergenerational approach. We will also hear about “Offensive Tanz für junges Publikum”, a network which was founded to strengthen dance as an art form within Berlin's cultural landscape and about the soon to open Junges Tanzhaus Berlin.

On a bus ride with the “Kulturbus” initiative, which takes around 20.000 children yearly from their creches and schools to theaters in Berlin, participants will then discover PURPLE - International Dance Festival for Young Audiences.

At Theater o.N. in Prenzlauer Berg, participants are invited to a dress rehearsal of “Baobab – A dance performance with live music” (2+) by Cíntia Rangel and a talk with the artist afterwards.

Flat shoes are recommended. Coffee, tea, water and snacks will be provided at no cost to the participants. 

Artists (bios here):
Isabelle Schad - Choreographer
Elena Basteri - Dance dramaturg and curator
Doreen Markert - executive Manager Offensive Tanz
Livia Patrizi - Director, Tanzkomplizen/Tanzzeit, Junges Tanzhaus Berlin
Lars Hecke -  Director Offensive Kulturbus
Inge Zysk - Production Manager, PURPLE International Dance Festival for Young Audiences
Cíntia Rangel - Choreographer, cancer and team "Baobab"

Moderation by: 
Dagmar Domrös - Dramaturg, Theater o.N./Offensive Tanz für junges Publikum

Accessibility & content warnings

• Steps: 11
• No elevator access
• Some doorways are narrower than 90cm
• The walk on the site of Wiesenburg is about 600m, the ground is uneven, some paved, some cobbles, some gravel. There is a construction site there making conditions change. The transfer from Wiesenburg to Theater o.N. will take place by bus
• Taxi drop-off point: in front of the gates of Wiesenburg 55 
• Seating: benches, chairs with no arm rests, steel deck. Back rests can be provided. 
• Indoors and outdoors
• Toilets
• Gender neutral toilets
• Baby changing facilities
• Fairly intensive percussion (performance for 2-3 year olds). No protection provided.
• There may be special lighting effects.
• There may be pollen in the garden. 

Sign-ups for this Journey open on 8 April.