In November, the Cultural Commission of the Conference of Ministers of Education of the German “Länder” (KMK) met and discussed, among other things, the continued support of the Stiftung TANZ – Transition Center Germany. It was decided that all the Länder that were previously involved in the subsidies would continue at a level of € 30,000 each for two years. Thus the Länder Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Lower Saxony, North-Rhein Westfalia, Saxony und Thuringia, all strong in dance, have been supporting the Stiftung TANZ since 2013 via the Conference of Ministers of Education of the German “Länder” (KMK) with annual contributions and benefits at state theaters. Our thanks go to all supporters for this unique initiative.
What happens after your dance career? What can you do besides dance to survive financially? This workshop helps you develop a new career idea. What can excite and challenge you in a future career?
This workshop offers all necessary information for a transition to a new career. All freelance or permanently employed dancers are welcome.
Topics: researching your own competencies & interests, developing visions for the future & planning concrete steps, profiting from others’ experience & networking.
Individual counseling is available that can be continued after the workshop.
Workshop directors: Katrin Kolo, Dipl. Economist, dancer, choreographer and executive consultant, founder of arts-in-business, co-founder of Transition-in-Dance in Munich. Heike Scharpff, project director Stiftung TANZ-Transition Center Germany, Dipl. Psychologist, theater director, co-founder Waggonhalle Marburg, drama therapist.
Own share/cost: 50,- € per participant (Stiftung-TANZ covers travel costs with the train (Bahncard 50/ early booking/ Bahncard 25)).
Starts a bit later as usual: Sunday, November 29th 2015, 3 pm – 8.30 pm & Monday, November 30th 2015, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm. Tanzhaus NRW, Erkrather Str. 30, 40233 Düsseldorf
Registration: info@stiftung-tanz.com.
With kind support from iDASnrw.
More Workshops in this season: 6.and 7.3.2016 in Stuttgart/ 3. and 4.7.2016 in Berlin
“Formulated as a vision of the future at the beginning of the millennium, the “internet of things” has long since become reality. In 2020, approximately 50 billion devices will be online; in 2013 it was only nine billion!” (quote: www.technologieforum.com/) Our communication will continue to be digitalized, globalized and networked. It will become more and more important to draw attention to yourself with quality and ethically correct offers and to differentiate yourself from the mass of general offers or your specific competition. If you don’t interest (potential) clients fast enough and are still optimally effective, they will be gone with a click. This trend is an enormous communicative challenge for all branches. Creative personalities are thus currently in demand!
For ex-dancers who are strong on communications and are sensitive and drawn to technology, who not only enjoy using PCs, smartphones and the internet but do so sovereignly, there are many career opportunities in online journalism, product and business communications and marketing. And you don’t need to have studied IT or electronics in order to have a chance in these diverse career fields!
For example, the ems – ELECTRONIC MEDIA SCHOOL in Potsdam-Babelsberg offers training, internships and trainee programs. Currently, the admissions deadline is upcoming for the 12-month practice-oriented modular trainee program “Content Marketing”; it is a creative and remarkably agile mix of PR, journalism and marketing that is immensely important for successful business communications. This program starts on May 2nd 2016 and includes, in addition to a theoretical education in multimedia publishing and practical content marketing, two paid internship periods at partner businesses (that can also be theaters). Costs (partial) can possibly be covered by the Arbeitsamt; this should be checked on an individual basis. Additional information at: www.ems-babelsberg.de/tra… and:
Sigrid Reuter, director of internship programs,
tel. 49 331 731 32 00,
e-mail: sigrid.reuter@ems-babelsberg.de
The film and video field taps into dancers’ creative talents, but also demands technical understanding. In this area, there are organizational tasks (e.g. assistant directors, production bureau, recording management) that one can qualify for with a lateral entry in longer internships; one can also perform creative/technical tasks such as camera or editing. For these careers, completing an educational program or at least a seminar is certainly useful.
In cooperation with the Filmhaus Babelsberg and the Münchner Filmwerkstatt, the Filmhaus Köln is offering full-time continued education for 3,5 months to be a cutter and cameraman or camerawoman. Together with experts from the field, they developed qualification measures that directly and practically communicate the skills and abilities needed to become a cutter or cameraman or camerawoman. In addition to theoretical foundations, craft, technological talent and design skills are the focus of this continued education program. The objective is to estimate, evaluate and work on image and sound material in reference to technical quality, filmic design, dramaturgy, timing and dynamics, the transmission goal, target group and scheduling.
Since the continued education programs have a limited length, it is also thinkable that one could attends both educational programs one after another and then become a freelancer with both qualifications, e.g. in order to offer video recording for dance and theater or consumer advertising.
Seminars for other film careers such as recording director, assistant director, head of production, etc. are also being offered in cooperation with the three film institutions. Numerous seminars can be subsidized by the Arbeitsagentur educational voucher.
More information at: www.filmhaus.koeln/lehrgaenge/
www.muenchner-filmwerkstatt.de/…
www.filmhausbabelsberg.de
At the Universität Salzburg, department of music and dance sciences, four teaching contracts are being offered for the summer semester 2016: dance history, dance notation, methods and objectives in the dance sciences, proseminar or lecture or exercise from the dance sciences. Each contract is made up of 2 semester hours per week.
Requested are applications from appropriately qualified dance scientists. Applications must be submitted by December 7th 2015.
Additional information from the secretary of the department for music and dance sciences:
Maria.Opriessnig@sbg.ac.at, tel.: 0043-(0)662-8044-4650.
A union is an association of employees that represents their economic, social and cultural interests in relation to their employers. For artistic employees at German stages, the „Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Angehöriger“ (GDBA) has been active for over 100 years; since the end of the 1950s, the Vereinigung deutscher Opernchöre und Bühnentänzer e.V. (VdO) was added.
GDBA and VdO are the tariff partners for the employers’ association, the Deutsche Bühnenverein; they negotiate the tariff contracts. Both unions offer their members free legal protection and counseling for all career questions. They support the development of retirement insurance at the Versorgungsanstalt der deutschen Bühnen and represent their members in professional issues towards the public, the Länder and municipalities as well as the federal government.
A membership in a union can offer security for dancers in the case of unclear contract issues, illness or disability and necessary transition measures, since one has free legal representation.
More information at: www.buehnengenossenschaft.de and www.vdoper.de
On November 3rd and 4th 2015, an exchange meeting of the European transition centers took place at which Sabrina Sadowska and Heike Scharpff also participated. The Instytut für Musyk i Tanza Warsaw hat sent out the invitations; it is currently beginning a transition program that is financed by the Polish Cultural Ministry. The program includes coaching, psychological support as well as scholarships for dancers. The project’s organizers invited the responsible leaders as well as advisers from the transition centers in the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Germany in order to profit from their experience. The meeting was very productive for all participating transition experts. The network of European transition experts offers a trustworthy basis for dancers’ career shifts after their dance careers.
After numerous benefits in 2015 at the Hamburg Ballett, Friedrichstadtpalast, Stuttgarter Ballett, Dance Company Nanine Linning / Theater Heidelberg, Gauthier Dance Company, ballet of the Nationaltheater Mannheim as well as the galas at the Staatstheater Kassel and the Tanzcompagnie Giessen, the Bayerische Staatsballett’s performance of “Le Corsaire” followed: our foundation received €5 per ticket. As was the case this year, the Ballet Hagen in Hameln will give a benefit gala on March 6th 2016.
Thank you for this great contribution!