Dance? And afterwards?! Transition workshop in Leipzig, December 2014
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 competencies do I already have? What do I want to develop with them? What can excite and challenge me 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)).
Sunday, December 7, 2014, 1 – 6pm Monday, December 8, 2014, 10am-4pm Soziokulturelles Zentrum “Die Villa”, Lessingstr. 7, 04109 Leipzig. www.villa-leipzig.de
Registration: info@stiftung-tanz.com, (register before November 25, 2014 only 40,- €).
Apply now for educational programs that begin in 2015!
For those of you who would like to receive job training or re-education at a German theater, you must apply in the next few weeks. For example, the Staatstheater Kassel offers job training to become a make-up artist in 2015, among other things. An overview of the career: make-up artists create and realize make-up concepts for stage, film or television productions in cooperation with the directors, costume or stage designers. They apply make-up or do performers’ hair and are responsible for their make-up during the performances or shooting. A make-up artist is a recognized job training career according to the Berufsbildungsgesetz (BBiG) and is a three-year job training program that is federally regulated and certified.
An absolute requirement is a mid-level high school diploma (Mittlere Reife), your GPA should not be below a 3 and you should not have any unexcused absences. You can also submit photos of works you have created – these should be labeled with your name and have a A4 format.
If you are interested, please send us your written application documents (biography, copies of your last three certificates/ letters of recommendation) until 30.11.2014 at the latest to the following address: Staatstheater Kassel
Frau Mittelbach
Friedrichsplatz 15
34117 Kassel
Additional job training positions beginning in the fall of 2015 at: www.buehnenjobs.de
Extension of the ALG I special regulations to the benefit of employees in the cultural sector
On 15.10.2014, the federal government decided that the special regulations for the eased procurement of ALG I for mostly short-term employees, which was limited to December 2014 at first, will now be extended for one year. State minister Monika Grütters explained: “The continuation of this ALG I regulation is of great importance for employees in the cultural sector. With this extension, the federal government gained time to deal with necessary improvements in social security after short-term employment. I will continue to be committed to ensuring that this limited regulation is replaced by a follow-up regulation that sufficiently accounts for the special circumstances of career biographies in the cultural sector in accordance with the coalition agreement.”
While one generally gains a right to unemployment benefits I (ALG I) if one is employed for 12 months in a job subject to social insurance contributions within a two year period, the special regulation that has now been extended has eased prerequisites: you can attain ALG I benefits if you were employed for six months in a job subject to social insurance contributions within a two year period and the majority of these jobs were limited to no more than 10 weeks. In addition, a certain level of income can’t exceed a certain level.
Comparison of foreign qualifications
Dance careers have long been global, and in this sense they are a trendsetter for an increasingly internationalized labor market. But if you are unsure if you can apply for a position in the public sector, for example, as a research assistant at a university of the arts, you can get advice.
The statewide IQ network (central headquarters for the recognition of qualifications in Bonn) and its partners support you with general advisement, tests and certifications for diplomas attained in foreign countries.
Additional information: www.netzwerk-iq.de
Dance on ensemble – Call for applications
DANCE ON is an initiative for dancers over the age of 40. It has been conceived by Diehl Ritter and made possible thanks to the support of Germany’s Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM). It is a multi-faceted initiative, but at its core is the DANCE ON Ensemble, which will be made up of artists over 40 who will collaborate in the creation of new work with a select group of some of today’s most interesting choreographers and theatre makers. Work will be carried out under the artistic direction of Christopher Roman. The sustainability of these artists’ experience and the physical embodiment of the culmination of their life’s work are two reasons why DANCE ON is such a key initiative in the current dance landscape. The creation of new work aims to highlight the value of these artists as well as the need for their presence, as they continue to contribute to today‘s dance dialogue. DANCE ON is calling for applications from dancers aged over 40, with a high level of professional and artistic experience and interested in committing to this exciting new initiative for a period of two years, starting November 2015, as members of the core ensemble. Deadline for applications is 10 December 2014. Mehr unter: WWW.DIEHL-RITTER.DE
Stiftung TANZ at the 6th Berlin Day of Foundations (Stiftungstag)
The biannual Berlin Day of Foundations is meant as a forum for meetings, communication and networking of foundations. It also intends to make the diversity of Berlin’s landscape of foundations visible and inspire people to get become more socially committed. For dancers who have an interest in civic engagement and organizational skills, this day could also be valuable; you can look at foundations as potential future employers.
The 6th Berliner Stiftungstag takes place on November 14th from 11 am to 6 pm at the Berlin Rathaus. Stiftung TANZ has a booth…
On this day, the Berlin Senate acknowledges the work and commitment of foundation members as an important building block of a civil society. The Berliner Stiftungstag is directed at foundations that are active in Berlin, the foundations’ volunteers, potential donors and people who are interested in the subject.
More at: www.berlin.de/bue…
Sincerely,
Sabrina Sadowska, Heike Scharpff & Andrea Thomas