Newsletter Oktober

DANCE? And afterwards?! Transition workshop / November 7th 2016 / Berlin 

Our basic workshop to deal with the transition time. More than 130 dancers have benefited in the last 5 years of this workshop format.

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).

Monday, November 7th 2016:
11 o’clock am until 7:30 o’clock pm / Theaterhaus Mitte (U-Bahnhof Märkisches Museum), Wallstr. 32, Berlin

Further information and registration for the workshop until 28th October: info@stiftung-tanz.com


Seminars on the EU-Support Programme „Kreatives Europa – Kultur“

“CREATIVE EUROPE supports culture. We explain how!“ / Berlin und Bonn

“In November, the Creative Europe Desk CULTURE in Bonn and Berlin each offer two coextensive one day seminars respectively, including training workshops.
In focus will be the partial programme CULTURE of CREATIVE EUROPE, which is mainly aimed at working together in a European context, supporting the professionalisation of cultural workers and their mobility as well as attracting new groups of audiences. Boarder crossing, innovative cooperating projects are at the heart of the partial programme CULTURE and are therefore the main focus of the seminar in terms of goals, supporting criteria and application procedures.

At the workshop, participants will practice in groups how to develop project concepts in line with the programme and get a closer look at what makes a successful EU application. These seminars are suitable for beginners and everyone who wants to extends their prior knowledge of the partial programme CULTURE.”

BERLIN: 1th November 2016 and 2th November 2016

9:30 o’clock am until 5 o’clock pm / Podewilsches Palais, Klosterstraße 68 in 10179 Berlin (in cooperation with the Kulturförderpunkt Berlin)

Registration and Information for Berlin: www.ccp-deutschland.de/fil…

BONN: 16th November 2016 and 17th November 2016
9:30 o’clock am until 5 o’clock pm / conference room at the Haus der Kultur (courtyard side) / Weberstraße 61 in 53113 Bonn

Registration and Information for Bonn: www.ccp-deutschland.de/fil…

Costs in BERLIN and BONN:
85,00 € per person (including drinks, lunch, seminar materials)

Contact for further questions and registration (open now):
Christiane Dohms / info@ced-kultur.eu / 49 (0) 228 – 20 135 0 / www.creative-europe-desk.de

The number of participants is limited!

Source directly cited, downloaded on 19.9.16 at 20:30: www.ccp-deutschland.de/nc…
The project potentials for this EU-Programme: stiftung-tanz.com/new…


The ZAV-Artists Agency 

The Central Agency of Foreign and Professional Affairs

… “supports and advises all theatres with a dance division, free professional companies as well as job-seeking dance artists nationwide (in both German and English).” (1) The ZAV-artists agency helps dancers find employment on state stages, communal, free and private companies in German speaking areas as well as Denmark and Sweden. On top of that, the agency supports students in state-owned universities and approved training centres in the shape of mentoring, job shadowing and for their first auditions. (2)

Compared to other advice centres and management departments of the employment agency the ZAV- artists agency features three important special characteristics:

1. All members of staff have worked in an artistic profession before – for example dance – so they posses vast professional knowledge of the business.

2. They not only address dance workers (dancers, ballet directors, choreographers, ballet masters, dramaturges) but also the employer side (theatres, stages, companies, event organisers). This allows for a better matching. Naturally the counselling is confidential!

3. Requirements to be accepted into the ZAV-artists agency are on one hand a completed professional dance education and then successfully passing one of the challenging ZAV auditions that take place at least twice every year. (3)

Dates for 2017 will be on our Facebook-page and in our Newsletter in advance!

Contact people at ZAV-artists agency DANCE are:
Juliane Rößler / 49 (0) 40 284 01 5 – 39 / juliane.roessler@arbeitsagentur.de

Dirk Elwert / 49 (0) 341 337 31 – 141 / dirk.elwert@arbeitsagentur.de

Further information here: www.zav-künstlervermittlung.de

Directly cited (1) Federal Agency for Employment (Hrsg.): ZAV-Künstlervermittlung TANZ/Dance – Ihre Agentur für Tanz, Training und Choreografie, August 2016. Page 1

Indirectly cited (2) same
As well as (3) Jörg Brückner, Team leader ZAV-artists agency (phone interview on 16.9.2016)

Impressions of one of the ZAV-auditions here: www.kultiversum.de/Tan…

See also our Facebook-post from 19.9.2016: www.facebook.com/Sti…


Little job description: Clothing Technology (BA)

The Bachelor degree in clothing technology/manufacturing is a very interdisciplinary course within the field of the engineering sciences. A very high practical relevance is evident, as processing technology, material engineering or the basics of machine technique are significant parts of the curriculum that have to be practised during on-going production.

Aside from mathematical and technical basics of producing materials and clothing, the course will also teach chemical and physical know-how, for example by analysing and using the huge variety of different materials and textiles – mainly in cooperation with relevant businesses. The hugely growing market of „Smart Textiles“ plays a main part: fabrics with for example waterproof and/or fireproof properties that are used in the work clothing of certain occupational groups and for interior fittings of various means of transport.

Apart from these technical and scientific competencies, clothing technology is also all about the material production processes itself as well as business skills such as corporate management, since the worldwide textiles market is highly competitive. A keyword here, which connects again to the growing importance of „Smart Textiles“, is innovation or innovation management. In this context, the subjects of marketing and logistics are also very important.

Other than that, basics of design, theory of colour and the use of colours are of course also covered. Optional subjects allow specialisation in fields such as design and material, marketing and economics or the before mentioned material engineering.
After their very versatile studies, clothing technologists usually work in the textile and clothing industry. They organise and monitor the industrial production of textiles. Furthermore, they are responsible for the design of new textile products and research for new production technologies. As the production of textiles keeps changing due to ever-new technology, it is a very interesting and diverse occupation with international perspectives. Many textile engineers are working in the car, aviation or space travel industry. They manufacture space suits, car seats or airbags.

Many graduates of textile engineering also successfully assume management responsibility, for example in sales.

Further information about the course:
HTW Berlin: BA Bekleidungstechnik, admission possible without A-levels/higher education:
btk-bachelor.htw-berlin.de/stu…

Hochschule Niederrhein Mönchengladbach:
www.hs-niederrhein.de/tex…

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg:
www.uni-oldenburg.de/nc…

Hochschule Albstadt-Sigmaringen:
www.uni-oldenburg.de/nc…

adapted source: Heike Scharpff via mail on 27.7.2016


Visitors at the foundation DANCE: Network Circus (Netzwerk Zirkus e.V. )

Verena Schmidt and Tim Schneider of the newly founded Netzwerk Zirkus e.V. (network for circus artists) have visited for the first time for an exchange with the chair and the project manager of the foundation DANCE.

The foundation DANCE will in future be a supportive partner for all questions of transition and opens their offer of assistance to all dance artists and acrobats.

See also our Facebook-post from 14.9.2016: www.facebook.com/Sti…