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Tanztreffen der Jugend

Every year, the Tanztreffen der Jugend offers young people who practise contemporary dance as a form of expression a platform for the presentation and further development of their artistic work. Participants are selected in a nationwide contest..

In addition to the recording of the opening ceremony, the productions from Tanztreffen der Jugend are available in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library until September 2025. The works focus on the themes of happiness and unhappiness, light and shadow, freedom and free spaces.

Tanztreffen der Jugend in the Media Library

The Forum will take place from 22 to 27 September and is aimed at dancers, dance educators, choreographers and theatre makers with dance experience. It is divided into the areas of practice and dialogue. Your registration is possible from 19 June 2024. The Forum programme takes place entirely in German. &nbsp;

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Tanztreffen der Jugend looks for pieces by young dance ensembles in schools, from structures or groups linked to the indie or professional (dance) theatre scene, who alone or under professional guidance find their own themes and express them in an artistic form using contemporary choreographies.

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Guest performance by the National Youth Dance Company

The evening-length hip-hop production “Gravity” by the National Youth Dance Company (NYDC) with 33&nbsp;young dancers from all over England can be seen as a guest performance at the 12th&nbsp;Tanztreffen der Jugend on 28&nbsp;September 2025. The choreography for the project is by Boy Blue dance company, winners of the Sky Arts Award and the Olivier Award and led by Artistic Directors Michael “Mikey&nbsp;J” Asante and Kenrick “H20” Sandy. “Gravity” is about the forces of attraction that connect people and create communities. Tickets will be available from 25&nbsp;July 2025 through the Berliner Festspiele webshop.The NYDC is a Sadler’s Wells project.&nbsp;<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width:500px"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img alt="Logokombination Sadlers Wells und National Youth Dance Company" src="/magnoliaAuthor/dam/jcr:98a49db3-72c0-41eb-9ae1-a322857482bc/Sadlers_Wells_NYDC.png" style="height:34px; width:100px"></td> </tr> </tbody></table>

Gravity

The next Tanztreffen der Jugend will take place from 27 September to 3 October 2025. Applications are now open again. The closing date for applications is 31&nbsp;March 2025.

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Nick McDowell, Arts Council Of England’s Director of International:“Arts Council England is proud to support the first international performance by the English National Youth Dance Company in September&nbsp;2025. Based at Sadler’s Wells, the company exemplifies the best of young people’s dance, attracting talent from all over the country. They will perform in the iconic Berliner Festspiele Theatre as part of Tanztreffen der Jugend. Their visit follows performances by the German National Youth Orchestra across the UK in January&nbsp;2025 augmenting cultural links between the UK and Germany ahead of the Germany-UK Treaty.”<table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="1" style="width:500px"> <tbody> <tr> <td>The guest performance is made possible by</td> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td><img alt="Logo Funded by UK Government" src="/magnoliaAuthor/dam/jcr:9416c940-6aec-4287-b19e-43b3a83d88f0/funded_by_uk_government.svg" style="height:27px; width:150px"></td> <td><img alt="Logo Arts Council England" src="/magnoliaAuthor/dam/jcr:b7e8e05f-824a-4c9b-8799-cac558c54e86/arts_council_england.svg" style="height:37px; width:150px"></td> </tr> </tbody></table>

It’s been ten years since the newly founded Tanztreffen der Jugend opened its doors for the first time in 2014. After celebrating the 10th anniversary edition last year, we are now looking forward with curiosity to the next decade of young dance at Berliner Festspiele. We want to remain curious and open, because it is the young choreographers and dancers who shape and develop the festival with their submitted works and their positions.We are delighted to present ten works by young dance makers selected by the jury. The content focuses on the themes of happiness and unhappiness, light and shadow, freedom and free spaces. We experience short episodes or entire life stories, sad as well as beautiful and hopeful ones. Dancing itself often becomes the theme of the works, as a fixed point and space of possibility for the young artists. Dance is a free space in which they can express themselves and breathe freely, which makes life bearable, provides breaks from pressure and crises, where comfort and happiness can be found. The initiative of young dance makers to create their own works remains strong.The youngest choreographer at the festival was twelve years old during the rehearsal process. In their works, the young artists explore the language of dance, move out of the comfort zone of what they have learnt and develop new qualities of movement. They search for their own biographies in dance, reflect on themselves and the medium or strive for a desexualisation of the bodies that connect in close contact. What does it mean to be normal, where is the depth in the case and what is authenticity? It is about self-determination, identity, the conquest of free spaces in a world that restricts them, but also about feminism, the destructive power of envy in society and frustration. Frustration about political events, the rise of the right wings, climate change, homelessness in the cities and the dictates of social media.The ensembles also integrate texts into their productions and work stylistically on the base of contemporary and urban dance. There are often combinations of styles such as hip-hop, popping, locking and house with contemporary elements. A lot of improvisation is used and there is a strong tendency to expand one's own repertoire of movements. For example, artistic elements are integrated, movements are characterised by the equipment and sounds become music.We are very happy to be able to set international dance impulses again this year as part of “&Uuml;ber die Grenzen” and to bring our award winners into dialogue with young Italian dance professionals. The DiDoDance Company from Rome will be performing their two-part work “Zuhause” on two evenings. I would like to expressly thank the artistic director Giusy Quattrone and the initiative of the Scuola Di Donato and the Parents' Association for making this guest performance possible. I would like to thank the esteemed jury of the Tanztreffen der Jugend for their passionate and committed work and the wonderful selection. I would also like to thank the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for their support in making the Tanztreffen der Jugend possible as a platform for young dance.We are very happy to be able to set international dance impulses again this year as part of “&Uuml;ber die Grenzen” and to bring our award winners into dialogue with young Italian dance professionals. The DiDoDance Company from Rome will be performing their two-part work “Zuhause” on two evenings. I would like to expressly thank the artistic director Giusy Quattrone and the initiative of the Scuola Di Donato and the Parents' Association for making this guest performance possible. I would like to thank the esteemed jury of the Tanztreffen der Jugend for their passionate and committed work and the wonderful selection. I would also like to thank the Bundesministerium f&uuml;r Bildung und Forschung for their support in making Tanztreffen der Jugend possible as a platform for young dance.My heartfelt thanks go to the Treffen junge Szene team and the Berliner Festspiele and all their staff for their support and commitment in making this festival a special experience for artists and visitors alike.&nbsp;Welcome dear dancers, delegates and guest ensembles, thank you for your stirring and moving work. Welcome dear audience!&nbsp; We look forward to “Flying High” together with you through a week of Tanztreffen der Jugend!“What if people who have overcome their envy can change our society for the better?” – Game of Survival“What makes me happy?” – Flying High

Susanne Chrudina (Head of Treffen junge Szene)

“When we dance, we rule over time and the earth stops spinning until we are finished. Dancing makes me feel so powerful, so big, so real.”&nbsp; — Lichtblicke“My frustration is killing me. (...) Not like this.” — FRUST

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“Dance promotes creativity, needs endurance and discipline, is joy in movement, can be pure happiness. For ten years now, the Tanztreffen der Jugend has been offering young talents the opportunity to live all this out. I congratulate them warmly! And wish all participants a week full of inspiration and artistic exchange.” — Dr Johanna B&ouml;rsch-Supan, Head of Department 3 - Education and Training; Lifelong Learning, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

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The selection will be announced on 24 June.

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The Berliner Festspiele organise a range of festivals and art exhibitions, concerts, dance and theatre performances, readings, lectures, debates and much more throughout the year. These events are presented at a range of locations across Berlin but are concentrated primarily at their own two venues: the Gropius Bau and the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

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Young theatre makers, dancers, musicians and authors are given a platform for their creative work at the four national contests of the Treffen junge Szene and are specifically supported in their artistic development.

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You can listen to some of our events this year digitally in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library after the live concerts.&nbsp;In addition, On Demand offers from past years are available.

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The international Jazzfest Research Lab&nbsp;welcomes academics and students to take a critical look at the festival’s archive, its programmes, creators, musicians and – last but not least – its myths. In two seminars during the summer semester of 2024, students from the Berlin University of the Arts and the University of Hildesheim have explored the festival’s history from various perspectives. In this film, the participants give a first look at how they dealt with their research subject.

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To mark its 60th anniversary, Jazzfest Berlin is celebrating the cultural diversity of the neighbouring district of Moabit in collaboration with around 35 official partners and initiatives and with over 350 participants of all ages.&nbsp;In June 2024, interviews were conducted with 20 partners who presented their perspectives, wishes and ideas for the Jazzfest Community Lab Moabit. You can get a first impression with this film.

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From 13 to 16 June 2024, the interdisciplinary themed days “Reflexes &amp; Reflections” on the Israel-Palestine conflict and its consequences for society in Germany took place at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. You can now find video and audio recordings of the discourse events in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library!

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On 26 January, the Theatertreffen’s jury of critics announced their selection of 10 remarkable productions for the 2024 Theatertreffen at a press conference. Our congratulations go to the nominated production teams and all participants! The programme will be published on 5 April.

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“Radical Playgrounds”, an art parcours at the Gropius Bau, is spending eleven weeks exploring the differences between the concepts of play as competition and free play. Visitors are invited to walk and climb on the various installations and sculptures, to activate them and to shape the project collectively.

Summer School 2025

As part of Performing Exiles there will be a Summer School from 16 to 28&nbsp;June 2025. This will offer workshops, seminars and mentoring. The participants will see the performances and guest productions in the festival programme and visit artistic initiatives and cultural institutions in Berlin that operate across a wide range of disciplines and contexts. A public presentation of the participants’ current work and research at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele will complete the programme.

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The massacre, hostage-taking and rocket attacks by Hamas have shaken us deeply. The grue-some attack on Israel on 7&nbsp;October left us stunned and initially lost for words.

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With this letter of intent, we, the signing cultural organizations, express our intention to welcome, host and stage Ukrainian theatre artists in our venues, to make Ukrainian dramatic work visible to the European community.

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In August 2025, the festival Tanz im August will be a guest at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele with three productions. Two productions are already on pre-sale.

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