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NOT BUTOH SOLO von Thomas A. Bradley. Foto Jorg Baumann German Dance Prize 2026. Dance Gala & Award Ceremony
Das Team des Deutschen Tanzfilminstituts Bremen zeichnet die Veranstaltung im Aalto Theater Essen auf.
 German Dance Award Documentations of Events Dreharbeiten Recordings of Pieces Dachverband Tanz Deutschland Essen - Aalto Theater D 20.02.2026 um 18.00 Uhr

The team from the German Dance Film Institute Bremen is recording the event at the Aalto Theater Essen / Germany.

 

The German Dance Association invites you to a glittering dance gala on
Saturday, February 28, 2026 at 6 p.m. at the Aalto Theater in Essen.
This year’s program showcases the great diversity of dance:
Guests include the Berlin State Ballet, the MiR Dance Company Gelsenkirchen, the choreographer and dancer Thomas A. Bradley, and the Urban Dance Department & friends.

 

As part of the dance gala, the German Dance Prize 2026 will be awarded to choreographer Christian Spuck. Honors will also be bestowed upon dance scholar Prof. Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter and Butoh dancer Tadashi Endo (posthumously).

 

Visitors can expect an exciting and diverse gala program:

WATER is a powerful opening act in which the Urban Dance Department & Friends bring the essence of urban dance to the stage. Featuring 13 local and international dancers, Souhail Jalti’s choreography blends hip hop, popping, and breakdancing with contemporary urban expression.

The world premiere of NOT BUTOH SOLO by choreographer and dancer Thomas A. Bradley is both a reference to Gabriele Brandstetter and Tadashi Endo and a reflection on the artist’s enduring fascination with Japanese Butoh.

 

The Berlin State Ballet presents three pieces by choreographer and this year’s prize winner, Christian Spuck: With Beethoven, Spuck captures the mood of the second movement, “Adagio un poco mosso,” of Piano Concerto No. 5.

Nocturne, with its fusion of classical and contemporary elements, particularly represents Christian Spuck’s choreographic style. Christian Spuck premiered the ballet Romeo and Juliet in Zurich in 2012. His interpretation of the balcony scene, the balcony pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet, is among the most moving moments of the piece.

 

The MiR Dance Company Gelsenkirchen presents excerpts from the captivating two-part work Hasard & Boléro by Sita Ostheimer, featuring music by Yehezkel Raz and Maurice Ravel, and an excerpt from Millennials by choreographer Marcos Morau. “Millennials” explores how, in the era of the digital revolution, the internet and social networks have fundamentally changed society.

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Neele Buchholz Tomas Buenger. Orange ist nicht allein. Foto: Daniela Buchholz-1200x Orange is not alone. A dance theatre piece by Neele Buchholz and Tomas Bünger
Das Team des Deutschen Tanzfilminstitut Bremen zeichnet die Generalprobe auf.
 Dreharbeiten Recordings of Pieces Schwankhalle Bremen - Schwankhalle D 29.01.2026 Generalprobe

“Orange Is Not Alone” is about people, about feelings, about differences. It’s about colors, about encounters, about togetherness. In this dance theater piece, eight dancers with and without disabilities move on stage. They move in spaces. They move in, they move within, they move together. They move out, they move into another space.

Sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly. Sometimes chaos, sometimes a storm. Together somewhere in a party cellar. Dancing together, like they’re really going wild. They hold each other, they belong together. They are very close, they are connected. They play, they take each other seriously. Not still like a statue, not boring. Everyone is important, no one is excluded. Everyone sits in the corner. Blue like friendship, pink like soft and chewing gum, green like longing, yellow like an open window, purple like a paint box, black like the night. Skin like a person, feeling and transparent. Orange wants to be seen, Orange belongs in the group. Maybe we’ll go out onto the balcony and watch a rainbow scatter. Maybe we’ll find a space—for me, for you, for us. Maybe we’ll find it here.

 

Neele Buchholz (born 1991 in Bremen) is a freelance dancer and actress with Down syndrome. She has performed on stage more than 300 times both in Germany and abroad (including “T4. Ophelia’s Garden,” directed by David Stöhr) and has appeared in film productions (including “Eldorado KaDeWe,” directed by Julia von Heinz). She began her career in 2013 as a permanent dancer with tanzbar bremen e.V. Since 2022, she has worked full-time as a freelance artist. The themes of equality and love often play an important role in her artistic work.

Tomas Bünger studied classical and modern stage dance and was a long-time member of the Bremen Dance Theatre. He subsequently completed an inclusive dance teacher training program in New York and was a guest lecturer at the University of the Arts in Buenos Aires. He worked regularly in Bangladesh for many years with the support of the Goethe-Institut and was an artistic resident in Togo, Romania, and India. He received various teaching appointments. The focus of his choreographic work is the human being as dancer and their relationship to the world.

The ensemble of “Orange Is Not Alone” was selected following a casting call by Neele and Tom in a joint audition.

 

Co-production: Schwankhalle. Funded by the Performing Arts Fund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Senator for Culture Bremen, the Waldemar Koch Foundation, and Sparkasse Bremen.

© Eros Brancaleon BCurious – Summer Dance Workshops Ensembles Of Curious Natur and Zappalà Danza

 Dreharbeiten Recordings of Pieces TanzRaum Nord | Of Curious Nature und Scenario Pubblico | Compagnia Zappallà Bremen - Schwankhalle + Zentrum für Kunst im Tabakquartier D 30.06.-06.07.2025

The two international ensembles Of Curious Nature and Zappalà Danza launch the first joint workshop program for emerging dance talents.

 

Are you between training at an academy and a professional career? Or a professional dancer in Bremen? Then this is your chance! Immerse yourself in the working methods of two international companies. The choreographers and dancers from Of Curious Nature and Zappalà Danza will pass on their tools and moves directly to you – skills that otherwise only company members know. Inspiring guest teachers and an insider panel on how to get off to a successful start in the dance world complete the program.

 

FINAL SHOWING:
Sunday is the day: Clear the stage! Show what you’ve got and what you’ve created in the workshops. Free entry for all dance enthusiasts. Feel the vibes of the prospective professionals!

 

DO YOU LOVE DANCE, BUT NOT AS A PROFESSIONAL?
We have something for you too! Find out how dance works as a creative form of expression and how your body becomes an artistic tool. The dancers from Of Curious Nature will show you the basics of their intense movement techniques – skills for your own style!

 

The German Dance Film Institute team is documenting the Final-Showing

Bremen Tanzt! © Médoune Seck BREMEN DANCES! Through the City of the Future with the Dance Company Of Curious Natur
Mariko Koh mit Of Curious Nature
 Dreharbeiten Recordings of Pieces steptext dance project | StattReisen Bremen Bremen D 06.-30.06.2025 (freitags)

Visiting the Hanseatic city is always worthwhile!

 

But what steptext dance project and StattReisen Bremen have now come up with is completely new!

 

The participants embark on a completely new form of city exploration, in which the international ensemble Of Curious Nature turns a city tour into an event through dance interventions.

 

The intense dance performances presented by the seven dancers of the Bremen-based company Of Curious Nature at selected locations are unique. The art connects with the city and revitalises the urban space in a unique way.

 

The route includes places that even Bremen residents are unlikely to have visited often: the roof terrace of ecos works spaces, the Bremen Cotton Exchange, the sculpture garden at the Bürgerschaft and the new university forum at Domshof.

 

The dancers from Of Curious Nature create poetic images that connect bodies and urban space and give rise to visions of a city centre of the future. In a special atmosphere, visual axes are artistically designed and create new perspectives with lasting impressions of the city centre.

 

The German Dance Film Institute team is documenting this event.

 

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Baile. Filmstill Baile. Dance performance by Magali Sander Fett with the TanzkollektivBremen

 Dreharbeiten Recordings of Pieces TanzKollektivBremen Bremen - Zentrum für Kunst im Tabakquartier D 14.03.2025

‘Baile’ aims to dissolve the boundaries between audience and performers and get everyone dancing. The basis of the coming together is Baile Funk, a dance that originated in the favelas of Brazil. The dancer Magali Sander Fett has learnt this dance style through research with Yago Morais and Héricles Garcia from Brazil, who are experienced in Baile Funk, and now wants to bring the dance to Bremen together with them.

 

The dance style is an expression of the attempt to find a collective, self-determined identity in the language of movement. Baile invites people to dance and at the same time asks: How can performers and audiences come together on stage and work together on a piece with different backgrounds and experiences? The choreographies of Baile Funk, the passinhos, form the basis for everyone: the dancers and the DJ explore the choreographic and musical structure of the dance. They complement and transform it with their own movement and sound vocabulary. ‘Baile’ becomes a ball for everyone, with or without dance experience.

 

The German Dance Film Institute team will document the performance.

 

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Flesh and Flowers. Filmstill Flesh and Flowers. TanzKollektivBremen

 Dreharbeiten Recordings of Pieces TanzKollektivBremen Bremen - Zentrum für Kunst im Tabakquartier D 13.-14.11.2024

“The TanzKollektivBremen is drawn to Paula Modersohn-Becker, or more precisely to her self-portraits. For this encounter with the works of the Worpswede artist, the dance collective is inviting reinforcements: Laura Alcalà Freudenthal from Barcelona is choreographing the dancers Magali Sander Fett and Neus Ledesma Vidal, inspired by the life and work of Paula Modersohn-Becker.

 

I am I, and I hope to become more and more I.

This is what Paula Modersohn-Becker wrote in a letter to Rainer Maria Rilke in 1906. She trusts in her art and constantly looks at herself anew through her art.

Alcalà Freudenthal turns the stage into a canvas that the dancers work on with their movements. This constantly creates new perspectives on her (own) work. Two bodies, incessant shaking, flowers and skin. Everything is always new.

Isn’t it true that we only become something when we move?

 

‘Flesh and Flowers’ is being created as part of TanzKollektivBremen’s residency at the Centre for Art during the 2024/25 season. Funded by the Senator for Culture.”

 

The team from the German Dance Film Institute documents the performance.

 

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Sasha Waltz © Ursula Kaufmann German Dance Award 2023 – Grand Dance Gala and Award Ceremony

 German Dance Award Documentations of Events Dreharbeiten Recordings of Pieces Video_Series Dachverband Tanz Deutschland Essen - Aalto-Theater D 12.10.2024

At a festive dance gala on 12 October 2024, the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland presented the German Dance Award 2024 – the most prestigious award for dance in Germany.

Prolonged applause accompanied the awards for Dieter Heitkamp (honour for lifetime achievement) and explore dance – Netzwerk Tanz für junges Publikum (honour for outstanding development in dance) and for Sasha Waltz, who was awarded the German Dance Award 2024.
The award ceremony and the dance gala impressively presented the emotional and unifying power of dance, accompanied by WDR presenter Siham El-Maimouni.

Highlights included the opening of the evening by the Aalto Ballett Essen on its home stage with an excerpt from the ballet ‘Carmen’, an excerpt from the dance theatre ‘Chotto Desh’ by the Akram Khan Company, a pas de deux from ‘In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated’ by William Forsythe of the Staatsballett Berlin and an excerpt from ‘Radical Cheerleading’ by choreographer Zufit Simon. The dancers from Sasha Waltz & Guests delighted the audience with an excerpt from ‘In C’, a choreography by Sasha Waltz.

The laudators had touching words for the award winner and the honourees. Nele Hertling, who was honoured with the German Dance Award in 2018, on Sasha Waltz: “In addition to developing new pieces, performing in Berlin and giving numerous guest performances, Sasha Waltz is active on many levels and takes responsibility for her social environment (…). In addition to her artistic work, the development of innovative, interdisciplinary forms of performance and creation is a focal point of her work. (…) With its artistic work, the company Sasha Waltz & Guests stands for a democratic, open and diverse society with joint work in the encounter with the audience and an open discussion.”

Theatre scholar Gerald Siegmund emphasised that the lifetime achievement award for Dieter Heitkamp honours “(…) a restless artist, an innovative pedagogue, a cunning strategist and a tireless fighter for the cause of dance. (…) In the course of his “almost fifty years of commitment to dance in Germany and beyond, he has fearlessly made a great deal out of almost nothing. As an artist, as a teacher and as a mentor for future generations of dancers.”

Cultural politician Helge Lindh (Member of the German Bundestag) emphasised that explore dance is organised artistically and democratically, which is what makes the network so magical. The presence of society and young people is recognised and the power of development is taken into account. explore dance provides a wonderful service to democracy, which is why this network should be celebrated.

The team of the German Dance Film Institute documents the award ceremony gala.

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Oskar Spatz. © Jörg Landsberg Better a bird in the hand than … okay, screw it, I’ll do it differently now! Performance by Oskar Spatz with Tim Gerhards

 Dreharbeiten Recordings of Dance Pieces (Selection) Recordings of Pieces tanzbar Bremen/ Theater Bremen Bremen - Theater Bremen Brauhaus D 23.+25.09.2024

“My name is Oskar Spatz. I’m a dancer, I’ve been dancing since 2007. My shoe size is 40/41. I weigh 70 kilos and my favourite food is rice with mince. I usually dance with my colleagues. But today I’m alone on stage. I’m looking forward to spending this evening with you. Because togetherness is warmth.”

Oskar Spatz turns his life upside down – together with Tim Gerhards. This special evening of dance is about successes and setbacks, about art, being human and his private life.

Oskar himself once decided to become a dancer. At the time, he didn’t know exactly what that meant. But he knew that he wanted it. He almost always knows what he wants.

Even now he has made a decision: He’s going on stage alone. In an hour-long solo show, he demonstrates what self-determination means – and what it’s like to live and work in a community. He invites everyone to be his guests.” Press release
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The team of the German Dance Film Institute documents the performance.

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Der kleine Prinz aus Gröpelingen (Deutsch) Der kleine Prinz aus Gröpelingen von Tanz im Lichthaus
Ein Ballett und Tanztheaterstück für große und kleine Menschen
 Documentations of Events Documentations of Dance Pedagogic Work Dreharbeiten Recordings of Pieces Caroline Böhse-Krings, Tanz im Lichthaus Bremen - Theater der Bremer Philharmoniker/ Tabakquartier D 02.-03. 03. 2024

Diese Produktion von Caroline Böhse-Krings für und mit ihren Schülerinnen und Schülern der Tanzschule Tanz im Lichthaus bezieht die Geschichte des Kleinen Prinzen, der sich ganz alleine um seinen Planeten kümmern musste, auf die aktuelle Lage unseres Planeten und seine Bedrohung durch den Klimawandel. Tanzsequenzen aus dem All, der Wüste oder dem Meer, aber auch zahlreiche freche Dialoge und Videos fordern die Zuschauenden auf, dem Klimawandel nicht tatenlos zuzusehen. Die Musik wurde eigens für das Stück von dem Bremer Komponistenduo Thomas Krizsan und Claudia Giese geschaffen und wird bei den Aufführungen von einem Orchester live dargeboten.

 

WER? Es tanzen 110 Lichthaustänzerinnen und -tänzer unter der Leitung von Carolin Böse-Krings.

 

Wo? Im wunderschönen neuen Theater der Bremer Philharmoniker, Am Tabakquartier 10 in Bremen.

 

Wann? Die Produktion wird 3x aufgeführt:
am Samstag, den 2. März, um 17 Uhr und
am Sonntag, den 3. März um 12 Uhr und noch einmal um 17 Uhr.

 

Karten unter: kartenbestellungprinz@posteo.de / Karten Erwachsene € 15,- und Kinder € 8,-

 

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Das Team des Deutschen Tanzfilminstituts um Heide-Marie Härtel freut sich, die Premiere filmisch zu dokumentieren.

Cicatrices - Narben der Erde. Photo: Marianne Menke young artists celebrate 20th anniversary | new production “Cicatrices-Scars of the Earth”
Jubiläumsproduktion mit young artists, Peques, LAB, Les Amis de la Danse
Dreharbeiten Recordings of Pieces young artists | steptext dance project Schwankhalle Bremen D 16. - 19.11.2023

 

The anniversary production will celebrate its premiere on 18 November, exactly 20 years after the first young artists premiere. It will be a joint dance evening with all the groups that Augusto Jaramillo Pineda and steptext have built up under the young artists label in recent years (children, teenagers, young adults). This time, too, the theme will be one that is important to the young dancers: the rights of the earth. Under the title “Cicatrices – Scars of the Earth”, the central theme will be developed further and the complex interaction between humans and nature will take centre stage. Marion Amschwand, who choreographed the young artists’ very first production “Missing” in 2003, will rehearse with the young people, while dancer, choreographer and former young artist Viktor Braun will rehearse with the young adults. Of course, Augusto Jaramillo-Pineda, choreographer and director of the young artists, who leads the children’s group, will also be there. Together with the senior citizens Amis de La Danse, an evening of generations will be created that will unleash the full power of dance theatre.

To mark the anniversary, there will also be a broad workshop programme for all age groups (17, 18 and 19 November) and a school performance on 17 November at 11 a.m., which can also be combined with a workshop if interested.

The production is supported by the start Jugend Kunst Stiftung Bremen

 

Programme

Thu 16.11.23 | 11:00 a.m. | Public dress rehearsal

Fri 17. 11.23 | 11:00 a.m. | School performance (preview) + workshop

Premiere: 18.11.23 | 20:00

Sun 19.11.23 | 16:00 | family-friendly performance time

 

|Workshop programme

Friday, 17 November | 17:00 – 18:30 | Creative workshop with ZIV Frenkel

Saturday, 18 November | 9:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Workshop with KEITH Chin | from 14 years
Saturday, 18.11 11:10 – 12:10 | Workshop (Breaking) with HASSAN Lotfi | from 8 years
Saturday, 18.11 12:20 – 13:20 | Workshop (Hip-Hop) with SITA Kotteck | from 8 years
Saturday, 18.11 13:30 – 15:00 | Workshop (contemporary dance) with LEILA Bakhtali | from 14 years

Sunday, 19 November 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Workshop with KEITH Chin | from 14 years
Sunday, 19 November 11:40 – 12:40 | Workshop(Body Percussion) with YEIMI Pineda | from 8 years
Sunday, 19 November 12:50 – 13:50 | Workshop with Hakan Sonakalan | from 8 years

 

Schwankhalle Bremen

 

Registration for the workshops: office@steptext.de and for a donation

 

The team of the German Dance Film Institute is looking forward to documenting the premiere.
The film documentary “young artists durchtanzen 20 Jahre” (working title), which is currently being produced, highlights the central leaps of the steptext dance companie youth label and its artistic director Augusto Jaramillo Pineda. This project is in the hands of Yanitsa Genova.

Re_Cycle-tanzbar_bremen. Foto Daniela Buchholz RE_CYCLE-tanzbar_bremen Premiere
Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg? Ein Tanztheaterstück zu einem Aspekt von Nachhaltigkeit erarbeitet vom 5-köpfigen inklusiven Team unter der Leitung von Günther Grollitsch.
 Documentations of Events Dreharbeiten Recordings of Dance Pieces (Selection) Recordings of Pieces Festival Dance Bremen tanzbar_bremen in Kooperation mit dem Theater Bremen Theater Bremen - Kleines Haus D 27.4.2022 um 20.00 Uhr

In this piece, among other things, the value of artistic work from past eras and its lasting effects on today’s creative work are questioned. Among other things, the waste pyramid is interpreted in a cultural-historical context.

 

Recycling and reuse are omnipresent on stage and shape the development process of the new production.

This material cycle is examined and stretched into artistic approaches and realisations. In this way, a poetic-satirical study of our being in a time full of tension is presented.

 

The team of tanzbar_bremen is supported by Delia Nordhaus, the director of the Upcycling Gallery Wallerie, as well as by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Henning Albers, who is working on recycling in the field of environmental and bioengineering.

 

Tickets: 19 € / con. 9 €

Tickets available via the Theater Bremen.

 

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Details

Concept and choreography: Günther Grollitsch in collaboration with the dancers

Dance: Jenny Ecke, Till Krumwiede, Corinna Mindt, Oskar Spatz, Adrian Wenzel

Dramaturgy: Tom Bünger

Stage design: Delia Nordhaus, Janina Mau

Costume: Lui Nilson, Katja Fritzsche

Production management: Stina Hinrichs

 

Production

tanzbar_bremen in cooperation with Theater Bremen

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Supported by the Senator for Culture Bremen.

 

Funding: Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragtenderder Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen von NEUSTART KULTUR, Karin und Uwe Hollweg Stiftung sowie Waldemar Koch Stiftung.

Logo of supporters

 

Premiere on 27 April 2022, 8pm

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As part of TANZ Bremen 2022 on 06 May 2022, 6pm

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The team of the German Dance Film Institute Bremen is pleased to document the premiere on film

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