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Salon of Dance 30: VULNERABLY BEAUTIFUL. Dance between elegance and risk
Der TanzSalon startet wieder!
 Veranstaltung Landesverband TanzSzene Bremen Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen D 10.10.2025 um 20.00 Uhr

With the support of the regional association TanzSzene Bremen, we are resuming our well-established format, the TANZSALON.

 

As before, it will take place on the 10th of every month at 8:00 pm at TAFI – regardless of which day of the week the 10th falls on.

 

Many of you have told us how much you missed the TANZSALON as a place of encounter and exchange within Bremen’s dance scene. Since the last time, quite a lot has happened – at TAFI, but surely also with you: new productions, new films, new guests.

 

We warmly invite you to celebrate the first TANZSALON after the long break with us. The evening’s theme will be TAFI’s latest documentary: “Vulnerably Beautiful. Dance between Elegance and Risk – A Study by Goethe University Frankfurt.”

 

The film accompanies a medical study on physical strain in professional dance. Prof. Dr. Dr. Eileen Wanke of Goethe University Frankfurt, head of the research project, will introduce the topic.

 

Drinks will be provided – just bring yourselves, and feel free to bring along new people and friends.

 

Friday, October 10 at 8:00 pm
Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen
Am Wall 201 / Forum am Wall
Entrance Ostertorstraße, next to the bakery

Translation by ChatGPT

Blick ins Innere ©Marianne Menke Alexandra Beriault with Cinematic Spaces from the University of the Arts Bremen as a guest

 Veranstaltung Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen - Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut D 28.06.2025

On Wednesday, June 18th, the Hochschule für Künste class Cinematic Spaces visited the Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut, where we were greeted by the institute’s director, Heide-Marie Härtel. As she guided us through the premises, we were introduced to several facets of the institute—one major highlight being the opportunity to see where many original dance films are digitized for the archive. The digitization studio features a fully customized system that accommodates a range of analog moving-image formats. Multiple dance films (from various time periods) play simultaneously on a collection of stacked CRT television monitors, and the entire experience of seeing such a system at work feels akin to stepping into a multi-channel video installation—dedicated solely to dance film.

 

Throughout the tour, our class was given glimpses into several examples from the institute’s extensive archive of dance videos, as well as other films that document a history of collaborative projects between the Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut and numerous international partners. Several of the dance works shown incorporated elements of the visual arts, including video, sound, sculpture, and multimedia installation. In essence, we were invited to consider dance and the stage as another possibility for what a “cinematic space” could embody.

 

Alex Beriault

Susan Barnett Age on Stage – old iron? Not at all! Dance has no expiry date. Guest lecture by Susan Barnett
Im Rahmen des Seminars "Tanz-Exkursionen in die Innenwelt des Tanzes" von Dr. Monika Thiele, Seniorenstudium, Akademie für Weiterbildung, Universität Bremen
 Filmvortrag Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut - Universität Bremen Bremen | Hybrid D 19.05.2025

Can a body over 50 still dance? And if so, how? This guest lecture deals with this question.

 

Susan Barnett, dancer and dance teacher from Bremen, was invited to give this lecture. Barnett comes from Wales, has danced internationally – including with the Ballet Municipal de Santiago and in Hans Kresnik’s ensemble – and has been a freelance dancer for many years. With a Master’s degree in Dance Science and a wide range of projects between stage art, dance education and community dance, she deals intensively with the topics of body, age and expression.

 

In professional dance in particular, age often seems to be a criterion for exclusion. While mature artists and (fewer) female artists are still on stage in film and theatre, professional dancers often disappear from the limelight at an early age. What are the reasons for this? Is it an outdated ideal of eternal youth, agility and peak physical performance?

 

But dance can do more. Mobility, joie de vivre, expression – all of this can be maintained and even enhanced into old age.

This guest lecture ‘Age on Stage’ therefore focussed not only on the question of health benefits, but above all on artistic perspectives:

Is getting older on the dance stage really a taboo?
What new forms of expression emerge when the body emphasises qualities other than bounce and speed?
And how can images of age be shifted in art?

 

‘Age on Stage’ is an invitation to rethink dance: not as a privilege of youth, but as a lifelong form of movement and expression.

Die Gastdozentin Prof. Dr. Dr. Eileen M. Wanke (links im Bild) From dance to dance medicine – insights from Prof Dr Dr med Eileen M. Wanke
Im Rahmen des Seminars "Tanz-Exkursionen in die Innenwelt des Tanzes" von Dr. Monika Thiele, Seniorenstudium, Akademie für Weiterbildung, Universität Bremen
 Veranstaltung Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut - Universität Bremen Bremen - Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut D 12.05.2025

As part of the event ‘Dance – Excursions into the inner world of dance’, we welcome Prof. Dr Dr Eileen Wanke from the Institute for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine at Goethe University Frankfurt as a special guest.

 

Prof. Wanke is leading a research project to analyse movement patterns in professional stage dance. State-of-the-art kinematic methods are used to scientifically analyse stresses and risks for dancers – work that opens up new perspectives on prevention and health promotion in dance.

 

Where does art end, where does medicine begin? In her lecture ‘From dance to dance medicine’, Prof. Dr Dr Eileen M. Wanke sheds light on the development of dance from an elementary human form of movement to a profession with special physical requirements – and the emergence of dance medicine as an independent interdisciplinary field.

 

Using historical examples, Prof Wanke shows how dance has always been used to maintain health. At the same time, she outlines the specific stresses and risks that professional dancers are exposed to as part of their training and profession.

 

The focus is on the question: How can medical knowledge help to prevent injuries, maintain performance and ensure the long-term health of dancers?

 

A lecture with film contribution between dance art and science – understandable, practical and with a view to current research results.

"Ecoute...Chopin". Von und mit Susanne Linke. ©Günther Krämmer 100 years of solo dance. Film lecture in cooperation with the Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen.
Wissenschaftliches Seminar. Sommersemster 2025
 Filmvortrag Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen Bremen - Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut D 09.04.2025

How does dance change when it is centred on a single person? And what social impulses are contained in this form? Heide-Marie Härtel, founder and director of the German Dance Film Institute Bremen, opens her five-part lecture on the topic of ‘100 years of solo dance’ with these questions. The seminar is a cooperation with the Dance and Theatre in Social Work course at the University of Arts in Ottersberg under the direction of Prof. Leonardo Cruz.

Heide-Marie Härtel uses selected film clips from the archive to provide insights into the works of outstanding solo dancers.

An inspiring look back and forward – in the spirit of dance as both an individual and social act.

©Marianne Menke “Dance lives on. In movement, in memory – and in film.” Senior’s University Excursion
Eine Kooperation des Deutschen Tanzfilminstitut Bremen mit der Universität Bremen, Akademie für Weiterbildung, Seniorenstudium. Hybrid. Wintersemester 2024/25
 Filmvortrag Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen Bremen D 21.11.2024

But dance is fleeting. What remains are recordings. This is where the German Dance Film Institute Bremen comes into play: under the direction of Heide-Marie Härtel, herself once a soloist under Hans Kresnik, Europe’s largest dance film archive has been created since the 1980s. Over 40,000 film and video documents are stored directly above the Bremen City Library – many of them works by John Neumeier, recorded in TV quality.

 

The series of events also presents the archive itself. Heide-Marie Härtel will provide personal insights: as a former dancer and as an archivist who preserves dance for future generations.

 

Three events are planned at the German Dance Film Institute Bremen, which can also be followed online via Zoom.

Dance lives on. In movement, in memory – and in film.

Dr. Monika Thiele

Hans Kresnik Dance icons in focus. Film lecture at the German Dance Film Institute Bremen
Kooperation mit Prof. Leonardo Cruz, Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen Ottersberg, . Wintersemester 2024/25
 Seminar Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen Bremen D 06.11.2024

Inspiration and legacy of great female choreographers from Bremen theatre

What impulses do artists whose works have had a lasting impact on the world of dance provide? This year’s winter semester series at the German Dance Film Institute Bremen is looking at this question. Four film lectures will focus on influential figures in contemporary dance, all of whom are closely associated with Bremen’s theatre.

The interplay of film documentaries, examples of their work and background information will make artistic signatures and social references visible.

 

The film lectures will be led by Heide-Marie Härtel, founder and artistic director of the German Dance Film Institute Bremen. Härtel combines film documentaries, personal memories and professional categorisation. The seminar invites you to understand dance history not just as archive material, but as living heritage.

 

The dates at a glance:

18 October 2025, 8 pm: Johann Kresnik
The ‘political choreographer’: radical, provocative, uncomfortable.

15 November 2025, 8 pm: Reinhild Hoffmann
Poetic and body-conscious: dance theatre between image and movement.

13 December 2025, 8 pm: Susanne Linke
Strict form and expressive power: from solo to ensemble work.

17 January 2026, 8 pm: Urs Dietrich
The quiet creator: dance as a personal and collective narrative

 

All events take place at the Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen.

Monitor zur Darstellung analoger Materialien. Filmstill Timeless Steps. Digitalisation at the German Dance Film Institute Bremen

 Digitalisierung Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen Bremen D 02.10.2024

At the German Dance Film Institute Bremen, the state-of-the-art digitisation department preserves unique cultural assets for future generations. Using professional equipment, even rare video formats and damaged recordings from different eras are read out, restored, digitised and permanently archived. In this way, dance history and audiovisual testimonies are kept alive.

Screenshot 2024-06-16 132720 (Deutsch) Der kleine Prinz aus Gröpelingen – Filmpremiere im Lichthaus
Premiere im Lichthaus. Bremen-Gröpelingen.
 Dreharbeiten Caroline Böhse-Krings, Tanz im Lichthaus Bremen - Lichthaus. D 16.06.2024 um 17.00 Uhr

“Tanz im Lichthaus“, die Ballettschule im Hafen von Carolin Böhse-Krings, feiert die Filmpremiere ihres Programms ‘Der kleinen Prinz aus Gröpelingen’, das am 02. und 03. März mit 110 Tanzschülerinnen und -schülern im Tabakquartier aufgeführt wurde.
Das Deutsche Tanzfilminstitut unter der Leitung von Heide-Marie Härtel hat die Vorstellung gefilmt und aus dem Material einen Dokumentation produziert.

Sara Levi-Tanai, Komponistin und Choreografin Windows to the soul of Contemporary Israel Dance with Dr. Talia Perlshtein
Israel's dance scene between tradition and avantgarde [Film-Lecture]
Filmvortrag Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen Bremen D | Israel 20.05.2024 um 19.30 Uhr

As part of a series of lectures, Dr Talia Perlshtein, head of the dance department at the Orot Israel College of Education in Tel Aviv, provided fascinating insights into the development of contemporary Israeli dance. Her lecture ‘Windows of the Soul of Contemporary Israeli Dance’ traced how a globally recognised dance culture has developed from the combination of Middle Eastern traditions and Western innovations.

The focus was on two main trends:

Middle Eastern roots: from Sara Levi-Tanai to Orly Portal

As early as 1949, Sara Levi-Tanai founded the Inbal Dance Company, in which she combined Yemeni music and rituals with modern stage dance. Her work is regarded as the foundation stone for a unique Israeli dance language.

A current representative of this line is Orly Portal. Her choreographies interweave Sufi dance, belly dance and modern techniques, thus building a bridge between tradition and the present.

Western influences: The Batsheva Dance Company and Ohad Naharin

The professionalisation of Israeli dance along Western lines began with the founding of the Batsheva Dance Company in 1964 by Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild. Initially strongly influenced by Martha Graham, the company found its own unmistakable movement language from 1990 onwards under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin: ‘Gaga’.

Naharin’s works such as Kyr, Anaphase and The Hole not only characterised Israeli dance, but also set international standards for artistic innovation and social reflection.

A multi-layered picture

In her lecture, Dr Perlshtein succeeded in vividly conveying how Israeli dance is constantly reinventing itself through the dialogue between cultural heritage and contemporary aesthetics. We would like to thank her warmly for this inspiring insight!

Bibliotheca Albertina Leipzig Dance archives and digital transformation. Conference of the Association of German Dance Archives

 Veranstaltung Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V. Institut für Theaterwissenschaftern der Universität Leipzig und Bibliotheca Albertina D 17.-18.11.2023

Institute for Theatre Studies at the University of Leipzig

17 November 2023, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Working conference of the Association of German Dance Archives

Miscellaneous topics

18 November 2023
Bibliotheca Albertina

10.00 a.m. Words of welcome

Charlotte Bauer, Deputy Director of Leipzig University Library

Holk Freytag, Saxon Academy of the Arts

 

10.15 am Dance archives in Germany

* Archive Performing Arts of the Academy of Arts Berlin, Stephan Dörschel (Head of the Archive)
* German Dance Archive Cologne, Thomas Thorausch (Deputy Head of the Dance Archive Cologne)
* German Dance Film Institute Bremen, Heide-Marie Härtel (Artistic Director)
* Mediathek für Tanz und Theater, Christine Henniger (Head of MTT at the International Theatre Institute Centre Germany e.V.)
* Dance Archive Leipzig e.V., Prof. Dr Patrick Primavesi (Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Leipzig and board member)
* University Archive of the Palucca University of Dance Dresden, Bianca Gleiniger (Head of the
University Archive)

 

10.45 am Dance-memory-digitality: a research

Caroline Helm, Clara Dolinschek, Michael Freundt (Dachverband Tanz Deutschland e.V.)

 

11.00 am Discussion: Dance and Archive – Transformation into the Digital

 

11.45 a.m. short break

 

12.00 pm Digital stages for dance: tanz:digital as an example

Michael Freundt (Dachverband Tanz Deutschland e.V.)

 

12.15 pm Discussion: Complicity of art, technology, science and archive

* Thomas Thorausch, Deputy Director of the Dance Archive Cologne
* Stephan Dörschel, Director of the Archive for Performing Arts at the Academy of Arts Berlin
* Heide-Marie Härtel, Artistic Director of the German Dance Film Institute Bremen
* Christine Henniger, Head of the Media Library for Dance and Theatre at the International Theatre Institute -
Zentrum Deutschland e. V.
* Patrick Henniger, Head of the Media Library for Dance and Theatre at the International Theatre Institute -
Zentrum Deutschland e. V. V.
* Patrick Primavesi, Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Leipzig, Board of Directors of Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V.
* Bianca Gleiniger, Head of the University Archive of the Palucca University of Dance Dresden
Moderation: Melanie Gruß, Institute for Theatre Studies

 

14.00 Small reception with drinks and snacks

 

Tanztraining und analoger Film. Foto: Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen Communication. From the dispatch to the tweet. The Bremen Archives and Radio Bremen [Exhibition].
Ein facettenreiches Bild der technischen, gesellschaftlichen oder sprachlichen Veränderungen unserer Kommunikation aus der Sicht Bremer Archive.
Ausstellungsbeteiligung Arbeitskreis Bremer Archive Untere Rathaushalle; Eröffnung am 3.3.2020 um 17.00 Uhr D Vom 4.3. bis 12.3.2020 täglich 11.00 bis 19.00 Uhr

“The Bremen archives present treasures from their holdings: Letters, photos, films, interviews, long-playing records, posters, radio recordings, telegrams and a wide variety of exhibits on the subject of “communication”. The spectrum ranges from the US station AFN, church radio and campus radio to the artist and musician John Cage, Werder TV and satellites in space travel. As in a kaleidoscope, a multi-faceted picture of the technical, social or linguistic changes in our communication over the past 100 to 200 years emerges.

 

The exhibition takes a special look at the cultural heritage of the city and state of Bremen. It is complemented by supra-regional and international themes. The preservation and making available of cultural assets are among the essential tasks of the diverse and multi-layered archive landscape in the federal state of Bremen.

In this context, the Bremen Archives Working Group also includes initiatives and collections whose holdings and professional content have hardly been noticed and dealt with by academic institutions. The exhibition is thus also an offer for new ideas and plans.”

 

A varied programme of events frames the show.

 

Arbeitskreis Bremer Archive

 

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“Dance and Film – Symbiosis of Two Genres” is the title of the exhibition contribution by the German Dance Film Institute Bremen. Heide-Marie Härtel’s contribution on the origins and development of dance film and the interpenetration of dance and film is illustrated by photos, film clips and historical costumes as well as film equipment from the extensive holdings of our producing archive.

 

Preview:
Tanzsalon 29 will be showing ” The Dance Film Institute in Transition”. The event will start on 10 March 2020 at 8pm as part of the exhibition and will highlight the coming step for Europe’s largest producing dance film archive.

DANCE – Archive – FILM. Lecture for NaturKultur e.V. Erasmus +

 Seminar Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen Bremen D 29.11.2019

“The stage is yours!” is a theatre-film seminar organised by NaturKultur e.V., where young adults from Europe visiting northern Germany for a voluntary cultural year can gain a variety of experiences. 36 young people from Greece, Croatia, Spain and Germany work on the themes of experiences of discrimination and self-identity in the seven-day workshop using the methods of the performing arts, performance and film (camera work and editing). The results are presented in a performance.
This intensive programme is complemented by a video lecture at the German Dance Film Institute Bremen, in which artistic director Heide-Marie Härtel unfolds the thematic field of DANCE and FILM with the interface of the archive. Artistic dance, documentary film, film art – a broad field is outlined. This will be followed by an intensive exchange about the importance of preserving fleeting artistic moments, as they are found especially in artistic stage dance, through the medium of film.

Foto: Marianne Menke GEGENPOLE UND ZWISCHENWELT – steptext Tanzprojekt im TANZLAND WINSEN
Gastpiel mit Einführung von Heide-Marie Härtel
 Filmvortrag Kulturverein Winsen Winsen an der Luhe D 12.09.2019 um 19:30 Uhr

Since its premiere in 2016, step ensemble piece ZWEI GIRAFFEN TANZEN TANGO – BREMER SCHRITTE, a Tanzfonds Erbe project, has already wowed audiences in many places. Now two adapted versions of Helge Letonja’s take on dance theatre pioneer Gerhard Bohner’s 1980 choreography can be experienced away from home.

 

As part of the TANZLAND WINSEN cooperation, Letonja has combined sequences from the production with the ensemble to create a new multi-layered cosmos: With GEGENPOLE UND ZWISCHENWELTEN the audience can expect contemporary dance art on 12 September in the Stadthalle Winsen, which weaves everyday gestures, subconscious and humorous into impressive moving images.

 

At 7:30 pm, expert Heide-Marie Härtel, director of the German Dance Film Institute Bremen, will introduce the piece and its background.

 

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The Kulturverein Winsen and steptext dance project see their cooperation as an opportunity to bring contemporary dance art closer to different sections of the population and age groups and to create sustainable structures for dance guest performances, dance reflection and dance practice. Steptext, with its productions that address social discourses in terms of dance aesthetics, as well as its networking and mediation skills, meets a committed partner in Winsen that interacts with the city on many levels and is open to new impulses. Dance as an art form that appeals to its audience across all linguistic and age differences increases Winsen’s attractiveness as a new and first-time element in the city’s cultural programme and helps to raise the profile of its cultural programme beyond the city limits.

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Jean Cebron DANCE SALON 26: Farewell to Jean Cébron

 Filmvortrag Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen Bremen D Sonntag, 10.03.2019, um 20.00 Uhr

 

The dancer, choreographer and teacher Jean Cébron died on 1 February at the age of 94. After Kurt Jooss, he was probably the most influential dance teacher at the Folkwangschule for decades. His students included such well-known dance personalities as Reinhild Hoffmann, Susanne Linke, Urs Dietrich and Lutz Förster.

 

Jean Cébron was active as a dancer, for example in famous ballet pieces by Kurt Jooss, and as a choreographer, performing with Pina Bausch and others in the 1970s. The German Dance Film Institute has previously unpublished video material from Jean Cébron’s classes, from performances at the Folkwangschule in the 1990s and from his work with the Bremer Tanztheater in the 1980s under Reinhild Hoffmann.

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We show clips from the filming and talk to one of his students from the 90s, Professor Doktor STEPHAN BRINKMANN, who has been head of the dance department at the Folkwang University of the Arts since late last year.

 

Following the presentation, we are pleased to introduce you to a premiere that will be shown in the Schwankhalle the following week, on 13.3: SCHLAFWANDLER 1999 / 2019. Choreographed by Helge Letonja in 1999, the same dancers continue the piece 20 years later in a second part. Ziv Frenkel and Anne Minetti are present at the Tanzsalon. (Premiere 13/3, further performances 14 and 16/3)

 

DANCE SALON 26 begins on Sunday, 10 March 2019, at 20:00 at the Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen, Forum am Wall, Am Wall 201, 28195 Bremen. Entrance from Ostertorstraße, left of bakery. Tel. 0421 240 550