Workshops
Tanznetz Freiburg organizes workshops in the field of productions (play dramaturgy and development, etc.) as well as other useful topics related to professional self-employment (application procedures, KSK, etc.) for freelance artists in contemporary dance. This continuing education program is offered in cooperation with Tanznetz Freiburg gUG and bewegungs-art freiburg e.V.
Our shareholder bewegungs-art Freiburg e.V. hosts workshops in contemporary dance practices that refine the art of dance: contemporary and other dance techniques, floor work, contact improvisation, instant composition, Skinner Releasing Technique, voguing, dance & language, rhythm in dance, etc., as well as workshops on participatory dance that provide training in dance education.
Upcoming
Workshop Gender & sexual orientation Joh Sarre
“Recognizing discrimination, acting anti-discriminatory, focus: gender & sexual orientation”
April 21 2026, 14-16:15, online
Discrimination is sometimes obvious, but often subtle—in our private lives, in language, in structures, or even in our professional and artistic activities. This often raises the question: What should I do when I notice discrimination? And what if I don't even notice it?
In this workshop, you will acquire or deepen your knowledge on the topics of gender and sexual orientation, reflect on your “mental pigeonholing,” and, in exchange with others, develop concrete options for action to counteract discrimination in your private and/or professional life. Input, self-reflection, exchange, and practical exercises will alternate. The focus is on gender and sexual orientation, but we will also look at how these intersect with other forms of inequality, keyword: intersectionality.
The workshop will take place online via Zoom. No prior knowledge is required, just a willingness to learn :) To participate, we recommend a computer with internet access, speakers/headphones & a microphone, and a place where you can speak and listen. The workshop language is spoken German. After about 1 hour, we will take a 10-15 minute break. If you need anything specific or would like to know anything else in order to participate, please feel free to write to me (Joh) at sarre@posteo.de
Joh Sarre (— / they) works as a freelancer, offering workshops on LGBTIQ+ empowerment, diversity competence, and anti-discrimination, among other topics.
Joh's work is based on a wide range of education and training (doctorate in African Studies & Cultural and Social Anthropology, systemic coaching, nonviolent communication, Dance-Fight-Grow, Wheel of Consent, hospice care, and much more), on Joh's lived experience as a queer, multiply privileged person in a wide variety of social and cultural contexts, and on many years of critical engagement with difference, exclusion, and power relations. Joh's heart beats faster when they succeed in creating (learning) spaces where a wide variety of people can participate and learn from each other. Joh practices being open to mistakes, stand-up paddleboarding, and unlearning prejudices. More about Joh Sarre at
Collaborations & PowerSharing with Artists of Color by Malayika Mbassè
Collaborations & PowerSharing with Artists of Color
The art of critiquing power – as a counterpoint to racist structures
May 19, 2026, 3-5pm, online
The workshop The Art of Critiquing Power explores racist structures and understands power critique as both an artistic and social practice. It focuses on recognizing power structures, becoming aware of one’s own position(s) and role(s), and developing forms of solidarity. Drawing on the political and philosophical roots of racist systems—examined through the example of anti-Black racism—the workshop introduces approaches to self-reflection, concepts such as Critical Whiteness, and pathways toward power sharing in arts and culture, with a particular emphasis on the independent dance scene. Reflective exercises support participants in connecting these perspectives to their own artistic and professional practices.
About
Online
Workshop Neurodivergence Stephanie Scheubeck
colours on my body in motion. creating access
June 30, 3-5pm, ONLINE
What do Relaxed Performance and accessibility in regards to neurodivergence mean? How do I integrate those into my artistic work?
During our session we aim to identify and dismantle barriers faced by your audience, your team and maybe yourself as a project-based freelance artist. We find ways to integrate accessibility into your artistic processes, projects and public events.
These barriers can take many forms, for example the (temporal) structure of the rehearsal schedule during production phase, conditions of the venue/rehearsal space or types of communication. In relation to the public event, barriers can include sensory stimuli such as light and sound, special effects such as fog, content-related triggers, seating and audience situation and more.
Neurodivergence describes people who are outside the neurotypical norm and whose brain functions work significantly differently than those of neurotypical people. Neurodivergent people process information differently, learn differently and react differently than we would expect.
Relaxed Performance is an event format which understands that environments, systems, and attitudes can create barriers because they do not consider differences in how they are set up. The principles of the format range from clear, understandable advance information to a relaxed approach to movements and noises from the audience. Relaxed Performances are aimed at audiences that benefit from a more relaxed theatre and event atmosphere. They create an atmosphere of welcome for people who are excluded by the strict conventions in performance spaces: for example, people on the autism spectrum, with Tourette's, with learning difficulties, or chronic pain. But also simply those who feel comfortable in a more inclusive environment. (see: https://diversity-arts-culture...) During the session, we will explore whether and how this format is suitable for your work.
About
Stephanie Scheubeck is a neurodivergent artist with various forms of synaesthesia, a phenomenon in which one sensory stimulus/concept simultaneously and involuntarily triggers a second sensory stimulus/concept. Stephanie perceives a.o. sound, music and smells as well as her kinaesthetic perceptions as coloured, textured shapes spatially arranged inside, on and around her body. She undertakes practice-based research into the relationship between synesthesia, dance and embodiment. Stephanie received her Master in Dance with distinction from Bath Spa University (2017, GB). Previously, she studied Musical Theatre, New Dance and Physical Theatre Dance in Freiburg and Berlin. In 2016, she trained as a Somatic Practitioner. Stephanie's dance and digital performances, award-winning video-art films and audio-visual installations are strongly influenced by her own synaesthetic experiences and are shown internationally. In 2018, she founded Sound & Colour Production, which promotes synaesthesia as an example of neurodiversity through art and research.
www.soundandcolourproduction.com
Past
A Workshop on Body, Poetry & (Pop-)Music by Mira Mann
A workshop as part of the exchange residency “for exchange+” - a cooperation between Tanzzentrale Nürnberg, Tanztendenz München, EinTanzHaus Mannheim, Schwindelfrei Mannheim, Produktionszentrum Tanz + Performance e.V. Stuttgart, CONdance e.V. Bamberg and Tanznetz Freiburg. The three interdisciplinary artists Alina Belyagina, Olena Polianska and Mira Mann from Munich will devote two weeks to their chosen theme “The mechanic of support”. Starting from the body, we will develop texts, sounds and performative spaces together in the accompanying workshop. This interdisciplinary workshop is aimed at anyone interested in dance, theater, literature and the visual arts. No previous knowledge is necessary.
About the workshop
Mira Mann's practice begins with the body and develops texts, music and performance from this base. She does this so consistently, perhaps also because it confronts her with special challenges. She has been living with multiple sclerosis, an incurable nerve disease that causes very different symptoms in each person affected, since a young age. Her own sickness is an underlying reality of her work and her drive. It shapes her perception and the way she comes into contact with the world. For her, inventing new systems and showing vulnerability is empowering and without alternative.
As a poet - she has published four volumes of poetry with the traditional Cologne poetry publisher Parasitenpresse since 2019 - she is particularly interested in the performative poetic power of words and the special spaces of meaning they unfold when they come into contact with music and bodies.
In the workshop format, she provides an overview of the state of literary knowledge in relation to the interplay of body and text production and uses concrete examples to guide the participants' own work. Together, the participants and her will try out different possibilities of body-related text production and take time for a very personal deep dive into body-text-music connections (part 1). In the following, they access the resulting text material and create sonic and performative spaces for it. The group will make use of everyday sounds and simple chorally sung and spoken modules. Even when it comes to the performative elements, we stick to everyday life and work with gestures and very general dance moves. In this way, the participants and Mira will discover ways together to connect the private with the political across different disciplines, always focusing on the body.
Literature:
- Siri Hustvedt: Die zitternde Frau, Rowohlt, 2010
- Bregje Hofstede: Die Wiederentdeckung des Körpers, Oktaven, 2020
- Selma Kay Matter: Muskeln aus Plastik, Hanser Berlin, 2024
- Olivia Laing: Every Body, Bob, 2024
About Mira Mann
Mira Mann works transdisciplinary in the fields of poetry, music and performance. She deals with sex, illness, motherhood and violence in a radically personal way. In her work, she makes common role clichés and social attributions resonate and creates connections between actors of different genres, consciously crossing the boundaries between so-called high and subculture. Her curatorial and artistic practice explores the limitations of closed systems and searches for unexpected feedback loops. Fundamental to her work is the combination of artistic and curatorial practice with mediation formats.
Registration
The workshop is open to all interested parties. To register, please send an email with the subject “Transformer workshop” to presse@tanznetz-freiburg.de and include your full name and contact details (email/phone). The registration deadline is September 15, 2025 and the number of participants is limited to 12. Please let us know in this email what you need to be able to participate and we will do our best to make it possible! Please note that the workshop requires a contribution towards small expenses of 10 euros in total. You will receive the bank transfer details once registered.
Workshop: Writing about dance - young talent meets independent scene
As part of tanzwuchs #9, we invite young talents interested in writing to a three-day workshop dedicated to writing about dance in all its facets. Dance is movement — and it moves us. But how can we put that into words?
Whether a review, creative text, essay or experimental form - we want to try out together how movement can be translated into language. Participants will attend the evening performance of tanzwuchs #9, in which six short pieces from the independent dance scene will be presented. On this basis, individual texts will be written about the works shown - with space for their own perspectives, questions and formats.
The workshop will be accompanied by experienced writing coaches and dance mediators. The aim is to promote new voices in the field of dance journalism and mediation - and to give them a platform. A selection of the texts will then be published on the Tanznetz Freiburg website.
What we offer:
- Three-day workshop with inputs, text work & feedback
- Free access to the performance of tanzwuchs #9
- Publication on the Tanznetz Freiburg homepage
Participation requirements:
You enjoy writing, are interested in dance and are not afraid of white pages. Previous knowledge of writing about dance is not required - curiosity is enough.
Participation free of charge.
The number of places is limited to 12 participants.
Essayistic writing
How can you write about something that defies language? Just seen - disappeared again. In this workshop, you will be given tools on how to write against the fleeting nature of movement. The starting point is classic criticism - but we can write away from it, become more fluid, shift formats and ask new questions: How much distance does a good text need? What does objectivity mean in writing - and is it even necessary? How lively can a critique be, how artistic must it be?
Together we will explore forms of writing that don't hold on, but resonate. Using selected short video examples, we will practise naming phenomena and developing potential interview questions. The workshop is aimed at anyone who would like to engage with dance and performance through writing - regardless of whether they want to create their first texts or question tried and tested techniques. The resulting contributions can be published on a blog by arrangement. The workshop will be held in German spoken language. If you have any individual requirements, please let us know in advance!
About Thaddäus Maria Jungmann
Thaddäus Maria Jungmann studied scenic arts in Hildesheim and musical theater in Osnabrück. Thaddäus lives as a freelance performer and dramaturge in Cologne, where they are currently studying for a Master's degree in Dance Studies - with a stay abroad in Bern/Expanded Theater. They also work as a journalist for the two trade journals Theater der Zeit and tanz. Through writing, Thaddäus most recently came to the development of artistic audio descriptions for blind and visually impaired audiences at tanzhaus nrw.
Performance Analysis
How can touching bodies in motion be translated into comprehensible conceptual bodies? How can a dynamic and ephemeral dance event be immobilized in words without appearing rigid and static? Using the method of performance analysis as a starting point, the workshop will show ways of accessing dance events in order to make them conceptually comprehensible. Starting from one's own location and being touched, encounters with dance events should take place that enable questions to be asked, that leave questions open and that invite possible answers that are not fixed but interact with the dance. The meanings conveyed to the audience in a dance event should be translated into possible interpretations, which are then reflected in a text about the dance, so that the experience of being touched is made comprehensible to others.
During the workshop, possibilities for writing about dance will be demonstrated in order to find one's own linguistic embodiment of and about dance. Based on exemplary dance events, possible moments of being touched will be filtered out in order to use them as a starting point for a text-dance response. Concrete steps of being touched by dance, speaking about dance and writing about and with dance will be shown in the workshop.
All viewers who not only want to watch a dance event but also interact with it through writing are cordially invited to the workshop to write texts in response to the dance events at Tanzwuchs 2025. After consultation, these can be published on a blog. Individual needs will be addressed during the workshop.
About Dr. Jutta Krauß
Dr. Jutta Krauß is a dance scholar, dramaturge, lecturer and teacher. She studied TanzKultur at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Bern/Switzerland and completed a teaching degree at the Freiburg University of Education. She is a member of the Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung and was first deputy chair from 2021-2023. Her main areas of work and research are Contemporary dance with theorems of body and costume, gender performances on stage as well as cultural translations and mediation concepts.
Registration
To register, please send an email with the subject “Writing workshop” to presse@tanznetz-freiburg.de and include your full name and contact details (email/phone). The registration deadline is September 26, 2025 and the number of participants is limited to 12. Please let us know in this email what you need to be able to participate and we will do our best to make it possible! The two lecturers on site will also respond to individual needs.
Introductory workshop on artistic audio description
with Mella Hambrecht and Charlotte Arens
Organized by com.dance e.V. Katja Gluding. In cooperation with Tanznetz Freiburg, E-Werk Freiburg, Bewegung-Art Freiburg e.V.
Part 1: Online session: Tue, Feb 24, 2026, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The online session will cover the basics of audio description and barrier-free work with and for blind people.
Part 2: In person: March 1, 2026, Südufer Freiburg, Haslacher Straße 41, from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The in-person part of the workshop will cover the different types and possibilities of integrated audio description, which participants will then try out for themselves in practical exercises.
Maximum number of participants: 15
The workshop is free of charge—donations are welcome.
Registration by February 23, 2026, at com.dance@gmx.de
Please bring comfortable clothing and warm socks.
About
Charlotte Arens (she/her, sighted) is a freelance performance and theater artist who enjoys working at the intersection of dramaturgy, curation, audio description, social justice, performance, and text. Since 2022, she has been part of a team developing audio descriptions for performance, dance, and theater (for: Ensemble Divers, zeitraumexit, Mousonturm, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Companie M.). In her dramaturgical and artistic work, she focuses on methods of artistic audio description in dance and performance (with Britt Hatzius, Jana Mila Lippitz, and t.i.a. dance).
About
Mella Hambrecht (she/her, blind, with (assistance) dog Edward) works as accessibility coordinator at Künstler*innen Haus Mousonturm in Frankfurt. She freelances developing classical, creative, and integrated audio descriptions, working in the field of access dramaturgy and aesthetics of access. She also advises on topics such as awareness, accessibility, and blind perception. She is part of an artist network that researches integrated audio description and aesthetics of access, and leads a round table for blind and visually impaired AD authors.
“Structure rehearsals with minimal hierarchy?!”
The Barcamp method as a tool for an equitable artistic work process
The workshop invites participants to reflect on how we work together, focusing on learning about the Barcamp method. A theoretical introduction will be followed by a joint experimentation phase in which the method will be applied to the artistic rehearsal process and tested in practice. The experiences gained will then be reflected upon and evaluated together. The workshop is aimed at artists who regularly work in groups and are looking for new impulses for collective artistic work processes.
About
Johanna Dangel (she/her) has a master's degree in cultural management and a master's degree in literature and history. In addition to her management role at zusammen leben e.V., she is responsible for the organization's inclusive cultural and educational offerings. She works freelance as a dramaturge and presenter and will complete her training as a TA consultant this spring. For several years, she has been dealing with the question “How do we want to work together?” in her various work contexts.