Culture in Times of Sharing and Division #1: Dance and Performance Scene in Berlin and Warsaw
Culture in Times of Sharing and Division – networking session
Recognizing the inherent ambiguity of the Polish word "współdzielenie," in which "sharing" and "dividing" stem from the same root, the Polish Institute in Berlin and Avant Art invites professionals from the dance and performance scene in Berlin and Warsaw and from the visual arts scene in Berlin and Wroclaw, representing various organizations, institutions, and festivals, to a social and professional networking event.
Mateusz Szymanówka (Sophiens.le/Tanztage) will lead a session focused on the dance and performance scene. The main partner for Networking Session No. 1, “Dance Scenes in Berlin and Warsaw,” is the City of Warsaw, as part of the celebrations marking the 35th anniversary of the partnership between Warsaw and Berlin.
This event is closed to the public.
The conversations will seek to address, among others, the following questions:
What are the strategies of institutions in Poland and Germany within the context of economic cuts and shifting public priorities? Do we need new cross-border alliances? If so, what kind of cooperation between Warsaw/Wroclaw and Berlin is needed right now – and what has changed? How do institutions and organizations recognize and respond to the needs of their local communities? What do the divergences and similarities in the experiences, discourses, and local contexts of German and Polish institutions tell us?
How do we work honestly within the political and social dimensions in polarized societies? And how do we build long-term structures where power shifts regularly, and cultural policy shifts with it?
These are a few of the urgent questions we pose. We anticipate that this gathering will yield rich discourse and meaningful exchange.
Networking session (participants):
Warsaw (dance and performance):
- Alicja Berejowska – Pawilon Tańca
- Michal Grzegorzek – Galeria Studio
- Grzegorz Laszuk – Komuna Warszawa
- Maria Stokłosa – Fundacja Burdag
- Joanna Szymajda – Narodowy Instytut Muzyki I Tanca
- Karolina Lipińska – Teatr Dramatyczny
- Agnieszka Kiewicz – festiwal Ciało/Umysł
Berlin (dance and performance):
- Ricardo Carmona – Tanz im August
- Felicitas Zeeden – Tanzfabrik Berlin
- Matthias Mohr – Radialsystem
- Andrea Niederbuchner – Sophiensaele
- Petra Poelzl – HAU
- Simone Willeit – Uferstudios
- Jana Gruenewald – Dachverband Tanz Deutschland
- Peter Pleyer – DOCK11
Leipzig (dance and performance)
- Christian Watty Festival euro-scene Leipizig