In 2022 we will dance again: “Dancing on Erst-Reuter-Platz” continues – with even more partners and dance styles! From April to October, zukunftsgeraeusche GbR invites you to Ernst-Reuter-Platz every Sunday. There is something for everyone: From wheelchair disco to tango from tap dance to Lindyhop.
New to the program: Tango with Wendy Hsiao Wang, TapBeat and SwingPatrol and more
more info to follow…
2021, Dancing on Ernst-Reuter-Platz, boogie school berlin © Isabelle Kaiser, zukunftsgeraeusche
Dancing on Ernst-Reuter-Platz
Dancing in public space – together, open to all, on Ernst-Reuter-Platz.
“Dancing on Ernst-Reuter-Platz” invites to public ballroom dancing or “Public Plaza Dancing” from June 12 until November. Three times a month, seven different dance groups from Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf invite you to dance along: Dance is GREAT! Education Program of the Staatsballett Berlin, Inklusive Disco, boogie school berlin, KIZOMBA.BERLIN Tanzschule, MiSalsa Tanzschule and tanzfähig. Organized by BHROX bauhaus reuse at Ernst-Reuter-Platz.
2016, Project “Dancing in Grünau”, Foto: Shanghai, Plaza Dancing ©zukunftsgeraeusche
For more than a year there was almost no dancing, neither in clubs nor in dance studios. Nevertheless, new dance forms have also emerged during the Corona period. Especially online, viral and global dance phenomena have moved very many people simultaneously in different parts of the world. As in “Jerusalema”: starting from South Africa and Angola, vast amounts of dance videos emerged showing people dancing in backyards, monks in monasteries, nursing staff in hospitals, employees in zoos or even police officers in their stations. At the same time, dancing together in public outdoors is a wonderful alternative and has always been very popular in other countries. For example, in China, city dwellers do a self-organized formation dance as a social interaction and daily workout – “public plaza dancing” in English.
The urban laboratory BHROX bauhaus reuse continues this new and also old tradition of community dancing in public space on Ernst-Reuter-Platz, together with partners from seven different dance groups, classes, schools and clubs for a joint, moving start into spring 2021.
From May to November and three times a month, “Dancing on Ernst-Reuter-Platz” offers residents and passers-by a dance program for spontaneous participation.
For example, “Tanz ist GREAT! the Education Programm of Staatsballett Berlin”, “Inklusive Disco” and “tanzfähig“, which offer people with disabilities the opportunity to dance, “Kizomba Tanzschule”, which also dances formations outside of the Angolan Kizomba dance, such as the Family Dance, or “boogie school berlin”, which promotes the self-confidence of young women through dancing.
After a year like the last one, it is even more important to move together again and to find a way to deal with the new reality together. Dance is the ideal medium for this. In the middle of Berlin, in the middle of a traffic island, unknown to some, with a diameter of about 130 meters. At a distance, distributed in a grid of at least 1.50 meters, in the open air. Themes such as participation, inclusion, accessibility, health, emancipation and socio-cultural exchange are addressed, combined with a sensitization for the location, a garden monument of modernism, which as an open plaza according to the model of the modern loosened-up city encourages movement in urban space.
2021, Dancing on Ernst-Reuter-Platz © Isabelle Kaiser, zukunftsgeraeusche
Info partners
Dance is GREAT! Education Program of the Staatsballett Berlin
Dancing promotes creativity, strengthens self-confidence, makes you fit, and awakens team spirit. Nobody knows this better than the former dancers of the Staatsballett Berlin. On behalf of the Tanz ist GREAT! association, they share their fascinating world of dance and ballet with children and young people. In events, workshops and projects, they provide insights into training and rehearsal work, present costumes and props, reveal the secret of pointe shoes and accompany participants as they take their first dance steps. They also prepare performance visits and bring a piece of cultural history to life for the children and young people. In this way, everyone finds their own personal approach to ballet.
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boogie school berlin
BOOGIE SCHOOL is now a 10 year old dance and song school in Berlin and offers children, teenagers and adults from the age of 3 courses in which they are taught dance and songwriting by renowned choreographers and singers. No matter if fat, thin, tall, short, cheeky or shy, EVERY child has a talent and we want to encourage and deepen it! Muscles are trained, creativity and rhythm are taught.
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Inclusive Disco (Family Relief Services)
For over 50 years, the history of Lebenshilfe Berlin has been closely linked to the history of the city. Innovative and pioneering in its offers, tolerant in dealing with people who are different. Since this millennium, new laws and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities continue to strengthen self-determination and inclusion of people with disabilities. Also here on the pulse of time, Lebenshilfe Berlin develops new offers for children, adolescents and adults, oriented to the individual wishes. Always together with disabled people and their relatives.
With the program Inclusive Disco – people with impairment and without can really dance. There is cool music and wacky DJ`s who really heat things up.
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MiSalsa
MiSalsa in Berlin-Charlottenburg is a popular Salsa dance school and club that always invites you to a dance party on the last Saturday of the month. Then is danced exuberantly to Salsa, Merengue, Bachata and Latin Pop. Salsa lovers meet here to swing their hips to the rousing Caribbean music. The owner Humberto Castillo and his team already won the Gastro Award as best club in 2003! In the Mi Salsa dance school, however, salsa courses for beginners and advanced dancers are also offered independently of the parties. Mi Salsa is a so-called All Styles School. This means that in the basic courses the basics of traditional, classical and modern Salsa are taught. In the Allstyles courses the differentiated Salsa styles, such as Cuban, Cumbia, New York, L.A. Puerto Rican as well as Son are taught.
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KIZOMBA.BERLIN
Dance school for original Angolan Kizomba/Family Dance
The dance school KIZOMBA.BERLIN was founded in 2012 by Paulo, since then he runs it with his team. The classes are open to everyone who wants to learn original Angolan Kizomba dancing. Whether as an individual or as a couple, here you can get to know and love the uniqueness of Angolan Kizomba. Beginners and intermediate level classes are offered. For advanced Kizomba dancers, KIZOMBA.BERLIN regularly organizes parties with great DJs. The famous Angolan Family Dance is offered at the Ernst-Reuter Platz.
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tanzfähig
Initiative for more physical diversity in contemporary dance
Space for improvisation
The initiative tanzfähig wants to make contemporary dance accessible to everyone who wants to dance, regardless of age, disability, origin or previous experience. It sees this recognition of human diversity as an enrichment for dance. She is guided by the beauty of different bodies and shapes their diversity into a coherent whole. She draws on various forms of contemporary dance and especially improvisation. Her offers are open to all who want to express themselves physically.
Direction: Bernhard Richarz & Alessandra Lola Agostini
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‘Architecture in Motion’ was cancelled due to Covid19.