04.- 06.12.26
We Cannot Carry on Like This
Tanznacht Forum 2026
When exhaustion becomes systemic: Tanznacht Forum 2026 explores the conditions for alternative, regenerative ways of working in the arts.
When exhaustion becomes systemic: Tanznacht Forum 2026 explores the conditions for alternative, regenerative ways of working in the arts.
Upcoming highlights Find out more
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18.11.2026Weaving Belonging
Find out moreAs part of the Emerging Change Tanzfestival, Sointu Pere presents a Residency Showing at Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE, exploring movement, identity, and the politics of visibility. -
04.12.2026Nice To Meet You
Find out moreHow did we end up here? Michikazu Matsune invites audiences to an artistic exploration between the everyday and existence through poetry, humor, and critique. -
04.- 06.12.2026A Manual for Mutual Aid
Find out moreA 30-minute performance ritual weaving capoeira, Congolese dance, and Lebanese dabke into a decolonial narrative of tenderness. -
05.12.2026What if the Conditions Were Shaped by Many? Open-source approaches to resisting exhaustion
Find out moreAlexander Roberts and Marta Keil present open-source approaches for sustainable, non-exhausting working conditions in the performing arts. -
05.12.2026Following the Ways Out: Some Speculations for Times of Exhaustion
Find out moreExploring the potentials and paradoxes of withdrawal: Can stepping back in times of exhaustion open up more nourishing ways of working? -
05.12.2026Quitting the Show
Find out moreA lecture-performance by Angela Alves on her withdrawal from Tanznacht 2023, followed by a conversation with curators Marta Keil and Felicitas Zeeden. -
17.- 21.12.2026Hopepunk
Find out moreA choreographic exploration of joy as an act of radical hope: Countering exhaustion, anger, and grief with sweat, rhythm, and vulnerability. -
17.- 20.12.2026Liquid Border of Solid Hope
Find out moreA multi-layered performance combining archival research, dance, and live sound to examine the Mediterranean as a diasporic space of refuge, memory, and European migration policy.
We Cannot Carry on Like This
Tanznacht Forum 2026 / 04. - 06.12.2026
Tanznacht Forum 2026 addresses the pervasive exhaustion within the arts sector caused by dwindling resources and systemic depletion.
Together with artists and researchers, the forum explores regenerative ways of working and space for withdrawal as an active form of resistance.
Together with artists and researchers, the forum explores regenerative ways of working and space for withdrawal as an active form of resistance.
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Stream
live Art Writing
Stream is a platform for texts motivated by live art. Stream is open to an expansive understanding of “Live Art”. There will be texts that are inspired by a specific piece or body of art – the writer’s own artistic work or someone else’s, texts that are unfolding notions of live art, texts that are dealing with developments and transformations by the art form as such.
27.12.2026–10.01.2027
WinterTanz Workshops 2026/27
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Fresh inspiration, diverse approaches to movement, and plenty of room to experiment: WinterTanz brings together different artistic perspectives and invites participants to discover movement in new ways.
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Find out moreAs part of the citywide action week #DeineStimmeFuerKultur we would like to draw your attention to a position paper jointly developed by 14 independent Berlin theatres, including Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE, and addressed to Berlin’s political decision-makers. -
Clean Shelter Humanitarian Aid for Gaza
MoreWe are supporting Clean Shelter, an initiative working to provide safe and dignified living conditions for displaced communities in Gaza. -
#BerlinIstKultur
MoreWe want to draw attention to the current financial and cultural policy situation.
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Manifest für das schöne Leben
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A Call for Peace
MoreWe condemn all forms of violence, their endorsement or trivialisation, as well as racism and anti-Semitism. -
Declaration of the Many
MoreArt creates spaces for change.
Tanzfabrik Berlin e.V. is a signatory to the Berlin Declaration of the Many. -
#BlackLivesMatter
MoreWe express our solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and condemn all forms of racism and "white supremacy".
