About tanzpol
tanzpol defines itself as a platform for exchange in dance, choreography, and performance at the intersections of networking and artistic practice. Specifically, tanzpol organizes festivals in Berlin and develops mediation formats that enable artistic and scholarly dialogues.
Tanzpol is dedicated to creating spaces for dialogue and connection between the ‘West’ and the ‘Non-West’, aiming to understand their conceptualizations, aesthetics, gaps, and potentials. Moreover, tanzpol is engaged in rethinking curatorial practice, taking into account current political, social, and artistic discourses.
Against this background, tanzpol has so far focused on collaborations with artists, curators, and researchers from the Iranian and Afghan contexts, but is currently broadening its focus. In 2022 and 2024, tanzpol organized a festival each at Uferstudios and Sophiensaele Berlin. The 2022 festival opened up a multilayered space for exchange between artistic and theoretical positions on contemporary dance and performance with references to Iran. In 2024, the festival program confronted the complexity of the term ‘exile’, both on an artistic level and in discussion formats.
The Mentoring Program 2025 is a pilot project and thus the first format of its kind implemented by tanzpol.
For further information on the tanzpol Festival 2024
For further information on the tanzpol Festival 2022
Full-length panels and interviews:
Interview with Ulduz Ahmadzadeh
Interview with Sorour Darabi
tanzpol MEDIA
Funded by
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Founded by Senate Department for Culture and Community and with funds from The Capital Cultural Fund (Hauptstadtkulturfonds) and Goethe-Institut im Exil. With kind support of the Institut français and the French Ministry of Culture, International Theater Institute Germany (ITI), Sophiensaele and Uferstudios Berlin.
Team
Curated by Ashkan Afsharian & Johanna Kasperowitsch
Technical lead Joshua Lee McKain
Design Afshin Chizari