Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT)

The Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT) is a locally and internationally oriented center of study and research for a creative and critical engagement with dance, choreography, body-based practices and performance. Founded in 2006, HZT Berlin started as a four-year pilot project within Tanzplan Deutschland, an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

Since 2010, the HZT has continued on an institutional basis. It is jointly supported by the UdK Berlin and the HfS Ernst Busch, in contractually bound cooperation with TanzRaumBerlin, a network of the professional Berlin dance scene.  

The HZT offers three degree programs: the bachelor's program Dance, Context, Choreography and the two master's programs Choreography (maC) and Solo/Dance/Authorship (MA SODA).

Students are offered a teaching and research environment at the HZT in which they can develop their own work in the field of contemporary art practice through artistic, theoretical and collaborative practice, transdisciplinary approaches, contextualization, reflection, as well as in dialogue with faculty and peer learning.

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HZT Committees

MEMBERS OF HZT VORSTAND 

  • Dr. Anna Luise Kiss (Rektorin HfS)
  • Prof. Dr. Norbert Palz (Präsident UdK)
  • Christiane Linsel (Kanzlerin der HfS)
  • Dr. Ulrike Prechtl-Fröhlich (Kanzlerin UdK)

Advisory members with speech and petition right

  • Prof. Nik Haffner (Artistic Director)
  • Prof. Wanda Golonka (Deputy of the Artistic Director)
  • Silke Bake, Kareth Schaffer (TanzRaumBerlin Netzwerk)

 

MEMBERS OF HZT COUNCIL

Group 1

  • Prof. Wanda Golonka
  • Prof. Nik Haffner
  • Prof. Janez Janša
  • Prof.Philipp Gehmacher

Group 2

  •  Dr. Christiane Berger
  • Rep. N.N.

Group 3

  • Ariane Burghard
  • Rep. Suet Wa Tam

Group 4

  • Maximilian Stelzl
  • Rep. N. N.

Advisory members with speech and petition right

  • Dr. Anna Luise Kiss (Rektorin HfS)
  • Prof. Dr. Norbert Palz (Präsident UdK)
  • Christiane Linsel (Kanzlerin der HfS)
  • Dr. Ulrike Prechtl-Fröhlich (Kanzlerin UdK)
  • TanzRaumBerlin Netzwerk: Silke Bake, Kareth Schaffer
  • Women's and Equal Opportunity representatives UdK: Kerstin Iskra, Rep. Paula Meuthen
  • Women's and Equal Opportunity representative HfS: Vanessa Wozny
  • AStA UdK: Frances Breden
  • AStA HfS: N.N.

 

HZT EXPERT COMMITTEE 

The international Expert Committee gives recommendations in structural issues or questions of content. At this point the following persons are members of the HZT Expert Committee:

  • Efva Lilja, Choreographer, Researcher, Stockholm
  • Prof. Dr. Annemarie Matzke, University of Hildesheim
  • Meg Stuart, Choreographer/ Berlin
  • N.N.
     

HZT EXAMINATION BOARD
According to the decision of the HZT Council of 19.10.2022, the examination board is composed as follows:

(a) Examination board BA "Dance, Context, Choreography"

Group 1

  • Prof. Janez Janša, head of board
  • Prof. Philipp Gehmacher
  • Prof. Wanda Golonka
  • Rep. Prof. Dr. Sandra Noeth

Group 2

  • Jason Corff
  • Rep. Diego Agulló

Group 3

  • Naledi Majola (MA SODA)

(b) Examination board MA "Choreography"

Group 1

  • Prof. Philipp Gehmacher, head of board
  • Prof. Wanda Golonka
  • Prof. Janez Janša 
  • Rep. Prof. Dr. Sandra Noeth

Group 2

  • Dr. Christiane Berger
  • Rep. Prof. Ingo Reulecke

Group 3

  • Nuria Erra Carrillo  (BA)
  • Rep. Suet Wa Tam (BA)

(c) Examination board MA "SODA Solo / Dance/ Authorship"

Group 1

  • Prof. Wanda Golonka, head of board
  • Prof. Janez Janša
  • Prof. Philipp Gehmacher
  • Rep. Prof. Dr. Sandra Noeth

Group 2

  • Rima Najdi
  • Rep. Prof. Ingo Reulecke

Group 3

  • Dominique Thego (maC)
  • Rep. Kysy Fischer (maC)


HZT STUDENT COUNCIL

  • Anton Gerzina
  • Auro Orso
  • Ella Olivia Bender
  • Lisa Kohlstädt
  • Mahshad Rezai
  • Marie Stremmel
  • Marta Ruszkowska
  • Milena Luise Stein
  • Nuria Carrillo Erra