Projects

How do class and classism manifest themselves in bodies? How do experiences of exclusion, isolation, assimilation or shame translate into somatic experiences or bodily positions and gestures? What do 'social advancement' and 'belonging' taste and smell like? The lecture series takes an intersectional look at...

Yes, I’m an activist and perhaps I’m an activist first. I don’t know, I’m always arguing with myself between devoting my time to the activism versus the art, so I combine them, but I think activists have always turned to the arts and artists have always been activists, so it‘s nothing new to be trying to do...

The effects of perspective and space, central perspective and the golden section are examined. Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper serves as a model. 
The variety of perspective views and insights are transferred together by means of choreographic scenic arrangement, photography, projections and video into the...

From July 2 to 5, 2020 there will be a special premiere at the ada Studio: for the first time, all artists in an edition of “NAH DRAN extended” will be students of the BA programme “Dance, Context, Choreography” at HZT. The theme of this cooperation project between ada Studio and HZT is "beginnings", and it...

The Coronavirus pandemic has once again placed the body at the centre of political and social debate. However, questions about its status were already relevant before the virus and remain key issues in many conflicts that continue to have a decisive influence on the world.  

What does it mean for an...

The HZT Berlin will participate in the 7th Biennale Dance Education in Hamburg from 17 - 23 February 2020 with eleven students and three teachers. In a get-together of the dance world, the Hamburg Ballet School John Neumeier, the Bundesjugendballett, K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg and Kampnagel are jointly organising...

The Making A Difference project is committed to ensuring that a self-confident and visible community of dancers*, choreographers* and performers* with disabilities changes the Berlin dance scene. Eight Berlin institutions have joined forces to provoke structural changes through a programme of interlocking...

“DANCING IN THE STREET. WHAT MOVES DANCE?”
The 6th Dance Education Biennial 2018 brings into focus the mutual relationship between dance and societal and political themes. Under the title “Dancing in the Street. What moves dance?” the political dimensions of dance whether in education, in the studio or on the...

Oskar Schlemmer called the movement and stage studies that he worked on as director of the stage workshop of the Bauhaus Dessau with students and guest dancers in the 1920s “Bauhaustänze”. These minimalist and clip-like experiments manifest an approach to spatially oriented movement art beyond ballet andAusdr...

The Erasmus Intensive Programme provided a framework for the live, interactive sharing, discussion and analysis of dramaturgical, compositional and choreographic approaches to the making and composition of physically-based performance that where currently in use in a number of practice-led graduate dance and...