Young dance house Berlin

A house for all those who want to experience dance, share it and think ahead.

The Junge Tanzhaus Berlin dances, learns, researches and celebrates. Whether on stage, at school or in the neighbourhood: Here people meet and form their dance together.

For us, community is the principle that connects everything: People, generations, experiences, neighborhoods, languages and movements.
Here children dance alongside professionals, teachers learn from pupils inside, artists from young people inside, neighbors from each other inside. Visitors inside become co-creators, research and think along. This creates a space in which knowledge, responsibility and joy are shared.

In the Junge Tanzhaus Berlin, different functions of art stand side by side on an equal footing: artistic excellence, cultural participation and artistic research. In addition, the JTB builds bridges between art, education, science, social affairs, urban development and politics. Young people do not just move in one system – their learning, thinking and lives take place everywhere.

Art doesn't get smaller when it takes responsibility. It becomes more urgent, more necessary, more human. This house is not a shell for programmes, but a living, artistic entity – it changes with the people who work here. A conversation in the café, a dance in the studio, an encounter in the neighbourhood – everything has the same value here.

The Junge Tanzhaus Berlin is an intergenerational place: Here children, adolescents and adults meet to practice democracy with and through dance. We support young people not only in coping with the world, but in believing that they can change it.

We have developed our own equity concept. It helps us to design structures in such a way that everyone really has the same opportunities.

Our Code of Conduct is our common promise: We create a place where everyone can feel safe. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination or racism.

We all need utopias – not as an escape, but as a compass. And we believe that art, without losing its claim to excellence, has not only the power but also the responsibility to make this world a little better.

More information: www.junges-tanzhaus-berlin.de