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DANCE FILM OPEN CALL

UNTIL FEBRUARY 15, 2023

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| INSPIRED BY THE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN DANCE AND FILM

TANZAHOi is an international festival celebrating dance and dance films. Its journey began in 2018 with dance workshops held at Hochschulsport Hamburg. By 2020, the festival had evolved to present a captivating dance film program, carefully curated from submissions received through an international open call.

In 2022, TANZAHOi introduced an extension of their main program,  ‘TANZAHOi Bottle Post,’ designed to foster connections between global arts organizations and showcase digital dance creations. The inaugural edition of this program unfolded in Taipei (Taiwan) during February 2022 and later at the Tanzrauschen Festival in Wuppertal (Germany) in August 2022. The second edition was realized in April 2023 through a collaboration with Thessaloniki Cinedance International in Thessaloniki (Greece).

The core essence of the festival revolves around forging global and multicultural bonds within the realms of dance, film, and digital arts. With a commitment to building diverse international bridges, the festival extends its platform to facilitate artistic, professional, and cultural exchange through dance, dance film, and digital media.

| Looking back on past festivals

2022

Beginning 2022 with new expansions, TANZAHOi hosted its first ever festival tour in Taipei with the launch of its Taiwan Bottle Post program. An extension of the main festival program in September, the touring concept was focused around academic seminars from researchers in the field of dance and film. Professionals like Po-Wei Wang of the Digital Art Center, Taipei and Kerstin Hamburg of TANZRAUSCHEN hosted discussions that drew examples from and brought focus on the dance films and dance streams from TANZAHOi’s 2021 program, which were screened alongside the seminars for live and virtual audiences.

2021

TANZAHOi hosted the first live dance film festival in Hamburg. The main program with the selected films from the year‘s open call was presented in Metropolis Kino accompanied by 3 live-streamed performances from Italy, Greece, and Mozambique.

The Panorama Special Program brought both a live and a virtual audience to the Kraftwerk Bille Kesselhalle, where the premier of BARDO was presented along with dance films and a 360 degree virtual experience from festival collaborators.

2020

In September 2020 we hosted our first digital festival and also our very first International Dance Film Festival! With over 20 films from artists across the world, we brought the artists and our audience together via Livestream across three platforms over the course of the festival weekend. Each evening was accompanied by an artist talk via Zoom, sparking more international exchange opportunities.

2019

Again offering dance workshops in cooperation with Hochschulsport Hamburg, a network between the international artists and the dancers in Hamburg began to form, opening the way for further expansion of international dance exchange in the city in 2020 and beyond.

Gaga workshops from Gosia Mielech, ballet workshops from Karen Azatyan (Hamburg Ballet), Meng-Ke Wu (NDT), partnering workshops from Marion Sparber & Alan Fuentes Guerra, collision and flow workshops from Damien Fournier (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui), organic acrobatic workshops with Alexandros Anastasiadis (Ultima Vez) with participants from over 4 continents!

2018

During the very first year of TANZAHOi, in cooperation with Hochschulsport Hamburg, artists from different professional dance groups across several countries offered weekend workshops. The participants of the workshops received three days of intensive training in unique dance styles originating with the companies and/or countries the teachers came from.

Gaga workshops from Chen-Wei Lee, partnering workshops from Marion Sparber & Alan Fuentes Guerra, touching beyond workshops from Ching-Ying Chien (Akram Khan), Jazz workshops with Saba Peduek