nrw landesbuero tanz

Founded in 1995, nrw landesbuero tanz is a non-profit association based in Köln, Germany working on arts & culture, education, employment & skills.

The nrw landesbuero tanz e. V. is an information centre, networking point and contact for the professional contemporary dance scene in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It supports dance professionals through networking and qualification formats, peer advice and training, and initiates projects, cooperations and discussions on professional contemporary dance and cultural education. It also promotes exchange between diversity-sensitive dance education and artistic dance practice, raises public visibility for dance, and engages in dialogue with cultural policy, regional funders, national dance organisations and international networks. Its programmes include the DYNAMO young dance platform, the festival tanz nrw, the internationale tanzmesse nrw, the Bewegungsmelder dance journalism project and the tanz.card.campus student discount scheme. Founded in 1995 out of the Gesellschaft für Zeitgenössischen Tanz NRW e. V., the association is recognised as charitable (gemeinnützig). It is a member of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and operates from Cologne.