Uferstudios for contemporary dance are a landmarked area in Berlin-Wedding, which currently brings together a total of six partners from Berlin's independent dance scene.
Thanks to ada Studio & Bühne für zeitgenössischen Tanz, Inter-University Center for Dance (HZT) Berlin, Tanzbuero Berlin, Tanzfabrik Berlin, the artist collective PSR, as well as the operating company Uferstudios GmbH, the location has matured into a center for dance since its inception in 2010. Through the diversity of its partners, the Uferstudios bring a wide range of artistic processes and aesthetics of contemporary dance into the public eye.
17 studios, a café, a media library, offices and community spaces - the total area of 4200 square meters, connected by a spacious courtyard, offers artists space for concentrated work processes, lectures, performances and festivals and invites visitors to discover and linger.
ada Studio
The ada Studio is a working space for young Berlin dance artists, offering them space for research as well as the opportunity to present their work in the various performance series and festivals.
HZT Berlin
The HZT Berlin is a center institutionally supported by the UdK Berlin and the HfS Ernst Busch, which also cooperates with TanzRaumBerlin. At the HZT there is one Bachelor's program and two Master's programs.
PSR Collective
PSR could stand for a lot of different things - Pitching Social Rumours, Performing Social Remedies, PingPong Sangha Roastbeef, or it could stand for Performance Situation Room.
Tanzbuero Berlin
The Tanzbuero Berlin is the central point of contact for the Berlin dance scene. It is committed to advising artists, bringing together stakeholders, supporting the arts and throwing a spotlight on the city’s dance landscape.
Tanzfabrik Berlin
Since 1978, artists have been working at the Tanzfabrik Berlin on themes and issues of contemporary dance. In the studios there is continuous production and performance, rehearsal, training, artistic research and teaching.
Uferstudios GmbH
Uferstudios GmbH is the leaseholder and operating company of Uferstudios and thus the central point of contact for partners, artists and visitors to the site.
AUSUFERN
Interdisciplinary Series
With AUSUFERN, a colorful summer program series has been taking place at Uferstudios since 2016, providing direct access to new artistic experiments in various formats, genres and media. With free admission, artistic projects could be presented in the past years that particularly sought direct contact and engagement with topics and people from the surrounding area. Participation, subversion and inversion, the play with supposed boundaries or their deliberate transgression, characterize the program series, with which art is filled and challenged by influences from the neighborhood, district and city. Since its inception, AUSUFERN has been curated by Eva-Maria Hörster, since 2020 in co-direction with Sandhya Daemgen.
Life Long Burning
Life Long Burning (LLB) is a European network project of twelve different dance organizations that aims to promote change in contemporary dance practice, foster new sustainable models of artistic work and exchange, and sustainably develop the structures of the dance and performance scene. The identity and dynamics of the project are based on the diversity of the participating partner organizations - dance houses, choreography centers, festivals, support organizations, trans-national networks for contemporary dance in the Balkans - the network partners are spread all over Europe and are representative of an extended cross-section of dance organizations in the contemporary context.
Making a Difference
Uferstudios GmbH became a network partner of the project “Making a Difference” in 2018. The project is committed to change in the Berlin dance scene and our work through the promotion of a self-confident and visible community of dancers, choreographers and performers with disabilities. These agents expand the scope of contemporary dance through and aesthetic of difference, in which their perspectives, corporalities and perceptions offer new impulses. Despite the breadth and scope of the Berlin dance scene, there is still a lack of dance with and primarily by artists with disabilities.
In turn, the central principle of “Making A Difference” is to provide artistic and non-artistic leadership and expert positions to people with disabilities, in the belief that social equality requires equal participation at the organizational and decision-making level.
Residencies
Uferstudios GmbH currently has residencies to offer through cooperation with the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Kultur lx Arts Council Luxemburg, as well as the pilot project for dance residency funding by the Berlin Senate. Each artist in residence is invited to the Uferstudios as a place for artistic work, experimentation and exchange with the city of Berlin and its dance scene.