Application

Dance is your language?
Have you developed a dance piece?
Would you like to show your work in Berlin and try out new styles with other dancers in workshops?
Then apply now with your dance project for Tanztreffen der Jugend 2025!
For all young dancers and choreographers aged 11 to 21.

We are looking for exemplary and remarkable pieces by young dance creators of all contemporary and urban dance styles!

All contemporary and urban dance styles are welcome, regardless of whether you move on dance floors or asphalt. We welcome diversity: you can experiment with different forms of expression, combine styles or cross the borders to theatre, performance, art and music. You decide on the themes and content. You can apply as an individual, as a duo, as an independent group or as an ensemble from a school or dance school.

Our independent jury of dancers, choreographers and dance teachers will select the winners of the Tanztreffens der Jugend from all the entries. They show their work publicly in front of an audience in Berlin and are invited to network and test themselves in an intensive workshop programme with other young dancers, dance professionals and other artists.

Call for applications October 2024
Deadline for applications 31 March 2025
Questions & answers about the application with the team 17 March 2025, 17:00
Registration at treffenjungeszene@berlinerfestspiele.de
Live viewing period 28 April to 18 June 2025
Announcement of the prize winners 23 June 2025
Tanztreffen der Jugend 27 September to 3 October 2025

Please submit your application via our ApplicationPortal. After you have registered, you can enter all the details of your application there. Please also upload the following application materials:

• A video recording of your project. It may also be a rehearsal. We prefer to take recordings of pieces filmed with a single camera in long shot. Depending on how well a project can be presented, several parts are possible.
• Comments on the video recording. For example, is it the premiere or a rehearsal? What can be seen already and what not yet? For example, are costumes or elements on stage missing? Write us more about it in the comments.
• Please indicate how you would like your work to be presented.
• Information about the group. What is the composition of the ensemble? How do you work? Where do you train or rehearse? How was your work created? What material did you use for it? You are welcome to submit further supporting material (project descriptions, programme notes, etc.).

If you have any questions or problems using our application portal, please call us at +49 30 254 89 113 or via email treffenjungeszene@berlinerfestspiele.de

Based on the video recording and the information from the application, the jury decides which groups it would like to get to know better as part of a shortlist (interim selection). To this end, individual members of the jury go on a trip and watch a performance or a run-through of the work on site. They then invite the respective groups to an introductory meeting. Following the performance visits and interviews, the jury makes a decision on the final selection for Tanztreffen der Jugend. The selection process is completed on 23 June 2025. The jury’s decision is final - there is no legal recourse.

The prize for those selected in the previous national contests is an invitation to the one-week Tanztreffen der Jugend in Berlin. Like all meetings of the Treffen junge Szene of the Berliner Festspiele, this consists of three main areas:

Stage
The selected ensembles present their plays or projects.

Campus
The young dancers work in workshops with dance professionals and other artists on a wide variety of topics related to contemporary and urban dance.

Forum
The concentrated further education programme with workshops and discussion formats is aimed at the directors of the selected groups, dancers, choreographers and students.

All award-winning productions will be recorded during the Tanztreffen der Jugend in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library. The recordings will be made available to the ensembles afterwards and can be viewed in the archive of the German Centre for Children's and Young People’s Theatre in Frankfurt am Main.