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The Community Dance events in Hall E of the Gasteig HP8 are the ideal place to get moving and meet other people. The workshops are free, and everyone, regardless of age, physical fitness or dance experience is welcome.

The Community Dance events in Hall E of the Gasteig HP8 are the ideal place to get moving and meet other people. The workshops are free, and everyone, regardless of age, physical fitness or dance experience is welcome.

Community dance is for young and old, for people with and without disabilities, for those who want to try dancing for the first time and for seasoned dancers alike.

 

Andrea Marton, Ute Schmitt, Ralf Otto and other dancers will guide you through two hours of improvised dance to a wide range of musical styles and periods: from classical to pop, world music to avant-garde, jazz to experimental.

 

The workshop is led by Andrea Marton, Ute Schmitt and Ralf Otto – dance teachers with many years’ experience who strive to make the art of dance accessible to everyone. Working with contemporary dance, especially improvisation and DanceAbility©, they want to make the art and joy of dance accessible to everyone.

 

Admission is free, and you don’t need to book a place. There will be a sign language interpreter at the event.

 

An event of Gasteig München GmbH in cooperation with the Gasteig Cultural Foundation and Tanz für Alle/DanceAbility

Andrea Marton and Ute Schmitt have been working together for many years at the interface between dance art, cultural education and social culture.

 

Andrea Marton develops and researches intergenerational formats in dance art and mediation, is on the management team of the Munich outreach initiative Fokus Tanz and on the board of Aktion Tanz, an association for dance in education and society. Her working method is characterised by participative, age-independent and democracy-sensitising approaches to mediation for schools, studios, stages and public spaces. Her special interest is the diversity of dancers in the context of social developments.

 

Instagram: @marton_bewegt

Ute Schmitt, a dance mediator and special-needs teacher, works in the field of low-threshold cultural education for all. She leads dance projects in crèches, kindergartens and schools and is active in the continued professional development of dance mediators, teachers and students. Together with Andrea Marton and others, she founded the outreach initiative Community Dance and runs the Tanz inklusive! programme in Munich. Her goal is to animate people of all levels of ability and all backgrounds to dance and thereby create a culture of dance that is open to everyone and excludes no one.

Ralf Otto switched careers to become project manager and dance mediator in 2019. Together with Andrea Marton, he founded DanceOn60+, a contemporary senior dance project with live music. In 2021, he trained as a DanceAbility teacher with Alito Alessi and started the weekly Tanz für Alle dance meet-up in Hadern.  He is a peer consultant (EX-IN rehabilitation counsellor) for people with mental illnesses and co-founder of EX-IN Bayern e. V.  He is currently a member of the pool of experts of the NEBourhoods urban district development project and was a co-researcher in the Sichtbar study of LHST München. While aware of the importance of inclusion, he prefers to talk about organising projects in such a way that nobody is isolated.

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