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Specials
14. April 2024 | 00:00 - 00:00
For the pilot edition of the Berlin Performing Arts Market on May 13, 2024, the Berlin Performing Arts Program is looking for creative and original ideas and formats that Berlin-based artists and groups working in the independent performing arts can use to present themselves and their work to a national and international audience of industry professionals.
Touring Office
28. March 2024 | 00:00
Open Call & Deadline
The tanzmesse nrw takes place from August 28 to 31, 2024 in Düsseldorf and invites professional contemporary dancers, members of the dance community and organizations working in the field of dance to submit proposals. As is the case every year, the Berlin Performing Arts Program will once again be represented with a shared trade fair stand at the 2024 edition.
Touring Office
28. March 2024 | 00:00
Open Call & Deadline
The Interessengemeinschaft der Städte mit Theatergastspielen e. V. is a communal umbrella association with some 400 member cities from throughout the German-speaking world. At the INTHEGA Theatermarkt those offering touring theater productions present their work to programmers of cultural institutions each year in Bielefeld.
Information Center
4. April 2024 | 14:00 - 17:00
Workshop
Have you written a good application and the budget looked great? Did everything fit the current artistic discourse – but now you’ve received a rejection notice all the same? Are you asking yourself what you did wrong or if you simply had bad luck? Together, we will check your application and look at where possible mistakes may have come in.
2023 was a round birthday for the Berlin Performing Arts Program: we celebrated ten years of intense and successful work in the networking, exchange and empowerment of the independent performing arts in Berlin since the founding of the program in the year 2013. A detailed review of the past year and what's next for us in 2024 can be found here!

To stream & listen

Industry Get-Together
20. October 2022 - 22. October 2022
From October 20 to 22, 2022, more than 450 participants gathered at Theater Strahl to discuss upcoming challenges of our scene(s), to take a look back at the grown structures of the last 10 years and to exchange ideas about the topics of the present.

For all those who could not be present at our 10th industry get-together: Here you can find selected formats to stream & listen to - enjoy!

Information Center

From legal and tax advice to experienced production managers to marketing and concept strategists.

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Performing Arts Programm Berlin

With the Performing Arts Program, LAFT Berlin has created an effective instrument for the infrastructural strengthening, professionalization and networking of Berlin‘s independent performing arts community.
No matter whether we are talking about a symposium or a cooperation event, one questions is always at the forefront of the work of the Berlin Performing Arts Program: what and how can we learn from each other and how can we then integrate it sustainably within our own work?