Next Steps

These are the funded projects in the 3rd call for applications:

  • Meet the recipients of the 3rd call for proposals:

    • 56 applications were submitted in the 3rd call, reflecting the diversity of Hesse’s dance scene. A total of €840,000 in funding was available across Funding Lines A and B.

      The Jury states: “The applications show how many artistic signatures and ideas of dance shape the scene in Hesse. Development knows no age and follows no prescribed path. Dance becomes powerful when people trust their own voice and story and create something of their own from it. Artists need spaces where they can meet, experiment, fail and grow.”

      After meeting on September 21, 2026, the jury recommended 20 projects for funding:

      Applicant: Angelo Berber / SoulCial – Förderverein für Jugend- und Hip Hop Kultur e.V., Linden
      Project: SHIFT

      Applicant: Caroline Creutzburg, Offenbach
      Project: I See A Darkness (AT)

      Applicant: Eslam Elnebishy, Frankfurt am Main
      Project: Side by Side

      Applicant: Alicia Anais Fuentes Sifuentes, Heusenstamm
      Project: Fuentes Sifuentes

      Applicant: Malin Harff, Gießen
      Projekt: 17 Ways of Laziness

      Applicant: René Alejandro Huari Mateus, Frankfurt am Main
      Project: baby d.eutschland

      Applicant: Hanna Launikovich, Frankfurt am Main
      Project: she-zoo/schizo/ШІЗА

      Applicant: Pauline Michel, Offenbach
      Project: Euphorie + Übelkeit

      Applicant: kemelo sehlapelo, Gießen
      Project: [DIPTYCH] / Something, like a stone, can heal you [mad is a place]

      Applicant: Sophie Sengle, Kassel
      Projekt: Queer Waters

      Applicant: Victoria Söntgen, Frankfurt am Main
      Project: Tanz ins Alter – Bewegungsimpulse für Senior*innen

      Applicant: Stadttheater Gießen
      Project: DAS IST NICHT DAS ENDE. – Creating Knots (AT)

      Applicant: Christian Zacharas, Kassel
      Project: Ich spreche Boogaloo

      Applicant: Betina Fischer / Sunny Side Swing Studio, Darmstadt
      Project: Percussive Dance – Rhythmus, Körper, Kulturelles Erbe

      Applicant: Miranda Glikson / spahn+glikson, Marburg
      Project: ROTATIONS

      Applicant: Nora Goßmann / HOUSEaHOLICS e. V., Frankfurt am Main
      Projekt:  3 Generations: House Without Borders

      Applicant: Sām Sabor, Frankfurt am Main
      Project: Dialectics of Dance (DoD)

      Applicant: Mareike Uhl, Frankfurt am Main
      Project: Frankfurter Tanzgeschichte(n)

      Applicant: Amelia Uzategui Bonilla / T.I.A. dance productions – Korner & Uzategui Bonilla GbR, Offenbach
      Project: Labore für kreative Audiodeskription im Tanz – Hessen

      Applicant: May Zarhy / KulturNetz Kassel e.V.
      Project: Kassel Summer Program of Somatic & Dance Practices

      Congratulations to the funded projects!