Tanzwerkstatt Europa 2024: Munich Week 1 Diary
Tanzwerkstatt Europa (meaning “Dance Workshop Europe”) is an annual dance festival every August in Munich, Germany. Organized by JOINT ADVENTURES, it is a training ground for dancers amateur to professional. The Festival offers a selection of unique classes each year, from contemporary and ballet to vogue, heels, and even boxing over the course of two weeks.
I attended Tanzwerkstatt Europa from July 30 - August 9, 2024.
Tanzwerkstatt Europa is more local to Europe than b12, which attracts hundreds of students across the globe to its midst. In comparison, most of Tanzwerkstatt’s 100+ participants this year hailed from neighbouring countries. Nevertheless, the Festival packs an amazing lineup of workshops and public performances. What’s unique is that they use a spider network of local dance schools and artist studios to present their itineraries, instead of centering everything in one location.
This offered me the opportunity to dance in the morning, sightsee for a few hours, and round off each day with another dance session at night. I had such a wonderful time exploring Munich this way.
For week 1, I chose to attend Virginie Roy’s “Contemporary Class” (professionals) and Sandra Marín Garcia’s “Crystal Pite’s Tools & Vocabulary” (professionals).
See below for the full week 1 timetable:
This year the workshops were held at Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance, Tanztendenz München e.V., and Halle6.
