Tanzhaus nrw

Tanzhaus NRW is a performance venue with around 200 changing annual events on 2 stages, as well as a production centre for professional artists with an academy and a centre for dance with and for children and youth.

Since 2022, tanzhaus nrw is under the direction of Ingrida Gerbutavičiūtė. Guest performances by renowned choreographers such as Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Ohad Naharin, Yasmeen Godder, Lia Rodrigues and Gregory Maqoma alternate with stints by a multitude of regional artists, among them Stephanie Thiersch, Reut Shemesh or Hartmannmueller.

Tanzhaus' festivals create a tangible fusion of cultural and aesthetic forms of expression in the training studio as well as on stage.

Together with a large number of partners engaged in the cultural sector, Tanzhaus NRW works to familiarize children, youth, and young adults with dance art by encouraging young spectators or dancers to experience dance either in the classroom or on stage.

Tanzhaus NRW evolved from Die Werkstatt, which in the middle of the 1970s began to give a continuously growing mixed-age audience an understanding of contemporary dance in its aesthetic and cultural diversity. Tanzhaus NRW has succeeded in joining under one roof different areas of dance that usually occupy different spaces and structures: it is at the same time theatre and school of dance, production site for free choreographers from North Rhine Westphalia and Europe and internationally respected lively role model for promoting dance at all levels.

Find the full history of Tanzhaus NRW on its website.

Since 1998 the Tanzhaus NRW is situated into a former tram depot on a 4.000 m² surface. In 2000, architect Jochen Boskamp and Tanzhaus NRW were given the award for “exemplary buildings in North Rhine Westphalia”. Tanzhaus NRW has 2 stages with 320 seats in the big stage and a smaller 90-seat, plus 8 training studios and rehearsal rooms used for production development and advanced training of professional dancers and choreographers.