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© Elena Ferri
![[Translate to Englisch:]](/fileadmin/_processed_/c/f/csm_WTD_2025_Kachel_a71f6a58c0.png "April 29 is International Dance Day!")
This year's message for International Dance Day is from dancer and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Festival
THEATER DER WELT presents the international curatorial team for it's 17th festival edition in Chemnitz 2026.
![[Translate to Englisch:] #Kunst ist Frei](/fileadmin/_processed_/5/b/csm_Kunst_ist_frei_Meldung_36b949c59f.png "Campaign: #Kunstistfrei")
Call
Artistic freedom is under greater threat. The Deutscher Bühnenverein is calling for participation with the #Kunstistfrei campaign.
Workshop
The translators participating in this year's International Workshop ‘Translating Theatre’ have been selected.
Award
Director Marta Górnicka is the winner of the ITI Prize 2025 and has her own message for World Theatre Day!
Association
The message for World Theatre Day 2025 comes from Greek director Theodoros Terzopoulos.
![[Translate to Englisch:] Besucherin in der Mediathek vor einem Suchcomputer](/fileadmin/_processed_/f/7/csm_KET_Motionbank_MTT_PR-Photo_v2-3_Hair_a339578f73.png "Digital Methods in the Dance Archive: Outcomes published")
News Publication
In 2024, the ITI conducted the cooperation project ITI ♥ MOTION BANK with the Motion Bank team. The results and recommendations of this work process…
![[Translate to Englisch:] touring artists: die Förderdatenbank ist online!](/fileadmin/_processed_/9/1/csm_TOA_Datenbak_1b0e8190c4.png "touring artists: the new funding database is online!")
Network
touring artists' new funding database is online!
![[Translate to Englisch:] Mittowch, 7.5. von 16-17:30 MESZ mit Thomas Freyer. DUMME JAHRE und TREUHANDSKRIEGSPANORAMA](/fileadmin/_processed_/b/6/csm_LR_Freyer2_056f25c0ef.png "LESERAUM with Thomas Freyer")
Event
The next session with Thomas Freyer will take place on 7 May.
Call
ITI joins hundreds of European venues to rally against the acute threat to artistic freedom.
The German ITI promotes mutual understanding of the world's theater cultures. It promotes the freedom of artistic expression and the preservation and development of the cultural diversity of theatrical forms of expression and production. In cooperation with the other ITI centers and artistic partners, its range of tasks extends to information work, consulting and organization.
The Media Library for Dance and Theater is one of the most extensive audiovisual documentation and archive centers for contemporary performing arts in Germany. It can be used free of charge and without prior registration. Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10 am - 5 pm. Find the catalogue here.
We are happy to offer artist, student and school groups introductions to the media library as well as themed viewings. National and international workshops and conferences on archive practice in the performing arts are held regularly.
Studio2 is a 165 square meter workspace for the performing arts in Berlin's Kunstquartier Bethanien. The studio offers artists the opportunity to conduct rehearsals and workshops, movement and methodological research, but also to develop artistic productions. In addition, STUDIO2 can be used as a space for courses and formats aimed at beginners as well as advanced students and professionals, regardless of age and experience.
touring artists provides information and advice on all issues related to artistic, curatorial and organisational practices that arise in the context of international work. The website www.touring-artists.info provides information on topics such as taxes, visas, funding, copyright etc. in various languages. Solutions to administrative challenges can be developed together in free individual consultations. Workshops offer introductions to specific administrative aspects of transnational artistic work.
