Tanz den Gasteig: Community Dance at HP8
Want to move your body to music? Then come along to our Community Dance sessions, bring your friends and family and get dancing with other like-minded people. It’s open to all and it’s free! Andrea Marton, Ute Schmitt, Ralf Otto and other dancers will accompany you through two hours of dance to a wide range of musical styles and periods: from classical to pop, world music to avant-garde, jazz to experimental.
Want to move your body to music? Then come along to our Community Dance sessions, bring your friends and family and get dancing with other like-minded people. It’s open to all and it’s free! Andrea Marton, Ute Schmitt, Ralf Otto and other dancers will accompany you through two hours of dance to a wide range of musical styles and periods: from classical to pop, world music to avant-garde, jazz to experimental.
- Community Dance is for all those looking for an opportunity to dance or who have always enjoyed dancing.
- Community Dance is for people of all ages, from children to seniors.
- Community Dance is for people with disabilities and without.
- Community Dance is all about dancing and moving at your own pace, in your own way; alone, in pairs or in groups.
- Community Dance takes place in the spacious Hall E, where there’s ample room for everyone.
Andrea Marton, Ute Schmitt and Ralf Otto are seasoned dance instructors. Working with contemporary dance, especially improvisation and DanceAbility©, they want to make the art and joy of dance accessible to everyone.
An event of Gasteig München GmbH in cooperation with the Gasteig Cultural Foundation and Tanz für Alle/DanceAbility
Andrea Marton and Ute Schmitt have been working together for many years at the interface between dance art, cultural education and social culture.
Andrea Marton develops and researches intergenerational formats in dance art and mediation, is on the management team of the Munich outreach initiative Fokus Tanz and on the board of Aktion Tanz, an association for dance in education and society. Her working method is characterised by participative, age-independent and democracy-sensitising approaches to mediation for schools, studios, stages and public spaces. Her special interest is the diversity of dancers in the context of social developments.
Instagram: @marton_bewegt
Ute Schmitt, a dance mediator and special-needs teacher, works in the field of low-threshold cultural education for all. She leads dance projects in crèches, kindergartens and schools and is active in the continued professional development of dance mediators, teachers and students. Together with Andrea Marton and others, she founded the outreach initiative Community Dance and runs the Tanz inklusive! programme in Munich. Her goal is to animate people of all levels of ability and all backgrounds to dance and thereby create a culture of dance that is open to everyone and excludes no one.
Ralf Otto switched careers to become project manager and dance mediator in 2019. Together with Andrea Marton, he founded DanceOn60+, a contemporary senior dance project with live music. In 2021, he trained as a DanceAbility teacher with Alito Alessi and started the weekly Tanz für Alle dance meet-up in Hadern. He is a peer consultant (EX-IN rehabilitation counsellor) for people with mental illnesses and co-founder of EX-IN Bayern e. V. He is currently a member of the pool of experts of the NEBourhoods urban district development project and was a co-researcher in the Sichtbar study of LHST München. While aware of the importance of inclusion, he prefers to talk about organising projects in such a way that nobody is isolated.
