Guest Performance Funding

Program description

The promotion of guest performances of French productions is a central task of the Office for Theater and Dance. Every year, it facilitates visits by artists and guest performances of their works and offers French artists the opportunity to demonstrate their vitality and diversity. With a partnership approach, the Office for Theater and Dance advises the main multipliers in Germany and acts as an intermediary between French and German theaters.

The Office for Theater and Dance actively contributes to raising the profile of contemporary French stage productions in Germany. To this end, it can provide financial, logistical or promotional support to interested organizations that apply for it.

The Office for Theater and Dance also provides advice and mediation between French artists and German directors.

Thematic encounters, known as FOCUS, enable directors from France and Germany to discover new artists from the partner country. On the occasion of a festival or an event highlight, professional actors from contemporary German and French stages come together around a rich program with many performances and encounters.

Institution

Bureau du Theatre et de la danse | Institute Français Germany

The French Institute made up of more than 200 institutions around the world that work at an international level to spread the French language and culture and to develop intercultural exchanges.

Deadline

Each year, three funding projects are announced with application deadlines of October 30, February 28 and June 30 for productions that premiere no earlier than three months after the application is submitted. Feedback will be provided no later than one week after the end of each deadline.

Funding types (non-commercial)

Guest Performance Funding

Funding criteria

Preference will be given to projects that have a structuring effect on Franco-German exchange, e.g. by inviting various guest performances from France as part of a festival or season:

• Inviting various guest performances from France as part of a festival or season (individual performances by artists are not preferred);
• inviting artists from France who have not yet been seen so often in Germany (premieres of plays or German premieres of artists are particularly preferred).

Application type

Online form

Application procedure/documents

To simplify the application process, the BTD has introduced a digital form that can be completed entirely online.

Funding area

Germany, EU

Funding source of the institution

other