Pina Bausch Foundation

Pina Bausch Fellowship for Dance and Choreography 2025 is open for applications.

The Pina Bausch Centre is searching for seven productions with concepts for sustainable DanceMusicTheatre performances, especially those involving young people on stage and in the production process, to be performed at FRAGILE – the International Festival for Young DanceMusicTheatre, in Wuppertal (Germany) from 24 September to 6 October 2024. The festival will take place in the Schauspielhaus and future Pina Bausch Centre, and will explore climate-neutral forms of production and new aesthetics for ecological sustainability.

In 2024, the Pina Bausch Fellowship supports a wide range of cooperation formats: the fellowships can be realised on site with cooperating partners, but can also take place virtually or hybrid.

From 20 September - 1 October 2023, FRAGILE – the International Festival for Young Dance-Music-Theatre, will be held for the first time at the Pina Bausch Centre in Wuppertal. The organisers are searching for seven exciting productions with concepts for sustainable Dance-Music-Theatre performances involving young people. Climate-neutral forms of production and new aesthetics for ecological sustainability will be explored.

Since early 2020, the ongoing restrictions on face-to-face encounters and international travel have posed challenges for the Pina Bausch Fellowship, mainly focusing on international exchange and direct contact between grant holders and their cooperation partners. Therefore, a digital fellowship was announced in 2021.

In 2021, the Pina Bausch Fellowship will take place online. Interested applicants can apply with a virtual cooperation. The adapted format gives grant holders the opportunity to test how exchange and artistic development can be realised in the digital space. The digital format can be designed individually by the applicants and their cooperation partners.