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#teacher

This perspective considers the practice that involves sharing knowledge with others. Besides the immediate association to a teacher in a course, you might find yourself in a teacher position more often than you think. You can be a teacher to your colleagues, for a group, or for your audience, Regardless the kind of knowledge you are sharing – embodied, procedural, descriptive, etc.- this perspective offers you to focus on the practice of guiding a learning processes, of creating formats and finding suitable medium for sharing it.

As a teacher…
… what am I responsible of?
… what am I not responsible of?
… how can I create clarity for the process?
… with whom do I want to work? Why?
… do I know what the other participants need?
… what do I need?
… what do I have?
… what am I missing?
… what type of internal structure do I want for the process?
… how do I prepare for the process?

NRW Landesbüro Tanz

NRW Landesbüro Tanz

Local + Regional Connection Base
A MUST! They are a regional organization, but their office is in Cologne, so you can go visit them.
A contact point for the professional dance scene in NRW. It initiates projects, cooperations and discourses in the field of professional contemporary dance and supports the work of dance professionals in NRW, offering collegial advice and organizing formats for exchange and qualification. They have a regional calender where you can publish your upcoming events.
Extra Tip: They send an reminder per e-mail to send your up-coming dates to be published on their printed and online Tanzkalender free of charge. Contact the team from PR to receive this reminders.

Profitraining Köln e.V.

Profitraining Köln e.V.

Local Connection Base
The local profitraining at the Tanzfaktur, every day from 10 to 11:30. Great space to connect and to keep on dancing! It is an association (Verein), so it needs members to keep on going, it is not taken for granted that there is a daily profitraining in the city. It is all because of this people working for it. So go to class & join the association.