Railway stations are places of fleeting encounters. People arrive, change trains, travel on. The Tanz Station at Barmer Bahnhof in Wuppertal is a place to arrive and stay.
In the middle of the historic building, between thundering trains and hurrying travellers, there is a space for the unexpected. As if made for exchange, encounter and dance in all its varieties:
- The 96m² practice zone with high ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows exudes ballroom atmosphere.
- The sprung floor supports dancers at every turn.
- Whether as a black box or flooded with daylight – the room appears in the right mood.
- Professional light and sound equipment set the scene for every performance.
- A meeting zone with an energy filling station invites you to take a creative break.
As a safe space and house of residencies, Tanz Station offers free space for cross-disciplinary artistic experiments. Among the offer are
- open residency formats in which you can try out and develop your ideas and projects.
- diverse open classes, which are open to all dance enthusiasts.
- theme-specific workshops to deepen your skills in a targeted way.
You can book the rooms flexibly for research, rehearsals and more. Make Tanz Station your home base:
- You’re an artist looking for an environment that inspires, motivates and provides professional equipment for you and your team?
- You’ve been missing a permanent production space as a solo dancer or for your company?
- You’re enthusiastic about cultural projects that take place outside of established art spaces?
- Change of perspective and creative coworking are your thing?
Tanz Station – Barmer Bahnhof is waiting for you.
The Tanz Station team is ready to grow the project, the space and the future for you and with you:
Thusnelda Mercy – Artistic Director
As a dancer, choreographer, passionate organiser and co-director of the company merighi | mercy, she takes over the artistic direction for this art-creative space together with her partner Pascal Merighi.
Pascal Merighi – Artistic Director
Dancer, choreographer and co-director of the merighi | mercy company, always on the lookout for interdisciplinary connections and adventures.
Angela Köneke – enthusiastic cross-sector and cross-disciplinary organisational and project developer, coaches anything with the word development written on
Larissa Plath – freelance editor, enthusiastic about culture, committed to finding the proper form for presenting the project on social media
Kirsten Kurth – After several years at ODC (San Francisco) and tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), this Wuppertal-born art
We are supported by:
Philipp Zander, Zan Creation – as an event specialist the most important man without whom we would be lost in the jungle of light, sound and video technology
Stefan Koch, SONIC ART – lets us hear and see beautiful things and bring them into the world
Michael Wolinsky, mjw events – makes sure that we appear in the right light
Eckehard Merholz – has constructed the unbeatable ingenious sprung floor
Josef Korzenski and Christopher Findeisen – the theatrical flair comes from their custom-made black velvet curtains
Roman Lippold – tirelessly working as our multi-tasker for everything from doorknobs to tile colours
Carmen and Tom Leipoldt – working tirelessly to ensure that the Tanz Station – Barmer Bahnhof project finds a home in the rooms of the Barmer Bahnhof that will last beyond the duration of the project
Christiane and Kurt Rydl – our landlords and generous supporters of the Tanz Station project