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 let the project, the space and the future grow for you and with you:
Thusnelda Mercy – Artistic director
As a dancer, choreographer, passionate organizer and co-director of the merighi | mercy company, she and her partner Pascal Merighi are the artistic directors of this creative arts venue.
Pascal Merighi – Artistic director
Dancer, choreographer and co-director of the merighi | mercy company, always in search of interdisciplinary connections and adventures.
Larissa Plath – freelance editor with an affinity for culture, enthusiastic, committed, looking for the right way to present the project on social media
Neele Renzland, transmissions GmbH – administration/finances
Tanz Station – Barmer Bahnhof was also created with the support of:
Angela Köneke – enthusiastic cross-industry and cross-genre organisational and project developer, coaches wherever development is involved
Philipp Zander, Zan Creation – as an event specialist the most important man without whom we would have been lost in the jungle of lighting, sound and video technology
Stefan Koch, SONIC ART – lets us hear and see beautiful things and carry them into the world
Michael Wolinsky, mjw events – makes sure that we appear in the right light
Eckehard Merholz – has designed the unbeatably ingenious sprung floor
Josef Korzenski und Christopher Findeisen – the theatrical flair comes from their customised black velvet curtains
Roman Lippold – our multitasking-without-him-running-nothing talent for everything from door handles to tile paint
Carmen und Tom Leipoldt – tirelessly working to ensure that the Tanz Station – Barmer Bahnhof project also finds a home in the Barmer Bahnhof premises that will last beyond the project period
Christiane und Kurt Rydl – our landlords and supporters of the Tanz Station project