With the intention to create a new platform for the free contemporary dance scene, Angela Guerreiro inaugurated DanceKiosk-Hamburg as a pilot project in 2005. Its goals are the strengthening of international networks, as well as interdisciplinary exchange with other art-forms. As a stage for domestic and international contemporary dance, DanceKiosk-Hamburg seeks to establish border defying ways of communication. DanceKiosk-Hamburg presents a selection of differing dance styles by various international choreographers and imparts knowledge of body and soul to young artists. DanceKiosk-Hamburg’s educational program consists of workshops and trainings with renowned choreographers. At the festival Kiosk.ShotCuts national and international dance-icons and newcomers present their newest productions.

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DanceKiosk-Hamburg focuses on
the following programmatic points:

- presentation of dance performances by national and international artists, and by young choreographers who search and stand for new tendencies in the contemporary dance world

- exchange of knowledge between artists, new generations of dancers, and the art-interested public

- lasting advancement of a platform for Hamburg’s free contemporary dance scene

- establishment of international networks

- interdisciplinary artistic exchange

- introduction of the public to artistic expression in dance

- integration of the outer city districts