Making a Difference
Making a Difference is a Berlin-based network founded in 2018 to promote the independent work of disabled, d/Deaf and chronically ill artists in dance. Eight organisations have joined forces to create high-quality, accessible training and production opportunities through workshops, residencies and co-productions. The central guideline of the project is to fill all leadership and expert positions with disabled, d/Deaf and chronically ill people.
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Call for residency
Making a Difference is offering a residency for a team of three people between the 25th -31st of August 2025.
Disabled, Deaf and/or chronically ill artists and allies from Berlin are invited to use studio 6 at Uferstudios. They can explore common themes, develop working methods or think about future projects.
A final presentation promoted via Making a Difference is possible.
Making a Difference provides a total budget consisting of three fees of each 1.225€, material costs and basic technical support.
Accessibility
Studio 6 is 170m2 in size and has a sprung floor.
It is accessible via a ramp with a 1,5% incline.
Barrier-free / Wheelchair accessible toilets are about 30m away in the courtyard.
There is no separate changing room.
Beanbags, chairs and mats are available in the studio. Blankets and other seating and lounging options can be provided as required.
If you have any questions about access or would like to tell us about individual accessibility requirements in advance, please feel free to contact us.
Application
Please send your application with a letter of motivation (no longer than 1 A4 page or a 5 min audio or video presentation) and short biographies of all participants to mad@uferstudios.com (spelled small and together: m a d @ uferstudios also small and together dot com) by 31.05.2025.
You can expect a reply by the 22.06.2025
We look forward to your applications!
Juli & Diana
Making a Difference
For questions contact mad[at]uferstudios.com.
Video: Rita Mazza
Residency
Lecture performance by Carolin Hartmann and Tamara Rettenmund
Two bodies, two nervous systems, two different movement patterns. Carolin Hartmann and Tamara Rettenmund explore how their chronic nerve diseases shape and transform movement.
The performance lecture will take place on February 2, 2025 at 5.00 pm in Studio 2 of Uferstudios.
For reservation requests and access information write to mad[at]uferstudios.com.
If telephoning is more accessible: + 49 30 460 60 887
Residency
Residency Silva Bieler, Ariana Emminghaus and Lee Everett Thieler
Are there choreographies of diagnostics?
And would there be spaces for improvisation in them?
During their research residency from November 11-17, 2024, Silva Bieler, Ariana Emminghaus and Lee Everett Thieler explored these and other questions.
Our publication is out!
Under the title „Making a Difference 2018-2024. Developing, cultivating, and strengthening anti-ableist practice in the field of dance”, we look back on the last six years. In the form of interviews with artists and reports on developments in the network’s partner organisations, Chapter 1 provides insights into project practice over the last six years. Chapter 2 “What it takes to act – a knowledge transfer” gives an overview of our perspectives on disability, ableism, privilege and audism as well as initial practical recommendations for anti-ableist working practices in the cultural sector and beyond.
Click here to open the digital publication as accessible PDF