As part of our three-year project 'TO GIVE–TO TAKE–TO NEED', funded by Tanzpakt Stadt–Land–Bund, we are currently setting up a residency programme at the studio 'Alte Post' in Altona. With this we want to offer regionally, nationally and internationally working choreographers and dancers space, time and financial resources to pursue their own artistic practice and to test concepts of audience encounters. From 15–26 August, we welcomed the Hamburg-based dancer and performance artist Salah Zater as our first artist in residence for a fortnight at Studio 'Alte Post'.

About Salah Zater

Salah Zater's work moves between dance, performance and intervention in public space and critically engages with issues of racism, decolonisation, human rights, social justice and love. Salah develops movements, dance strategies and -actions to explore the social and political relationship between body and and space. He studies the connection between body, mind and spirit and seeks to find ways to give particular expression to emotions through movement.

At the end of his residency, Salah Zater opened his process and invited to an OPEN STUDIO:

"Your body is your instrument!

I would like to invite you to dance together, to get to know different dance styles and movements and to experience music together. In short, to create a great atmosphere to make new friends through dance! The OPEN STUDIO is meant to be a safe space and an energetic place for all dance enthusiasts, where we move individually and in communal constellations – no matter if calm or impulsive. Let's find out together in which ways dancing with each other can make us happy."