Dance school at the Deutsches Theater

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DT-The dance school at the Deutsches Theater GmbH

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founding 1949
Seat Munich , Germany
management Oliver Fleidl
Number of employees 20 (2011)
Branch Service sector
Website www.tanzschule-muenchen-dt.de

The dance school at the Deutsches Theater in 1949 by Thea Sämmer as "Dance Institute of ballroom dancing founded". Today it is one of the largest dance schools in Munich and Germany with over 1,200 m² . In the currently six rooms (as of December 2010) of the dance school at the Deutsches Theater, around 500 dance courses take place each year with a duration of 4 to 12 weeks. The lessons are carried out by 12 dance teachers . All teachers at the dance school complete a 3-year full-time training in accordance with the guidelines of the General German Dance Teachers Association (ADTV). There are also classes in hip hop, tap dance, jazz dance, tango argentino and salsa.

history

The dance school at the Deutsches Theater was founded in 1949 by Thea Sämmer. For the first time women were allowed to take part in the dance class in trousers. In 1967 Helfried Geißler took over the dance school. The dance school at the Deutsches Theater introduced the "single dance course" in Germany: For the first time, it was possible to register for a dance course without a partner. In 1971 Geißler became the official successor of Peps Valenci, the strictly conventional Munich dance master. The first major renovation of the Deutsches Theater began in 1976 - a late aftermath of the war, caused by a bomb strike. The major construction site at Schwanthalerstraße 13 meant the closure of the German Theater. The dance school was hidden behind the construction fences during the renovation phase and was difficult to find.

With the reopening of the Deutsches Theater in 1982, large dance tournaments were held again. In 1983 the dance school hosted the German championship over ten dances in the Deutsches Theater. Dance films such as " Dirty Dancing " (1987) brought the dance schools very popular. In 1992 the dance school at the Deutsches Theater hosted the European Cup for professional Latin dancers in the Deutsches Theater. With the introduction of music television, the demand for choreographies from the music clips became so great that ADTV launched the Dance4Fans series , which brought 180,000 young people to dance across Germany every year. In 2002 Oliver Fleidl took over the management of the dance school. In 2005 the Deutsches Theater organized the gala “50 Years of Rock'n'Roll” in the Deutsches Theater. When the renovation of the theater building was decided in the same year, the dance school also had to prepare for a temporary move to new rooms. In 2007 the dance school organized the gala "20 Years of Dirty Dancing", which included a Dirty Dancing Contest in cooperation with Tele 5 and the TAF. In 2008, after 41 years, Helfried Geißler sold the dance school to Oliver Fleidl and after almost 60 years in a neo-rococo ambience, the dance school moved to Adolf-Kolping-Straße 10.

owner

  1. 1949 to 1967: Thea Sämmer
  2. 1967 to 2008: Helfried Geißler
  3. since 2008: Oliver Fleidl

The dance school and the ball season

The Munich ball season traditionally takes place from the beginning of January until Ash Wednesday. The Münchner Française of the dance school under the direction of the owner Oliver Fleidl is part of the program of many Munich balls. The dance school itself also organizes several large balls a year, in January in the Deutsches Theater, in July in the Hotel Bayerischer Hof .

Prominent students (selection)

Many public figures learned to dance in the dance school at the Deutsches Theater:

film records

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 50 Years of Rock'n'Roll , The Dance Night in the Deutsches Theater

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 18.3 ″  N , 11 ° 33 ′ 45 ″  E