Create. Perform. Connect.
PLATFORM 14 is a yearly dance festival for emerging dance artists and choreographers to share their pieces in short and long formats. Invested in the diversity of dance, we offer a space for artists involved in different forms of dance to share their works with audiences and other artists in a theater setting. A space to create, perform and connect - strengthening bonds across our community.
The platform is exposing the artists for opportunities to connect and network - through sharing insights in performances and workshops to exchange perceptions on dance and learn new and guided ways to advance the artists work and visions.
We are creating a safe and inspiring environment for artists to get to know each other, network over food and dance and exchange artistic views with each other and audiences, while sharing the stage together.
©Thai Tai Pham
PLATFORM 14 is an initiative by contemporary dancers Roosa Sofia Nirhamo and Aseel Qupty in collaboration with Fenster zum Osten - shibak sharqi gGmbH. We believe the strongest bonds are created by sharing and connecting through movement and community.
Roosa Sofia Nirhamo
Co-founder & Artistic Director
Aseel Qupty
Co-founder
Christine Schmidt, shibak sharqi gGmbH
Fenster zum Osten - shibak sharqi gGmbH is a Berlin based nonprofit company, producer and organiser of artistic as well as educational projects by and with artists in exile. The company was founded by Christine Schmidt, a former dancer and dance teacher (MA Laban Centre London) and has been active since 2017.
The company offers organisational as well as consultative and dramaturgic support and provides material, personnel and financial resources. shibak sharqi gGmbH strives to enable meeting and exchange between people and cultures aiming at longer-term sustainable cooperation with the involved artists and institutions.