Kerstin Schroth

COMMUNICATE – BUT HOW?

A good concept is crucial for a successful project application. But how should you behave in a personal conversation? How do you communicate initial ideas and project proposals? How do you talk about the finished piece? In this workshop, curator and cultural manager Kerstin Schroth shows how communication and networking can be successful—directly in conversation with co-producers, curators, or performers, and indirectly via program texts, emails, or newsletters.

Kerstin Schroth

is a curator and arts manager and lives in Berlin and Paris. She was appointed as artistic director for the contemporary dance festival Moving in November, an annual festival taking place in Helsinki, Finland in 2019, and signs responsible for the program since. In 2006 she founded the annual festival sommer.bar under the festival Tanz im August and curated it for 6 years. From 2006 to 2019 she has been the company manager and co-founder of Great Investment, the organizational structure behind Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen. She lectures at the university of Gießen, K3 Hamburg, Sommerakademie Berlin, Uniarts, Stockholm and Uniarts, Helsinki. Her courses include curatorial concepts, production development, distribution and tour organization, as well as the communication between artists and curators. During a period of 10 years, she worked as production manager for international festivals such as: Tanztheater International (Hannover), Tanz im August (Berlin), Poker im Osten and Context#3 – Learning by doing at Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin). She has worked in long and short-term collaborations with performing artists such as: Lindy Annis, Paul Gazzola, Frauke Havemann, Sasha Waltz and Gérald Kurdian. She graduated in Cultural Studies at the University Hildesheim, Germany.

(Status: 2026)