⏳⏰📅📌 APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15.12.2025 ⏳⏰📅📌

European Solidarity Corps volunteering at Tanz die Toleranz

What is CARITAS VIENNA, KULTURHAUS BROTFABRIK, and TANZ DIE TOLERANZ?
Check it out on www.tanzdietoleranz.at

CARITAS VIENNA counsels, accompanies, and supports members of our society who are currently finding themselves in a challenging situation, who are suffering from illness or the consequences of an unfortunate incident or a catastrophe. CARITAS VIENNA assists regardless of the social, national, or religious background of the people in need. CARITAS VIENNA runs various departments focusing on different social challenges. One department is the so-called DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNITY WORK, focusing on prevention and ongoing support for people at social risk. The various projects of this department accompany housing units, foster neighbourhood helping networks, support volunteering, and tackle social exclusion through community arts. One of the projects run by the department for community work is a culture centre called KULTURHAUS BROTFABRIK.

KULTURHAUS BROTFABRIK is located at the arts and culture area BROTFABRIK WIEN (a former bread factory, www.brotfabrik.wien) in the Viennese district “Favoriten” – a borough situated on the outskirts of Vienna and facing various social challenges. There are galleries and ateliers based on the premises of Brotfabrik Wien, which do not focus their activities on the residents living in the surroundings (since they long for financially strong customers who live in other areas of the city). KULTURHAUS BROTFABRIK aims at linking BROTFABRIK WIEN to the social housing complexes neighbouring the area.

Founded in 2007, TANZ DIE TOLERANZ has become one of the most important and long-lasting community dance programmes in continental Europe. Participants get the opportunity to develop their creative and artistic potential through involvement in artistic processes. Choreography, understood as the practice of movement in time and space, serves as an instrument to promote social inclusion. The interpersonal communication enabled in the rehearsal space counteracts prejudice and provides a positive incentive to actively grapple with today’s challenging socio-political events, such as immigration and refugee movements.
TANZ DIE TOLERANZ focuses on reaching out to the population living and working around BROTFABRIK WIEN in particular, when implementing projects at KULTURHAUS BROTFABRIK. In addition, the dance programme is also active in other city districts, e.g., the district “Ottakring”.
The target groups can be divided into several sub-categories:
– population/people living in the area
– community (arts) workers & civil society organisations
– “new” players in the area: galleries and other organisations of BROTFABRIK WIEN
– cultural institutions and non-profit organisations in Vienna and Lower Austria.

Proposed activities

The volunteers will be involved in supporting mainly TANZ DIE TOLERANZ projects and activities, but also other initiatives (art and craft workshops, repaircafé, concerts, children’s events). The volunteers are also encouraged to present their own ideas, which they might come up with when getting in touch with the residents. However, this is not compulsory.
National and International dance projects are planned at KULTURHAUS BROTFABRIK. The volunteers will be involved in supporting these programmes. The international working language is English, so the volunteers have the chance to be involved in research activities and communication with the participants and partners. Nevertheless, the implementation of the local dance program in the neighbourhood requires profound German language skills. You should be motivated to learn German.
Tanz die Toleranz projects deal with the topics:
– Participatory dance
– Choreography
– Co-Creation
– Inclusion in dance
– Creativity.

According to the interests of the volunteers, combined with their already acquired abilities and skills, there are several fields of action. The volunteers will find a wide variety of tasks that offer numerous opportunities to learn by doing. The fields of action are:
– Supporting the team in planning local dance projects
– Supporting the team in planning international projects
– Assistance at dance workshops and rehearsals
– Marketing for disadvantaged groups (improving concepts, implementation, direct outreach work)
– Photography and video documentation
– Supporting the team in technical tasks during the preparations for performances
– Social Media.

Required Volunteer Profile

You should be interested in participatory dance and the topics of TANZ DIE TOLERANZ (see above). You should also have a strong motivation to support the project with the photo and video documentation of their activities, and be interested in the creative use of social media tools to support the visibility of their work. You should be open to meeting new people, engaging with strangers, and building relationships with the participants of our dance programs and staff members. We expect the volunteer to have good communication skills, to be capable of working in a team, and to be open-minded.
Since the fields of action are diverse, we are convinced that it is possible to match the competencies of the candidates and their specific situation with their potential tasks by TANZ DIE TOLERANZ at KULTURHAUS BROTFABRIK. Make sure to let us know in the application form what your motivation is to join our project!

Application procedure 

This European Solidarity Corps (ESC) project in Vienna is coordinated by the association Grenzenlos within the MELANGE program. If you want to apply for this project, please fill in the Melange application form and send it together with your CV (curriculum vitae) and motivation letter to application@melange.wien  

Please state the name of the ESC project (Tanz die Toleranz) in the subject of your e-mail. Grenzenlos will forward your documents to the hosting project, where the selection will be made.  

Important! Your application will only be accepted if it is complete and if you already have a supporting (sending) organisation. 

All ESC placements coordinated by Grenzenlos are generally available to everyone between the age of 18 and 30 who is residing in an ESC program or partner country. However, in the selection procedure, a preference is shown for candidates with fewer opportunities. You will be informed about the outcome of the recruitment process a few weeks after the application deadline. For more information, please visit www.melange.wien.

⏳⏰📅📌 APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15.12.2025 ⏳⏰📅📌