Projects

Archiving and access of multimedia and digital productions in the performing arts.

ACAR advocates for the rights and protection of artists worldwide.

In 2010, the International Balzan Prize Foundation honoured Prof Dr Manfred Brauneck for his life’s work, the first time the Balzan Prize has been awarded to a theatre scholar. In accordance with the prize rules, he donated half of the prize money to a research project for young scholars.

The ITI Annual Conference on the topic of Conflict & Care, will take place on 15 July, from 10:00 - 17:30 in the Chagallsaal of the Schauspiel Frankfurt.

250 artists, 170 major works of art, 2,500 cultural organization representatives, 400 cultural stakeholders across two continents, and more than 30 countries work between June 2022 and July 2026 to develop an inclusive, sustainable, and participatory framework of cooperation between Europe and Africa.

A cross-project strategy for digitalisation and access to knowledge in the performing arts

Digital Stage is developing a videoconferencing service optimised for the particular needs of music and the performing arts.

In 2019, the Federal Theater Prize was awarded for the third time.

All information about the 2021 Federal Theater Prize, the #dialograumtheater symposium and the prize ceremony can be found here.

The Federal Theatre Prize strengthens those stages throughout the country - from the major metropolises to rural areas - that create culture, foster identity and bring open debate to life.

In 2015, the Federal Theatre Prize was awarded for the first time by Prof. Monika Grütters, former Minister of State for Culture and Media, for special achievements by small and medium-sized theatres.

For the second time, the Federal Theater Prize was awarded by the former Minister of State for Culture, Prof. Monika Grütters, to small and medium-sized theaters.

The 5th Federal Theatre Prize was awarded on October 11, 2023

The archive of the Dance Platform Germany focuses on the development of the festival's more than 25-year history.

At the German-French physical theatre workshop, young performers from Germany and France work intensively with internationally active movement theatre teachers.  

Digitally bringing together information from media libraries and media archives about the performing arts in universities, art schools and non-university research institutions

The workshop for translators promotes engagement with new German-language drama on an international level.

The ITI Academy is a platform for international encounters and artistic research. It sees itself as a laboratory for collective resilience and equal practice in art and theatre. 

The first edition of the ITI Academy qualified 20 emerging artists and curators in a one-year fellowship.

The ITI Academy LAB offers artists from the ITI worldwide network a space to negotiate collective strategies of resistance and explore resilient ways of working in the face of opression and authoritarian structures.

The ITI – German Centre is dedicated to the free development of the performing arts and the preservation of the diversity of their forms of expression.

ITI ♥ MOTION BANK enables digital working in the studio and in the archive

A projekt of the International Theatre Institut (ITI)

The ITI World Congress is a meeting for representatives of ITI centers from all continents.

The ITI-Academy Kick Off event invites to a first meeting point of exchange and discussion

In the first LAB, Dora Yuemin Cheng and Sara Amini came together with Jaber Ramezan for a one-week artistic residency to investigate resistant movements in China and Iran.

For LAB II Alex D. Loo and Gerald Odil Ronnie examined strategies of resistance and resilience in the performing arts, specifically in Peru and Uganda, from the perspective of the LGBTQIA+ community.

In Lab III Lloyd Nyikadzino and Deepika Arwind take the body as a starting point to negotiate questions of identity, explore dimensions of exploitation, and strengthen local communities. 

The Media Library for Dance and Theater is a place of artistic and scientific research and discussion for actors in the performing arts.

The digitisation project on biomechanics for theatre gives the first comprehensive overview of the many years of research carried out by the former Mime Centrum Berlin. 

Moving Identities is an international residency programme that aims to create a more diverse, inclusive and sustainable platform for performing artists across Europe.

Music Theatre NOW is an international competition for contemporary music theatre. ITI Germany manages the competition’s archive.

ITI invites artists and theatre makers worldwide to apply for a one-week fellowship at the ITI Academy Week at THEATER DER WELT 2026. 

The Passage 23°E project developed new forms of access and information structures on developments in theatre in Central, East-Central and South-Eastern Europe.

The Prague Quadrennial is the most important platform for scenography worldwide. Founded in 1967, it presents scenography as a field of collaboration between various disciplines every four years.

Please register for a topic area during the working group sessions (12:00 - 13:15 and 14:15 - 15:15).

A Peer-to-peer exchange programme on intercontinental mobility and cultural cooperation between Africa & Europe.

Studio2 provides a space for rehearsal, research and workshops in dance, theatre and performative formats.

The Studio2 residency programme offers the opportunity for open artistic research twice a year.

Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation – Kooperationen gestalten und verhandeln

Pleasures & Politics of Autonomy - Theatre between Resistance and Responsibility.

Szenenwechsel was a funding programme of the Robert Bosch Stiftung in cooperation with the ITI Centre Germany that supported theatres and independent theatre groups from German-speaking countries in developing or staging a play with a partner in Eastern Europe or North Africa.

Cooperation project for the indexing and digitisation of unique video documents about the Tanzfabrik Berlin 

The international theater festival is held every three years in a different German city.

As a knowledge platform, theateruebersetzen.de provides information about the many aspects of the interplay between theater and translation and offers opportunities for international networking.

Theatre in the New Europe documents and reflects on important productions in European Theatre. 

The prize of ITI Germany is an award to honour, support and make visible the work of transnationally working theatre artists.

The first edition of the ITI Yearbook was published in 2014, replacing the membership magazine Impuls. Each issue of the yearbook focuses on a particular theme, with contributions from theatre and cultural practitioners from different countries offering insights into their experience with that theme.

The ITI’s Media Studio is a laboratory and workspace for projects and developments in the areas of digital and other media. 

The International Theatre Institute (ITI) is the largest performing arts organisation worldwide and was founded in 1948 on the initiative of UNESCO. 

touring artists provides information and advice on administrative issues relevant for artists working internationally or across borders.

A touring exhibition in the wake of the 2021 Federal Theatre Prize.

The artistic video project Transforming Acts is dedicated to exploring the ground-breaking effect dance had on dramatic theatre 

Workshop format for the pracitical application of digital technologies in Dance.

World Dance Day celebrates the universal language of dance. A global celebration of the dance arts.

World Theatre Day is a globally celebrated day in honour of theatrical arts.