Since the pilot edition in 2013, the Industry Get-Together of the Independent Performing Arts Community has developed into a well-established institution. Hundreds of artists and members of the independent performing arts community accept the invitation to Berlin each year in order to discuss current topics and questions, share knowledge, benefit from synergies and come into contact with representatives from other artistic disciplines, politics, business as well as international communities.

For the 10th anniversary edition in 2022, a look back as well as into the future was taken: What resources and methods have we developed in order to flexibly handle difficulties and tasks? How can we share these with each other while both preserving our self-selected working practices as well as adapting to the current circumstances?

Selected content from the 2021 and 2022 editions is still available on the website of the Berlin Performing Arts Program.

Several times per year, the LAFT Berlin Performing Arts Program invites the community to attend topic-specific symposia in order to take stock of current developments within the independent performing arts. The concentrated events pass on well-founded knowledge and set new impulses within the independent performing arts.

In the past, successful symposia such as Perception(s) on audience communication, From Local to International - Festivals and Distribution, two symposia on cultural journalism or the digital symposium Money Matters: Accounting and Procurement Law Explained, Inquired and Discussed were being held.

Many of the contents of past digital and hybrid symposia offered by the Berlin Performing Arts Program continue to be available on its website. Upcoming events will also be announced there as well as via the LAFT Berlin newsletter.

The Tanznacht Forum takes place every other year, alternating with Tanznacht Berlin. Primarily discursive formats are then accompanied by performative works to discuss current issues in contemporary dance.

The forum began in 2015 with Visionärer Widerstreit (Visionary Conflict), a program of discourse concern- ing the creation of visions around produc- tion conditions within contemporary dance. Three dialogues were initiated in 2017 under the title unsettled landscapes to ask where aesthetics in contemporary dance draw their keywords form - (dance) histori- cally, politically and culturally. In 2019, the forum discussed artistic working methods that regard the audience as co-performers and no longer as spectators.

In 2022, the Tanznacht Forum dedicated itself for the first time to decidedly intersectional feminist perspectives in the form of the apap Feminist School Berlin.