ZAV-Künstlervermittlung TANZ

We are an employement agency for dancers and professionals in the field of dance.
In order to help you find permanent employment we are in close contact with many dance employers in Germany and various neighboring countries: national and municipal theatres, companies, artistic directors, producers and choreographers.
These can be a wide variety of dance styles: classical, neoclassical, contemporary, dance theatre, and even show and musical dance.
After being accepted into our artist agency, you will benefit from the personal recommendations, expertise and professional network of our team, who were themselves dancers, choreographers and artistic directors. Our service is free.
The basic requirement for dancers to be accepted is participation in one of our ZAV Audition Days, which we are regularly holding in around 10 cities per season. Participants complete a typical audition process as an example. This is the only way our team can gain a comprehensive understanding of your skills as a dance artist and assess how we might be able to place you.

Please format your application to us the same way you would an email application to your favorite dance company or production.
Send us your CV only in PDF format, and recent videos of your dance performances only as video links (YouTube or Vimeo). Subject: ZAV Audition Day

If you would like to introduce yourself as a ballet master/mistress, assistant, choreographer, dramaturge, manager, ballet director or artistic director, please send us your documents (only in PDF format) and work examples only as video links (YouTube or Vimeo). Subject: >Your desired position<

Send Application / Portfolio / General inquiries to zav.audition@arbeitsagentur.de
Note: Your email, including all attachments, must not exceed 6MB in size.
We will get back to you promptly to provide details on the next steps.

 

Team

Jutta Ebnother

Jutta Ebnother, born in Breisach am Rhein and raised in Stuttgart, received her dance training at the Hogeschool vor de Kunsten in Amsterdam and at the Academy of Dance in Mannheim. Her first engagements as a dancer took her to the Landestheater Detmold and the Staatstheater Kassel, where she also created her first choreographies. From 2004-2016, Jutta Ebnother was ballet director at the Theater Nordhausen and from 2016-2021 she was ballet director and choreographer at the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater in Schwerin. As a guest choreographer, she has created original works for various theatres in Germany: including Stadttheater Gießen, Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, Deutsche Tanzkompanie Neustrelitz. Her companies repertoire has been presented at several dance festival nationally and internationally. In addition Jutta was a guest ballet teacher in many different theatres across Germany. In 2016, Jutta Ebnother was named among the outstanding choreographers by the magazine “Dance for You” and in 2009 she was a dance teacher and juror at the Dance Brasil Festival in Brasilia. Since October 2023, Jutta Ebnother has been working for ZAV-Künstlervermittlung Tanz in Leipzig. She is also a certified BASI® Pilates trainer for mat and equipment.

Jan Pusch

Following an intensive education in music (piano and violoncello) Jan Pusch began his dance education at HfMdK, Frankfurt am Main and graduated as a scholar of the Heinz-Bosl-Foundation at Ballett-Akademie der Hochschule für Musik in Munich. Subsequently he worked as a dancer with Bonn Ballet (Artistic director: Youri Vamos) and John Neumeier's Hamburg Ballet.
From 1994 Jan Pusch started his career as a freelance choreographer and director and created numerous dance and theatre works which mainly premiered at Kampnagel in Hamburg. His dance pieces were invited to many national and international Festivals, such as in Beyrouth, Bozen, Antwerp, Saloniki, Tallinn, Prague, Malta, Patras European Cultural City 2006 and toured Russia, Latin America, India and Japan.
As a guest he created dance for Ricochet Danceproductions/The Place, London, Modern Dance Turkey/Ankara Opera House and various dance and theatre companies in Germany.
From 2007 to 2010 he was Choreographer in Residence at Oldenburgisches Staatstheater and shaped nordwest Tanzcompagnie Oldenburg together with Director Honne Dohrmann.  With season 2010 he was appointed Artistic Director and Choreographer at Staatstheater Braunschweig. For the newly formed Contemporary Dance Company of 16 dancers he created new works for both stages of the theatre and presented internationally established and emerging choreographers such as Jo Strømgren, Annabelle Bonnéry, Katrín Hall and Roy Assaf. For regular children and youth projects, he initiated a cooperation with Movimentos Akademie der Autostadt in Wolfsburg and curated the new contemporary dance festival fresh. 
His works have received several awards: Please help yourself for dancer Fiona Gordon was awarded First Prize at Internationales Solo-Tanz-Theater-Festival in Stuttgart 99, his productions Wish I was real and Into the Blue were invited to Tanzplattform Deutschland in 2000 and 2002. Into the Blue received the Prize of the Critics at Internationaler Wettbewerb für Choreografen in Hannover in 2002. The childrens piece Das klingt verdächtig (That sounds suspicious), created in cooperation with Theater Triebwerk, was awarded First Prize at Hamburger Kindertheaterpreis 2007. His dance piece Welcome to your world for his company at Staatstheater Braunschweig was nominated for the German Theatre Awards DER FAUST 2015.
After ending his artistic career, he now brings his experience as a dancer, choreographer and producer into his work as a dance employment agent at the ZAV Artists' Agency.