The Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT) is a locally and internationally oriented center of study and research for a creative and critical engagement with dance, choreography, body-based practices and performance. Founded in 2006, HZT Berlin started as a four-year pilot project within Tanzplan Deutschland, an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

Since 2010, the HZT has continued on an institutional basis. It is jointly supported by the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and the Ernst Busch University of Theatre Arts Berlin, in contractually bound cooperation with TanzRaumBerlin, a network of the professional Berlin dance scene.  

The HZT offers three degree programs: the bachelor's program Dance, Context, Choreography and the two master's programs Choreography (maC) and Solo/Dance/Authorship (MA SODA).

Students are offered a teaching and research environment at the HZT in which they can develop their own work in the field of contemporary art practice through artistic, theoretical and collaborative practice, transdisciplinary approaches, contextualization, reflection, as well as in dialogue with faculty and peer learning.

Study programmes:

• BA Dance, Context, Choreography
• MA Choreography
• MA Solo/ Dance/Authorship

From 2023-2028 internationally renowned self-identifying disabled artist, the Scottish choreographer, performer and singer Claire Cunningham, is Einstein Professor of "Choreography, Dance and Disability" Arts at HZT Berlin.

As part of her professorship, Claire Cunningham will be undertaking new artistic research, and dedicated periods of teaching at the HZT, for an initial five years. She will be supported by some of her long-term collaborators, as well as working on the ground in Berlin with some new associates, guest disabled artists, experts and allies.

Application and admission to the Master programme Choreography are organized via the College of Dramatic Art Ernst Busch.