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Creators of Arts

CoA is a new art and dancing academy for everyone - from beginners to renown professionals.

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Creators of Arts

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Creators of Arts

Creators of Arts

Creators of Arts

CoA is a new art and dancing academy for everyone - from beginners to renown professionals.

CoA is a new art and dancing academy for everyone - from beginners to renown professionals.

CoA is a new art and dancing academy for everyone - from beginners to renown professionals.

CoA is a new art and dancing academy for everyone - from beginners to renown professionals.

Simon Krings
Simon Krings
Simon Krings
Simon Krings
1 Campaign |
Bonn, Germany
$251 USD $251 USD 4 backers
0% of $2,603,273 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Be a Part of History

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The Art Challenge

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Fusion Cup

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Participate at the Fusion Cup

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The official support T-Shirt

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Basic Workshop

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Fusion Cup Event Basic Ticket

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Fusion Cup Event Master Ticket

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Private Lecture

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Creator Bundle

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Lifetime access ticket

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Premium Lifetime Bundle

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Golden supporter

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Creator of the Academy

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Creators Of Arts – The Idea behind the Academy


Hi! My name is Simon and I'm a passionate dancer from Bonn, Germany. Since my childhood I have a strong affiliation to arts. At the age of nine I started to play trombone which was the first time I was creating art for myself and others.

I gathered great experience doing that – but after several years had passed I realized that I was looking for a new challenge. That’s why I started to dance and from the first day I was enjoying every second of my training. I met great people throughout my dancing development who took care of my dancing and personal development and I always wanted to give something back to them and the community.

In addition to my dancing I study economics and 6 months ago I made the decision that I would had to change something for me and other artists. Creators Of Arts is the result of analyzing the situation of dancers in Germany and the potential of our sport if we stand together as a community.

The art and dancing academy is our first major project. It's for the current and upcoming generations of dancers to offer them a perfect training environment with high quality trainers for all kinds of dancing. It's my first but certainly not my last project because next to dancing there is way more talent in different kinds of arts which deserve more recognition and support for their great work.


What
you give and what you get


There is a variety of possibilities for you to support the project. Let me highlight a few of them to you.

The Art Challenge:

For only 5 Euro you can compete for a real gold medal worth about 5,000 Euro which you can design to your personal ideas and wishes.

All you have to do is to be smarter then your opponents and maybe get some of your friends to play with you. Check out your knowledge about dancing, stars, musicians, actors, famous places and other parts of culture and art in a quiz with 50 different questions. By inviting some of your friends you can gain even more points in the quiz.

At the end of the campaign the person with the highest score will win their personal gold medal. On top of that we will raffle out different perks from our campaign to all the players attending the quiz. It's only a small contribution which helps us to realize our project and could get you to win a unique prize for yourself.

The Fusion Cup Perks:

The Participation Perk: this one is for all the dancing couples out there. Be part of the the very first community raised prize pool tournament and increase the prize pool even more through your participation. You can find detailed information below.

The Visitor Perks: you are the most important people in this event. An artist is nothing without an audience. You can chose how much you want to spend and which of our tournaments you want to visit. In my opinion all the dancing competitors deserve a great audience. It's a simple way to have yourself a nice event afternoon and evening.

The Basic Workshop / Lecture Perk:

These perks are for all of you who want to have a look in the world of dancing or already work on their dancing career.

Ekaterina Leonova, one of the best dancers in Germany and popular through her performances for the show „Let's Dance“ is going to improve your dancing skills in a 3 hour workshop. Getting this perk will grant you and your dance partner access to the exclusive workshop.

If you already compete at a higher level, or if you want to get even deeper knowledge, get a private Lecture with the current world champion of the professional dancers known as Paul Lorenz. The experience provided can give you the edge for your next tournament.



The
impact of your contributions


1. Create a perfect environment for the best personal dancing development

The art academy is going to offer access to dancing for everyone. With internationally renowned teachers which will ensure your improvement. Standard Latin, Ballet, and other styles of dancing will be available at the academy. A place where you learn more than steps and rhythm. It will also put high emphasis on your character development, which will be useful in your daily life.

2. A sustained investment in dance sport for the global dance community

If you enjoy dancing or actually activly participate as a dancer this campaign is the perfect opportunity to show your support. If we succeed in our goals we are going to have a place stacked with great dancing talents and teachers which will allow ourselves the dancers and the public to enjoy high level dancing competitions and the rise of new talented dancers for shows like „Let’s Dance“, „Dancing stars“ and other entertainment shows.

Even if we don’t succeed in our goal the Fusion Cup will already be a big improvement for the dance community and will provide a opportunity for hard working dance students to get a little bit of their invested money back – only to invest it into even more training. ;)

3. A significant increase of dance sports popularity

Dancing has several advantages for your character development. It teaches you the importance of discipline, communication, partnering and presentation. All these skills are quite important for your daily life issues – and still dancing isn’t the most popular sport at all.

In order to change this please support the project and spread the campaign so that more people will attend this beautiful activity and more people recognize the advantages of our sport.



The Fusion Cup


Since building the academy will require time, I thought about possibilities to make an improvement for dancers, to fill the gap between the situation right now and the major improvements that will come to life when the academy construction is finished.

A very big aspect in what I already described earlier is the lack of possibilities to earn money with our sport. There are no really big prize pools in dancing tournaments and in amateur competitions there is literally zero money to be made. But dancing is still pretty expensive. In addition to private lectures we also wear quite expensive clothes on the floor and traveling cost isn't even considered in all of this.

For this reason I raised the first community cup with the possibility for our community to increase the prize pool through participation. The concept is pretty easy.

We're starting with 2,100 Euro split among 3 classes (levels D – S) for both ballroom and latin dance. Every purchased perk from the campaign and every regristration to the tournament will increase the prize pool for all participants.

Tournament participation is only available through the according perk. Participation comes with a fee of 15 Euro for one tournament. This fee will be split into three equal shares:

5 € to increase the prize pool.

5 € to construct the academy.

5 € to cover for event expenses, organization, fees and taxes.

The prize pool reaches its cap at 30,000 Euro and every euro above of that will be used for the next tournaments prize pool. Surveying professional dancers got me to the result of four tournaments each year with a split for different age classes. Two tournaments for the adult generation and each one tournament for the youth and senior generations.

The cups will be open to all amateur competitors both from the WDSF and from the WDC. I already mentioned that I see great talent in both associations and I would love to see competitors from other countries dancing at the very first community raised prize pool event. The concept is kind of similar to the ETDS concept which a few of you might know. Most important to me was that we have a neutral environment so couples don't have to fear to get banned from tournaments of their “home” association.




Fusion Cup I Details


Tournament Date: 2016-10-15 (Saturday, 15th of October 2016)

Registration: www.CreatorsOfArts.de (the registration will be opened after our campaign has finished)

Age Class: Adult (18-30)

Location: Germany, final location TBA, depends on number of registrations

Base Prize pool: 2,100 €

Final Prize pool: TBA, depends on campaign contributions

Skill classes:

New Talent: this class is for all the dancers who recently started their dancing career (levels D-C),

features 3 dances (Slow Waltz, Tango, Quickstep) / (Cha Cha, Rumba, Jive).

Apprentice: this class is for the more advanced dancers (levels B-A) which are on their way to get to the top, features all 5 dances (SW, TA, VW, SF, QS) / (SA, CC, RU, PD, JI).

Artists: highest competition class (level S) for all of you who already compete at major competitions and are able to express the true beauty of our sport.

Judges: we will invite international renown judges and successful dancers for this competition to guarantee a fair environment.

May the best artist win.

If you require further information feel free to ask fusioncup@creatorsofarts.de




What if ...


I know that I am promoting this campaign in my own name – but I am surely not alone. There's already a lot of backers on this project. And of course I know that my goal is set very high, but I truly believe in the advantages of the academy and I think it's a great opportunity for the dancing and artists community.

For every project there's somebody who has to take ultimate responsibility. That's why I chose to do this in my name – and not right away in the futures academy one which can succeed pretty good without the ultimate goal in other ways.

Once the campaign is over I'll have several options if the all of us (I'd like to call us backers as „we“ together) shouldn't be able to hit the needs of a newly built academy center. This is also the reason why I chose to start flexible founding, since every bit counts to the dancing and artists community anyway – even if the new academy should prove to be harder than ascertained.

Let me tell you why it still makes sense to even contribute a single Euro to our campaign and matter, even if this campaign is pretty fresh and no goal is met yet – and also tell you what happens, if we don't reach any significant goals.

Here's a few scenarios which will show that any single contribution makes it to the community:

Scenario 1 – the saddest but honest one:

If we can't make it past the mark of 500,000 Euro we can't even think about building a new academy. Everybody should understand this and also wonder about what the achieved contributions are used when this case really happens.

Solution's easy: to keep the spirit of supporting the dancers and artists real we will organize more Fusion Cups to host appropriate events for the community with the big share of your contributions going to the prize money of the dancers.

Scenario 2 – the joint venture plan:

We ain't new and we ain't unknown. Thats why we even started all of this. We do have a big lot of famous people and direct contacts which are interested in having such a location at their hands.

But we strive to be independent. We want to be as much independent as possible. Having dependencies to single investors or Associations would also mean that we sometimes could get dictated refusals for smaller events – no matter their intentions. Big investors always mean some kind of serfdom, which we would like to avoid.

But – anyway – if we achieve this goal, we would go and invest another lot of our time to find the best investor for this possible, which will agree and concur with our goals. Even if it takes a couple weeks more to get this going, we won't spend the heart of this project to someone not endorsing our visions.

Still honest, no games: if we can't find an endorsing investor, we'll rather continue with finding an existing location than trying to build a cheap one which might fail in the end. We'd be looking for a dance center or the like, which can be really noticeably renovated and probably even expanded, to fit our vision and needs.

Scenario 3 – the big hit and the communitys dream:

You and your friends made it – you brought our idea, our vision and our matter out to the people. If we achieve to collect contributions of 1,500,000 Euro (or even more) we'll be building an all new academy for dancers. We'll have lots of space for low- and high-level dancing events .

Rest assured that we'll take loans to get this done once we achieve this community goal.

Please don't get me or any of us wrong... but...

Thats what we're aiming for.

One single nice evening.

For you. Or the visitor. Or the dancer. Or the artist.

And once we got to see those smiles on that single evening we're sure that thousands will follow – if we just can keep our own spirit.



Thank you if you got to read upon here


My video presence skills aren't the best – but I do believe that you can feel what I'm trying to achieve with all of this. And it's still my name that will guarantee for this.

Please remember that every contribution counts towards the construction of an all new dancing academy dedicated to everyone who is interested in this beautiful sport. We do hope for a bit of support of the really great communities of arts and dance.

With all due respect to our „own“ known and supporting artists and dancers – our world is huge, and there are many of you people loving the things we are admired to expand. Even if we are aiming to build an acedemy in Germany, this could be a huge sign to every supporter out there. No matter the language, no matter the nation, no matter the dance enjoyed.

Go ahead and pick a brush between your toes, enjoy your favorite dance on a canvas and display your thoughts. We'd really like to have you do more of these creations and make an exhibition out of it, so we can give you a place to show it off, when other events are already attracting people to your astounding location.

Please don't forget, after all of this information, that we have a pretty cheap perk which will not only support our cause and vision, but also grant you access to our very limited quiz. That quiz has a custom made full gold medal in exchange worth of about 5,000 Euro as the main prize – plus several other material prizes. Please check for shipping tho, lots of politics ain't easy these days.

So I'd like to say, in the name of our present backers, that it's a pretty easy chance to get that quiz done and a high rank by inviting more friends, to get to winning your custom 5,000 Euro embossed medal.

Thanks a lot for your awesome support and I'll keep you updated with all the news regarding the project.





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