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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.