WELCOME
ON BOARD
Like the rigging (Takelage) of a ship, keeping the sails steady and setting its course, our collective office offers a solid foundation for cultural associations in the performance, dance, and theatre sectors. We navigate the complex waters of the industry and its funding landscape with you, taking administrative burdens off your shoulders.
ADMINISTRATION FOR CULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS
TAKELAGE is a collective agency specializing in the administration of cultural associations in the performance, dance, and theater sectors.
We support associations with preparatory accounting, financial and funding management, and help them to successfully overview projects financially.
We have already supported numerous cultural associations in their administration and gained valuable experience in the process. We understand that each association has its own needs and challenges, and therefore always tailor our support to the individual.
WHAT WE OFFER
Preparatory accounting
Working closely with your team's production management, we sort receipts and invoices and prepare preliminary accounting for the cultural association. We understand the complexity of financial aspects in the performance, dance, and theater world and maintain the accounting in our accounting system, tailored to the funding body's requirements.
Income and expense statement
Transparency and accuracy are important to us. At the end of the year, we prepare an income and expenditure statement for your association.
This way, you can maintain a clear overview of the association's financial situation and make informed decisions for the future.
Funding management
By arrangement, we can also support you in budget preparation, communication with funding bodies, and the financial reporting of grants for your projects. This allows us to accompany you from acquisition to final accounting, helping you plan your finances, review them together with the production management under the four-eyes principle, and relieve you of the administrative work involved in managing funding.
PRICING
We understand that budgets in the theater and performance arts are limited. Therefore, it's important to us that you contact us as early as possible, ideally before submitting your projects. This way, we can discuss pricing and tailor the scope of our support to your individual needs. Our goal is to offer a trusting, long-term collaboration with fair terms.
ABOUT US
We have been working as production managers in the dance, theater, and performance arts sectors for years and are therefore well-versed in the demands and challenges faced by cultural organizations in this sector.
We also have a broad network of partners and know the processes and what is really important when an association receives cultural funding.
JULIA HAAS
She helped establish Smart Coop Austria and has been managing theater associations since 2015. She has worked as a production manager in Vienna since 2011, including for makemake productions.
SOPHIE MENZINGER
studied cultural management in Hamburg and has been working in the theater and performance arts sector in Vienna since 2021. Her background is in sociocultural and festival work.
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PARTNERS
Archipelago (Alexander Gottfarb, Anna Nowak)
Art in Motion (Simon Mayer)
ATASH – Zeitgenössische Kunstinitiative (Ulduz Ahmadzadeh)
boîte de production (Alix Eynaudi)
Choreographic Signatures (Eva-Maria Schaller)
Die Rabtaldirndln
FANKS (Malika Fankha)
Gazing Productions (Theo Krausz, Luca Bonamore)
Kompanie Freispiel (Kajetan Uranitsch, Simon Schober)
KreativKultur (ON THE EDGE Festival für experimentelle Zirkuskunst)
Kunstverein ARGO (Karin Pauer)
mollusca productions
new space company (Volker Schmidt)
not your babe (Lau Lukkarila)
Perfect Lives (Asa Horvitz)
PerformanceInitiative 22 (Alexander Deutinger, Marta Navaridas)
Pip.Performances (Emmy Steiner)
Raw Matters
Theaterkollektiv Hybrid (Alireza Daryanavard)
theater.nuu (Sarah Gaderer, Laura-Lee Jacobi)
Unpredictable Past (Lisa Hinterreithner)
Wiener Wind (ZUSHG – Zsivkovits, Uranitsch, Steiner, Haller, Gaderer)
