below you can browse all things b12 from our last edition in 2017. in january 2018 we will share all the news with you for b12 2018. and there will be plenty!
b12
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1 - 3 weeks performance projects
maxine doyle
associated director and choreographer of punchdrunk
© Birgit and Ralf / Punchdrunk
© Pari Naderi
maxine doyle
associated director and choreographer of punchdrunk
each performance project is limited to around 15 people. the performance projects last for 1, 2 or 3 weeks. as a closer of the festival, they will be presented all together two times in dock 11, a theater in the center of berlin. // maxine doyles performance project runs 2 weeks (13 workshop days): 3rd through the 14th of july 2017 during 10:30am - 2:30pm / 15th and 16th of july 2017 during 1:00pm - 3:00pm / no rehearsal on the 9th of july / 2 evening performances on the 15th and 16th of july with extra rehearsals // application deadline is april 2nd 2017.
Bric a Brac Baby
“For all of us have a basic, intuitive feeling that once we were whole and well: at ease, at peace, at home in the world; totally united with the grounds of our being; and that then we lost this primal, happy, innocent state, and fell into our present sickness and suffering. We had something of infinite beauty and preciousness – and we lost it; we spend our lives searching for what we have lost; and one day, perhaps we will suddenly find it. And this will be the miracle, the millennium.” – Oliver Sacks (Awakenings)
I’m interested in examining our physiological bric-a-brac – our internal junk shop of thoughts – our jumble sale of memories. We’ll take a variety of sources into the studio – namely some of the work of Dr Oliver Sacks, Charles Darwin’s writings on emotion and some of Leonardo da Vinci’s representations of emotive states. We’ll ask some questions and attempt to find our theatrical and choreographic responses and then we’ll weave it all together and make something.
Do you know me?
Do you recognise me?
Can you hear me?
Do you know who I am?
Who am I?
Do you know who I am?
Who am I?
Do you know who I am?
Who am I?
Can you hear me?
Can you understand me?
Do you remember nothing of where you’ve been?
Do you remember nothing of all that has happened to you?
Are you not tired?
What is the question?
Were you?
You danced in narrow spaces?
(Taken out of context from A Kind of Alaska by Harold Pinter)
biography
Maxine is an independent choreographer and director. She is also Associate Director and Choreographer for Punchdrunk, with whom she co-directed the multi-award winning “Sleep No More” (London, Boston, New York, Shanghai),“The Drowned Man”, “The House Where Winter Lives”, “The Firebird Ball”, “Faust”, “Masque of the Red Death”, “Tunnel 228”, “The Duchess of Malfi” (an operatic collaboration with English National Opera and Thorsten Rasch) and “The Yellow Wallpaper”.
Maxine has an MA in choreography from the Laban centre and is a recipient of the Bonnie Bird Choreography Award. She was Artistic Director of First Person Dance Company from 1996 - 2003 touring works, such as “Deja Deux”, “In the Face of a Stranger”, “Plastic Chill” and “It's Only a Gameshow”. In 2006, she was a Place Prize semi-finalist with “Forest”.
Her work for theatre includes: Evening at the Talk House (National Theatre); Electra (Old Vic); The Changeling (Young Vic); Hamlet (Young Vic); The Children’s Hour (The West End); Timon of Athens (The Globe) and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (National Theatre). Opera includes: Faust (Baden Baden) and The Cunning Little Vixen (Glyndebourne). Work for brands includes: Luis Vuitton and Selfridges.
Maxine’s most recent dance theatre creation for the stage “After Lethe” premiered at Staastheater Kassel in May, 2016. Maxine is also a principle artist at Springboard Danse Montréal, where she created “Hubris” (2015) and “Electric Sheep (2016). Future projects include a new creation with Strut Dance, Perth, Australia for 2018. Maxine’s international workshop series “Tension States: Amplifications of the Human Condition” will begin January, 2017. Maxine will also be leading a series of performance workshops at Punchdrunk’s “Enrichment Village” throughout 2017.
Vinicius Salles
assistant
biography
Working in multiple disciplines of dance, theatre and film, Vinicius Salles’ experience includes performing, movement directing, filmmaking and teaching. He graduated from the Performing Arts school, Martins Pena, Brazil, studied filmmaking at the London Film Academy, and holds a Masters Degree in Documentary Film at London College of Communication.
Over the last 20 years, Vinicius has performed with leading Brazilian and UK physical theatre and dance companies including Punchdrunk, Gecko, Jasmin Vardimon Company and others. Theatre credits include Timon of Athens (The Globe Theatre) and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (National Theatre). Recent works as choreographer include ‘Witches in Disguise”, 2016, University of Cumbria; and “Human Marvels”, commissioned by JV2. Vinicius also currently works as Rehearsal Director and Lead Educational Facilitator for Jasmin Vardimon Company and has collaborated with Maxine Doyle (Director & Choreographer of Punchdrunk). He is also a Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway University.
As a choreographer, his credits include “Witches in Disguise”, 2016 (University of Cumbria); “Human Marvels”, commissioned by JV2, 2016; Copycat” at The Place, 2009; “NOcontact”, 2007; “Cabeças Trocadas”, 2003; “Xristos”, 2003; “Esquinas”, 2002. For further information visit www.viniciussalles.co
johannes wieland
© n. klinger
© sebastian lemm
johannes wieland
each performance project is limited to around 15 people. the performance projects last for 1, 2 or 3 weeks. as a closer of the festival, they will be presented all together two times in dock 11, a theater in the center of berlin. // johannes wielands performance project runs 3 weeks (18 workshop days): 26th of june through the 14th of july 2017 during 10:15am - 2:15pm / 15th and 16th of july 2017 during 10:00am - 12:00 noon / no rehearsals on the 1st, 2nd and 9th of july / 2 evening performances on the 15th and the 16th of july with extra rehearsals // application deadline is april 2nd 2017.
D R A G O N F L Y 4 4
where is your dark matter?
you will discover your inside rebel and burn imprints within your system of gravitational thinking. you will uncover new logics and hunt your dark corners for hidden dreams and fantasies.
locate the unidentifiable inside of you and be your own agent provocateur, creating a world of contradiction in which you no longer ask why, but how. build a character so complex and arresting, it might frighten your third self. and, just maybe, you will like it.
discover your dark matter!
biography
Johannes Wieland hails from Berlin, earned his BFA at the Amsterdam University of the Arts and worked in various companies with an extensive array of choreographers, before going to perform as a principal at the Béjart Ballet, Lausanne. Ready for a radical change, he then relocated to New York City where he received his MFA in Contemporary Dance and Choreography at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2002.
His company ”johannes wieland”, founded in New York that same year, facilitated the foundation for his body of work and since 2006, he holds a permanent position as the Artistic Director and Choreographer at the Staatstheater Kassel. Aside from choreographing and teaching for companies and universities, his critically acclaimed pieces have been invited to tour internationally for festivals and events.
He is a 1st prize winner of the “Kurt Jooss Prize”, and has been awarded numerous other prizes, recognitions, scholarships and grants. He is a nominee for the German theater prize “Der Faust” in 2016, for his creation “you will be removed”.
sita ostheimer
former dancer with hofesh shechter
© Ben Rudick
sita ostheimer
former dancer with hofesh shechter
each performance project is limited to around 15 people. the performance projects last for 1, 2 or 3 weeks. as a closer of the festival, they will be presented all together two times in dock 11, a theater in the center of berlin. // sita ostheimers performance project runs 1 week (7 workshop days): 10th through the 14th of july 2017 during 5:00pm - 9:00pm / 15th and 16th of july 2017 during 4:00pm - 6:00pm / 2 evening performances on the 15th and 16th of july with extra rehearsals // application deadline is april 2nd 2017.
creatures of the wild
Sita will guide the participants through an improvisations technique, which Sita uses to give the dancers an understanding of the connection between mind and body. It is a game of images, situations, feelings, rhythms, and embodying those. Her work is built on fast rhythmical changes of qualities, emotions and images.
The movement language is expressive, fluent, sensual and grounded. Ostheimer’s collaboration with many choreographers, such as Hofesh Shechter and Itzik Galili, has influenced her approach to movement, work and life. The unique animalistic movement language that arises from the human instinct is her particular and peculiar signature in dance.
biography
Studied at the Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium and the University of Music and Performance Arts in Frankfurt am Main. After that she joined MS Schrittmacher in Oldenburg, worked with Galili Dance (Itzik Galili), and then continued her career in Amsterdam with Krisztina de Chatel. In June 2008, she joined the Hofesh Shechter Company in London.
As a choreographer she created “Noble Thinking” (2011), “Accompany” (2012) and “Dissimilar Foxes” (2014) for Shechter’s “IN GOOD COMPANY”. As a freelance choreographer, she created “Metanoia” (Sweden), “Balter” (Corfu), “Mangata” (Singapore) and, in addition, works on restaging Hofesh Shechter’s works at companies, such as Edge '13, NDT I, Staatstheater Kassel, Ballet Basel, Staatsballet Berlin, Aterballetto, Staatstheater Darmstadt and Wiesbaden.
She teaches classes and workshops regularly at various schools, universities and companies, such as SEAD, Salzburg; NOD, Torino; One Small Step Festival, Corfu; B12, Berlin; and ZZT, Koln.
© Natalie Deryn Johnson
Manuel Molino
assistant
biography
French-born, Manuel Molino studied at l’École Professionnelle Supérieure d’Enseignement de la Danse in Montpellier, under the direction of Anne-Marie Porras. After graduating in 2014, Manuel joined the Centre Chorégraphique National of Nantes, Brumachon / Lamarche as a student.
Since then, he works for the project “ATLAS / ETUDES”, within the framework of the structure “PLAY” with Michèle Murray. He is also part of the French clown company “Atout Clowns”, with whom he tries to experiment and mix body research and dramaturgic work. Since August 2016, Manuel has worked as assistant and performer in Sita Ostheimer’s work.
8 day research
Annamari Keskinen
former dancer with rootlessroot and johannes wieland
© Luke Danniells
Annamari Keskinen
former dancer with rootlessroot and johannes wieland
26th june - 3rd july 2017 / 5:45pm - 9:45pm
invisible matters
Everyday we'll begin with a class, creating awareness and flow in one’s body and mind. We'll slowly start with strengthening the core, warming up the joints and grounding ourselves, which will prepare our bodies for more complex choreographic sequences in a energy efficient way.
After class, we'll continue with improvisation tasks, with a main focus on different mental and physical states. We'll challenge ourselves to move deeply through different emotions and explore the freedom and honesty in one’s physical approach according to these states. We'll explore how one's state of mind directs the movement, and vise versa, and how all this influences our interactions with each other. The aim is to completely surrender ourselves to the moment and look where the invisible becomes visible.
The last day of the workshop, we'll have an informal sharing based on the material from the workshop, which is open for public. The participants get a chance to put their new tools in practice, accompanied by Elias De Voldere, who'll be jamming with us during the last two days of the workshop.
Energetic floor work based material, as well as some risk taking, can be expected during the workshop.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 340 euros!
biography
I'm a female
I'm 31 years old
I come from Finland
I'm intrigued by the complexity of our bodies and minds
With my art I wish to raise awareness about our surroundings, in me and everyone who gets to be part of it
I hope to Be able to communicate
I like to sweat
I like to touch
I like to be touched
I like to be challenged
I have learned from and worked with:
Johannes Wieland, Rootless Root, Helder Seabra among many others including my beautiful colleagues around the world. I currently work as a freelance choreographer and dancer, having my home base in Berlin.
© Leon De Backer
Elias Devoldere
assistant
biography
Elias Devoldere (1991) is a Ghent-based impro/jazz/rock drummer, who started playing the drums at the age of eight. He was mainly active in rock formations. At the age of eighteen, he went to the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, where he got in touch with improvised music and jazz. He took classes with Toon van Dionant, Erik Vermeulen and Bart Maris. In this period, his main project “Nordmann” was formed, a crossover band between rock, impro and jazz. He graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where he took classes with Stéphane Galland, Lionel Beuvens, Kris Defoort and Jeroen Van Herzeele.
Besides his classes in school, he also took classes with Dré Pallemaerts, Teun Verbruggen and the Brussels Youth Jazz Orchestra. Currently, he plays with bands such as Nordmann, Hypochristmutreefuzz, John Ghost, Kabas, Hast, Jukwaa Double Trio, Bardo and Maya’s Moving Castle. Besides these band formations, he’s also active for choreographer
Helder Seabra. For more information about his projects and concerts: www.eliasdevoldere.com
damien fournier
eastman/sidi larbi cherkaoui
© Koen Broos
damien fournier
eastman/sidi larbi cherkaoui
4th - 11th July 2017 / 1:30pm - 5:30pm
Collision and flow
The first part of the workshop will be dedicated to a mixture of floorwork, acrobatic moves with a contemporary flow, tango and kung fu. Each exercise will invite the participants to widen their perception, conscience and coordination while playing with time, space, speed and levels.
The second part of the workshop will approach the work of partnering gradually from a simple touch, to the carrying and then the passing through/projection.
In both parts, after the technical exploration the participants will learn various parts of the repertory of the choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, one of the most influential choreographers of our time. Time will be taken for re-creating material and exchanging the outcome within the group. To finish up each workshop day we will use the basics of acroyoga.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 340 euros!
biography
Damien graduated from CNAC (Centre national des arts du cirque /France) where he specialized in partnering, acrobatics and dance. Already during the study he started to develop a very own style between dance and acrobatics. In his work as a teacher Damien conveys the technical know-how as well as how to be sensitive and emotionaly involved when performing. In his career Damien was part of more than 36 productions.
He worked amongst others with Josef Nadj, Helder Seabra, Kitsou Dubois, Damien Jalet und Alexandra Waierstall. His biggest collaboration was with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. During eight years Damien performed in the award-winning shows “Babel (words)” and “Puz/zle”. Furthermore he was dancing in Myth, Sutra, the movie Anna Karenina and Milonga.
4 day research
hannes langolf
former dancer with dv8 / akram khan / punchdrunk
© Ed Clark
hannes langolf
former dancer with dv8 / akram khan / punchdrunk
12th - 15th July 2017 / 6:00pm - 10:00pm
PLAY AND POWER
between voice and movement. This workshop will focus on how voice and movement can interact and entwine in order to create a fuller experience in performance and unlock a deeper understanding of our physical potential.
Hannes will share his collected expertise and guide participants through rigorous training, detailed information, joyful games and creative tasks in order to create a guided yet open environment to be curious, courageous, vulnerable, powerful and playful - all at once.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
Hannes lives in London and his work has taken him through Europe, Australia, Asia, America and beyond. His artistic path has lead him to work and collaborate with artists and companies like William Forsythe, Angelin Preljocaj, Wayne McGregor, Akram Khan, Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre and Punchdrunk to name a few.
For the last nine years he has been working with the world-renowned DV8 Physical Theatre, performing in their last three stage productions. He became DV8’s Creative Associate from 2014-2016.
As choreographer he has created work for Munich Dance Festival, The Onassis Cultural Center in Athens and the Susanne Linke Dance Company among others. in 2015, Hannes was nominated as one of the 100 most influential and innovative people working across Britain’s creative industries by The Hospital Club London. For more info: www.hanneslangolf.com
lali ayguade
© Tristan Perez Martin
lali ayguade
12th - 15th July 2017 / 9:00am - 1:00pm
From gravity to lightness
This course includes a technical part and another of creative and composition work. The first part is based on the way we use the ground when we dance, giving great importance to our base, feet, as a support of our movement. The power is in the feet and legs and let the rest of the body be free to express. The movement work in class is faster without forgetting the details.
The second part is about control and knowing how to leave the control. Be aware of the whole body. These are principles which come through improvisation and imagination. We will also give much importance to the continuity of the movement and note that the energy of our body never stops, even when there isn't movement. I like to think that if you draw a straight line, the circle does not disappear.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
Eulalia Ayguadé was born in Barcelona in 1980. At 8 years old, she studied music (solfeo and piano), sitting exams at the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona. In 1996, she attended Institut del Teatre in Barcelona for dance and later to Anne Teresa De Keermaeker’s PARTS, learning the repertory of William Forsythe, Trisha Brown and Rosas. In her fourth year, she made a solo “Silence” coached by Wim Vandekeybus and later on made a duet “Zoom In” with the polish dancer and choreographer Radek Hewelt, which was shown across Europe.
After school she joined Publik Eye Company from Denmark, where she collaborated with the dramaturge, Carmen Mehnert.
In 2003, Lali joined the Akram Khan Company as a full time member creating and performing in the productions: “Kaash”, “Ma”, “Bahok” (together with the National Ballet of China), “Vertical Road” and “Confluence”, collaborating with Nitin Sawhney and Ricardo Nova.
She has worked with Roberto Olivan (Enclave Dance Company) with the production “Homeland” and Hofesh Shecther with the productions: “In Your Rooms”, “Cult” and “The Art of Not Looking Back”. She also worked with Marcos Morau of La Veronal (who won the national prize award in 2013 in Spain as best choreographer) with a piece called “Portland”. Currently, she is working with Baro d’Evel company, with whom she performed “Mazut” and is working on their new creation, “Bestias”.
In 2005, Lali choreographed “Twice Read” together with the Slovak dancer and choreographer Anton Lachky (one of the founders of Les Slovaks dance collective) and the Slovak composer Josef Vlk. Between 2007 and 2009, she choreographed other smaller works with the acrobat, Joan Ramon Graell (the director of circus association in Barcelona).
In 2012, she created a trio called “Little Me” with Young Jin Kim and Joan Català, which was premiered at Salmon Festival in Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona. For the birthday of Ramon Llull, she created “Encontre” with Joan Català and Jordi Molina. In 2013, she created two short duets: “Incognito” and “Saba” and in 2014, created a quartet called “Kokoro”, which was co-produced by Mercat de les Flors and Temporada Alta.
In 2010, she was nominated as ‘Exceptional Dancer’ in the Critics awards of London, also as a best choreographer in Time Out of Barcelona and nominated best dancer in Barcelona.
Tomislav English
ultima vez and founder of ferus animi//terra nova
© Danny Willems - UltimaVez©DannyWillems
Tomislav English
ultima vez and founder of ferus animi//terra nova
30th June - 3rd July 2017 / 1:30pm - 5:30pm
ferus animi//terra nova
Tomislav's work looks to explore the principles of movement, which underlie the modern martial and movement 'techniques' that we come to recognise today, parallel to exploring the instinctive and evolutionary physiological processes of the human organism, when tactically separated from said techniques and aesthetics.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
Tomislav English is the founder of movement research collective Ferus Animi//Terra Nova. His practice is informed by his ongoing work as a performer with the company Wim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez, alongside his continued training under the likes of David Zambrano, Rootlessroot, Bruno Caverna and Ido Portal, and a background in competitive Athletics.
Academically, his research continues at a postgraduate level at the University of London (Royal Holloway) and the University of Oxford (Department of Psychiatry). He has previously collaborated and performed in an artistic context with the likes of Punchdrunk, The National Theatre London, Joe Wright/Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, English National Ballet, Protein Dance Theatre, AΦE, and The Penguin Cafe.
Jessica Eirado Enes
assistant
biography
Jessica was born and raised in Italy, and took her dance training on the professional course for contemporary dancers of Compagnia Zappala Danza directed by Roberto Zappala.
She finished the third year with an internship in Compagnia Petrillo Danza directed by Loris Petrillo, and she also started to work with Compagnia Petranura Danza directed by Salvatore Romania and Laura Odierna.
During this year Jessica received a scolarship to join "NOD" in Torino, and was accepted to attend Biennale Danza of Venice directed by Virgilio Sieni. She was later part of the acclaimed production 'Requiem for Aleppo' at Sadlers Wells Theatre London, with choreographer by Jason Mabana.
Jessica has been training as a member of Ferus Animi // Terra Nova since 2016, assisting many of the European based workshops and intensives.
Shannon Gillen
VIM VIGOR
© Arnaud Falchier
Shannon Gillen
VIM VIGOR
8th - 11th July 2017 / 5:45pm - 9:45pm
vivid states
i'm interested in raising the stakes and in doing so thrusting performers into surreal and heightened spaces. i'm interested in physical and psychological triggers and portals. and i'm interested in bringing characters to life that begin with our true natures and then break through into new and forbidden places.
working with improvisational and theatrical propositions we will look at: what happens when the floodgates of your inner world are opened? who do you become when you believe in a fantasy? how do we see the macro view of the full scene, whilst obsessed in the intimacies of our immediate interactions? how do we move seamlessly between the surreal and the simple?
activating both athlete and artist, we will begin each day with physical explorations that build strength and stamina, culminating into complex phrase work that traverses surprising and challenging landscapes of size, direction, tone and texture. theatrical propositions will follow, where the balance of listening and reacting will offer unprecedented access into the unknown territories of other people and ourselves. www.vimvigordance.com
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
Named among New York’s top 20 artists by Brooklyn Magazine, Shannon Gillen has had an extensive career as a dancer and choreographer in NYC and Europe. She was a member of the Johannes Wieland Company based at Staatstheater Kassel in Germany; won commissions from Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, the International Solo-Tanz Theater Festival in Stuttgart (3rd Prize Dance) and the TIF Theater in Kassel, and was selected as a THINK BIG choreographer-in-residence at Staatsoper Hannover.
Upon returning to the States, Shannon founded VIM VIGOR DANCE COMPANY, as the home for her collaborative choreographic and educational endeavors. The company debuted in NYC to sold-out audiences and, during its inaugural year, has had commissions in California with DANCEworks at the historic Lobero Theater; in Canada, with Springboard Danse Festival; and Central America, with PRISMA Festival.
Additional projects for Shannon include: commissions from fashion label PHELAN, Hubbard Street 2, and BEACH SESSIONS. Notable festivals and venues where her work has been seen include New York Live Arts, Judson Church, PULSE Fair at Art (Basel), Bryant Park Presents, NYC’s River to River Festival, the Joyce Theater, and Jacob’s Pillow.
Dedicated to contemporary dance theater education, Gillen is on the faculty at SUNY Purchase College and has taught at the B12 workshops in Berlin, The Juilliard Summer Program, MIP at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, and with VIM VIGOR. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School and earned her MFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and maintains close creative relationships with both conservatories. Visit www.vimvigordance.com to learn more.
edivaldo ernesto
dancer with david zambrano and former dancer with sasha waltz and guests
© Lisa Edi
edivaldo ernesto
dancer with david zambrano and former dancer with sasha waltz and guests
26th - 29th June 2017 / 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Depth Movement
This is an intense and dense group dynamic class. It is about energy, about constantly challenging your limits. Understanding what defines you as a dancer and pushing those boundaries over and over again. Allowing the environment to influence your dancing skills, refining tools to create new movement qualities and new rhythms.
Digging deeper inside the range of your own personal dance vocabulary, becoming anyone or anything. Working with partnering, multi- directional, micro- narrative movement to transform as a whole group. Learning how to effectively be unpredictable, how to recycle energy, how to use the body as your primary tool.
I guarantee a new process of study, in which I go as a teacher, and guidance parallel to your learning process that makes you take the step of digesting the work to get to a completely new level.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
Edivaldo Ernesto (Mozambique/DE), Dancer, Teacher, Choreographer, improvisation expert. Mozambican background and western African traditional dance influence.
Performances, improvisations, assistant teacher for Flying Low and Passing Through technique with David Zambrano, Investigation and collaboration with Judith Sánchez Ruiz. Creator and developer of his: “Depth Movement” Workshops and “Next Level”, teaching across Europe. Former member of Sasha Waltz and Guests company.
ian robinson
former dancer with batsheva dance company
© gadi dagon
ian robinson
former dancer with batsheva dance company
30th June - 3rd July 2017 / 9:00am - 1:00pm
Exploration & Creation
We will give space to indulge our curiosity about shaping and coloring movement, inside and out, during our daily class, repertoire and improvisation sessions. We will sweat. We will visit places of effort and research our connection to pleasure, as we explore the experience of dance and delve into how our environment both affects and infects us.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
Ian Robinson was born in Bangor, Maine, USA. He trained with the Robinson Ballet and graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA. Early in his career, Ian danced with various companies and projects including Mikhail Baryshnikov's Hell's Kitchen Dance, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Sydney Dance Company and Aszure Barton & Artists.
Since 2009, Ian has danced full time with the Batsheva Dance Company and, under the artistic leadership of Ohad Naharin, has continued to develop himself as a dancer, creator, teacher and videographer. He is a certified Gaga teacher and has taught classes and workshops in the USA, Europe, Asia and Australia. Ian has also assisted in setting Ohad’s works on various companies.
© poison
Rachael Osborne
assistant
biography
Australian-born Rachael Osborne trained with Janet Karin OAM and holds an Associate Degree in Dance from the Queensland University of Technology. She danced with Ohad Naharin's Ensemble Batsheva and the Batsheva Dance Company for 16 years. There she also met and danced with Sharon Eyal, eventually becoming a founding member of Eyal’s company L-E-V. Rachael has also served as assistant to the choreographer for both Ohad Naharin and Sharon Eyal, helping to stage their works on companies in Europe, the U.K, Canada, Australia and the USA.
Having left the folds of the Batsheva Dance Company in 2017, Rachael is now roaming where she will, keen to continue dancing, learning, teaching and staging.
thusnelda mercy
tanztheater wuppertal pina bausch / sasha waltz & guests
© 20b12 / karl jurka
thusnelda mercy
tanztheater wuppertal pina bausch / sasha waltz & guests
30th June - 3rd July 2017 / 5:45pm - 9:45pm
Technic & composition through improvisation
Starting with exercises based on the Folkwang tradition and the influence of my work with the Company of Sasha Waltz, my aim is to build up the awareness of our bodies in space and towards each other, to then experiment in a final choreographic movement phrase with the freedom of expression through the technique.
The second part will be based on the experience of composition through improvisation. Encouraging personal research on gestures and theatrical forms, through questions and different tasks, and to discover the development of an idea and sharing the process of a choreographic proposal.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
After working as a dancer and actress with the Theater der Klänge, Thusnelda Mercy pursued her study of dance at the Folkwang Universität of Arts in Essen, Germany. At the end of her studies, she collaborated with the German choreographer Sasha Waltz and continues to work with her as a guest dancer since. From 2003-2015, she joined the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and continues working there as a guest dancer and assistant.
Since 2009, she is working as an independent choreographer and dancer for different directors and has been teaching in international Festivals. The artistic encounter with the actress and writer Florence Minder lead to the creation of the Solo “Sharing a Power Socket” in co-production with la FAA. She continues her career as a choreographer with her latest piece for 22 students “This is my Now”, at the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen.
Since 2014, she has been an associate artist to pascal merighi PRODUCTiONS, in pieces such as SAMUEL and WAK.NTR Rehab.
Tom Weksler
© Anna M. Maynard
Tom Weksler
12th - 15th July 2017 / 1:30pm - 5:30pm
movement archery
Each day of workshop will consist of 2 parts:
Part 1 - Floorwork
Tom’s technique of floor work serves as a “risk management” mechanism, which ultimately leads to freedom in a much larger scale than usually experienced by performers of a single discipline. Tom introduces dynamics of falling, rolling, collapsing, flipping and melting down in order to reduce and eventually eliminate the type of actions we usually refer to as “failure” in dance, athletics and martial arts.
The practice is composed both of simple, almost “daily” actions, alongside “complicated” acrobatic risks, without distinguishing between them or judging what’s important and unimportant. This approach allows a blend of influences from the Animal Kingdom, Capoeira, Gymnastics, Tae Kwon Do, Parkour, Brazillian Jiujitsu and Bboying to fall effortlessly into an empty category of functional motions.
Part 2 - movement Archery
The “Archery” practice is Tom’s sincere attempt to create a practice of movement which lies in the space between fight and gestures-free expression. The practice can be executed with two movers and more, and involves the development of both circular and sharp reactions which leads to high levels of awareness and a fluent - “tactical” mind. The movers will go through different forms of “games” which can wear strict rules and objectives or just a physical play of examining and interacting - a play we are all familiar with but tend to lose during our mature life in modern society.
Upon practicing Archery one can feel either like he or she is involved in a very skillful combat or in a passionate dance full of risks and traps. It is important to note that the name “Archery” ultimately holds nothing behind it as it constantly changes and flows into the shape the practitioners make up according to their needs and passions.
“The right art is purposeless, aimless. The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.” - Eugen Herrigel
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
Tom has been practicing Martial Arts and different forms of acrobatic disciplines from a young age. Tom graduated in 2009 from “The Workshop For Dancers and Choreographers in Haifa”. Since 2010, Tom has been dancing with “Inbal Pinto and Avshallom Pollak Dance Company” and has performed with the company's productions in many theaters and festivals around the world. In 2014, Tom joined Rootlessroot (Jozef Frucek and Linda Kapetnea) for the creation of the piece, “Collective Loss Of Memory” (produced by “DOT504”) and still performs and tours with the piece in Europe.
In 2014, Tom created the duet "SARU' (with dancer and choreographer Mayumu Minakawa) at Aurillac Center For Choreography and Dance, which has been performed in Japan and Israel. Tom's movement workshops have taken place in dance schools, circus schools, Dojos and professional companies in Tel Aviv, Amsterdam, Dublin, London, Copenhagen, Berlin, Bratislava, Milan, Antwerp, Boston, San Francisco, New York, Toronto, Montreal, Guadelajara, Kyoto, Tokyo and more.
Matt Mulligan
assistant
biography
Matt Mulligan has spent years weaving the threads between a background in martial arts, acrobatics and dance. Training martial arts since his teenage years Matt then followed full-time professional training in acrobatics (Circomedia Circus School, UK) and later in contemporary dance (Northern School of Contemporary Dance, UK). His fusion of playful performance and physicality has seen him tour nationally and internationally in a number of circus, theatre, clown and dance shows. A primary collaboration in recent years has been an ongoing exploration of shared acrodance interests with Tom Weksler. He dances, teaches and lives in Wales with his partner.
christopher roman
© Michael Slobodian
christopher roman
29th june - 2nd July 2017 / 9:00am - 1:00pm
Improvisation Propositions
My time as a classical ballet dancer and subsequent collaboration with William Forsythe in the Ballett Frankfurt and The Forsythe Company informed the practice of clarity and necessity of form in communicating ideas, but also taught me that form and ways of communicating are different for everyone.
The proposition of this workshop is to offer simple tools as points of departure, share the individual outcome from the use of those tools and utilize the difference of interpretation as a way of understanding and communicating.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
Christopher Roman began his formal training and danced as an apprentice with The School of Cleveland Ballet, continuing his training at The School of American Ballet in New York City. He was subsequently invited into the ranks of the Pacific Northwest Ballet, and as a soloist and principal with Edward Villella's Miami City Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, The Pennsylvania Ballet, Ballett Frankfurt and The Forsythe Company, performing a huge array of important choreographic works, originating over forty roles and touring every major venue worldwide.
He has been a guest artist with Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Sasha Waltz and Guests in Berlin. Christopher was co-founder, choreographer and performer for the company 2+ with former Wooster Group video designer, Philip Bussmann and has created work with 2+ and independently for The Pennsylvania Ballet, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Festival de Danse in Cannes, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Cadance Festival Holland, Staatstheater Gärtnerplatz, Skulpturenpark in Graz and others.
William Forsythe's Bessie Award winning “You Made Me a Monster” was created with Mr. Roman and he is the 2009 recipient of Germany's highest theater honor Der Deutsche Theaterpreis “DER FAUST” for best dance performance in The Forsythe Company's “I don't believe in outer space”. He is also featured in the Thierry De Mey film of Forsythe's work, “One Flat Thing, reproduced”.
As a ballet master, choreographic assistant and administrator, Christopher has staged the works of William Forsythe internationally, been a teacher of improvisational techniques, a research collaborator for the Ohio State University project “Synchronous Objects” and the Score Manager and Education Coordinator for the Motion Bank initiative, in association with The Forsythe Company.
He is currently the curator and organizer for the MFA in Dance European Studies at Hollins University, in affiliation with The Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company, Mousonturm and The University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt. Since 2011, Christopher has been guest and adjunct faculty and choreographer in residence for Butler University, The Juilliard School, Hollins University, Princeton University, Harvard University, The Goethe Institute worldwide, Steps NY, Peridance, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Movement Invention Project, Springboard Dance Montreal and Dance Arts Faculty in Rome.
Mr. Roman was one of the artists selected to be part of the Solo Performance Commissioning Project with Deborah Hay for her work “Dynamic” and also one of the twenty artists to perform in Boris Charmatz’s curation of “20 Dancers for the XX Century” at MoMA. He was the choreographic assistant to William Forsythe for the original work “Rearray” at Sadler's Wells, for Sylvie Guillem and Nicolas LeRiche, as well as for the new creation for the Paris Opera Ballet entitled, “Blake Works I”.
In September 2013, Christopher assumed the role of Associate Artistic Director of The Forsythe Company and is on the Board of Trustees for the Forsythe Foundation. Christopher is currently the Artistic Director of, and a dance artist with, the Dance On Ensemble, a company for dancers over 40 based in Berlin and is in the midst of creating 8 original works with Matteo Fargion, Rabih Mroué, William Forsythe, Kat Valastur, Deborah Hay, Ivo Dimchev, Johannes Wieland and Jan Martens, over the course of 2 years. www.dance-on.net.
johannes wieland
© sebastian lemm
johannes wieland
8th - 11th July 2017 / 6:00pm - 10:00pm
the invincible loser
i am a loser, and you, you're a loser too. then along comes this day. it makes you invincible. but you're still a loser. the only thing left to do is to make your way to berlin to participate in a workshop with first-rate-loser, johannes wieland, which includes a warm-up with special-loser, evangelos poulinas. be prepared for physical and mental exhaustion, being turned inside out and upside down with improvisation, movement and text.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
Johannes Wieland hails from Berlin, earned his BFA at the Amsterdam University of the Arts and worked in various companies with an extensive array of choreographers, before going to perform as a principal at the Béjart Ballet, Lausanne. Ready for a radical change, he then relocated to New York City where he received his MFA in Contemporary Dance and Choreography at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2002.
His company ”johannes wieland”, founded in New York that same year, facilitated the foundation for his body of work and since 2006, he holds a permanent position as the Artistic Director and Choreographer at the Staatstheater Kassel. Aside from choreographing and teaching for companies and universities, his critically acclaimed pieces have been invited to tour internationally for festivals and events.
He is a 1st prize winner of the “Kurt Jooss Prize”, and has been awarded numerous other prizes, recognitions, scholarships and grants. He is a nominee for the German theater prize “Der Faust” in 2016, for his creation “you will be removed”.
© Nassos Avdarmanis
evangelos poulinas
assistant
biography
in 2004 evangelos joined the state theater of northern greece, where he danced for the new creations of konstantinos rigos and nigel charnock. evangelos is an mfa graduate from the tisch school of the arts housed at new york university.
in 2007 evangelos returned to europe where he continues to not only develop his own work, but to perform for many renowned choreographers such as, johannes wieland, marco cantalupo, katarzyna gdaniec, marcel leemann and constanza macras. in 2009 he founded and organized 'one small step urban dance festival' based in corfu, greece.
evangelos is very interested in dance education and has taught contemporary technique workshops in many institutions around the world.
jos baker
peeping tom
© Eva Campos Suarez
jos baker
peeping tom
30th June - 3rd July 2017 / 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Physicology and Trajectories
Physicology works with a combination of analysis and experimentation to develop a deeper understanding of the physical principals that underpin human movement. These principals are then expanded, through both fixed material and improvisation, building to richly detailed, technical and physically challenging dance phrases.
When we move through a space it leaves a mark, not just on the air we passed through, but on the space as a whole and the people in it. Trajectories looks at the pathways and shapes traced by a body, leaves a playground of possibilities behind it, and opens a wealth of movement possibilities.
After establishing the principles, we will build up to large group improvisations.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
From 2008 to 2014, Jos worked for Peeping Tom as a creator and performer in “32 Rue Vandenbranden” and “Á Louer”. He has since done various work for stage and screen and makes his own work including “What do you do?” [2015], “We Were Youth” (2016) “Tidal Breathing” [2016] and “Of No Fixed Abode” [Ongoing]. Jos teaches all over the world for dance schools and festivals.
Jos started his dance training with Oxford Youth Dance and then The Laban Center, London and PARTS (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios).
christina mertzani
and evangelos poulinas
free fall
© Karl-Heinz Mierke
christina mertzani
and evangelos poulinas
free fall
26th - 29th June 2017 / 1:30pm - 5:30pm
partnering
in this workshop we will explore ways to improve our corporeal awareness in connection with a partner. to achieve this goal, we are going to use elements from various techniques like contact improvisation, acrobatics, acro-yoga, improvisation, personal movement investigation and contemporary dance.
the workshop progresses from the simple exercises of receiving weight and moving as a couple or small groups, to more complex acrobatic exercises that lead gradually to the final partnering combination. at the same time, with proposals on sensations, feelings, images and movement qualities, you will be invited to discover and augment your personal way of moving.
with the findings of your research we will set structured phrases, which will encourage your unique way of dancing. it is exciting to dance with other people.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography of christina mertzani
Christina Mertzani graduated as a choreographer, dancer and dance teacher in 2004 from the Athens State School of Dance. Christina’s first choreographic work, the dance film "without trace", was awarded by the British Council in 2004. Ever since then, she has choreographed for V.Void, Arthrosis, Municipal and regional theater of Corfu, SOZO visions in motion, as well as for theater companies and professional dance schools.
As a founding member of "ελεύθερη πτώση"- "free fall", she has presented the pieces ''metamorfosis'', ''inside'', "emplokh", "cube", "alternative bodies" and the dance film "emplokh", "reborntemptation", "60pulses", etc. in Greece, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Spain.
Since 2010, Christina has been the education administrator for the "One Small Step" international urban dance festival in Corfu (Greece).
Christina has been giving workshops since 2005 - classes of contemporary dance, improvisation, partnering and stretching in various companies, theaters, studios and dance schools in Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Turkey, etc. Some of these are cie.toula limnaios, Marameo, Theater Osnabrück, Landesbühnen Sachsen, Staatstheater Kassel, Theater Heidelberg (Germany), Tanzbüro Basel, Theater St. Gallen, Konzert theater Bern, Nachschub (Switzerland), HJS Profitraining Amsterdam (Netherlands) SOZO visions in motion, etc.
Some of the companies Christina has danced for are SMACK, Lathos Kinisi, Ad-Lip, Quissistelar, Amalgama, Ano Teleia, Chorotheatro Roes Vosperton etc. She has also danced choreographies by Wim Vandekeybus, Mark Morris and Martha Graham.
Christina graduated from the Academy of Ancient Greek and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Homeopathy. Since 2008, she has attended several seminars that are mainly focused on cures like: massage, rejuvance, nutrition, herbal medicine, etc.
biography of evangelos poulinas
Evangelos Poulinas holds an MFA in dance from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, a Diploma from the Athens State School of Dance and a Bachelors from the Physical Education Department, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. He has been credited with scholarships from numerous prestigious foundations, such as Alexandros S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, New York University, Greek State Scholarship Foundation and DanceWEB Europe.
As a creator, Evangelos has shown work in the U.S.A. and Europe and as a performer, he has danced creations by Johannes Wieland, Maxine Doyle, Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo, Marcel Leemann, Constanza Macras, Konstandinos Rigos, Nigel Charnock, Jasmin Vardimon and Wim Vandekeybus among others. As a teacher, Evangelos has taught contemporary technique, partnering and community dance classes in Germany, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Greece, Austria, U.S.A. and Sweden.
Helder Seabra
eastman/sidi larbi cherkaoui // former dancer with ultima vez/wim vandekeybus // artistic director of helka
© Koen Broos
Helder Seabra
eastman/sidi larbi cherkaoui // former dancer with ultima vez/wim vandekeybus // artistic director of helka
26th - 29th June 2017 / 9:00am - 1:00pm
Inner Core
We’ll start with a class focusing on organic ways of moving, using and recycling energy with continuous flow, growing progressively from the floor, and approach concepts like risk, trust, instinct and speed. We’ll focus, amongst other things, on kinetic force and anatomy, departing from and back to our own center with an openness towards the inside (physical consciousness) and outside (all around us), merging what we control and what we allow to happen/observe.
Then we’ll explore a set of physical, theatrical and imagery propositions. We’ll delve into different qualities, develop and transform taught repertory material and original ideas, but also explore our own personal movement language, using intuition and personal background, pushing boundaries. In a playful environment, I’m interested in exploring physical and mental limits, what we experience and how we can push further…
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
Originally from Portugal, Helder Seabra received his training in Ginasiano, Portugal and P.A.R.T.S., Belgium. For the past 12 years, he has been a long-term member of the renowned companies Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus and Eastman/Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, as a performer, assistant choreographer and teacher for local and international assignments.
At the same time, he has been progressively developing his own artistic practices and, in 2013, he founded HelKa Vzw, to channel all his previous experiences and explore the full potential of the body & mind, and different forms of dialogue, through collaborations with other artists. Through the platform, he has been creating, performing, and teaching on an intensive basis (inter)nationally.
ryan mason
© Dane Wagner
ryan mason
13th - 16th July 2017 / 9:00am - 1:00pm
elegant chaos
imagine repeatedly reliving a car crash. the first time is traumatic. the tenth time we begin to find order, predictability and we learn to dodge the breaking glass. the hundredth, we find elegance in the impact. the unpredictable becomes familiar and we find comfort in chaos.
we will melt through the floor. we will rip through the air. we will turn ourselves inside out. we will traverse multiple techniques, breaking down complexity into organic understandable patterns. with repetition, we have the liberty to manipulate (or re-align) the concept of time — to slow down, to speed up, to bend. our senses sharpen and we begin to finesse the transition from one moment to the next.
applicants should have a strong basic understanding of athletic movement and should be prepared to mentally/physically exert themselves.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
I am a choreographer and teacher. My work in both spheres is based on sharing and collaboration. I like to take things apart and look at them—for their absurdity, as well as for their sensory possibilities.
I danced with the José Limón Company and Johannes Wieland, where I also served as rehearsal director. I stopped performing and started teaching and choreographing, before returning to performing. A graduate of CalArts, I am currently based in Munich, Germany.
James Finnemore
Hofesh Shechter
© Danilo Moroni
James Finnemore
Hofesh Shechter
26th - 29th June 2017 / 1:30pm - 5:30pm
workshop description
We will spend most of our time improvising. We will work with imagery, so that you might find different qualities or ways of moving, whilst having enough freedom to explore what interests you within that framework. We will perhaps not always use physical starting points, but emotional ones. I will also - after improvising with some specific images - occasionally introduce set exercises in order to find those qualities within the movement material.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
As a dancer James has extensive touring and performance experience, working with Hofesh Shechter Company, Carte Blanche, Olivier Dubois, Gary Clarke and Punchdrunk. Alongside this, James has taught at various different institutions and dance companies, delivering workshops and re-staging work from Hofesh Shechter's repertoire. James was recently made associate artist at The Point, Eastleigh (UK.)
Pauline Raineri
assistant
biography
Born in Annecy, Pauline trained in Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional and at Virginia School of the Arts (USA) for one year. From 2010 until 2013, she was a dancer in Ballet Junior de Genève. She then worked with different artists such as Sally Marie, James Finnemore, Roméo Castellucci, Cindy Van Acker and Beaver Dam, among others. In 2016 she founded her company WAVE in Geneva and has presented her work at Lucky Trimmer Festival in Berlin, Resolution! in London, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Les Quarts d’Heure du Théâtre Sévelin in Lausanne. She will present her new production W.A.Y.T. in the 2017/18 season at the Galpon Theatre in Geneva.
Milan Tomášik
Les SlovaKs
© Albert Vidal
Milan Tomášik
Les SlovaKs
4th - 7th July 2017 / 9:00am - 1:00pm
happy feet
The body is a beautiful and incredibly complex instrument. As dancers, we need to move everyday if we wanna stay in shape and step on stage prepared. Of course, our mind will tell us immediately “you are ready”, but everyone who has stage experience knows that it’s not like that. The body needs to listen to us at will, right now, right here.
My technical class Happy Feet is focused on dancing. We approach dancing from many different perspectives: rhythm, melody, lengthening, speed, exercising the stamina, a coordination of different body parts and relation between them, body tension, which directly influences our expression, spins, tiny/small jumps, big/huge jumps.
My aim is to get to the accessible, articulated, virtuosic and rhythmical body. When I say virtuosic, it means you have to do the maximum that your body and mind is capable of in a given moment. Keep in mind, that every person has different limits. When doing the class the right way, the feeling is clear: you are prepared and able to do anything at anytime without physically harming your body and you don’t wanna stop dancing…Let’s dance!
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
Milan Tomášik was born in Slovakia in 1981. He studied dance at the Conservatory J. L. Bellu in Banská Bystrica and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. In 2004, he graduated from P.A.R.T.S, the international dance school in Brussels, directed by Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker. In 2001, he participated in Vienna’s ImpulsTanz festival with a Dance Web scholarship and went on tour with the Dutch company MAPA (Moving Academy for Performing Art).
In 2004, he received the Prize of the City Prievidza (Slovakia) for representing contemporary dance at home and abroad. His teaching activities includes giving classes Happy Feet for professional companies, festivals and dance Academies as well as workshops titled Playful Presence in most of the countries in Europe, China, Democratic Republic of Kongo and Mexico.
He is a co-founder and active member of Les SlovaKs dance collective, the company based in Brussels. With them, he created three dance performances (Opening Night, Journey Home and Fragments), and from 2007 performed and toured in Europe, Africa, China, Middle and North America. In 2014 he founded Milan Tomášik & Co and created two dance performances Hunting Season (2014), which received 2 awards for the best lighting design at Kiosk and Gibanica festivals and a piece for four dancers called Silver Blue (2015). After the solo performances Within (2006) and Off-Beat (2011), in Solo 2016 Milan Tomášik rounds off his trilogy of solo performances created in the last decade. www.milantomasik.com
ALESSANDRO SOLLIMA
assistant
biography
ALESSANDRO SOLLIMA (IT) started training contemporary dance in 2009 attending “MoDem” professional course directed by Compagnia Zappalà Danza. In 2011 he attends Northern School of Contemporary Dance(UK) and later Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance(AT). Graduating in 2014, Alessandro worked with Simone Forti at Museum der Moderne, Salzburg. He is member of Milan Tomasik & Co, currently performing "Hunting Season" and "Silver Blue", and creating “Unified Fields” premiering in 2018.
His solo work “Ad Libitum”, an improvisation-based serie of solos, is actually touring internationally. He recently has been collaborating with Maria Teresa Tanzarellla (IT) and Fernando Roldan Ferrer(ES). He is also chorographer at State Puppet Theatre, Stara Zagora, in Bulgaria.
David Zambrano, Les Slovaks Collective, Edivaldo Ernesto, Giovanna Velardi, among others, are personalities who contributed to his artistic development.
maxine doyle
associated director and choreographer of punchdrunk
© Pari Naderi
maxine doyle
associated director and choreographer of punchdrunk
4th - 7th July 2017 / 6:00pm - 10:00pm
TENSION STATES: AMPLIFICATIONS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION
How, through dance and theatre, do we amplify the human condition? How can we unlock an individual language of tension and rhythm, to tell stories, reveal characters and charge atmospheres?
Come and dive into extended improvisation scores, tripping out into distinctive and dramatic worlds - always in the pursuit of an articulate movement language.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
Maxine is an independent choreographer and director. She is also Associate Director and Choreographer for Punchdrunk, with whom she co-directed the multi-award winning “Sleep No More” (London, Boston, New York, Shanghai), “The Drowned Man”, “The House Where Winter Lives”, “The Firebird Ball”, “Faust”, “Masque of the Red Death”, “Tunnel 228”, “The Duchess of Malfi” (an operatic collaboration with English National Opera and Thorsten Rasch) and “The Yellow Wallpaper”.
Maxine has an MA in choreography from the Laban centre and is a recipient of the Bonnie Bird Choreography Award. She was Artistic Director of First Person Dance Company from 1996 - 2003 touring works, such as “Deja Deux”, “In the Face of a Stranger”, “Plastic Chill” and “It's Only a Gameshow”. In 2006, she was a Place Prize semi-finalist with “Forest”.
Her work for theatre includes: Evening at the Talk House (National Theatre); Electra (Old Vic); The Changeling (Young Vic); Hamlet (Young Vic); The Children’s Hour (The West End); Timon of Athens (The Globe) and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (National Theatre). Opera includes: Faust (Baden Baden) and The Cunning Little Vixen (Glyndebourne). Work for brands includes: Luis Vuitton and Selfridges.
Maxine’s most recent dance theatre creation for the stage “After Lethe” premiered at Staastheater Kassel in May, 2016. Maxine is also a principle artist at Springboard Danse Montréal, where she created “Hubris” (2015) and “Electric Sheep (2016). Future projects include a new creation with Strut Dance, Perth, Australia for 2018.
Maxine’s international workshop series “Tension States: Amplifications of the Human Condition” will begin January, 2017. Maxine will also be leading a series of performance workshops at Punchdrunk’s “Enrichment Village” throughout 2017.
Vinicius Salles
assistant
biography
Working in multiple disciplines of dance, theatre and film, Vinicius Salles’ experience includes performing, movement directing, filmmaking and teaching. He graduated from the Performing Arts school, Martins Pena, Brazil, studied filmmaking at the London Film Academy, and holds a Masters Degree in Documentary Film at London College of Communication.
Over the last 20 years, Vinicius has performed with leading Brazilian and UK physical theatre and dance companies including Punchdrunk, Gecko, Jasmin Vardimon Company and others. Theatre credits include Timon of Athens (The Globe Theatre) and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (National Theatre). Recent works as choreographer include ‘Witches in Disguise”, 2016, University of Cumbria; and “Human Marvels”, commissioned by JV2. Vinicius also currently works as Rehearsal Director and Lead Educational Facilitator for Jasmin Vardimon Company and has collaborated with Maxine Doyle (Director & Choreographer of Punchdrunk). He is also a Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway University.
As a choreographer, his credits include “Witches in Disguise”, 2016 (University of Cumbria); “Human Marvels”, commissioned by JV2, 2016; Copycat” at The Place, 2009; “NOcontact”, 2007; “Cabeças Trocadas”, 2003; “Xristos”, 2003; “Esquinas”, 2002. For further information visit www.viniciussalles.co
Rakesh sukesh
Rakesh sukesh
4th - 7th July 2017 / 5:45pm - 9:45pm
Pursuit of destination
The workshop takes an intense journey into one’s inner world. We tap into the physical, psychological, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge. We live in a world where we give priority to the intellectual part of our brain, which leads us into an informed society; we take information from books, films and performances, or through conversations with others. What we say, perform or share is, most of the time, recycled information, which has been gathered by our five senses.
But how much do we know about ourselves, what is our true nature? How much are we aware of it? Do we feel our heartbeat? Do we know how many times we breathe or when a hair from our head is falling? Modern science and mystical science clearly states that we are all made of a universal intelligence.
If there is such intelligence inside of us then how can we, as performing artists, go deep into ourselves and try to understand this intelligence and develop ways to be creative with it? Through a series of physical research, exercises, games and analyses, this workshop offers methods for the participants to have an experiential process; we direct our sensory organs inwards to develop a sensitivity to understand our inner world, digging deep into our consciousness, if possible, into the subconscious mind and realm of the unknown to try to have an artistic discovery.
Payatt INtransit is a contemporary movement technique that combines movement principles from the ancient Indian martial art form of Kalaripayattu with Hatha yoga practices like Asana and Pranayama, as well as dynamic kundalini yoga and energy work to stimulate the source of energy in our body.It trains the practitioners in a safe, organic and yet rigorous way to become more confident, soft, relaxed, flexible and powerful, training us to be quick in our reflexes, while at the same time guiding us to cultivate a constant inner calm.
The focus lies on learning to relax and soften while simultaneously unleashing a forceful energy as we use gravity and momentum to build up physicality.The class challenges our physical and mental limits, training the physical body to be quick, energetic, physical, while mentally we remain calm, soft and relaxed, undisturbed by the agitation of physical movement.
We learn to isolate the strong physical aspect of this class from the constant calm within, enabling us to gain complete control over the movement rather that the movement controlling us, and enhancing our ability to adapt to unexpected situations and make innovative yet efficient choices, based on combining the energy from within, with our physical energy and with the energy around us.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
Rakesh started his career as a Bollywood dancer with a dance company in Kerala/India. During this period, he worked in several films as a dancer and assistant choreographer. In 2003, he joined Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, a contemporary dance company in Bangalore. As a part of the company, Rakesh performed at various national and international venues. He was part of three major productions under the direction of Jayachandran Palazy (Artistic Director and Choreographer of Attakkalari).
During his time with the company, he was exposed to intensive training of the ancient Indian martial art form Kalaripayattu. Since 2009, Rakesh has been working as an independent artist. Between July and August 2009, he participated in the Apprenticeship Program with Magpie Umbrella Organization under the Direction of Katie Duck (Artistic Director, teacher and performer) in Amsterdam. Since then, he has been invited several times to perform with Magpie. In the past years, Rakesh has been working on developing a contemporary movement method called Payatt INtransit - using Kalarippayattu and contemporary movement techniques, yoga and energy work.
He has been invited to teach Payatt INtransit at various festivals and for companies such as Sidi Larbi’s company, Ultima Vez, Impuls Tanz, at the summer festival/summer schools of Deltebre Danza Spain, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Colombo Dance Factory Zurich, Dancentrumjette Brussels, University of Costa Rica, Bremen Theater (Samir Akika), SEAD in Salzburg and so on. He also works as freelance performer/choreographer, collaborating with various artists and doing solo works & improvisations. He currently lives in Zurich, Switzerland, dividing his time between Europe and Asia.
Eleanor Bauer
© Marc Gysens
Eleanor Bauer
12th - 15th July 2017 / 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Dancing, Not the Dancer
Through a series of practice-based choreographic scores, we will work on how to get out of the way of our own dancing, allowing ourselves to be the medium for a dance to appear, rather than having dance be a medium for ourselves to appear. Starting with a practice score called "Dancing, not the Dancer" and moving through related practices, we will focus the lenses of initiation, completion, and observation to learn from our own dancing.
Exercising a breadth of technical, artistic, expressive and performance skills, we work towards activating our embodied knowledge in a way that is synthetic, intuitive, and generative. “Dancing, not the Dancer” is about using everything we know and don't yet know to construct and maintain a horizon of continuously unfolding potential for movement and its actualisation.
Assuming the subject of the dancer as a flexible and malleable agent, the interest is to experience how the dance changes the dancer, as much as, if not more than, the inverse. Dancing through, next to, and beyond ourselves, “Dancing, not the Dancer” lets the dancer be nothing more or less than everything that is danceable.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
Eleanor Bauer is a performer and performance-maker based in Brussels. Originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, she studied dance, choreography, and performance at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (BFA, Dance) and P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios, Brussels).
She works at the intersections of choreography, dance, writing, music, and performance art. Her versatile pieces have toured internationally to critical acclaim. She also teaches, mentors, and continues to collaborate with other choreographers, artists, composers, and directors. Bauer has been artist in residence at Kaaitheater in Brussels from 2013-2016. More information: www.goodmove.be
sita ostheimer
former dancer with hofesh shechter
sita ostheimer
former dancer with hofesh shechter
8th - 11th July 2017 / 9:00am - 1:00pm
workshop description
Sita will guide the participants through an improvisations technique, which Sita uses to give the dancers an understanding of the connection between mind and body. It is a game of images, situations, feelings, rhythms, and embodying those. Her work is built on fast rhythmical changes of emotions and images.
The movement language is expressive, fluent, sensual and grounded. Ostheimer’s collaboration with many choreographers, such as Hofesh Shechter and Itzik Galili, has influenced her approach to movement, work and life. The unique animalistic movement language that arises from the human instinct is her particular and peculiar signature in dance.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography
Studied at the Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium and the University of Music and Performance Arts in Frankfurt am Main. After that she joined MS Schrittmacher in Oldenburg, worked with Galili Dance (Itzik Galili), and then continued her career in Amsterdam with Krisztina de Chatel. In June 2008, she joined the Hofesh Shechter Company in London. As a choreographer she created “Noble Thinking” (2011), “Accompany” (2012) and “Dissimilar Foxes” (2014) for Shechter’s “IN GOOD COMPANY”.
As a freelance choreographer, she created “Metanoia” (Sweden), “Balter” (Corfu), “Mangata” (Singapore) and, in addition, works on restaging Hofesh Shechter’s works at companies, such as Edge '13, NDT I, Staatstheater Kassel, Ballet Basel, Staatsballet Berlin, Aterballetto, Staatstheater Darmstadt and Wiesbaden. She teaches classes and workshops regularly at various schools, universities and companies, such as SEAD, Salzburg; NOD, Torino; One Small Step Festival, Corfu; B12, Berlin; and ZZT, Koln.
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Manuel Molino
assistant
biography
French-born, Manuel Molino studied at l’École Professionnelle Supérieure d’Enseignement de la Danse in Montpellier, under the direction of Anne-Marie Porras. After graduating in 2014, Manuel joined the Centre Chorégraphique National of Nantes, Brumachon / Lamarche as a student.
Since then, he works for the project “ATLAS / ETUDES”, within the framework of the structure “PLAY” with Michèle Murray. He is also part of the French clown company “Atout Clowns”, with whom he tries to experiment and mix body research and dramaturgic work. Since August 2016, Manuel has worked as assistant and performer in Sita Ostheimer’s work.
paul blackman
and Konstandina Efthimiadou
jukstapoz
paul blackman
and Konstandina Efthimiadou
jukstapoz
12th - 15th July 2017 / 1:30pm - 5:30pm
shock the body
our ongoing curiosity and attraction to explosive frequencies - fragile tension - attack or retreat - states of emergency and fractal movement will be some of the themes in the context of this workshop.
contrasting between a delicate and powerful approach, we explore the imaginative exits and entrances of the body and its various layers, everything between the vertical and horizontal is used, producing a physically demanding and intricate vocabulary within a playful state of battle, that 'shocks the body'.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 175 euros!
biography of paul blackman
thrown head first into dance by his mother’s acrobatic and circus skills, paul began with ballet and later started to infuse bboying/contemporary/acrobatics/theatre into his own practices. in 2002, he graduated from waapa in australia and worked with a diversity of dance companies and choreographers before heading overseas - by 2006, he had joined jasmin vardimon's company and also worked with battery dance company in new york city. In 2010, he took part in the '50Days' project lead by David Zambrano training in ‘Flying Low’ & ‘Passing Through’, he has also performed with and continues to follow David's improvisational techniques.
paul has been awarded 'best male dancer' & 'best male performer' on different occasions and has also been a member of the greek company rootlessroot ensemble. he established 'jukstapoz' with christine gouzelis in 2010, where they choreograph, perform and teach internationally on such platforms as sadlers wells, venice biennale, sead, deltebre dansa, dans jette centrum, hong kong academy, onassis cultural centre, athens festival, waapa, dot504, ravnedans, greek national school of dance, tazdance and others.
biography of Konstandina Efthimiadou
Konstandina Efthimiadou was born and raised in the North of Greece. She began with rhythmic gymnastics and trained for ten years, before entering the National School of Dance in Athens.
In her spare time, Konstandina follows her strong passion for traditional Greek folk dance and, since 2012, she has systematically practised Tai Chi Chuan alongside her teacher, George Petrounias. From 2007 on, she has been part of Ultima Vez- Wim Vandekeybus company, Akram Khan Company, Roberto Olivan- Enclave Dance Company, Jozef Frucek & Linda Kapetanea- Rootlessroot, and Christine Gouzelis & Paul Blackman- Jukstapoz.
She has worked under the artistic direction of Akram Khan as a rehearsal director, restaging part of “Vertical Road” for National Youth Dance Company in the UK and the Hellenic Dance Company in Greece. For the past few years, she has been exploring her own choreographic view, creating short solo projects.
Konstandina regularly leads workshops at international festivals and vocational schools, such as SEAD (Salzburg), State School of Dance (Athens), Deltebre Dance Festival (Spain), El Danseu (Spain), Tainan University of Fine Arts (Taiwan), HKAPA (Hong Kong), Flic Scuola di Circo (Italy), NYDC (UK), etc.
2 day research
Tom Weksler
© Anna M. Maynard
Tom Weksler
10th and 11th july 2017 / 5:45pm - 9:45pm
Zen Acrobatics
Each day of workshop will consist of 2 parts:
Part 1 - Warm-up
Tom’s concept of warm-up is based on the mover’s need to tune into a clear and subtle quality before their practice and execution. The routine Tom follows and teaches is inspired by concepts of Chaya (Shadow) Yoga and particularly the “Balakarma” series (stepping into strength), and other forms of soft martial arts. The warm-up routine emphasizes the opening of the darkest parts of our bodies - our legs, which are also the most distant from our eyes.
Demanding postures alongside gentle flow with circular motions and spirals will be introduced in order to provide better awareness of the lower parts. The second principle Tom wishes to unfold is preparations (or introduction) to low movement, while maintaining the gentle functions of the wrists and neck as tools for balance, sensing the space and organically digesting physical information - internal and external.
“The right art is purposeless, aimless. The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.” - Eugen Herrigel-
Part 2 - Zen Acrobatics
Tom's approach for acrobatics training has developed from the urge to look for freedom in movement. The main goal is to find a movement quality that supports simple actions like walking and running, as well as acrobatic feats without a difference in effort or muscular usage. In order to do this, Tom searches for high levels of awareness and precision so the body can react quickly to the changes in skeletal stress, and to maintain flow without unnecessary tension.
In classical acrobatic disciplines – Preparation, Climax and Landing are being treated as completely different aspects, while usually one is more important than the other. In "Zen Acrobatics" the practitioner aspires to transform all 3 stages into one motion that can ultimately connect to any other type of movement. Sounds of take-offs and landings, Placement of Eye-Focus and Optimal breath for each element are all being covered aside from the Anatomical Instructions and Basic Conditioning.
The acrobatic training allows the mover to tune into a "mind-quality", which is usually present only in Extreme Sports or Full-Contact Sports. The mover becomes animalistic and functional, and while attempting complicated feats, he turns on "survival instincts", which allow him to reflect on his movement from an entirely different point of view.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 75 euros!
biography
Tom has been practicing Martial Arts and different forms of acrobatic disciplines from a young age. Tom graduated in 2009 from “The Workshop For Dancers and Choreographers in Haifa”. Since 2010, Tom has been dancing with “Inbal Pinto and Avshallom Pollak Dance Company” and has performed with the company's productions in many theaters and festivals around the world. In 2014, Tom joined Rootlessroot (Jozef Frucek and Linda Kapetnea) for the creation of the piece, “Collective Loss Of Memory” (produced by “DOT504”) and still performs and tours with the piece in Europe.
In 2014, Tom created the duet "SARU' (with dancer and choreographer Mayumu Minakawa) at Aurillac Center For Choreography and Dance, which has been performed in Japan and Israel. Tom's movement workshops have taken place in dance schools, circus schools, Dojos and professional companies in Tel Aviv, Amsterdam, Dublin, London, Copenhagen, Berlin, Bratislava, Milan, Antwerp, Boston, San Francisco, New York, Toronto, Montreal, Guadelajara, Kyoto, Tokyo and more.
Matt Mulligan
assistant
biography
Matt Mulligan has spent years weaving the threads between a background in martial arts, acrobatics and dance. Training martial arts since his teenage years Matt then followed full-time professional training in acrobatics (Circomedia Circus School, UK) and later in contemporary dance (Northern School of Contemporary Dance, UK). His fusion of playful performance and physicality has seen him tour nationally and internationally in a number of circus, theatre, clown and dance shows. A primary collaboration in recent years has been an ongoing exploration of shared acrodance interests with Tom Weksler. He dances, teaches and lives in Wales with his partner.
Christina Mertzani
free fall
Christina Mertzani
free fall
26th - 27th June 2017 / 9:00am - 1:00pm
contemporary technique
Attention in this workshop will be given to two main directions; technique and performance of movement.
in the first part - warm up and body preparation - through simple exercises, we will work on mechanisms we have at our disposal in order to approach the floor with safety and speed, to move rapidly and with agility at the same time, and to cover as much space as possible using our full potential.
Further on, we will continue to more complicated movement vocabulary, such as a part of a given choreography, and we will focus on the intention and ways we present movement to the audience. We will take into consideration the differences and at the same time we will work as a team. The main goal of the class is to open our senses, to communicate through movement with our colleagues and to gain more satisfaction through our dancing.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 75 euros!
biography
Christina Mertzani graduated as a choreographer, dancer and dance teacher in 2004 from the Athens State School of Dance. Christina’s first choreographic work, the dance film "without trace", was awarded by the British Council in 2004. Ever since then, she has choreographed for V.Void, Arthrosis, Municipal and regional theater of Corfu, SOZO visions in motion, as well as for theater companies and professional dance schools.
As a founding member of "ελεύθερη πτώση"- "free fall", she has presented the pieces ''metamorfosis'', ''inside'' , "emplokh", "cube", "alternative bodies" and the dance film "emplokh", "reborntemptation", "60pulses", etc. in Greece, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Spain. Since 2010, Christina has been the education administrator for the "One Small Step" international urban dance festival in Corfu (Greece).
Christina has been giving workshops since 2005 - classes of contemporary dance, improvisation, partnering and stretching in various companies, theaters, studios and dance schools in Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Turkey, etc. Some of these are cie.toula limnaios, Marameo, Theater Osnabrück, Landesbühne Sachsen, Staatstheater Kassel, Theater Heidelberg (Germany), Tanzbüro Basel, Theater St. Gallen, Konzert theater Bern, Nachschub (Switzerland), HJS Profitraining Amsterdam (Netherlands) SOZO visions in motion, etc.
Some of the companies Christina has danced for are SMACK, Lathos Kinisi, Ad-Lip, Quissistelar, Amalgama, Ano Teleia, Chorotheatro Roes Vosperton etc. She has also danced choreographies by Wim Vandekeybus, Mark Morris and Martha Graham. Christina graduated from the Academy of Ancient Greek and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Homeopathy. Since 2008, she has attended several seminars that are mainly focused on cures like: massage, rejuvance, nutrition, herbal medicine, etc.
hannes langolf
former dancer with dv8 / akram khan / punchdrunk
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hannes langolf
former dancer with dv8 / akram khan / punchdrunk
15th and 16th July 2017 / 10:30am - 2:30pm
THE FLOCK
During this intensive 2-day workshop, Hannes will focus on detailed, highly physical and creative ensemble work of 'the group’, in order to encourage and empower creative choices, instinctive movement and collective storytelling.
Through games, tasks and creative themes we will forge a receptive, impulsive and tangible communication in the group and between participants. This, in return, will allow us to work on how we can hone in on our own individual integrity as performers by letting the group feed our creative choices and presence - looking at rules, ambitions, physical storytelling, authenticity and commitment.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 75 euros!
biography
Hannes lives in London and his work has taken him through Europe, Australia, Asia, America and beyond. His artistic path has lead him to work and collaborate with artists and companies like William Forsythe, Angelin Preljocaj, Wayne McGregor, Akram Khan, Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre and Punchdrunk, to name a few.
For the last nine years he has been working with the world-renowned DV8 Physical Theatre, performing in their last three stage productions. He became DV8’s Creative Associate from 2014-2016. As a choreographer, he has created work for Munich Dance Festival, The Onassis Cultural Center in Athens and the Susanne Linke Dance Company among others.
In 2015, Hannes was nominated as one of the 100 most influential and innovative people working across Britain’s creative industries by The Hospital Club, London. For more info: www.hanneslangolf.com
jos baker
peeping tom
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jos baker
peeping tom
1st and 2nd July 2017 / 10:00am - 2:00pm
Creation for performance
How do we find evocative and specific dance-theatre material for the stage? During his time working in this area, Jos has developed a toolkit of approaches and initiations for generating material that might play on the strengths and personality of the individual, in the attempt to find unique and specialised movement and characterisations.
While there are no definitive answers about what makes someone a great performer, there are some important questions. Through a series of tasks and conversations, we try to get closer to some answers and discover how sometimes small changes can transform how we are seen. Some people might be born with it, but most of us need to practice.
This workshop is suitable for different types of performers (dancers, actors, musicians, circus artists etc)
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 75 euros!
biography
From 2008 to 2014, Jos worked for Peeping Tom as a creator and performer in “32 Rue Vandenbranden” and “Á Louer”. He has since done various work for stage and screen and makes his own work including “What do you do?” [2015], “We Were Youth” (2016) “Tidal Breathing” [2016] and “Of No Fixed Abode” [Ongoing].
Jos teaches all over the world for dance schools and festivals. Jos started his dance training with Oxford Youth Dance and then The Laban Center, London and PARTS (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios).
ian robinson
former dancer with batsheva dance company
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ian robinson
former dancer with batsheva dance company
4th and 5th July 2017 / 5:45pm - 9:45pm
Movement Improvisation
We will give space to indulge our curiosity about shaping and coloring movement, inside and out, during our daily class, repertoire and improvisation sessions. We will sweat. We will visit places of effort and research our connection to pleasure, as we explore the experience of dance and delve into how our environment both affects and infects us.
special offer
if you apply for this research workshop before march 22nd you will get our early bird special for 75 euros!
biography
Ian Robinson was born in Bangor, Maine, USA. He trained with the Robinson Ballet and graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA. Early in his career, Ian danced with various companies and projects including Mikhail Baryshnikov's Hell's Kitchen Dance, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Sydney Dance Company and Aszure Barton & Artists.
Since 2009, Ian has danced full time with the Batsheva Dance Company and, under the artistic leadership of Ohad Naharin, has continued to develop himself as a dancer, creator, teacher and videographer. He is a certified Gaga teacher and has taught classes and workshops in the USA, Europe, Asia and Australia. Ian has also assisted in setting Ohad’s works on various companies.
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rachael osborne
assistant
biography
australian-born rachael osborne trained with janet karin oam and holds an associate degree in dance from the queensland university of technology. she danced with ohad naharin's ensemble batsheva and the batsheva dance company for 16 years. there she also met and danced with sharon eyal, eventually becoming a founding member of eyal’s company l-e-v. rachael has also served as assistant to the choreographer for both ohad naharin and sharon eyal, helping to stage their works on companies in europe, the u.k, canada, australia and the usa.
having left the folds of the batsheva dance company in 2017, rachael is now roaming where she will, keen to continue dancing, learning, teaching and staging.
1 day research
sebastian zuber
johannes wieland
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sebastian zuber
johannes wieland
9th July 2017 / 10:30am - 2:30pm
fuse it!
Fuse it-workshop! Gather all you got! It's what you already have and what hides inside you, what we push to the surface. We take all possible influences from around and inside of us, isolate them, sharpen them and put them together in order to create a versatile, musical, humourous and hot piece of dance.
I show you a way to discover, accept, develop and dance your taste to its fullest. We practise this fusion, isolated and together, by constantly performing. Looking forward to burning that floor with you!
biography
Sebastian Zuber was born in Basel, Switzerland and graduated in 2015 from Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. As a dancer, he co-created and performed in several works (“Waving to Virginia”, “Blood for Honey”, “No more Bambies”) of the israeli choreographer Eyal Bromberg.
Shortly after his graduation, Zuber became part of the ensemble of “more than naked” by Doris Uhlich. Among several other international venues, it was also performed as the opening show at the Impulstanz Festival in 2015. Together with Edivaldo Ernesto, who strongly influences his work as a dancer, he danced in the site-specific performance “Micro Revolution” by Judith Sanchez Ruiz, ACUD Berlin.
Since 2015, he has been a member of the YUGSAMAS Movement Collective, which created “Let the bodies speak”, in collaboration with the choreographer Julia Schwartzbach. In 2016, YUGSAMAS premiered their first independent production “Collage me”. In 2016, several engagements as an acting performer followed at the Opera of Zurich. He thereby had the chance to be part of productions by Christoph Marthaler (“Il viaggio a Reims”), Sebastian Baumgarten (“Hamletmaschine”) and Herbert Fritsch (“Der Freischütz”).
The Videoclip, “Inside a Cube”, in which Zuber contributed as its dancer, won the first prize at the Zoom-Festival, Basel '15. Since October 2016, he is a full member of the Johannes Wieland Company at Staatstheater Kassel. As a choreographer and producer, he yielded “A professional Failure”, “LOWBALL” and “Accalia”.
juan tirado
frantics dance company / johannes wieland
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juan tirado
frantics dance company / johannes wieland
16th July 2017 / 1:30pm - 5:30pm
origen
"Origen" is a very physical, dynamic and emotional experience. It is about coming back to the origins, to the simple question: why do we dance? The workshop starts with a warm up based on different improvisation techniques for the body/brain, giving the opportunity to the student to share his/her own personal story.
His philosophy is to create different atmospheres with the dancers, driving them so they can reach a high energetic trance, a point of no return. Being originally a breakdancer, he will also bring his own concept of floor movements, giving the student the opportunity to also feel the organic contemporary floorwork, with the sharpness and the energetic breakdance facet.
biography
juan is a multidisciplinary dancer and computer engineer coming from south Spain. He started his artistic life at the age of 8 making martial arts, going after into a deep study of computing and mathematics. In 2004, he discovered a group of bboys dancing and, some time after, founded with his best friend the group "Freneticos". They started travelling around Europe, competing in international events, learning and sharing with the best bboys in the world.
Afterwards he decided to attend a school of performing arts and then immediately after, he started to attend workshops of the best teachers worldwide. In 2013, he moved to Berlin and founded with three more professional dancers "Frantics dance company". They create their pieces through exploring experimental hip-hop, contemporary dance, bboying and physical theater. Their mission is to deliver a strong message to the public with an unique style of moving and performing.
Since the end of 2014, he has also been a guest dancer in Johannes Wieland Company in Kassel, working since that time with Johannes, Sita Ostheimer (Hofesh Shechter) and Maxine Doyle (Punchdrunk). He is also a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher, working mainly in Germany, Spain and Taiwan.
AMI SHULMAN
former dancer with compagnie marie chouinard
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AMI SHULMAN
former dancer with compagnie marie chouinard
16th july 2017 / 10:00am - 2:00pm
playing with possibility
Ami Shulman teaches a highly dynamic class that integrates the floor as an essential component for full body connectivity and proprioceptive awareness. This release-based class has a somatic perspective that explores how movement efficiency and clarity liberates the form.
We will also test the bounds of our instinct through interactive responses to phrase material, enhancing the movement potential of the individual.
biography
Ami Shulman performed with Compagnie Marie Chouinard and with Jose Navas, before becoming the rehearsal director for both companies. She has also worked with the Cirque Du Soleil, the GoteborgsOperans Danskompani, the Shakespeare Theatre Company, the National Ballet of Canada and Ballet BC.
Ami has taught extensively throughout Canada, the US and Europe including for the Juilliard School, Jacob's Pillow, Codarts, Staatstheater Kassel, the National Theatre School of Canada and is an Artistic Associate of the Springboard Project Montreal. Ami is a certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method and is currently a member of the Dance-On ensemble in Berlin.
victor rottier
johannes wieland
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victor rottier
johannes wieland
11th July 2017 / 10:15am - 2:15pm
SLAM!
Bringing together my experience as a contemporary dancer and some principles from urban styles, I am dedicated to establishing a relationship to musicality, rhythm and coordination. By making the body available, we will explore ways to efficiently approach movement, challenging your ways of attacking movement by focusing on how to distribute power.
We will swipe through the floor, get up and own the space, sweat and trample on boundaries in this 4-hour playground. And if that's not enough for ya, all of this will be in tune to delicious music, hand picked and 100% organic. See you there!
biography
Victor Rottier, born 1988, studied dance at ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de kunsten. He performed as part of the ‘Think Big’ project in Hannover, Germany, 2013 and was a member of Club Guy & Roni’s Poetic Disasters Club in Groningen, Holland. He has been part of the ensemble at Staatstheater Kassel, under the direction of Johannes Wieland, since 2014.
The last 3 years, he has worked with people like Guy Weizman and Roni Haver, Shumpei Nemoto, Maura Morales, Johannes Wieland, Sita Ostheimer, Maxine Doyle. Victor has been an active teacher since 2004, teaching for various schools and companies in Germany, Switzerland and Holland.
sonia Rodríguez
cia. sonia Rodríguez
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sonia Rodríguez
cia. sonia Rodríguez
28th June 2017 / 9:00am - 1:00pm
CROSS THE BORDER OF OUR BORDERS
Every day we try to enjoy the moment, learning and following our way, gathering our own experiences. The motor of dancers and movers is our body, it’s the tool by which we explore the movements to communicate and canalize our emotions. All external impulses influence our dance and they manifest differently depending on our personality.
This is the knowledge that we want to expand and share with others. In this master class I would like to share my choreographic point of view, and contribute ideas to reflect on our capabilities and limitations as a performer. I invite dancers and movers who want to experiment and transform our old patterns. It will be an evolving process: we will start with a technical class to work the perception of the body as layers, with different sensation and emotional states, emphasises the body’s natural alignments and movements, between doing and observing the flow of impulses.
In the second part, we will put our attention on more complex phrases, combining different energetic qualities and different levels. All this under the inspiring idea: “To cross the border of our borders”. The first objective is working our presence without fear, this will allow us to be honest with our feelings and inspiration, and be able to share it with the group. We will go through our intense physical work to explore bodily experiences and images, finding our own strategies to perform.
biography
Sonia was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canarias (Spain) in 1974. Her professional career began as an interpreter and dancer for the Cia Provisional Dance (Madrid 1992-1996) then continued with Cia Charleroi Danses (Belgium 1996-1998), Cia En-Knap (Slovenia 1999-1998) and Cia Gissela Rocha (Zurich 1999).
After working in different projects and companies, she joined Cia Rui Horta (Germany 1999-2002) where, besides being a dancer, she also took the part of an assistant of choreography, creating pieces for different companies like Scottish Dance Theatre (Scotland) and Cia Norrdans (Sweden). In 2002, she was awarded the Best Dancer of the Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid, which gave her the chance to participate in the American Dance Festival, 2002 (North Caroline, USA).
In 2002, her professional career brought her to England, working with Cia H2dance (London 2002-2003) and continued with being assistant of choreography and interpreter of the Cia Lanonima Imperial (Barcelona, Spain 2003-2005); Cia Lior Lev (Stuttgart, Germany 2005); Cia Cobosmika (Barcelona, Spain 2005-2006) and Cia La Baraka (Lyon, France 2006-2008). These last few years, she has joined other Companies such as Cie Yann Lheureux (Montpellier, 2008-2013), Cie Dysoundbo (Luzern, 2013), and Hausgemacht Company (Munich, 2015-2013).
Since 2002, she has had her own Company, Cía. Sonia Rodríguez. Her first solo “Caos” was awarded the third best performer prize at the 8th International Solo Dance event at Stuttgart and won the prize for the best choreography in the Danza Calviá Festival, 2005. Since 2013, Sonia is based in Berlin. Sonia Rodriquez has been invited as a guest teacher and choreographer to create pieces, workshops and/or spread her personal way of dance, for over ten years now.
gunnar laatsch
the blacklist
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gunnar laatsch
the blacklist
16th July 2017 / 2:30pm - 6:30pm
urban hip hop
After a special warm-up and some foundation practices – using principles of every form of dance - Gunnar likes to impart the basic principles for dancing (isolation, contract-release et. al.). Starting with different practices of rhythm, groove and flow, students get to know the feeling of urban styles.
This is the foundation for learning basic steps and transferring them to an advanced level. In his choreographic sequences, Gunnar presents the different urban styles and facettes of HipHop, which give the students the opportunity to find their very own personal expression. The “Allround” progress in urban styles is the major goal of this class.
biography
Gunnar Laatsch was born in Rostock, in February of 1988. As a child of the Boyband area and influenced by a variety of music videos of the time, he started his dance career. Turning 13, he joined his first dance class, “POP Dance” back then. At the age of 16, he switched to HipHop. After graduation and civilian services, he moved to Berlin and practised in dance schools, where he spent most of his career.
From 2010-2013, he was a member of the FanatiX Crew, Berlin. Furthermore, he became director of the Flying Steps Academy in Berlin. He worked for various companies, agencies and artists. In 2014, he opened his very own dance school in Bernau, where he will be hosting one of the biggest urban dance camps in Germany. This variety of being an artist, teacher, choreographer and manager is giving him excellence. With more than 8 years of experience in dance school management, over 3000 given classes and more than 500 shows, he is an established artist in Berlin.
victoria p. miranda
victoria p. miranda
9th july 2017 / 10:15am - 2:15pm
Physical recycling
The class is highly physical with a lot of traveling and sequences that require a sense of power, music and energy. By exploring different ways of merging into and out of the floor, and using the speed and acrobatic sequences, we will investigate different dynamics and qualities of movement and participants will learn how to accumulate more energy.
My main point of departure is " recycling materials " and making long sequences to work out the stamina, as well as the isolation of individual body parts and use of the centre as a departure point for movement. Trying to avoid the same patterns of moving and finding new skills, which can help us to feel maybe a "new you moving". Surprising ourselves. We will work on our individual strong presence. Let's fly with our imagination...
biography
victoria has created Choreographies for the National Company in Costa Rica, National Conservatory in Montevideo, Dantzaz Company, Conservatory in Burgos, CSDMA in Madrid, Jalapa University (Mexico) and was invited to MUDANZAS Festival in Costa Rica to be part of the Jury in a Choreographic Context. She collaborates with Los INnato, in Costa Rica. Her work “ AND THAT´S WHY I´M HERE TODAY “ won the prize, Solodos en Danza. She was involved in the theater-dance-video project Memoryhouseproduction, Bruxelles in Slovakia 2014 and, since 2013, has been part of a project in Brazil called Connection Samabaia, an exchange with artists from different disciplines.
She has worked as an interpreter and Choreographer’s assistant with Carmen Werner (National Prize), Provisional Danza, for 7 years and also as choreographer’s assistant and dancer in St.Gallen Theater, for guest choreographers Josef Frucek and Linda Kapetanea (RootlessRoot). She has worked as an interpreter for Johannes Wieland, Toula Limnaios, Rafaele Giovanola, Linga Company, Eric Trotier, Phillip Tallard, Ruses Project, Arrieritos, Maura Morales, Co Erasga.
She works intermittently as a teacher in various schools and institutions in Spain and abroad since 2003, including:
SEAD, The Place, Marameo, Henny Jurriens Foundation, CSDMA, Nunart, Staatstheater Kassel, Toula Limnaios, Cocoon Dance Company, Linga dance company, Theater St. Gallen, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Japan, Russia, Canada, Costa Rica.
AMI SHULMAN
former dancer with compagnie marie chouinard
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AMI SHULMAN
former dancer with compagnie marie chouinard
12th July 2017 / 9:00am - 1:00pm
MORE HEAD / FELDENKRAIS
This workshop will explore the crossroads between the head, neck and eyes. Our instincts and survival are based on the dynamic relationship between these crossroads, which are essential for our adaptation to the environment and for our optimal movement functioning. The Feldenkrais Method cultivates embodied awareness while repatterning effective habits.
biography
Ami Shulman performed with Compagnie Marie Chouinard and with Jose Navas, before becoming the rehearsal director for both companies. She has also worked with the Cirque Du Soleil, the GoteborgsOperans Danskompani, the Shakespeare Theatre Company, the National Ballet of Canada and Ballet BC.
Ami has taught extensively throughout Canada, the US and Europe including for the Juilliard School, Jacob's Pillow, Codarts, Staatstheater Kassel, the National Theatre School of Canada and is an Artistic Associate of the Springboard Project Montreal. Ami is a certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method and is currently a member of the Dance-On ensemble in Berlin.
yoga
kai hill
© Boaz Arad
kai hill
26th June - 16th July 2017 / 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Anusara Yoga
During his two-hour training, Kai likes to impart all aspects of body dynamics and body awareness. With this, Kai transfers the “intelligent movement” from Spiraldynamics into the principles of the biodynamic Anusara Yoga, two disciplines he is well educated in.
This fusion offers compactness and deep energetic experiences in and with your own body. Power and flexibility, inner calm and the subtle energybody are restored.
special offer
this class is free of charge!
biography
in 1995, kai was first introduced to yoga. through the years he has learned many styles, such as ashtanga, jivamukti and vinyasa. yoga became a solid part of his life. recently kai enthusiastically travelled around the world to meet teachers like elena brower, tara stiles, sianna sherman, kathryn budig, sally kempton, john friend, douglas brooks, bill mahony and desiree rumbaugh; they all had a big impact on him.
“i am living and practicing a yoga of happiness and heart. the focus is on the spiritual and gleaming aspects of yoga. in doing so, it’s creative, powerful and focused. the life affirming aspects of anusara yogas’s tantric philosophy speak of my heart.”
kai lives with his wife and two kids in berlin, prenzlauer berg.
4 day outreach
shafiki sseggayi
community workshop / 18 +
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shafiki sseggayi
community workshop / 18 +
6th - 9th July 2017 / 7:15pm - 8:30pm
african clash
The class is developed in a rich, powerful and rythmical fusion between african traditional dance and contemporary aspects of my own style. First part of the class is mainly focusing on spine actions and endurations to fully warmup the body.
The second part is usually focused on how to get into the rythm and the grounding action which gradually grows in jumps in an animalistic behaviour. And the last part is when we get loose into learning some choreography for fun.
special offer
this outreach project is free of charge!
biography
Shafiki Sseggayi stole many hearts at 'So You Think You Can Dance Netherlands' in 2011. Because of his power, energy, devotion and humble attitude he made a big impression on the jury and audience. He was born in a small African village in Uganda far from the city. When he was 15 he moved to the city to his father, brothers and sisters. 6 Years later he got in touch with dance and he never stopped ever since, dancing every day. Dance, mostly African contemporary, brought and taught him so much in movement as well as character.
He loves to bring this dance and African mentality forward to anyone interested and make cultures meet. In Uganda he was part of different companies like Keiga dance company, Mutumizi dance company, and Latin Flavor where he was performer, choreographer and teacher. Because there was no dance school like in the West, he learned to choreograph and dance in his own, unique and very creative way.
He worked for Wim Vandekeybus in Brussels in December 2013. Right now he lives in Germany and is very excited to work with johannes wieland / staatstheater kassel for all of next season.
lauren rae mace
community workshop / 18 +
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lauren rae mace
community workshop / 18 +
6th - 9th July 2017 / 5:30pm - 6:45pm
th!nkbod theatrics
how does the theatrical body shape thought? how can one express an idea physically without using concrete pantomime? in th!nkbod theatrics mace introduces a new imaginative awareness to revealing abstract and universal ideas using the basic principals of the corporeal mime techinique fused with free theatrical improvisations.
we will use dramatic principals such as: hesitation, weight, resistance, contradiction and surprise in order to transform our ideas into the physcial experience. we will not only focus on the body in it’s reflection of thought, but will also work later with some text and also investigate what happens when our hands and our faces play a secondary role to the expression of our physical experience.
we will delve into improvisations and short choreographies based upon the principals which we learn, share our ideas by making the immaterial, material and think, th!nkbod!
special offer
this outreach project is free of charge!
biography
Originally from the United States, Mace began seriously persuing her dance & performance career in her early teens at Interlochen Arts Academy. After graduating from high school, she continued contemporary dance and choreographic studies at California Institute of the Arts. After two years of studies at Calarts, Mace decided to set the dance career aside and began focusing instead on conceptual performance art and playing music from 2005-2009 in Los Angeles. Realizing she had an ´itch’ to move again, Mace headed to London in 2009 to persue intensive two years studies in the niche form of Corporeal Mime and the International School for Corporeal Mime.
Afterwards Mace continued to work on the Creative Team at the SupperClub in London as well as persuing her performance art and music before she was invited to audition for Johannes Wieland in 2013. Mace returned to the dance world after accepting the first of three guest contracts with Johannes Wieland at the Staatstheater in Kassel where she now resides as the Rehearsal Director since 2015.
Mace has worked with and for other artists such as Johannes Wieland, Chris Haring Stella Zannou, Felix Landrerer and Tal Shani among others.
marion sparber
community workshop for teens and young refugees
© Keren Chernizon
marion sparber
community workshop for teens and young refugees
26th - 29th June 2017 / 6:00pm - 7:15pm
club inside-out
The workshop is structured in a playful way and will hopefully motivate the participants to develop their personality, to release blockades and to grow by experiencing the group dynamic.
During the class, the teens have the chance to better understand themselves from a new perspective, feel differently, test their limits and learn to deal with new challenges. Well selected exercises of partnering, physical theatre, Contemporary dance and Hip Hop improve communication and remove inhibition thresholds. As a group we learn and develop together.
special offer
this outreach project is free of charge!
biography
Marion is a professional dancer/instructor based in Berlin. She received her dance training at Varium in Barcelona and Iwanson School in Munich. As a teacher she has been working in several schools and festivals in Italy, Spain, Costa Rica, Russia and Germany.
As a dancer she has collaborated with choreographers such as Stella Zannou, Sonia Rodriguez, ADN-Dialect, Eldon Pulak, Philip Amman and Wee-dance Company. Her solo-work "The Ripe and ruin" has been performed at several theaters and festivals in Costa Rica, Greece, Spain, Switzerland and Germany. She performed “Eight” by KpiQA-Collective in Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Russia and Germany.
Florian Hoffmeier
community workshop / 18 +
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Florian Hoffmeier
community workshop / 18 +
4th - 7th July 2017 / 4:00pm - 5:15pm
physical Capoeira
This workshop is an introduction into a holistic contemporary Capoeira practice. In this class we move at the intersection of martial-arts and dance - focusing strongly on the corporal aspect of Capoeira. We will cover basic and advanced movements of different styles and the creative interaction between two partners.
The exercises will be complemented by rhythm-work, elements of Japanese Budo-Martial-Arts and other bodyworks. Thus the participants will be encouraged to develop their personal way of movement and corporal expression, to deepen their understanding of an integrative way of training and their physical interaction with other persons.
special offer
this outreach project is free of charge!
biography
Florian has been extensively training different Capoeira styles in Europe and Brazil for over 15 years. He holds a teaching permit by the group CECAB and an academic degree in medicine including clinical and psychosomatic work experience. He has long years practice in Japanese Judo and Jiu-Jitsu and attended workshops in dance, rhythm-work, partnering and contemplative techniques with artists such as Lua Rasta, Rootlessroot, Tom Weksler and many others.
Florian has been sharing his knowledge about Capoeira and movement at several international seminars. On stage and behind he has also been engaged in numerous cultural, educational and artistic projects.
evangelos poulinas
community workshop / 18 +
© b12 / karl jurka
evangelos poulinas
community workshop / 18 +
8th - 11th July 2017 / 3:15pm - 4:30pm
contemporary moves
in this workshop you will get a taste of what contemporary dance can be. we are using ideas and practices from various contemporary dance techniques to form a well rounded dance training. movement tasks will be given as a vocabulary in order to create different phrases and structures along with the exploration of improvisation- all of which we can later use to 'perform'.
We will explore themes such as dancing in a group, dancing as a couple and dancing alone. This workshop is open to all ages and to beginners; no dance background is necessary. You only need to be open to explore movement ideas and to find interest and enjoyment through the process.
special offer
this outreach project is free of charge!
biography
Evangelos Poulinas holds an MFA in dance from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, a Diploma from the Athens State School of Dance and a Bachelor from the Physical Education Department, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki.
He has been credited scholarships from numerous prestigious foundations like: Alexandros S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, New York University, Greek State Scholarship Foundation and DanceWEB Europe.
As a creator Evangelos has shown work in U.S.A. and Europe and as a performer he has dance creations by: Johannes Wieland, Maxine Doyle, Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo, Marcel Leemann, Constanza Macras, Konstandinos Rigos, Nigel Charnock, Jasmin Vardimon, Wim Vandekeybus among others. As a teacher Evangelos has taught contemporary technique, partnering and community dance classes in Germany, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Greece, Austria, U.S.A. and Sweden.
agnetha jaunich
community workshop for special abled people
© Tom Dombrowski
agnetha jaunich
community workshop for special abled people
12th - 15th July 2017 / 5:30pm - 6:45pm
special abilities
Movement in a space and a space in movement. This workshop deals with the individual movement possibilities in a room. How can I discover and change a space through dance? How do I move alone in a room? How does a group move through a room?
In intuitive Contemporary Dance sequences and individual Dance Improvisations we discover the numerous movement possibilities through space. For this purpose we change from soloistic work and collective sequences, so that once the individual and once the group is focused.
Previous knowledge in dance is not necessary. The Workshop adresses to all with or without special abilities who are interested in dance and movement.
special offer
this outreach project is free of charge!
biography
Agnetha Jaunich works as a freelance artist and dance educator both nationally and internationally. She taught dance at i.a. the Freedom Theatre Jenin in Palestine, at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven, at the Staatstheater Braunschweig and at the Staatstheater Kassel.
Agnetha Jaunich was involved in many international projects as a dance artist. She danced in New Butoh and Space Dance Centre in Tokyo, Japan. Thereupon collaborations with the Department of Performing Arts of the Metropolitan University of London and the Artblau Tanzwerkstatt followed.
Since december 2011 she is a company member of Theaterlabor Bielefeld working as a dancer and choreographer.
marion sparber
community workshop for Kids from 3-6
© b12 / karl jurka
marion sparber
community workshop for Kids from 3-6
30th June - 3rd July 2017 / 4:30pm - 5:15pm
dance and play
Creative dance is more than a movement training. It is an all in all musical and playful way to enhance the creativity and immagination of children. Through stories that include improvisation and also exercises the class awakens the expressivity and personal way of bodyawareness. In this early age they collect new experiences, get to know themselves better and follow their inner impulses.
We also work with instruments and tools such as balls, tissues and other materials to give the kids different stimulous to their inner world of phantasies. By enjoying and playing with a group they have a first approach to dancetraining.
special offer
this outreach project is free of charge!
biography
Marion is a professional dancer/instructor based in Berlin. She received her dance training at Varium in Barcelona and Iwanson School in Munich. As a teacher she has been working in several schools and festivals in Italy, Spain, Costa Rica,Russia and Germany.
As a dancer she has collaborated with choreographers such as Stella Zannou, Sonia Rodriguez, ADN-Dialect, Eldon Pulak, Philip Amman and Wee-dance Company. Her solo-work "The Ripe and ruin" has been performed at several theaters and festivals in Costa Rica, Greece, Spain, Switzerland and Germany. She performed “Eight” by KpiQA-Collective in Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Russia and Germany.
