Workshops and Classes
Sense Appeal and Improvisation Workshops
These training formats offers a context for professionals and curious dancers alike to practice relational self-guidance. It is based on an improvisational approach to sense-reflection, mind integration and navigating the unknown in relation to others.
What moves us? How can impulse, sensation and image guide our relating in the moment? How about the sense of presence, coherence, dissonance or the sense of synchronicity? What do we desire to experience in our sensxuality in motion?
In our visual and language dominated surround, 'doing' seems most valued. In return this workshop offers you a space to slow down and to feel yourself. Performative awareness and psycho-sensual experiencing supports us in that process. We orient ourselves through guided meditative movements, touch, sense reflection and conjuring ‘timelessness’ and witnessing ourself and each other. Doing less, even doing nothing as a way to open subtle perception and entries into new visions and activities together. Just as we each are in this context, in flux, we can play with the constant dying and making of movements, relations, feelings, thoughts, forms and scenes.
This workshop offers a kind of galaxy guide for the self-guided dance traveller of all kinds, curious about slow cruising through the bumpy terrain of our sensable artlife. Diverse bodies/minds are welcome and essential. We will literally get close to each other.
Circulating touch – a Qi Gong based movement class for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities
Principles of the Chinese 5 element system are brought in relationship to somatic and improvisational approaches.
We will spend time exploring and trusting our individual way of ‘being’, way of listening, way of expressing, and way making sense of the given exercises.
Exercises I like to offer like the Swimming Dragon, Energetic Organ Touch, Looking Mediation, Touching but not Touching and explorations in feeling oneself through embodied imagery are meant to cultivate individual movement intuition and activate the energetic qualities and sensations we each are innately drawn to.
These explorations can bring more awareness, skill, curiosity, and well-being to the experience of the various bodily, energetic, psychological, temporal, and situational realms we move in and out of in any given moment.
ONGOING:
– teaching classes and workshops for dancers and choreographers, guest teaching and speaking about the work at schools and universities, facilitating study groups, mentoring individuals, working with senior women and giving Movement Integration, as well as Sensxuality Integrations sessions for private clients.
some recent/upcoming teaching:
2024-
August- ImpulsTanz Festival Vienna, Sense Appeal Workshop
April - Bennington College US, Graduate Program, Embodied Love Workshop
April - Dartmouth College US, Graduate Program workshop on Improvisation
January- Tanzfabrik Berlin, Sense Appeal workshop
January/ March- Tanzstudio Maar, Ballet Coaching Workshop
2023-
November- University for Applied Arts/Performance Lab Vienna, Morning Practice
October- Pädagogische Hochschule Vienna, workshop 'movement and sound'
August - IMpuls Tanz workshops
June - The Loft Brooklyn, workshop 'Desires and Touch'
February - Tanzstudio Maar, Ballet Coaching Workshop
2022-
Jan - December MFA process as guide teaching (4 artists concluded the program)
July - Tanzfabrik Berlin Workshop
March til June - 3rd semester DIY MFA process as guide
January- Tanzfabrik Berlin Workshop Sense Appeal
2021-
Jan - December MFA process as guide teaching
July- IMpulsTanz Field Workshop for professional dance makers together with Edie Nightcrawler.
February til December - online DIY MFA process as guide 1st and 2nd semester.
2020-
October to December - online study group for process as guide.
July- teaching a PUBLIC MOVES outdoor workshop, Sense Appeal, as part of ImpulsTanz Vienna. Sense Appeal is co-created with Ede Nightcrawler.
leading one-one-one process as guide sessions in preparation for the DIY MFA program I formed beginning in February 20121.
March through May- leading a pandemic zoom process as guide study group.
2019-
September through December- leading process as guide -a study group for dance artists. Brooklyn NY.
July- teaching workshops at Tanzstudio Maar and
April 27th/28th- . co- teaching a workshop for Movement Research with Edie Nightcrawler. ‘Sense Appeal’- Deconstructing the Erotic in Performance https://movementresearch.org/event/10546
March through May- . leading process as guide– at LEMAY studios Brooklyn.
January- . leading a 2 week training for professional dancers at TanzQuartierVienna . teaching 2 day coaching workshop for young ballet dancers at Tanzstudio Maar Vienna
2018-
. leading a 2 week training for professional dancers at TanzQuartier Vienna
. facilitating a studies group for female artists at Domestic Performance Agency Brooklyn
. master class for Dancers at Middlebury College, VM
. workshop Practicing Being and Seeing, TanzHotel Vienna
2017-
. workshop, Practicing Being and Seeing, at Pieter Los Angeles
. guest faculty for Improvisation at The New School/ Lang College
. 3 month long workshop at Movement Research, Circulating Touch.
2016-
. workshop at Brooklyn Studios for Dance
. research workshop at Laboratório Somático, Mexico City
. workshops Studio Wolf and Tanzstudio Maar, Vienna
. guest teacher at The Danish National Dance School, Copenhagen
image credit- Laura Bartczak
students of improvisation The New School/Lang College