I am dancing what you are dancing!
dance for people with special needs

In dancing we will use our intuitive communication we have in common in order to dance the relation between perception and movement as a „Gestaltkreis“.

Basic elements of dance technique, choreography and solo/duo/group improvisation will be our frame. Dancing is considererd a possibility for experiencing, representing and communicating. Contemporary dance is a constant search to press this time of life hard and get a hold of it.
The warm-up will be done partially and totally, in place and moving, with technical elements and with improvisations with/out music. Warming up our breathing and working on simple technical sequences and choreographies lead to improvisations with/out music and basic creations of solo, duo, and group.

Maud Paulissen and Fabiana Pastorini share a lively dialogue about people with special needs mutually visiting each other's dance classes. Maud Paulissen may look back onto an extensive experience as a dance teacher and teacher of rhytmics; Fabiana Pastorini is Ismael Ivo's assistant and a teacher at the conservatory of Vienna.



Fabiana Pastorini
Fabiana Pastorini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and began her dance studies in The National Ballet School there. After graduation she specialized in Modern Dance studying with Freddy Romero. She danced in the modern company „Quasars“ till 1988. She moved to New York to study Graham technique in the Martha Graham School and Horton and Jazz in the Alvin Ailey American School. After New York she moved to Germany teaching and dancing in various projects. In 1991 she met Ismael Ivo and assisted him in teaching and choreographic works. Since 1992 she has been living in Vienna, teaching and choreographing for the Vienna State Opera Ballet School, for the Ballet Seminar in Wolfsegg, for Tanz für Europa, in various studios and schools in Vienna, Bratislava and Györ. Fabiana Pastorini is teaching at the conservatory of Vienna.

Maud Paulissen
Maud Paulissen, born and grown up in the Netherlands, studied music and dance in Maastricht, Netherlands, and Vienna, Austria. She has been teaching a long time in professional educations in dance, acting and rhythmics at the conservatory of the city of Vienna, at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, and at the Janacek academy for music and performing arts in Brünn, Tchech, a. o. For many years she has been a member of the dance advisory board of the city of Vienna. She has been working as a music therapist for a long time, for ten years she has been more involved in dance for people with special needs and supports a people first group in Vienna.