AllAbilities
see and feel your potential!

Five good reasons for everybody who loves moving to participate in the work of Nienke Reehorst and Mikel Aristegui: dancing with the focus on your potential rather than your limitation, dancing as a form of expressing yourself and communicating to others, dancing as a tool to investigate your movement motivation and your intentions, dancing developing your senses and your perception, and last but not least: dancing to move and be moved.
Structured exercises and improvisational tasks will help us to dive in our rich world and enjoy our investigations. We will dance solo, duo and group.



Contemporary Technique
finding new moving realities

Through improvisational tasks and structured excercises based on release technique, floorwork and partnering we will work on personal dance skills. We will focus on connecting instinct and perception by using both at the same time to do what we feel and feel what we do. We will confront our own situation with another person or group bringing us into interaction and leading to new moving realities. We will work on the state of body and mind from a complete disposition of the inner movement, its needs and habits, its direction, density, volume, speed, quality and rhythm. We are aiming for finding new dimensions of communication with oneself and the other.



Mikel Aristegui
Since 2001 the Spanish Mikel Aristegui has been working as dancer and choreographer with Sasha Waltz & Guests at Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin. There he performed in "noBody", „insideout“, and „Körper“ a.o. Since the season 2002/03 he has been a fix member of the ensemble currently playing in "Der Würgeengel" directed by Thomas Ostermeier. Before and simultaneously he used to worked with different companies, a.o. with Lloyd Newson and DV8 for „Just for Show“. Since his graduation at Folkwanghochschule Essen in 1994 he has choreographed numerous pieces and worked with the choreographers Guilherme Botelho, Martina La Bonté, Kylie Walters, and Lavinia Frey. With the director Pascal Magnin he collaborated for the dance films "Reines d'un jour" and "Contrecoup" that won several prizes.

Nienke Reehorst
Nienke Reehorst was a member of Ultima Vez directed by Wim Vandekeybus dancing in the world-famous pieces “Immer das Selbe gelogen”, “Her Body doesn't fit her Soul”, and “Montains made of Barking“. She worked with Damaged Goods under the artistic director Meg Stuart, at Les Ballets C. de la B. with Christine de Smedt, and with Aphasia Dance Company by Ted Stoffer. Her last project is „Opening“ in cooperation with Mette Edvardson, a solo for two performers. She has taught contemporary dance technique at the dance companies Ultima Vez, Damaged Goods, Charlerôi Dance, and Rosas, in dance academies such as P.A.R.T.S and Palucca-Schule Dresden, and at numerous dance festivals. Since 1998 she has given regularly workshops for people with special needs, since 2002 she has been teaching Yoga/Yengar technique.