Warum ich tanze, was du tanzt!
dance for people with/out 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 considered a possibility for experience, representation and communication. 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 work.


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.




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.

Fabiana Pastorini
Fabiana Pastorini is a graduated jurist, who has put her original love for dance into practice in her later second-chance education. She is currently teaching at the Conservatory of Vienna. In her workshops she combines her passion for dance with specialised knowledge from her education in Kinesiology, which is a fascinating combination as it provides the opportunity to find an exciting approach to self-perception and to read the very own map of the body, for each workshop-participant.