Contemporary Technique
playful and sensitive interplay with the body

What do I perceive? What surprises me?
The training offers a playful and sensitive interplay with the body. In the frame of a creative dialogue with the self, everyone will have the possibility to finetune his/her training and discover his/her individual way of dancing.

On the one hand we will explore the "availability“ of silence, movement, sound and touch, in order to find ourselves in the many facets of dance. Thus the term "empty" as a "not previously fixed idea" is the centre of our examination and a base for being responsive towards space.
On the other hand we will learn how to "finetune" ourselves and experience coordinative flexibility and ease. We will have the opportunity to sharpen and finetune our awareness of focus and its quality.
How much of my focus do I use and where do I turn it?


Nicole Peisl
Nicole Peisl, born in Austria, has been working as a freelance-dancer, performer, choreographer and teacher since the mid-nineties.
She is a member of the Forsythe Company. She also was a member of the Ballett Frankfurt (from 2000 to 2004) and has worked as a freelance dancer with various choreographers under which Anouk van Dijk, Joseph Tmim, the Episode Collective and with Daghdha Dance Company in Limerick.

She collaborated with colleagues from the Forsythe Company in the creation of "Hue", which premiered at the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt in 2007. Her work "Vielfalt", which was commissioned by The Forsythe Company for Motion Bank, premiered at Lab Frankfurt in October 2010. She is now at work on a new choreography, "Ueberblick", commissioned by The Forsythe Company, which will premiere in June 2011 at Festspielhaus Hellerau.

Peisl is committed to her teaching practice. She has taught at Rotterdam Dance Academy, the HfMDK in Frankfurt, the University of Limerick, the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversitaet Linz, the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, as well as at the ImPulsTanz Festival.
She has completed a training in Visionary Craniosacral Work a noninvasive hands on bodywork and now studies Somatic Experiencing developed Dr. Peter A. Levine.
Since 2009 she has an ongoing creative, research and teaching collaboration with the author and philosopher Alva Noë.