DanceAbility
trust your intuition

DanceAbility is a unique dance methodology, open to everyone - for experienced and less experienced dancers, for people with and without disabilities and was founded in 1987 by Alito Alessi and Karen Nelson.

In the workshops we work with improvisation, in order to experience equality, respect and artistic exploration between people with and without disabilities and to discover what we have in common. The goal is to facilitate the development of an own body language and the fulfillment of own interests and needs, to find a way back into individual intuition and to find the a personal place.
Through DanceAbility people come together - with different backgrounds - and dance, have fun, develop artistically and find a common language - a movement language.

Each special movement language holds its beauty and has and has its precious and estimated place in the workshop. This will produce small dance pieces, which will be created in small groups. Through Contact Improvisation participants will learn to improvise in contact with each other.



Vera Rebl
Vera Rebl is DanceAbility trainer and works as choreographer, dancer and quality manager in Vienna. She participated in many workshops and performances with Alito Alessi, Andrew Harwood, Loïc Touzé, Maud Paulissen-Kaspar, Fabiana Pastorini, Wolfgang Stange, Benoît Lachambre, Adam Benjamin a.o.

She leads workshops on a regular basis at schools and studios in Vienna, Bremen (Germany), GAIAC in Porto (Portugal) and AbArt in Munich (Germany). She was a dancer fort he Company danse brute between 2005 and 2009.
In 2006 she founded her own dance company A.D.A.M. (Austrian DanceAbilty Movement) and created the performances: "6 tanzen", "Auf freiem Fuss", "dancing with paints" (a collaboration with L.A.C.E. Theatre/Los Angeles), and "(Ruderal-)Flora".
2011 she founded the Dance-Gang, a company with the focus on performances for a young audience. They showed the first piece "Das Lied der Stille" in March 2011 and usually combine their presentations with workshops at schools.

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