DanceAbility Teacher Certification

13 July – 8 August 2025

ImPulsTanz, Alito Alessi (founder and executive director of DanceAbility) and Connie Vandarakis (Master DanceAbility Trainer), offer a four-week long DanceAbility Teacher Certification course, taking place during the ImPulsTanz Festival 2025.

  • What: a course that will enable you to learn to lead mixed abilities dance, movement & theatre groups.
  • Who: Alito Alessi (Founder of DanceAbility) and Connie Vandarakis (Master DanceAbility Trainer).
  • When: Sunday, 13 July 2025 (orientation meeting at 17:00) until Friday, 8 August 2025 (final event and presentation). Total of 4 weeks, Mon–Fri, 6 hours per day, 10:00-17:00.
    Please note that the ImPulsTanz festival takes place from 10 July – 10 August 2025.
  • Where: tba
  • Costs: €1,900
  • Max. number of participants: 32 people
  • Teaching language: English

More than 700 people with and without disabilities have attended intensive DanceAbility Teacher Certification courses in various countries since 1996. Those trained in DanceAbility have continued to develop and expand inclusive dance communities around the world.
The DanceAbility Teacher Certification addresses people who want to teach integrated groups in movement arts,or learn a model for facilitating communities that foster inclusive participation. The course covers well-defined methods and techniques for teaching, but there is not a stagnant set of rules. It is an approach to designing creative movement practices that allow anybody and everybody’s movement to emerge, thereby facilitating individual and group expression.
Participants in the DanceAbility Teacher Certification course will build on their own experiences to develop appropriate materials for the continued development of the work in their own communities.


THE TRAINING INCLUDES

  • Foundation exercises introducing basic concepts of movement improvisation to people of all abilities based on things ALL participants can do.
  • How to guide people to be aware of their potential for movement and communication.
  • Integrating Contact Improvisation – inspired physicality with mixed abilities.
  • Movement explorations and games for individuals, partners and small and large groups.
  • Learning how to plan and teach classes for all levels, and all abilities and disabilities.
  • Learning to lead performance-making projects, including site-specific work and street performances.
  • Open Classes: In the third week of the training, we invite everybody interested, with or without disabilities, to join the "Open Classes", which will be led by the student-teachers. They are free of charge.


COURSE INFORMATION & APPLICATION

Detailed course information and schedule DOWNLOAD
Fee, information and registration form DOWNLOAD

A deposit of 500 euro is required for a valid registration.
Please send your application per email including:
• Curriculum Vitae
• Picture
• Completed registration form

Registration deadline:
31 May 2025

(Subject to availability, registrations are evaluated on an ongoing basis)

For further questions please refer to:
ImPulsTanz Workshop Office
E workshopoffice@impulstanz.com
T +43.1. 235 00 22-20

General information on DanceAbility International HERE.