Listening and perceiving dance Through repetition of movements and dances, accompanied by live-percussion, Koffi would like to ignite a dialogue in this workshop between the inner and outer perception...

Listening and perceiving dance Through repetition of movements and dances, accompanied by live-percussion, Koffi would like to ignite a dialogue in this workshop between the inner and outer perception...

Here is a safe space for all imaginable movement ideas and inputs to music that we really enjoy. We follow our creativity and celebrate our own dances! A dynamic warm-up activates the body and exercises...

During this workshop participants will communicate with their own body, mind, thoughts and opinions whilst organising actions in space. Ideas, concepts and sources behind the movements, like trust, moving...

This workshop will focus on the energy, intentions and the principles inspired by the latest productions created by Wim Vandekeybus / Ultima Vez. During this workshop participants will communicate with...

Symbiosis of movement and learning In this 1-week workshop we will explore the Feldenkrais Method and gradually find out how to usefully integrate it into our movement repertoire and life. With the Feldenkrais...

Selflove. Self Confidence. Body Positivity. Empowerment. In Heels.  Please bring: High Heels (Character Shoes, Pumps, Stilettos, Boots) and knee pads, long-sleeved shirt is optional. Put...

Go with the Flow! “Go with the flow” is Nina’s motto, who already danced for and with the Black Eyed Peas and Kanye West. After warming up our body, we learn basics from old-school HipHop drills, Bboyi...

Slow Jamz is a dance fusion of different dance styles: elements from Nina’s contemporary and ballet backgrounds mix with HipHop and Modern Jazz evolve into a smooth and soft movement language and sexy, “...

Go with the Flow! “Go with the flow” is Nina’s motto, who already danced for and with the Black Eyed Peas and Kanye West. After warming up our body, we learn basics from old-school HipHop drills, Bboyi...

In this exciting theatre-adventure we turn into animals, mythical creatures, cute monsters or Little I-Am-Me’s! How does the crocodile move and what does it see from its spot in the water? What language d...

Experiencing and toning deep muscle connections We will use the “psoas complex” as our prism to explore connectivities in our bodies. The muscle iliopsoas reaches from the thoracic spine to the pelvic bon...

Basic Training with Live-Drumming for letting go Karine gives an insight into Afro-Haitian dance, meshing it with contemporary dance training. Afro-Haitian dance is characterised by rhythm-charged movements...

In this special edition of her Afro-Haitian dance class, Karine is inviting the participants to join her on a journey from Africa to Haiti with traditional dances and songs, accompanied by live percussion....

World-renowned choreographer-performer Benoît Lachambre brings us a one-week workshop based on his somatic practice. His varied approaches to teaching have been developed through unique performance projects ...

Departing from feminist sociologist Roslyn Wallach Bologh's notion of "erotic sociability" as a form of interhuman sociality as an alternative to the dominant 20th century relational modes of competition,...

Looking for drama? Bollywood Dance is the essence of Indian Bollywood films that has – until today – retained the flavour of musicals! Constantly influenced by the changing trends, Bollywood Dance cul...

Dance in perfect unison Indo-Contemporary is the perfect meeting point of the modern-day western and ancient Indian techniques. The Workshop is unique, in as much as it is structured to offer the students...

Can we ever truly dance freely when someone else is watching? As performers, do we not immediately feel obligated “to perform” when audiences are present? As choreographers, do we not automatically “us...

In this workshop, we will investigate the potential of dance to exist between all individuals occupying an artistic space, rather than being an image placed before a single person, meant for his/her/their...

Do you love to morph into something else? Do you like to imagine you could fly like a butterfly or roll like a ball? Do you love colours? Then this is the right place for you! In this dance workshop we...

In times of trouble, of personal uncertainty or defeat, one has a tendency to slump in the spine. It is as much an emotional attitude as it is a physical expression. The computer age has also coaxed the...

Soka is a Sanskrit word that means sorrow. The end of the first chapter of the Bhagavad Gita finds Arjuna, the greatest warrior of his time, sitting in his chariot under the weight of despair. He is facing...

Country Line Dance is the ultimate social dance for singles! A Country Line Dance is a series of choreographed steps ranging anywhere from 16 to 176 count dances that repeat in a 4-wall-pattern. Always...

Pascal is teaching a jazz workshop with a contemporary spirit. The music plays a very important part in the class allowing the exploration of various dynamics and energies, setting the mood and the moves....

Pascal is teaching a jazz workshop with a contemporary spirit. The music plays a very important part in the class allowing the exploration of various dynamics and energies, setting the mood and the moves....

Precision, speed and performance abilities This class will begin with a classic Jazz warm up combining styles of Mattox, Giordano and Fosse. The warm up is focused on developing the technical basics through...

Precision, speed and performance abilities This class will begin with a classic Jazz warm up combining styles of Mattox, Giordano and Fosse. The warm up is focused on developing the technical basics through...

With the closure of so many queer safe spaces during the pandemic, what is it to be a kind of family, make temporary homes and have the potential to express ourselves in a safe environment? Arranged as...

Party? Celebration? What is that? After the pandemic time and in times of instability or crises, most of us feel the importance to bring back moments of inner freedom, space, timelessness and the resource...

The Goddesses of Wisdom The Dance of the Deities workshop combines mythology, storytelling, Yoga and dance into a powerful process that allows a deep embodiment of spiritual teachings and ways to live...

This workshop is about kicks and speed! We will learn how to coordinate our bodies and legs to be fast but also really slow, so that our kicks can be ninja-like: Stealthy, powerful and unexpected. Based...

As a choreographer and performer, Marta started out with practices which require a high degree of discipline, and later introduced other practices which cultivate a pretty radical sense of freedom. Now...

Vogue To Everything A category that originally started in the Viennese ballroom scene, Vogue To Everything explores Voguing against the background of non-traditional Ballroom music. Listening to characteristics...

In this intensive, the “red threads” shared by different somatic and musical practices will be identified to weave an “artistic carpet” for all bodies and voices to simultaneously learn from and teach e...

Linked to breathing Yoga Ballet is a dance technique developed by Marcia Haydée, which combines Yoga, oriental disciplines and Classical ballet. The lessons are useful for stretching, balance, concentration ...

Ecosomatics, Contemporary Improvisation, Composition, Creative Writing “We cannot solve our environmental and social problems through the same patterns of thought that created them.” –  ...

Dance as dialogue between cultures What do the five elements of Chinese philosophy have in common with the Gods and Goddesses expressed in Yoga and Hinduism? What energies do they move? Where do they...

Energy – Dance – Bodywork “Hiding in this cage of visible matter, is the invisible life bird. Pay attention to her she is singing your song” – Kabir Dance for Health is based on the five phases of Tradit...

Energy – Dance – Bodywork “Hiding in this cage of visible matter, is the invisible life bird. Pay attention to her she is singing your song” – Kabir Dance for Health is based on the five phases of Tradit...

Somatic Enhanced Dance Technique This workshop emphasises body, heart and mind in alignment, as a basis for movement and dancing. Through attentional inquiry we become sensitive to how we embody relations,...

In this workshop we will utilise methods for compositional practice developed in the setting of the Forsythe Company and Ballet Frankfurt. We will work on achieving specific forms of presence and awareness...

This workshop is for those who seek to find a space for a self that is not “fixed” – i.e. constrained to norms of identity such as gender or ability. How can we establish terms for our many selves that ...

To “have skin in the game” means to have direct involvement in and risk of an outcome. For disabled artists, this phrase bears on both the outcome of our lives and choices, as much as it does on what we ...

Do you know that feeling when something inside of us needs to get out? Do we want to shout it out? Or rather whisper it? Do we want to jump in the air? Or rather hide somewhere? Let’s discover our feelings a...

Breaking off separation 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 b...

This workshop looks at choreography and instruction-based art through play and game mechanics. We will pay attention to things like flow, contingency, participation, agency, reality-glitch and game-time....

Mirjam and Nicola investigate how language and body find freedom in failure. Starting with somatic practice and associative improvisations, energy, information, synergies and strategies are accumulated....

Swan Lake is a fairy tale about prince and princess, good and evil, man and beast, magic, transformation and dreams. We dive into the famous story of Odette and Siegfried, the Swan Queen and the Prince,...

This workshop explores the moving body through embodiment of the muscular system, which establishes a tensile three-dimensional grid for the balanced support and movement of the skeletal structure. Muscles...

If you can walk you can dance For Futurelove African dance is first of all the joy of moving with drum music. He teaches original African dances with the intention to make the participants aware of the...

Let’s travel together to Southern Africa! In Afrofusion, we mix traditional African movements with modern dance styles. We explore different stories and games with music, moves and improvisation from F...

Just like our ancestors did, we will sing, clap, stomp and ululate through some dance styles from the rural areas to the streets of Southern Africa – a dance journey crossing borders of South Africa, B...

Beginners In Risa’s beginners class participants will enjoy the exploration of music and movement, and the coordination of the body in space. Through the process of understanding alignment as an on-going p...

Beginners In Risa’s beginners class participants will enjoy the exploration of music and movement, and the coordination of the body in space. Through the process of understanding alignment as an on-going p...

Beginners In Risa’s beginners class participants will enjoy the exploration of music and movement, and the coordination of the body in space. Through the process of understanding alignment as an on-going p...

Dance like nobody’s watching! From traditional African movements to House dance basics mixed with different energies, Peeps’ House class is a mix of dance work-play and personal dance development. In Pee...

Move, Groove, Freestyle Enriched by the late 80's / early 90's HipHop flavours, this class covers foundations and basics of today’s new style HipHop technique. Focusing on Hype and New Jack Swing, it w...

The philosophy and technique of Locking are transmitted alongside the cultural background of its vocabulary. During the classes – which are partly choreographed and partly improvisational – Storm conveys the...

Each of Storm's Breaking classes is divided in three parts. The first part is a warm-up with exercises for a long-term conditioning of the body and for allowing an organic movement flow and efficiency...

In this workshop Storm conveys the philosophy, history and technique. The architecture of Popping will be explained through a counter movement und fixed points. Storm developed this teaching method in...

The body is our temple During this course we will honour the practice of non-violence by promoting a well-tempered alignment between our intention and the actual physical state of our body. Diving deeper...

Spice your dance The dramaturgy of dynamic events in a movement sequence creates expressivity. It's all a question of context and of how the ingredients are arranged with each other. Space-concepts, use...

Space as motivation Space motivates to move. It invites us to create and give birth to a happening. Points, lines, curves, planes, shapes, surfaces, traces, forms, directions, pathways, narrow, wide,...

Bring to life what is around and inside of you Take in impressions. Discover the surrounding. Get inspired by whatever you see, hear, feel, imagine, think. Let the place and the life it contains talk...

By learning Akemi’s unique method of uniting voice and body through a circular breathing technique, the participants compose their own expressive resources in the form of vocalic screams. Thereby, the i...

Tradition & Modernity The dynamic of jazz music sets the tone for a swinging Modern Jazz class. Thereby, the focus is on the movement from the back, such as Port de Bras or the swing, the beginning...

Tradition & Modernity The dynamic of jazz music sets the tone for a swinging Modern Jazz class. Thereby, the focus is on the movement from the back, such as Port de Bras or the swing, the beginning...

Tradition & Modernity The dynamic of jazz music sets the tone for a swinging Modern Jazz class. Thereby, the focus is on the movement from the back, such as Port de Bras or the swing, the beginning...

Starting with what is: The art of this performance is inviting the audience in while you discover. The investigation is for them.  The artist is saying: “I give you this, while it is mine a...

The seed of the entire work of The Six Viewpoints is found in the simple act of standing in space. The artist is invited to perceive the lexicon of daily experience. The information of space, the experience...

Dance the slime! Mucus (“goo”) is a biologically vital substance that triggers ambivalent reactions: disgust and shivers, but also curiosity and the desire to touch. Mucus is not clearly solid or liq...

“Dancing together is for me very important, the motor of my dancing. It gives me energy, inspiration and meaning.” In this workshop we will focus on dancing together, in many different ways. Preparing and...

Samantha will share some of the the ideas, techniques, practices and principles developed in the Company ZOO/Thomas Hauert over the last 25 years. Our body, mind and reflexes will be invited to go out...

Movement is like talking, singing, laughing. It tells something that has to be told as an urge, like an impulse – unstoppable. Dancing is close to theatre. A carrier of inner states which are shared t...

The workshop starts with a focus on the mobility of the six extremities: neck, tailbone, feet and hands. These are often the first points of contact with the floor so we need to have a strong understanding...

The workshop starts with a focus on the mobility of the six extremities: neck, tailbone, feet and hands. These are often the first points of contact with the floor so we need to have a strong understanding...

As a long-standing member of the Gervasi dance company I had the opportunity to acquire a great deal of dancing experience and to develop my individual movement quality. This class combines a variety...

Gravity has been a theme in Modern Dance classes for ages. But what if we focus on it again in order to renew and deepen in our relationship to ground and grounding. Let’s let our dancing come alive a...

In his choreographic work Frank uses text, exhausting physical states, presence, subtle energetic exchange, and everything dance-related. The workshop explores the dancing body, the being body, and the...

Breath as the primary source of both movement and sound Traditionally, music is an external support for dance. I propose that through the voice, the ‚music‘ is created and performed by the dancers the...

No extra tension needed The class, focused on moving in space as organically as possible, can be loosely described as a combination of Limón and Release techniques. Relaxation exercises on the floor ...

The art of performance is a crucial space through which to interrogate notions of identity and agency. In dance, those individualities have often been buried under fantasies of homogenisation or neutrality....

In this workshop, Elsa explores the musicality of the body. Starting with a warm-up on the floor in silence, then a rhythmic warm-up to music, upright, culminating in a collective improvisation working...

In this workshop, Elsa explores the musicality of the body. Starting with a warm-up on the floor in silence, then a rhythmic warm-up to music, upright, culminating in a collective improvisation working...

workshopoffice@impulstanz.comHipHop for you and for me! Did you always want to know how to dance like a robot or how to do the wave? Here you can learn it. We start with some warm-up exercises and familiarise...