Danse Africaine Modern Actual experience of the dance Koffi Kôkô, familiar with African dance in his home country Benin from childhood on, focuses on the student‘s relation to her/his own body and the...

Feldenkrais Method 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...

Feldenkrais Intensive Symbiosis of movement and learning In this 2-day Intensive we will explore the Feldenkrais Method and gradually find out how to usefully integrate it into our movement...

HipHop Go with the Flow! My class is built up in 3 steps: Warm-up, technique and some choreography. My Warm-up is a "typical" Warm-up to get the body "warmed up" and to prevent injuries with some strengthening...

HipHop Go with the Flow! My class is built up in 3 steps: Warm-up, technique and some choreography. My Warm-up is a "typical" Warm-up to get the body "warmed up" and to prevent injuries with some strengthening...

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Artificial Islands Artificial Islands is the title of a musical and documentary performance workshop led by Gérald Kurdian and written together with consistent groups of individuals, a sharing, for the ...

The Psoas Connection – Experiential Anatomy Experiencing and toning deep muscle connections We will use the "psoas complex" as our prism to explore connectivities in our bodies. The muscle iliopsoas r...

Surprise Yourself 5 teachers, 6 essentials Every class of this series has a very unique flavour, and by the nature of its score  - which will be introduced in class - deals with the unpredictability...

Afro-Haitian Dance Prayer of the body The snake dance Yanvalou is something very special in the African and Afro-Haitian dance culture. Yanvalou represents the wavelike movements of the big snake, symbol...

Ratatouille Dancing & cooking together Although we live in a multicultural and globalised society, we exist more and more next to each other instead of spending time with each other. In Ratatouille...

Weak Method  Weak Method is a phrase that turned up at the very end of TeachBack in 2014. It seemed a good way to describe the field in which we had been working, one that used modest and absurd...

I Like to Watch This workshop is a little time to consider what type of spectatorship certain works or ways of working might need in order to be perceived. How can we suggest these positions of spectatorship...

Body Reflection or Many States Of Being This project proposes constructive alignment accompanied with deep imagery work that awakens both, energy patterns and body spaces awareness. This creates strong...

Body Reflection or Many States Of Being This project proposes constructive alignment accompanied with deep imagery work that awakens both, energy patterns and body spaces awareness. This creates strong...

Modern Technique To open the centre of the body towards the extremities Corinne Lanselle accentuates contemporary dance technique, influenced by martial arts and Feldenkrais – that means by the support o...

Modern Technique To open the centre of the body towards the extremities Corinne Lanselle accentuates contemporary dance technique, influenced by martial arts and Feldenkrais – that means by the support o...

Modern Technique To open the centre of the body towards the extremities Corinne Lanselle accentuates contemporary dance technique, influenced by martial arts and Feldenkrais – that means by the support o...

Voice & Rhythm - Voice and our Identity Initimacy of the voice Meredith Monk was once quoted as saying, "One day at the piano, doing some vocalising, I realised that the voice could have the same...

Im Land der Barbarei (13-16J) Actual mythologies Do you know about Tauris? It was a Barbarian and foreign country in ancient Greece. The story about "Iphigenia in Tauris" was packed with blood and thunder,...

Dancing Happy on Sad Music Statements of Ambiguity Dancing Happy On Sad Music is a workshop based on a working method I have started to employ during the creation process of "The Prize Piece" (2007)...

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

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

Indo-Contemporary Dance dance in perfect unison The Indo-Contemporary form is the perfect meeting point of the modern-day western and ancient Indian techniques. The Workshop is unique, in as much as...

Towards moving thinking This is a Workshop on movement exploration, improvisation, collaboration and exchange focusing on dance, society and lots of questions. How do we carry different expectations,...

Parkour self-chosen challenges Parkour is the art of efficient locomotion. Body and mind are used to overcome obstacles and face self-chosen challenges. The focus is not on spectacular achievements but...

Moving the Edge: Elastic Dancing CI revolutionizes dance and the physical potentials of human relations by moving forward the cutting edge of what dancers know, sense, and do. Ecologically, the edge weaves...

Practical Synchronicity: Fields of Felt Presence Synchronicity is the moment when time and space meet as one phenomenon and seemingly unrelated events converge in the magic of new meaning and possibility....

SPACE In this Workshop we aim to treat space as the central (and possibly only) choreographic concern. We will draw on various sources from artist’s I have worked with, my own ideas around spatial patterns a...

Yoga & Whiteness: Facing the Colonial Self or Outing the Hippie Woo Woo Colonial Crap Part I: This Yoga Workshop will be an interactive mapping project, a kind of personal return to incarnate history...

New Style Street Jazz Beginners  Express yourself! The beginners’ class is divided into three distinct parts. The first part is devoted to a physical warm-up to work on the body and the cardio-vascular r...

New Style Street Jazz Advanced  Be comfortable on stage! The advanced class is divided into two parts beginning with a physical and cardio-vascular warm-up in order to improve the stamina for making...

Your Body: Present and Simple forgive yourself and your body! We will work with technical and improvisational tools geared toward enhancing awareness of personal rhythm in connection with our surroundings...

African Dance If you can walk you can dance For Mamadou M’Baye African dance is first of all the joy of moving with the music of drums. He is teaching original African dances intending to make the p...

African Percussion Music unites Mamadou M´Baye teaches polyrhythm from Senegal, introduces a wide range of sounds and tones and different forms of musical improvisation. The workshop consists of auditory ...

Afrikanischer Kindertanz (6-9 J) Stories with drumming Mamadou's long-standing presence at ImPulsTanz speaks in the favour of the dancer, musician, poet and storyteller who seduces to movement with drum...

Tradition Remixed – Schuhplatteln Schuhplatteln with a twist The Schuhplattler is more than just a traditional courtship dance from the Alpine region and should no longer be only reserved for men. S...

Myoreflextraining A sense for the muscle-fascia-system „We are in our body. We are our body which originates actions, movements and feelings. In our bodies and with our bodies we express ourselves a...

Myoreflex/Sensorik/Motorik (55+) Moments of self-discovery Preventive Health Care doesn't require any extraordinary effort, just the recollection of normal, physiological, innate patterns to sustain...

Horton Technique The grace of disciplined movement Horton Technique enables us to develop endurance, flexibility and the communicative possibilities of dance. Significant elements are clear lines, concentrated...

Horton Technique The grace of disciplined movement Horton Technique enables us to develop endurance, flexibility and the communicative possibilities of dance. Significant elements are clear lines, concentrated...

Faking it til we're making it Do you ever listen to the radio and feel you know the words to a song you've never heard? Maybe you sing along or pretend you know and fill in the blanks with lalala. Still...

The Democratic Body What would the community think? Democracy as an ideal is held high in "free society". Yet many are disillusioned with politics and do not actively engage in any political processes. ...

Partnering One is so used to being the body that one is, that its materiality sometimes seems to escape us. Lifting another body can help one realise that this is more or less the weight that one walks...

Vortical Occupation of Space The vortical manifesto Explore a non-instrumental approach to movement technique. Base the bodily movements on functionality, then detach them from function and do the DANCE. Dance...

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

Investigating Ballet Appreciating function as beauty Janet Panetta’s work involves the deconstruction of movement into technical basics that dancers from varied backgrounds can understand. We work f...

Ballet for Contemporary Dancers A firm technical foundation and freedom of movement As she has trained some of the major American and European companies Janet Panetta is drawing from an extensive experience...

Release Technique – Riding the Bones of a Tiger Release / Holistic Dance Technique In these classes we will focus on moving from the core. In contemporary dance we define the centre, the physical core, a...

Open Bodies Moving – Contact Improvisation spontaneous, reflexive and three-dimensional In Contact Improvisation we benefit the most from a subtle, flexible and open body. In order to organize yourself s...

Durch die 4 Jahreszeiten (6-9J) Can we do this in 5 days? Through the whole year in just five days, is that possible at all? We say yes and together we explore the 4 seasons through movement and dance...

Dance for Health In dialogue with your body We make life experience in, with and through our body and have a constant exchange between the inner and outer world. Again and again our body sends messages...

Dance for Health: Breathing & Waves Breath in motion In "Breathing & Waves" the focus of Dance for Health is on the movement of breath. Breath embodies the most primal life energies: Prana,...

Presence and Movement connecting awareness and movement Awareness is corporal. You can guide the body through awareness and allow awareness to arise through information from the body. In this workshop...

Forsythe Work based Workshop Movement can be a way to investigate consciousness and research into consciousness can shape our presence and possibility for movement. In this workshop we will work with...

Forsythe Work based Workshop Movement can be a way to investigate consciousness and research into consciousness can shape our presence and possibility for movement. In this workshop we will work with...

SPECTACULAR Stay Classy The definition of choreography has expanded in the recent decade to include a range of practices not limited to the creation of movement material. This class will look instead...

Einmal Reise und zurück (4-6J) Where shall we go? We pack our suitcase and here we go! We will hurl ourselves into adventures and imaginary journeys. By airplane, car or ship? Where will this journey ...

Endangered Human Movements A Workshop by the Ministry of Movement Affairs The project Endangered Human Movements, by nadaproductions and developed under the patronage of the Austrian Ministry of Movement...

IN SZENE SETZEN - SEGEL SETZEN (10-13J) Sail away on the oceans of theatre! Acting, improvisation, music and movement – in this theatre Workshop we put our own wishes and topics into the limelight. O...

Somatic Yoga Liberation of the body Easy Positions – Effortless Movements – Mindful Attention – Joyful Breathing Listen to yourself mindfully from the inside to find your own wisdom and to develop your ...

Contemporary Dance and Medicine Medical information and care in contemporary dance is the main topic in the various modules of the lecturing teacher of this workshop. For the sixth time at ImPulsTanz,...

Ballet - The Joy of Movement Some "tricks of the trade" This class is a classical ballet class but using the principals of describing space and sensing motion that I learned while improvising for Forsythe...

Forsythe Repertory Forsythe and Rizzi Repertory Tony Rizzi will be teaching a solo from "Vile Parody of Address"/ "The interview with Robert Scott", a more modern solo. The participants will learn about...

Flora – ganz schön tierisch (4-6J) Adventures with surprising encounters "You're too little for that!" - Flora gets angry and decides to ask the plants and animals how to grow quickly. And this is th...

Sex-Ability Lab Autarky and Desire This Laboratory engages in feelings rising during dancing: how are dancers dealing with wishes, anger, desires, fears, boundaries, challenges, demands, violations etc.?...

A Surprised Body Already the title, "a surprised body" defines for me, a metaphorical space - the image of a body in a constantly alerted state, able to surprise itself, escaping from a habitual daily...

Poetics of Movement A basic dance phrase will be presented as a “key phrase”. Then, with several different tasks for improvisations, will be de-structured and transformed in relation with space and tim...

Core Training - Horizontal Ballet into Multidimensionality This class will be of hybrid nature interweaving the Floor Barre as developed by the American ballet dancer Jean Hamilton, Alignment and Experiential...

Alexander Principles into Dancing clarity and subtlety The Alexander Technique is a means of identifying mental and physical habits that interfere with one's ability to attend to the moment and make...

Trisha Brown Repertory - Set and Reset "Set and Reset" (1983), Trisha Brown’s ground-breaking dance is considered one of the most important works of the post-modern genre, and continues to be relevant t...

Applied Anatomy - Functional Training for Dancers muck'n around with movement  This workshop will mess with different training approaches and relate them to the dancing body. It takes its inspiration...

Contact Improvisation based on Tantra Through tantric approach und techniques, Contact Improvisation (CI) becomes a tantric practice, a sensual and holistic dance experience. In this week we practise...

#the_first_recipe  (55+)  A Workshop for You! Dance doesn’t belong to anybody, it is something we borrow, enjoy and struggle with. Dance is an expression into the world that should be allowed t...

How to write for, and talk on stage! skills that can be learned! Many practitioners today, find themselves open to deal with text and speech on stage - these are the times! People with dance background...

Limón Technique Beginners Play with gravity! The technique, style, and philosophy of the Limón class draws upon the principles of fall, rebound and breath to train the body to move in its fullest potential. In a...

Limón Technique Intermediate & Advanced You have the capacity to dance as long as you want "The technique, style, and philosophy of the Limón class includes the principles of fall and rebound: t...

Limón Technique Intermediate & Advanced You have the capacity to dance as long as you want "The technique, style, and philosophy of the Limón class includes the principles of fall and rebound: t...

HipHop (12-15J) Body Percussion & Handshakes! In Storms Kinder-HipHop-Workshop geht es hauptsächlich darum ein Gefühl für die Musik zu entwickeln. Durch Handshakes und Body Percussion wird der Ko...

Bboying/Breaking Toprock, DownRock & Freeze 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...

Popping / Animation cosmopolitan researcher in the field of urban dance In this Workshop the philosophy, history and technique of this urban dance style will be explained through counter movement und...

HipHop Choreography Revolver, Domino, Pick-up, Catch-up, Call and Response and more Stage work in the urban dance field is mainly focussed in displaying the skills of a dance style in a performative...

Hatha Yoga - bien tempéré / The Style Ruchpaul Wisdom of the body "Hatha-Yoga is not fast food. It is a transformation of our physiological potential" "During this week I would like to share with y...

Kalaripayattu Mobility, Balance and Body-Centring The vision of this workshop is to initiate the participants into the world of Kalaripayattu through traditional training practices integrating body,...

Payatt INtransit Dance & Martial Art as One Payatt INtransit is a contemporary movement technique that combines movement principles from the ancient Indian martial art of Kalaripayattu with Hatha...

Motivating Dynamics Surprise yourself! How to maintain the liveliness, spontaneity and richness of an initial improvisational experience while writing dance? Maybe we can trick ourselves if we approach...

Free Dance Technique Experimentation & Joy of Movement In this workshop Kenji Takagi follows Rudolf von Laban's idea of the development of a "free dance technique" that is in the first place not...

Modern Jazz Tradition & Modernity The focus of this Workshop is the work from the back, where the Port de Bras begins and the Swing – the movement resulting from an impulse. It is very important t...

Modern Jazz Tradition & Modernity The focus of this Workshop is the work from the back, where the Port de Bras begins and the Swing – the movement resulting from an impulse. It is very important t...

Modern Jazz Tradition & Modernity The focus of this Workshop is the work from the back, where the Port de Bras begins and the Swing – the movement resulting from an impulse. It is very important t...

Ruhestandstanz (55+) Every-body dance now! After a guided warm-up and some structured dance training it will start: through improvisations and dance combinations the retire-ment will become a joyful,...

more than naked Let´s rock the flesh! This Workshop is focused on different facets of nudity, such as being-nude and getting-nude on stage. Hence we are exploring nudity not as provocation, but as a ...

every body more than naked Let´s rock the flesh! This Workshop is focused on different facets of nudity, such as being-nude and getting-nude on stage. Hence we are exploring nudity not as provocation, ...

Contemporary Technique Journey to the body Travelling through our body, that is so familiar to us, and yet there`s so much to discover. Trying to avoid habits and patterns that we are used to take. Preparing...

This Moment The chance that we would move in the same way once we start peeling off habits, altering trained coordination, and giving an idea of what movement should look like, is very unlikely. Our anatomy...

Rosas Repertory - Rosas danst Rosas Strongest experience "In this workshop I will take you back to 1983, the premiere of "Rosas Danst Rosas". This piece has been touring throughout the world staying...