urbanative package Introduction to Flexing Stretch the limits of your body & mind! Flexing is a style of dance that ascended from a Reggae/Dancehall background. On Madonna's MDNA Tour in 2012, Flexing...

urbanative package Flexing "Flexing today is totally different from what it was 10 years ago. Ever since Youtube many dancers sought out to other dance styles for inspiration and nowadays everyone’s s...

Urban Style 13+ A musical feast for the senses Daybee's dance workshop is an introduction to the urban dance culture with its variations of rhythm and body language. A musical feast for the senses: inner...

urbanative package Caribbean Urban Fusion All in One The emphasis of this particular workshop lies on the essential African, Caribbean and Latin heritage inside the Urban Dance and HipHop context. The...

Every Body Knows Find your own resources for resilience! There is nothing new under the sun! And yet what is already there invites us to dive deeper into the layers of our presence; to seek a conscious...

'Crossing the Stage' and other scores A 5-day composition Workshop focusing on what happens when ideas, techniques and structures, which come primarily from music are translated into movement. The sessions...

Introduction to Ballet Natural movement potentials Introduction to Ballet is a class for people beginning ballet or for dancers that are interested in revisiting the basic principles of what ballet has...

Ballet for Contemporary Dancers easier, more joyful, and more human The ballet class re-evaluates and builds on classical technique, focusing on strengthening the dancer’s awareness of his or her own n...

Gyro Ballet Gyrokinesis® is a safe and systematic learning process developed by Juliu Horvath. The Gyrokinesis method is a movement method that gently works the entire body, opening energy pathways, ...

The Fluid Crystal Beginners level mover's investigation "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." – Jiddu Krishnamurti Although culture and physical education o...

Hot Facts and Cold Fantasy – Axis Syllabus Advanced mover dialogue "Poetic descriptions of movement are evocative, but they are sometimes too ambiguous or misleading. For example, it's common for dancers t...

Axis Syllabus Intensive / Gravity Snoops 0 to 20% anatomical theory 0 to 20% applied physics 0 to 80% task oriented improvisation 0 to 80% rhythmic movement patterns 60 to 100% movement study 10...

CI Subversive – Sportive The contact body is a physical, an experiencing and a responsive body. Dancing together is an art making process. The proposal of this workshop is to begin by dancing with focusing o...

Contemporary Jazz New and unconventional movements A fusion of Modern, Jazz, and Ballet, Slam’s unique style explores a wide range of organic, often angular movements and syncopated rhythms with a b...

Contemporary Jazz New and unconventional movements A fusion of Modern, Jazz, and Ballet, Slam’s unique style explores a wide range of organic, often angular movements and syncopated rhythms with a b...

Contemporary Jazz New and unconventional movements A fusion of Modern, Jazz, and Ballet, Slam’s unique style explores a wide range of organic, often angular movements and syncopated rhythms with a b...

Ballet for Contemporary Dancers Intermediate & Advanced Placement and movement efficiency As a ballet teacher Zvi Gotheiner, whose choreographic work is rooted in contemporary movement, has been...

Ballet for Contemporary Dancers Beginners Respect the body! Zvi Gotheiner has created an internationally acclaimed teaching method, inspired by the work of Maggie Black, under whom he studied for many...

Ballet for Contemporary Dancers Intermediate & Advanced Placement and movement efficiency As a ballet teacher Zvi Gotheiner, whose choreographic work is rooted in contemporary movement, has been...

Wasted bodies Whether we like it or not, we will inevitably end up in the landfill. Our bodies will be transformed in some radical way. Our histories may or may not be remembered. Our ideas may end up...

I’m sitting on my aura “… politics is activity already in motion. It does not await ignition.” – Randy Martin Currently I am looking at the ways in which the actions in a society of individuals produce a...

Red Leather Yellow Leather (A vocal workshop) pliable, relaxed and expansive voices Miguel Gutierrez’ recent works have been notable for their expressive use of the voice. In this workshop, Gutierrez w...

Jazz Mix A Comeback Raza’s Jazz Mix is a lyrical, fluent and emotional movement language influenced by Ballet, Modern and by the Matt Mattox technique. "I consider Jazz dance as a fusion of the plurality o...

Jazz Mix A Comeback Raza’s Jazz Mix is a lyrical, fluent and emotional movement language influenced by Ballet, Modern and by the Matt Mattox technique. "I consider Jazz dance as a fusion of the plurality o...

BodyParkour (10+) Heroes in overcoming obstacles! BodyParkour is an urban art and dance related form of movements. Akos created this word combination out of the word body and the street art form Parkour....

BodyParkour: The Cube Locomotion, Balance, Power and Flow Our body and the scaffold CUBE is the ultimate obstacle for dance, Parkour and for functional fitness. "The idea was born eight years ago, when...

Forsythe Repertory Forsythe - Based Technologies and Performance Technique Come join International dancer/choreographer Francesca Harper, the Artistic Director of Francesca Harper Project. Francesca...

Voice & Movement creation with songs Francesca Harper, Forsythe dancer, director, and Broadway star will teach students how to mesh their vocal ability to their individual artistry. Each participant...

A Soft and Luscious Touch Various textures, skills and sensuous states in Contact Improvisation Making contact with another being implies forging a nurturing environment, which allows us to create greater...

SUSPENSION (of weight, of time, of balance and of disbelief) In this workshop, we will explore the many facets of suspension. This term has many meanings depending on the context. In a physical sense...

SEIZE THE DECISIVE MOMENT - Improvisation for performers The decisive moment in instantaneous choreography Can we seize the moment, harness our habits and use all our known and unknown resources wisely?...

urbanative package Parkour & Freerunning A school for life! “Life is paved with many obstacles that must be overcome, so you can certainly transfer those skill locomotion art forms to the usual w...

Shamanic Improvisation Potential The potential of energy, ritual and magic An experiment to investigate the relationship between improvised dance, performance and shamanism. Exercises and experiences...

Performing Queer Making, unmaking, and breaking dance, identity, choreography, strategy Queer means odd or strange, not normal. Queer is a term of political solidarity for all who are not heterosexual,...

Social Dancing (aka Negotiation) Living now as we want the future to be A dance laboratory for experiments in touch, sensing, struggle, collaboration, support, resistance, and relationship. We will work...

Corpo-Reality Dancing the body as an instrument of perception, intuition and action. Deepening awareness and understanding of your physical instrument by investigating states of embodiment and the act...

GUT Motives An alternative contemporary dance class and on-going research investigating the act of motion from internal impulse to external expression. The work utilises a hybrid of forms to encourage...

Bust a move! A cardio experience Don’t stop! Bust a move is an all inclusive physical experience. Drawing on my beginnings as a HipHopper, go-go boy and social dancer I developed an aerobic non-stop d...

Out of the Pocket For this workshop we will explore spontaneous composition, or improvisation as a performance form. Our work will be centred around how to compose in the moment with others and make it...

Ghost Dancer Sound is the ghost dancer of a performance, haunting everything, shadowing every gesture. It is a political marker. It is the friendly push towards high physical states. It is also a gateway...

The Concept and the Idiot The idea behind this workshop is a general introduction to the manipulation of concepts – specifically the ones generated by contemporary philosophy. The landscape of this w...

Dispersed intimacies: salamanders, giant squid & baby whales - a post internet dance class Like a travelling fair or an extended family of de-constitutionalized beings, this workshop will materialize...

Centrifugal Empowerment Explore physicality The class builds progressively from deep and static stretching to very physical and dynamic phrases. Some of the main focuses of the class are the explorations...

Physical Verses Find freedom and creativity In this workshop we will work around certain choreographic ideas, some of them coming from previous creations. Exploring different qualities of movements,...

Contemporary Technique Beginners Instinct, games and discoveries The aim of this lab is to develop unique movement patterns by playing with different tools and qualities of movement such as rebound,...

Spontaneous Composition Spontaneous Composition is a workshop in which we will play with different tools: How to be ready to dance spontaneously in any situation without too long preparation? How to...

Contemporary Technique Intermediate Instinct, Support Action and Fearlessness My class is about working with powerful physicality related to the floor and air. The focus of the class is to develop movement...

Tools for partnering Physicality of dance, drama and emotional motivation of theatre This workshop will concentrate on partner work. We will study some basic concepts and discover through different exercises...

Ultima Vez Vocabulary Where are the limits? During this workshop we will study different materials from several shows ("What the Body Does Not Remember", "In Spite of Wishing and Wanting", "Inasmuch...

Ultima Vez Vocabulary Where are the limits? During this workshop we will study different materials from several shows ("What the Body Does Not Remember", "In Spite of Wishing and Wanting", "Inasmuch...

What are you waiting for, the apocalypse? Critique is so last year: consolidating positions, rendering opinion into currency and rhetorics into power. At the same time conviviality, ‘all inclusive’ and...

Richtig falsch! (12 -16J) Failure permitted! If this is right, then what is wrong? If this is wrong, what would be right? Is the opposite of right, always wrong? And how do you perform a mistake? We...

Autodomestication - the training #auto – self – domestication, #self-referenciality, auto-reference-reality, automatic (unaware?) domestication, becoming of pet, learning unaware self– and other, becom...

Start with Contact Improvisation! An explorative introduction and continuation of Contact Improvisation A Dialogue between two or more dancers Bodies moving around a constantly shifting contact point Perception...

Body Sculpting (About Kazuo Ohno) Sharing the creative process of Takao Kawaguchi’s performance About Kazuo Ohno. One of the legendary Butoh founders, Kazuo Ohno enchanted the world over with his dance. W...

Falling Matters - Axis Syllabus How does an authentic play with gravity look like? Does it exist? What is potential energy and where is it located? How much resistance, how much letting go?  How...

Conversations with Earth - Axis Syllabus "Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if...

These Arms of Mine - Axis Syllabus Let’s dive into a dynamic anatomical exploration of the shoulder-arm complex by investigating myofascial continuities, bone constellations as well as their sensory a...

Ecouter la Danse 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...

Ecouter la Danse 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...

SUMMER GROOVE (11-15J) Beach Party, Fruit Cocktails & Airbed In this workshop we turn the dance studio into a beach party. How do you dance HipHop at a party and what is a cypher? How can I dance...

bodyREALITIES II Movement qualities used in artistic ways Since 1995 the DIN A 13 dance company is one of the internationally leading mixed-abled dance companies. The uniqueness of their dance productions...

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 intensive workshop we will explore the Feldenkrais Method and gradually find out how to usefully integrate it into our movement repertoire...

urbanative package 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...

urbanative package 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...

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...

Gravityhappens: what the fascia? a crossover of movement training, body work and improvisation The slightly mysterious fascia is the counterpart of muscular action in movement. Muscle and fascia dialogue...

Afro-Haitian Dance Basic Training with Live-Drumming for letting go In this workshop Karine gives an insight into Afro-Haitian Dance spicing it up with contemporary dance training. Afro-Haitian Dance...

Interrelational Mobile Choreographic Architectures The aim of this workshop is to combine an awareness of corporal energy streams with the interspatial dynamics of fluids. With the participants, Benoît ...

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...

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...

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,...

Unambitious Stripper 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...

urbanative package 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...

ReWilding Attention Contact Improvisation meets ensemble dancing Physical attention is key to communication. But do we actually understand the varieties of attention? Do we get its significant influence...

Response-Ability: Physical communication This is a Contact Improvisation skills class that provokes dancers to train the bodymind in motion as a single action of attention. Tactile attention is key to...

Neo-Abstract & The Non-Image: Issues of Spirit and Embodiment A workshop on invisible worlds - Can we go beyond the image? We live in a capitalistic world, where images are attacking us from all...

GEMEINSAM.TANZEN (8-12J) We start to go on a dance-journey. A journey to faraway countries. We will exchange our favourite music and related dance moves and show them to one another. With the material...

Von Seepferdchen und Seifenblasen Water dances We will dive into the image of water and dance as if we are surrounded by it. We explore this element through dance and meet each other like water animals...

Yoga & The White Mask Capitulate or Backbending? "Oh my body, make of me always a man who questions!" – Frantz Fanon Is Yoga in the West wearing a white mask and therefore “forced” to identity itsel...

Yoga & ANTIFA Bang, Bang, I am the Warrior. This workshop will push back on fascist ideology through exploring anti-fascist activism, from the 80’s punk scene and the Dead Kennedy’s anthem, Nazi Pun...

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...

Heel Class Put on your sensuality! Dance is about expression: expression of who you are and who you want to be. The Heels Class is like a new challenge, like getting out of his comfort zone. It's about...

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

DanceAbility 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...

Afrikanischer Kindertanz (6-9J) Stories accompanied by drums Mamadou's long-standing presence at ImPulsTanz speaks in the favour of the dancer, musician, poet and storyteller. The songs for children...

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 ...

Ways of Telling Dance Audiodescription for contemporary dance for speakers and dance makers How can you translate dance into language, how can you describe authentic pictures of dance? Wiener Tanzwochen...

Swap Weakness for Something  In 1961 Claes Oldenburg published the short text “I am for an Art”. A series of I am for this and that and then art, a few years later Goshka Macuga and Marten Spangberg com...

Force and its direction, Pressure and its efficiency Creating a system, universe or organism with/in, which the body functions differently and gains different features seems to be essential or the centre...

Contact for Queers and Ladies Stared down, Letched on and Creeped out: Partnering skills for queers and ladies or subverting annoying hetero patriarchy shit (or we could put culture) in Contact Improvisation. (By...

Aggressive Snuggling: From the Politics of Touch to the Poetics of Touch I have recently started studying Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and I see many parallels to Contact. Like CI, in BJJ it is absolutely necessary...

SHALALA - AN ATTEMPT ON BORDERLINE MUSICALS This intensive workshop will deal with the idea of borderline musicals – their mysteries will be revealed and their topic will be dissected to the bone with s...

The Six Viewpoints This workshop is an intensive study in the benefits of Postmodern Deconstruction. This philosophical and practical work addresses six materials: Space, Shape, Time, Emotion, Movement...

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 ...