fly to fall
Zeitgenössischer Tanz für Jugendliche
Du hast Lust zu tanzen und Deine eigene Kreativität in Bewegung zu bringen? Du möchtest in einer festen Gruppe trainieren und experimentieren? Du würdest gerne auf der Bühne stehen oder ein eigenes Tanzvideo drehen? Mit Jana und Leonie von i | n | t | o dancecompany kannst du in diesem Kurs zeitgenössischen Tanz durch Choreografien, Technik- und Improvisationsübungen kennenlernen. Du lernst Bewegungsmaterial selbst zu kreieren, Choreografien deinen eigenen Ausdruck zu verleihen und mit deinem Körper etwas zu erzählen.
Neugierig geworden? Dann melde dich jetzt zur kostenlosen Probestunde an!
Der Schnupperkurs startet am 5. November 2020 und läuft zunächst über 7 Wochen. Im Anschluss, nach den Weihnachtsferien, soll dann ein fester Kurs entstehen.
Der Kurs richtet sich an alle Jugendlichen von 13 bis 18 Jahren, mit und ohne Tanzerfahrung.
Dozentinnen: Jana Vos und Leonie Naomi Baur
Termine:
Donnerstag 05.11.20 16:30 – 18:00 Uhr Kostenlose Probestunde!
Donnerstag 12.11.20 16:30 – 18:00 Uhr
Donnerstag 19.11.20 16:30 – 18:00 Uhr
Donnerstag 26.11.20 16:30 – 18:00 Uhr
Donnerstag 03.12.20 16:30 – 18:00 Uhr
Donnerstag 10.12.20 16:30 – 18:00 Uhr
Donnerstag 17.12.20 16:30 – 18:00 Uhr
Preis: 50€ / ermäßigt 35€ (alle 6 Termine)
Anmeldung: intodancecompany@gmail.com
Yoga basics & alignment
A thorough look at your yoga practice
Let’s take a look at our all time Yoga classics!
Alignment be like: Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
Practicing a couple of times a week, and repeating your basic poses a couple of times throughout the practice, easily adds up to a thousand repetitions per year. A recent study conducted by the University of Sydney found that yoga caused musculoskeletal pain in more than 10 percent of participants and exacerbated 21 percent of existing injuries.
So you really want to make sure your body is safe and happy in each individual pose.
Find your individual Asana expression!
To make sure that your Yoga is both sound and fulfilling, we will examine the general principles of a healthy physical alignment and attitude towards the practice. We will explore strategies for checking in on your own practice while in class or at home. Awareness and precision will help you to find more ease and clarity with tools to deepen and intensify your practice, according to your personal needs!
In this two day workshop we will explore a set of pose categories and individual poses together that form the foundation of your practice. From this base, we will expand into more complex variations and sister poses. Extra focus will be brought to parts of the body which are especially challenged in a yoga practice, such as shoulders, knees and lumbar spine. We will spend time addressing your personal questions and curiosities while creating an inner checklist based on an awareness and understanding of your individual physique, its strengths and needs. Each day, we will start by tuning in with a soft warm-up and close with a rounded vinyasa and hatha class where we put our new insights to practice.
This course invites everyone that wants to learn more about their Yoga practice, from beginners to more advanced practitioners.
Teacher: Vera Fenyvesi Köppern
Price: 45 €
PHYSICAL CUERPO LATINO With
KATARZYNA MYRDA
Physical cuerpo latino (en español "cuerpo" means "body") is the result of my great fascination with Latin America and Spanish culture. Latino culture has become main inspiration from which many interesting movement and cultural codes can be drawn, thus diversifying the physical training of the dancer and performer.
I am interested in how to preserve the essence of dance while choosing uncompromising movement. How to run the body with maximum joy from effort and how to build a performer not only from the level of movement, but also from the presence in his body.
The workshop is also closely related to my choreographic search. It has begun in 2017 when I started researching the body language exploring identity of cultural code. The first reflection on this subject was the creation of the solo "Krystyna in flamenco mood" which is my reflection about cultural body. So I mixed flamenco with contemporary dance and use it as a metaphor, carnality, culture, music, personality, a power of gesture and emotionality. This flamenco mood has led me to Spain, where I continue my research and enjoy practicing flamenco, cumbia colombiana and salsa. Spain is also a big step that brings me closer to another travel and becoming a salsa queen in Cali. Hehe.
So… let’s dance, explore, have a joy and share with happiness!
INSTRUCTOR: Katarzyna Myrda
TIME: Sunday, February 23rd 13:00 - 16:00
PRICE: 35€
LEVEL: Open (previous movement experience recommended)
REGISTRATION: paulstudiosberlin@gmail.com
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PERFORMANCE PROJECT With
JESSICA GAYNOR
This performance project will focus on making an original dance based on the choreographic processes developed by New York/Berlin based choreographer Jessica Gaynor. We will begin dancing together, developing a movement vocabulary which will include vigorous, high-energy dance phrases, movement that is bold, athletic and challenging, as well as digging into the more personal, and accessing connections and moments of intimacy. We will continue to develop the material collectively, manipulating movement, finding ways to fit together and fall apart, establishing what is awkward, fluid and interesting, exploring weight shifts and quick direction changes, and ultimately creating a movement conversation that incorporates the voices and innate movement sensibilities of all of the participants in the process.
The aim of this performance project is to experience a specific approach to dance-making, with a core company of dancers, working together in an intensive rehearsal process to create an original piece, culminating in a public performance.
INSTRUCTOR: Jessica Gaynor
TIME: 5 Saturdays, January 18th - February 15th @ 12:00 - 14:00 (February 15th @ 12:00-16:00)
PERFORMANCE: Saturday February 15 @ 17:00 (Free and open to the public)
PRICE: 65€ (5 sessions plus performance)
LEVEL: Open (previous movement experience recommended)
REGISTRATION: paulstudiosberlin@gmail.com
- Please register in advance to save your space! -
ABOUT JESSICA GAYNOR
My choreographic aesthetic is to create expression through the interplay of various elements: physicality, repetition, internal rhythms, focus, stillness, speed, silence, intention of movement, and beauty. I believe in choreography built on honesty, and dancing beyond the limits of one's physicality. Beauty can be achieved by creating a deeply charged energy on stage. If someone is moving at a pace so fast that she creates a force on stage, and suddenly finds herself in stillness -- that is beauty. Beauty is the human form reacting, breathing, feeling, and thinking. Physicality is beautiful. Being honest as a performer is beautiful. Dance is based in the human form which, when in motion, has the potential to be exquisite. Through abstract movement and sound, I attempt to extract emotion from pure physicality.
JESSICA GAYNOR DANCE is a modern dance company based in New York and Berlin. The company, hailed for its "risk-laden" (DIY Dancer) choreography and "sophisticated approach to pure dance," (The New Yorker), performs Gaynor's works that utilize kinetic physicality, intricate patterning, and formal structures in an exploration of the complexities of human experience. Over the last decade, Gaynor has created eighteen works, including eight evening length pieces, and has performed at venues such as The Skirball Center/NYU, Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out, Danspace Project, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, Baryshnikov Arts Center, The 92nd Street Y, The Kitchen, Peridance, Gowanus Art + Production, Hudson Guild Theater, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dixon Place, White Wave, Brown University, Built on Stilts Dance Festival on Martha's Vineyard, Listen/Space (USA), PAUL Studios, LAKE Studios, Errant Sounds, Petersburg Arts Space, Kühlspot (Berlin) and has been presented by Triskelion Arts (NYC) for eight sold-out seasons.
jessicagaynordance.com
OPEN CLASS SERIES WITH
ANNA-LISE MARIE HEARN
INSTRUCTOR: Anna-Lise Marie Hearn
TIME: 5 Saturday Mornings Nov. 16th - Dec. 14th, 10:30am-12:00pm
PRICE: Series Booking (all 5 sessions): 50 Euro / Drop In: 14 Euro
LEVEL: Open
REGISTRATION: paulstudiosberlin@gmail.com
Afro-Contemporary Dance from Haiti WITH Evens Clecerma
“Afro-Contemporary Dance from Haiti” is an irresistible mix of movements of various styles of dances of African, modern and jazz ancestry. Its tendency is to sensitize and recognize the body, restore a balance of the body with the spirit, seek harmony and awareness to control the inner strength. Feel the corporality, through improvisation and play, the laws of nature. ”(Evens Clercema)
Afro-Contemporary Dance from Haiti, is a dance that is born after the liberation of the slavery of the country, where those who were slaves celebrate their victory, being a dance that is danced with force and at the same time joy.
In the Worshop you work with the connection of the body through breathing and body joints completely. An aerobic dance, intense and energizing. Traditional Haitian symbology is integrated into the dance, its movements coming from mythological deities and animals, such as snakes and birds.
Workshop taught by Evens Clecerma, dancer, choreographer, dance director and sociologist of Haitian origin, currently based in Chile (South America). Director of the JafcoAmerica company. In his Workshops, Evens generously delivers all of his knowledge, as well as an integrative methodology, which allows anyone to participate in his classes.
INSTRUCTOR: Evens Clercema
TIME: October 23rd, 24th, 6:30pm-9:00pm
PRICE: 40 euros two days, 25 euros one day
REGISTRATION: evensafrotour@gmail.com
HANDS ON! Vol. 2
A GUIDED SESSION ON ONE-ON-ONE BODYWORK
At this time of year we could all use a little help relaxing our frozen joints and rigid shoulders. In these cold and dark days who would not like a back rub and some coziness?
Hands on! is a two-hour monthly session in which we share a number of softening, loosening and mobilizing bodywork methods done with a partner. Instructors Jojo Hammer, Vera Köppern and Edegar Starke will guide participants through exercises drawn from the methods of Reiki, Somatic Work, Axis Syllabus, Katsugen, Butoh, etc.. Partners will take turns giving and receiving, so that by the end of the session we have all learned new techniques as well as accepted a relaxing treatment. Join us in taking time to do something kind for each other and ourselves!
Hands on! take place in a friendly and inviting atmosphere and are open to everyone, no previous experience needed. The sessions are for you and about your well-being, please wear comfortable, warm clothing. Come alone or with a friend!
INSTRUCTORS: Edegar Fernando Starke, Jojo Hammer and Vera Köppern
TIME: March 2nd, 2pm-4pm
PRICE: 20 Euros
REGISTRATION: paulstudiosberlin@gmail.com
HANDS ON!
A GUIDED SESSION ON ONE-ON-ONE BODYWORK
Is Berlin's winter slowly creeping into your flesh and bones?
PAUL is here for you!
We invite you to a guided session of one-on-one bodywork. Let's bring a little cosiness into the dark, cold winter season! In this workshop we will explore different bodywork techniques with a partner. Together we will become versed in new possibilities in 'Hands on' work and, best of all, enjoy a relaxing treatment from our partners!
You don't have to register with a partner!
INSTRUCTORS: Edegar Fernando Starke, Jojo Hammer and Vera Köppern
TIME: February 2nd, 2pm-4pm
PRICE: 20 Euros
REGISTRATION: paulstudiosberlin@gmail.com
PERFORMATIC VOICE: PULSES, VIBRATIONS AND JOLTS
MONOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP ON THE VOCAL AND PERFORMATIVE WORK OF
ROCÍO GUZMÁN
In this workshop, we will explore the rhythms and impulses that provoke us to move, to speak, and to sing. We will deepen our understanding of the internal/external rhythms’ influence on us, as well as how they orient us in space, situations, actions and stillness.
The aim of the workshop is to provide tools to develop a brief scenic vocal proposal of performatic vocation which will be presented at the end of the workshop.
Open to all lovers of the performing arts. You do not need any previous singing experience to take part in the workshop.
Bring at least 5 songs learned by heart, bring instruments or pots to make noise or music, bring a personal playlist that moves you to dance, to move, or brings about clear emotions in you. Bring comfortable clothes and costumes of your choosing.
Rocio Guzmán
Rocio Guzmán is a singer and performer from a family of Andalusian musicians. Her study of classical texts in her training as a Graduate in Philosophy, along with the artistic family influence in the arts of flamenco and traditional Andalusian song, initiated her first contact with contemporary dance and physical theatre. This led her to study performance and singing at the PanthéÂtre and Roy Hart Centre in Paris.
Upon her return to spain, she worked as a director in several of her own stage creations, studied Sephardic music, Arabic and Flamenco influences, and began exploring Latin American Roots, Jazz, Free Improvisation, video creation and composition of stage music for dance. This training and experience led her to take part in international voice projects, as well as groups in the field of Contemporary dance and music. In the last ten years she has begun her solo career with musical and scenic research projects.
COURSE HOURS: January 26th & 27th, from 10:00 - 16:00
PRICE: 80 Euro
REGISTRATION: paulstudiosberlin@gmail.com
CHANGE, FORMATION, TRANSFORMATION
MOVEMENT WORKSHOP WITH ATTILA ANDRÁSI
CURRENT RESEARCH
Attila’s current research is a repetitive motion construction in which he seeks the resources of movement and the causes of change in a repetitive cycle. He is looking for repetitions of movement, patterns, qualities, and states.
During the research Attila has found that once you are in a repetitive process it creates a powerful state of self-determination- something that needs to be questioned and challenged.
What is this power? One’s own power that is inner power/energy source. Where does it come from? Where is in my body? Do we have a spiritual body? We hope to answer these questions with further research.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
In this workshop you can learn and explore the way that Attila works, you will be given an insight into the current research work and share your own ideas and findings from the tasks that you will be given.
This will be an improvisational driven workshop where Attila will let the crowds unfold and see different, individual feedback and experiences.
This is a guided hour where you will work in your own space with guidance and instruction from Attila, who is specifically looking for movers who can investigate what repetition is and how far you can take your bodies and find out what your limits are.
This workshop offers practical movement research tools to performance artists of various movement backgrounds. The tasks and information that will be provided requires a high level of physicality and curiosity. Candidates should have adequate experience with contemporary dance.
BIOGRAPHY
He was born in Hungary where his interest in dance started at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy. He gained his first experience in performing at Trafo and Mu Theatre in Budapest where he danced the role of the boys in Öröglakat by Sandor Petrovics. Attila continued his studies at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) where he gained professional experience at different festivals. (New Face Dance Festival in Salzburg, Symphonic Dance Festival, Tanz House Festival and To Spring Tanz Festival in Salzburg) During this time he worked with Alleyene dance company (UK), Eduardo Torroja (ESP), Jelka MIllic (SL), Elton Petri (GR), Rakes Sukes (IND) after he finished his study He was collaborating with Lior Lazarof (ISR) HZT Academy, Berlin with Anna Németh (HU) and The Ryder Project Gallery in London with Andrea Canepa (CO). Currently he is living and working in London where he is kiing the opportunity to develop his own company which just started.
COURSE HOURS: Monday January 21st- Friday January 25th, 2:00-6:00pm
PRICE: 110Euro (Full Workshop), 25Euro (Drop In)
REGISTRATION: andrasiworkshop@gmail.coha
Francesca Frewer & Erika Mitsuhashi
UNFIX : AN APPROACH TO OPENNESS IN DANCE IMPROVISATION
In this workshop, we will work towards a performative state where the dancer can embrace the nebulousness of the ever-changing present. We will begin by coming together with a group warm up, then move through a range of exercises, from simple movement tasks to free improvised scores. We will gradually build ourselves into a state that is both meditative and alive, where we can feel empowered in our choice-making while giving in to the unpredictable.
The workshop will incorporate tools for a personal improvisation practice, movement generation tools that Francesca and Erika use in their collaborative practice, and ideas specific to the work they are currently creating 'DUST' (which will be performed at PAUL).
COURSE HOURS: Saturday, 15.09.2018 from 13:00 - 16:00
PRICE: 35 Euro
REGISTRATION: paulstudiosberlin@gmail.com
JUAN CARLOS LéRIDA
IMPROVISATION, COMPOSITION, AND REPERTORY
The basis of this workshop are the accumulated working methods and material of the past 20 years of Juan Carlos Lérida’s artistic work. Juan Carlos Lérida shares his techniques and approaches of themes and of scenic work as well as concrete material. Accompanied by Juan Carlos, participants are invited to copy, to remix and to transform in order to find their own movement qualities, sequences and choreographic handwriting. We explore body and improvisation techniques using flamenco as a starting point for unique, rhythmical, and dynamic ways of moving.
The results of the workshop will be shared with the audience in a final showing.
The workshop addresses dancers of all disciplines. Juan Carlos specific approach facilitates an amplification of their proper range of movement qualities, independent of the participants’ previous experience with flamenco.
Juan Carlos Lérida is one of the forerunners of Contemporary Flamenco, an important innovative force, who constantly questions flamenco, breaks it open, and develops it further. With his creative and teaching technique, the Flamenco Empirico Method, Juan Carlos investigates flamenco, its formal language, dynamic and rhythm and makes it tangible for the audience and dancers.
His unique way of working is reflected in the works of flamenco artists such as Olga Pericet, Belen Maya, Marco Flores or Marco Vargas & Chloé Brûlé, for whom he works as a choreographer and director. He grew up studying classical flamenco and expanded his education by studying contemporary dance, physical theater, and improvisation. He founded and curated the contemporary flamenco festival “flamenco empirico” in Barcelona. He has been teaching flamenco, contemporary dance and composition at the Institut del Teatre Barcelona since 2002, and gives workshops on technique, composition and improvisation in flamenco worldwide.
In 2017 the documentary “Corps Flamenco” (F) was dedicated to the Flamenco Empirico Method.
www.juancarloslerida.com
COURSE HOURS: Monday, 09.07.2018 - Friday 13.07.2018 Everyday from 10:15 - 13:15
PRICE: 310 Euro, early bird: 270 Euro
*Register by June 18th, 2018 for early bird prices
REGISTRATION: paulstudiosberlin@gmail.com
*IN THE WEEK OF JULY 9TH-13TH, WE ARE HOSTING 3 WORKSHOPS WITH JUAN CARLOS LÉRIDA & SAMUEL LETELLIER. JOIN US FOR ONE, TWO OR ALL THREE WORKSHOPS!
A. Mo-Do, 9.00-10.00 - Arms to Fly, Wings to Dance with: Samuel Letellier
B. Mo-Fr, 10.15-13.15 - Improvisation, Composition and Repertory with: Juan Carlos Lérida
C. Mo-Do, 18.30-20.00 - The Pelvis, Power of the Self with: Samuel Letellier
COMBO PRICES:
A+B 355 Euro, early bird: 305 Euro
B+C 385 Euro, early bird: 335 Euro
A+C 150 Euro, early bird: 125 Euro
A+B+C 440 Euro, early bird: 385 Euro
SAMUEL LETELLIER - AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT - FELDENKRAIS
ARMS TO FLY WINGS TO DANCE & THE PELVIS POWER OF THE SELF
The Feldenkrais Method is a technique of self-awareness through movement.
We introduce a series of subtle movements that deepen the understanding of our own body’s habits. It is a method to gradually refine self-awareness, understand our body’s organisation and find ways of moving more efficiently, with less tension and greater depth.
This work is addressed to people that are interested in deepening and amplifying their range of movement. It invites artistic and personal growth, wellbeing, and offers relief to those who suffer from stress, backaches or neck pain, and chronic pain.
“The aim is a person that is organized to move with minimum effort and maximum efficiency, not through muscular strength, but through increased consciousness of how movement works.”
ARMS TO FLY, WINGS TO DANCE
We are going to have a close look at the organisation of movement in the shoulder girdle and the arms and explore how they articulate with the torso and the thoracic crest.
Through this work, we will achieve greater ease in the shoulders, by focusing on the relation between arms, thoracic crest and spine, we will free the cervical zone and the diaphragm.
THE PELVIS, THE POWER OF THE SELF
We will explore the flexibility of the pelvis, its supportive role in the body. We will work with subtle exercises addressing the pelvic floor. In the investigation of the hips, we will explore their role in the transmission of strength from the floor to spine and into the head. We will observe the head-to-pelvis connection in order to find flexibility in the thoracic crest.
These workshops can be taken separately. However, ideally they are taken together for a holistic experience. A full week of workshops focused on body & dance by guest artists Juan Carlos Lerida and Samuel Letellier.
Samuel worked as a professional dancer, choreographer and dance teacher for professional dancers, children and people with disabilities in numerous dance companies throughout Europe. He settled in Barcelona and dedicated himself entirely to the study of The Feldenkrais Method. Certified by Feldenkrais Federation International, he now shares and teaches this method in weekly classes and workshops throughout Europe as well as guest teaching at the Institut del Teatre, Barcelona.
*IN THE WEEK OF JULY 9TH-13TH, WE ARE HOSTING 3 WORKSHOPS WITH JUAN CARLOS LÉRIDA & SAMUEL LETELLIER. JOIN US FOR ONE, TWO OR ALL THREE WORKSHOPS!
COURSE HOURS:
A. Mo-Do, 9.00-10.00 - Arms to Fly, Wings to Dance with: Samuel Letellier
(60 Euro, early bird: 50 Euro)
B. Mo-Fr, 10.15-13.15 - Improvisation, Composition and Repertory with: Juan Carlos Lérida
(310 Euro, early bird: 270 Euro)
C. Mo-Do, 18.30-20.00 - The Pelvis, Power of the Self with: Samuel Letellier
(95 Euro, early bird: 85 Euro)
COMBO PRICES:
A+B 355 Euro, early bird: 305 Euro
B+C 385 Euro, early bird: 335 Euro
A+C 150 Euro, early bird: 125 Euro
A+B+C 440 Euro, early bird: 385 Euro
*Register by June 18th, 2018 for early bird prices
REGISTRATION: paulstudiosberlin@gmail.com
ALBERTO CORTés - Sanctify The Parties
A WORKSHOP FOR FLAMENCO DANCERS, CONTEMPORARY DANCERS, AND PARTY LOVERS TO INVESTIGATE THE STATE OF PARTYING
“Party means collective celebration, the primacy of the public over the private.
It is the sacrifice of the private for the sake of the public. An act of transgression where certain
institutions must be discredited in order to sanctify the collective order.
”
SANCTIFY THE PARTIES is a workshop approaching the concepts of tradition and festivity from a contemporary perspective.Impurity, remix and audiovisual narrative will be recurrent concepts, along with onstage audiovisual codes concerning the body. We will also address different ways of approaching folklore as an act of rebellion (post-folklore) and of participating in a collective celebration of electronic party. The concept of purity in different artistic spheres such as flamenco will be discussed. The objective is to reach the State of Partying, a state able to free our body and pull us away from fear.
ENRIQUE GIL CALVO AND THE "STATE OF PARTYING" :
The work "State of Partying" written by the sociologist Enrique Gil Calvo is a cornerstone of our methodology, especially in his conception of party as a public, collective and liberating entity, which coincides with our lines of research. Several excerpts from his work will be analysed and discussed.
FINAL SHOWING :
The last day will consist of a public showing on stage drawing on the tools gained through the process of the workshop.
ALBERTO CORTÉS WORK IN CONNECTION TO FESTIVITY :
https://vimeo.com/83676417 https://vimeo.com/115869755
https://vimeo.com/112660404 https://vimeo.com/142572628
COURSE HOURS: May 17th and 18th, 10:00-15:00
PRICE: 70 €
REGISTRATION: paulstudiosberlin@gmail.com
VERA Köppern - Musicality & Space
(AND A LITTLE BIT OF FLAMENCO)
In this workshop we will delve into musicality through body and footwork while exploring the concepts of space-time-sound. One focus of the course is technique in order to 'tune our instrument', another point of focus is improvisation. We play with music of different disciplines and use silence as a point of departure. This workshop is open to all levels!
COURSE HOURS: April 7th and 8th, each 11 to 1.30
PRICE: 75/ 80/ 85 €
REGISTRATION: email paulstudiosberlin@gmail.com
Noemi Luz - The Body as an instrument
An introduction to the concept of the body as a musical instrument in space, for performance artists and dancers of all disciplines.
This two day course (2 sessions of 2 hours), will delve into rhythms and movement qualities within the moving body with a focus on grounding and exploring movement dynamics through tension and release. By approaching the exceptional movement qualities underlying flamenco, we will use flamenco dance as a gateway to deeper grounding and investigating new dynamics of the body in space and time. As we investigate the idea of the dancer as a musician and the deep musicality intrinsic in flamenco, participants will be encouraged to connect on a deeper level with the rhythm and pulse of their bodies, sitting into it in a grounded and connected way as opposed to sailing above it. Dancers and Performers of all disciplines are encouraged to attend this workshop to explore new movement vocabularies and musicalities for their practice.
Noemí Luz is a multidisciplinary artist who works with flamenco, contemporary dance and visual arts. She trained classically at Elmhurst Ballet School and Central School of Ballet and also has an HNC Diploma in Fine Art. Noemí relocated to Seville in 2007 where she specialized in traditional flamenco and bata de cola under the tutelage of her mentor Yolanda Heredia. She has performed in venues such as Tablao Arenal, Casa de la Guitarra, Peña la Perla de Cadiz and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo. She has also collaborated with Yolanda Heredia on bata de cola masterclasses in Seville.
In 2014 Noemí formed part of an artistic residency in Florida run by choreographer Niurca Márquez. She also co-founded award-winning dotdotdot dance company along with Magdalena Mannion and Yinka Esi Graves. They most recently performed in Sadler’s Wells ‘Sampled’ festival in February 2017 and are currently developing a triple bill of work titled ‘In Body’.
Noemí premiered her solo work ‘The Ugly Truth’, a collaboration with sound designer José Tomé in London at the Cervantes Theatre in 2017 and has also performed the work at Coetani Festival of Experimental Flamenco in Athens. She is currently working on a new project called ‘Silver Thread’ which addresses the fragile nature of memory and the issues faced by those affected by dementia. This is a collaboration with spoken word artist Toni Stuart and sound designer José Tomé.
COURSE HOURS: Saturday 10.03.2018 & Sunday 11.03.2018 From 13:00-15:00
PRICE: 70Euro
REGISTRATION: email: paulstudiosberlin@gmail.com
or call: 0176 84743115 (Vera Köppern), 0151 59247665 (Jojo Hammer)
Ania WItkowska - Somatic Study Group for Professionals
An opportunity for body and mind focused Therapists, Educators and Heilpraktiker to enrich their current practice by developing their embodied presence. Working experientially with the principles of Body Mind Centering® and Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy the sessions will support you to reflect on and resource your work.
The process of Somatic Movement Education starts with the body, using, awareness, touch, image, anatomy and metaphor in order to bring sensation into consciousness and support a deep connection of body to mind.
This professional development programme begins with four, once weekly meetings in which we will work experientially to explore:
• our individual body system awareness and connection - where is our strength, which
systems are less known, less accessible to us.
• selected embryological development processes and developmental movement patterns.
• transitions, which tissues can support us in moving from listening to giving.
• touch, perception and intention
Sessions will include sensing, movement, experiential anatomy, time to process, reflect and discuss specific applications, the similarities and differences between our disciplines.
Sessions will be supported by reading materials, images and references and will be conducted in English - with a good understanding of German so if you are less confident to express yourself in English we can discuss and feedback in German.
The group will meet four times in 2017,
Course Hours: Monday mornings 10.15-13.15 on 20th and 27th November, 4th and 11th December
Price: for 2017 Study Group series is 125€ (4 x 3 hours). Our subsequent sessions will be priced at 35€ per person, per session, dates to be confirmed.
This will be a closed, confidential group with a minimum of 6, maximum 10 participants.
Booking closes on Sunday November 12th.
Registration: Book your place by email- ania@witkowska.com
JUAN CARLOS LERIDA - FLAMENCO EMPERICO METHOD
TECHNIQUE, IMPROVISATION AND COMPOSITION IN FLAMENCO
Juan Carlos Lerida is considered one of the forerunners of contemporary flamenco. He explores the flamenco artistically and didactically, freeing him from stereotypes and opening up space for a personal, unique access to flamenco.
With his highly acclaimed play 'Al Baile', the final work of his trilogy 'Al Toque' - 'Al Cante' - 'Al Baile', he is currently touring worldwide as a dancer, choreographer and lecturer. Having grown up with classical flamenco, he expanded his education by studying contemporary dance, physical theater and improvisation. He founded and curated the contemporary flamenco festival 'flamenco empirico' in Barcelona and further solidified his successful working and teaching method of the same name.
With this workshop, Juan Carlos Lerida offers an introduction to his unique approach to flamenco - a must for all those who want to expand their flamenco and explore a different side! Juan Carlos Leridas 'Flamenco Empirico Method' teaches a liberated, lustful and unconstrained approach to flamenco and creativity in flamenco. As a sensitive and experienced teacher, he teaches a guaranteed new way of working in flamenco technology and provides the tools to live his own ideas, concepts and competences in and through the flamenco. Juan Carlos shows his students the way to discover their own artistic expression in flamenco and to discover, explore, expand ones own 'universo flamenco'.
The workshop is aimed at dance enthusiasts of every level (from beginners to professionals!). Juan Carlos' specific approach allows all participants to expand their own flamenco horizons regardless of their previous dance experience. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us!
COURSE HOURS: Monday 10.07. - Friday 14.07.2017 every day from 10 to 13 clock
PRICE: 270 € for the early booking discount (until 12.6.2017), then 310 €
REGISTRATION: email: paulstudiosberlin@gmail.com
or call: 0176 84743115 (Vera Köppern), 0151 59247665 (Jojo Hammer)
OSCILLATE - DANCE AND MUSIC IN DIALOGUE
This two day workshop is designed for dancers and movers of all disciplines. Together we will explore the dialogue between the dancer and the music .
With backgrounds in both music and dance, we’ve developed a workshop format that allows participants to explore their connection and approaches to music instantaneously with both pre-produced music and live improvised music.
Jojo and Vera come from both contemporary dance and contemporary flamenco backgrounds, offering a wide perspective on the body’s interaction with music as well as an approach to flamenco’s sharp and rhythmical movement vocabulary. We will examine the music’s various layers and dynamics as we search for our independence and power within music and sound. The body’s capabilities as an instrument will be explored as we play along, with, against, and parallel to the musical instruments. Together, we will examine how we can position ourselves with the music, creating stark juxtapositions or melding the two disciplines into one. We will approach composing duets and trios with the music as a partner, explore the rhythmic body, and examine the difference between a rhythm or beat coming from the outside that would propose, or even dictate, a certain metrical system to move to, and our own, endogenous rhythms. This workshop will delve into our own archaic understanding of how our bodies can live (within) rhythm.
Jojo Hammer - Contemporary Dance/Flamenco
Vera Köppern - Contemporary Flamenco
Mathieu Poterie - Composition, Producing, Contemporary Dance Accompaniment
Schedule:
Saturday, April 8th, 10am - 1pm and 2.30pm - 4.30pm
Sunday, April 9th, 10:30am - 1:30pm and 3pm -5.15pm, then presentation
Prices: 90,- € Early Bird Discount until March 27th, then 110,- €
Flamenco-workshop WITH juan carlos lerida
FLAMENCO TECHNIQUE, IMPROVISATION AND COMPOSITION
Juan Carlos Lerida is regarded as one of the forerunners of Contemporary Flamenco movement. He explores flamenco artistically and didactically, freeing him from stereotypes and opening up space for a personal, unique access to flamenco.
His unique way of working is reflected in the works of flamenco artists such as Olga Pericet, Belen Maya, Marco Flores or Marco Vargas & Chloé Brûlé, for whom he works as a choreographer and director. He grew up studying classical flamenco and expanded his education by studying contemporary dance, physical theater, and improvisation. He founded and curated the contemporary flamenco festival “flamenco empirico” in Barcelona and developed a successful method of working and teaching under the same name. He has been teaching flamenco, contemporary dance and composition at the Institut del Teatre Barcelona since 2002, and gives workshops on technique, composition and improvisation in flamenco worldwide.
www.juancarloslerida.com
In this workshop, Juan Carlos Lerida introduces his unique approach to flamenco dance - a must for all who want to expand their training and explore a different side of the technique! Juan Carlos Leridas 'flamenco empirico method' teaches a liberated, lustful, and unconstrained approach to flamenco and your own creativity in flamenco. As a sensitive and experienced teacher, he provides a guaranteed novel approach to flamenco technique, as well as the tools to express ones own concepts and competences in and through flamenco. Juan Carlos teaches his students how to reach personal artistic expression within flamenco and to discover, explore, and expand ones own “universo flamenco”. This workshop deals specifically with improvisation and site specific composition. We use the resources of flamenco as tools for creation and open and expand the possibilities of flamenco aesthetics and shape. We perceive the space as an effect, the music as our support, and bring our flamenco to a specific place, a kitchen, a dressing room, a courtyard entrance. We let the dance of the room influence and develop it through new impulses.
The course takes place in the rooms of PAUL studios Berlin; These rooms are available daily for the rehearsals and research for 2 hours before the workshop.
COURSE TIMES:
Monday 18.7. - Friday 22.7.2016 from 7 pm to 9 pm
PRICE:
230 € with early booking discount (until 20.6.2015), then 260 € regular booking
REGISTRATION:
Email: paulstudiosberlin@gmail.com
Or call: 0176 84743115 (Vera Köppern)
Photo: Francisco Villalta
WHERE WITH MY Arms?
WORKSHOP FOR SINGERS - WITHIN BODY PRESENCE & EXPRESSION - MARCH 12th-13th 2015
When singing, the body is an instrument, radiating power, expression, and agility through the voice. Often, however, the intense focus on the voice seems to slow down our otherwise self-evident handling with the body. While singing the arms become strange appendages, which somehow want to be moved. So how can we remain present in our bodies while simultaneously maintaining concentration on the voice?
In this workshop, we are looking at ways to translate the power, intention, speed and color of the voice into movement, presence, expression and permeability of the body. We are searching for the ways in which the voice and body not only work in parallel, but work, express, and flow together.
To synchronize body and voice we will work on a somatic level at the perception of the body at the muscular level, as well as the bones, joints, and tendons. We will listen to the body, observe and support its natural response to vocal movement. Finally we will work on an interpretative level with physical expression, playfulness, seriousness, changeability, trace vocal and verbal images with gestures, in a manner that supports the vocal flow.
Vera's focus is on the performative and expressive potential of organic movement, of alert, agile, and conscious bodies.
Course Times:
Saturday, March 12th, 13-15h
Sunday, March 13th, 13-15h
Price: 60 euros
FLAMENCO NOW
FLAMENCO DANCE WORKSHOP FROM A CONTEMPORARY VIEWPOINT
We, Vera Köppern and Elisabeth Keuck, invite you to a workshop from March 4th-6th 2016!
This workshop is aimed at those who wish to expand and deepen their flamenco vocabulary.
Throughout our workshop, we will be exploring a vivid, authentic and penetrating interpretation of classical flamenco choreographies, and introducing a work of contemporary flamenco.
We approach movement with ease and seek access to what moves us in dance. We discover the ground as an ally, the balance as a source of strength, and we strengthen our own body perception. We observe our muscles, our skeleton and small details in the body and their great effects on movements and postures - both internally and externally. We consider basic elements such as our breathing, the floor, the space, the group, the music and objects for the dance and place them in new relationships with ourselves. We examine the flamenco rhythm as well as the form of flamenco movements and sounds and place them in an organic context with ourselves.
This course is the first of a series of workshops on flamenco in contemporary contemplation, with a particular focus on the elements of physicality, improvisation and composition.
Course Times: March 4th-6th 2016 // Friday 18:00-20:00, Saturday & Sunday 1:00-4:00
Price: 110 €
Information & Registration:
E-Mail: paulstudiosberlin@gmail.com
Or Call: 0176-84743115
LABORATORY "THE BODY ON THE STAGE" WITH CITLALI HUEZO SÁNCHEZ - MAY 20TH TO JUNE 12TH
From May 20th to June 12th, Citlali Huezo Sanchez will open a LABORATORY where we examine scenic design through body and movement! In doing so, we explore the fundamental principles of the body as a presence on the stage such as centering, attention, directions, tension-relaxation and impulse-counter-impulses. We consider the body as an active presence that shapes time and space. We examine the phase before the word or movement, the silence and the immobility to discover impulses and the need for word and movement. In four 'laboratory units', we will work on the design of a common and personal gestural vocabulary: we examine the quality of movement, create movement splits, translate word, object, concept, image into movement language. With the use of new and existing tools, scene - solos, duets or group scenes are created. The lab will culminate in a joint work showing.
Course Times: May 20th - June 10th Wednesdays from 11:15-14:15, Showing on June 12th at 20:00
Price: 65 euros
Information & Registration:
E-Mail: paulstudiosberlin@gmail.com
WEEKLY COURSE PRICES:
PAUL would like to give everyone the opportunity to move, regardless of their financial situation. Therefore, we are launching a brand new Income-Based price system for our classes!
There are three different price brackets based on your income. The first price applies if your income is less than 700 Euros per month, the middle price applies if your income is less than 1000 Euros per month, and the last price applies if your income is more than 1000 Euros per month. Choose which price applies to you based on your income and then choose between our three different payment methods; Drop-In, 10 Class Card, or a Monthly payment with a contract.
This system is flexible and based on trust. You may change your price bracket whenever necessary and there is no need for proof of your finances. Please keep in mind that in order to offer these lower prices, we need a percentage of our students to pay at least our standard (middle) prices to balance out our costs.
TRIAL CLASS: Your first lesson costs 7 Euro regardless of length