Saturday 26^th 18:00-21:00 and Sunday 27^th 10:00-14:00

With Xenia Taniko Dwertmann

The body, both borderless and inhibited, exists in strata and is always more or less than just one body. It exists as continuous imagination(s) and offers a tremendous potential of possibilities. Perceiving the body as multiple, as a landscape, as a collection of body parts and centers, offers a play-ground in which there is no such thing as false movement or form. 

In this workshop we will engage with the creative potential of the body and explore its un-set movement possibilities through experience and experimentation. Using tools from contemporary & postmodern dance, we will work with the body as material and medium rather than as instrument.

We will navigate through movement and perception practices that allow arriving into the body and tuning the senses.  We will play with simple exercises and intricate guided improvisations in order to explore different physical states. 

“I am interested in finding ways to connect imaginative and physical body(ies), exploring in what ways they can affect and trick each other. In my teaching I strive to share tools/methods in a way that they can be used and appropriated by everyone individually.”

The workshop is open to everyone who is interested in working creatively with and through the body, independently of background or level of experience. Please inscribe.

Sliding scale contribution.

Xenia Taniko Dwertmann is a movement based artist living and working in Berlin. She has studied "Dance, Context, Choreography" at the HZT in Berlin and with diverse international artists in the fields of dance, choreography, performance, and film - among others: Alice Chauchat, Eva Karczag, Litó Walkey, Simone Aughterlony, Keith Hennessy, Kira Kirsch, Lucy Cash, Florian Feigl, Frey Faust.

With Roni Katz and Agata Siniarska she works in Female Trouble, a collective sharing artistic, intellectual, personal and political discourse on identities, bodies, femininities and feminisms.

Her latest solo dance performance SOMATHEQUE investigates the physical relation between object and human body and the potential for transformation on stage bringing forth the other bodies that each body holds.

She is interested in the relation between idea and body, how imagining and sensing inform each other. Her sources are experiences in improvisation and teaching practice, somatic techniques, philosophical thought and political theory.