This class draws from experiences with release-based and traditional modern dance techniques, from the work with contact as well as Forsythe improvisation methods and yoga. Class will begin with a simple warm-up on the floor or with improv exercises focusing on establishing a feeling for the center and the basic connections of the moving body as well as an efficient use of weight and breath. Class will continue with exercises at increasingly higher intensity and with an emphasis on an ever larger range of motion, clear and efficient transitions and an appropriate use of dynamic changes. The class culminates with a longer movement sequence meant to give room to apply technical discoveries that may have been made throughout the class while at the same time allowing for personal experiences in regards to space, the connection to fellow dancers and/or to the pure pleasure of moving. Falling and failure are highly encouraged.

Ildikó Tóth studied dance in education at Rotterdam Dance Academy in the Netherlands. After graduating, a DAAD scholarship led her to New York City in 2005 where she worked with Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Company, Susan Marshall & Company as well as Kota Yamazaki among others. Since November 2012 she is a member of the Forsythe Company. She has taught for the department of education at Nederlands Dans Theater among others, and has been assisting Bill Young with staging new work for students at Barnard College in New York City.

Taulant Shehu, a dancer from the Hessian State Ballet and up-and-coming choreographer, explores his Albanian roots in his new creation Dua. “Family and traditions are two important foundations for Albanian culture; there is hardly another time when they are more closely bound than at a wedding ceremony,” he says. In Dua, a wedding as the pinnacle of festiveness, happiness and the promise of remaining together forever becomes the point of departure to reflect on living together in general. Taulant Shehu directs his attention to the individual participants and choreographically explores their own stories, emotions and backgrounds.

The composer Arne Stevens provides music for this danced approach to tradition; it places the cultural origins of this work in a musical focus as well by working with traditional Albanian instruments.

Choreography: Taulant Shehu
With:* Amelia Eisen, Jorge Bascuñan Rivera Neto, Richard Oberscheven, Mamiko Sakurai, Lara Peinado, Max Levy
Composing: Arne Stevens
Production Manager: Sina Schönfeld
Costumes: Jennifer Harres
Light: Jonathan Pickers

Thurs. Nov. 15 | 7 pm | Warm up for spectators

Premiere in the German-speaking area/No language skills required

This year, Meg Stuart receives the Biennale de Venezia’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
In her latest dance piece, which is as associative as it is emotional, the choreographer goes on a journey into the human psyche. In a space of innumerable lightbulbs, designed by the Indonesian artist Jompet Kuswidananto, three dancers reveal layers of memory that have never been heard before. To driving sounds by the experimental musicians Mieko Suzuki and Ikbal Simamora Lubys, bodies meet more with gestures than narrative action – to then separate again. Darkness and light, unconscious and conscious elements, East and West all appear to want to connect in a universe of humanity. This piece is a real trip. In one word: mesmerizing!

Choreography: Meg Stuart
Installation: Jompet Kuswidananto
By and with: Jule Flierl, Gaëtan Rusquet, Claire Vivianne Sobottke
Live Music: Mieko Suzuki, Ikbal Simamora Lubys

Whistle While You Work is a platform addressing sexual harassment, discrimination and abuse in the arts with a special focus in dance. Dancer Frances Chiaverini and writer Robyn Doty, founders of the initiative are facilitating a workshop to open a forum where the local community can engage in a discussion, directly pointing out abuses of power, identifying deficits and formulating strategies of empowerment. Everyone from the dance world is invited: dancers, choreographers, programmers, administrators and production manager.

In English.

Ohad Naharin is considered one of the most original and progressive dance creators of our time. In Sadeh21, he let dancers of the company he directs, the Batsheva Dance Company, meet and explore the spaces of interpersonal relationships. He not only received waves of enthusiasm from audiences throughout the world – he also captivated international dance critics. After its world premiere, the piece travelled from Tel Aviv to New York, from Hamburg to Perth in Australia – always danced by 18 dancers of the Batsheva Dance Company. For the premiere at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, the piece will be put on stage by a different company for the first time.

In 21 exciting fields ( הדש , sadeh, Hebrew: field), in 21 sections, Ohad Naharin shows the audience the entire expanse of relationships and meetings, of attraction, rejection and all human sentiments in between – in all possible combinations and constellations. Thus our dancers will enter into this pressure chamber of emotions to open the Hessian State Ballet’s season; here they will meet in a spirit of sensitivity and explosiveness – to then finally submit themselves to the overwhelming flood of danced images.

Length: 75 min.

Choreography: Ohad Naharin
Music selected by: Maxim Waratt
Stage: Ohad Naharin
Lighting: Avi Yona Bueno
Costume: Ariel Cohen
Dance: Hessisches Staatsballett

Premiere in the German-speaking area/No language skills required

This year, Meg Stuart receives the Biennale de Venezia’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
In her latest dance piece, which is as associative as it is emotional, the choreographer goes on a journey into the human psyche. In a space of innumerable lightbulbs, designed by the Indonesian artist Jompet Kuswidananto, three dancers reveal layers of memory that have never been heard before. To driving sounds by the experimental musicians Mieko Suzuki and Ikbal Simamora Lubys, bodies meet more with gestures than narrative action – to then separate again. Darkness and light, unconscious and conscious elements, East and West all appear to want to connect in a universe of humanity. This piece is a real trip. In one word: mesmerizing!

Choreography: Meg Stuart
Installation: Jompet Kuswidananto
By and with: Jule Flierl, Gaëtan Rusquet, Claire Vivianne Sobottke
Live Music: Mieko Suzuki, Ikbal Simamora Lubys

Premiere in the German-speaking area/No language skills required

This year, Meg Stuart receives the Biennale de Venezia’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
In her latest dance piece, which is as associative as it is emotional, the choreographer goes on a journey into the human psyche. In a space of innumerable lightbulbs, designed by the Indonesian artist Jompet Kuswidananto, three dancers reveal layers of memory that have never been heard before. To driving sounds by the experimental musicians Mieko Suzuki and Ikbal Simamora Lubys, bodies meet more with gestures than narrative action – to then separate again. Darkness and light, unconscious and conscious elements, East and West all appear to want to connect in a universe of humanity. This piece is a real trip. In one word: mesmerizing!

Choreography: Meg Stuart
Installation: Jompet Kuswidananto
By and with: Jule Flierl, Gaëtan Rusquet, Claire Vivianne Sobottke
Live Music: Mieko Suzuki, Ikbal Simamora Lubys

After five days of intensive work and choreographic research, Emanuel Gat and dance students from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt present the outcome of their encounter.

This Contemporary Dance training is a combination of yoga, floor work and release based techniques. We start with a warm-up that slowly awakens the body-mind, engages the breath and gradually prepares the body thru simple movement patterns. Emphasizing the sense of gravity and ability to move with ease, the warm-up is followed by phrases that build up towards more complexity, focusing on: changes of level, locomotion, directions in space and altering tone of the body. The class aims at supporting and developing both, the gain of physical strength as well as the effortlessness of the body in motion.

Katja Mustonen is a Finnish dancer, teacher and dance maker, who currently works and lives in Frankfurt, Germany. She graduated from the Vocational Dance School in Outukumpu, Finland 2004 as dancer, and holds a MA degree in “Contemporary Dance Pedagogy” from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany. In the artistic field she is curious about the diverse possibilities and ever-changing landscapes within movement and improvisation, especially when it comes to performance and states of presence. She believes that art and life are not separate, and keeps pondering upon the question, how dance as a tool can be useful in making difference in individuals?

What is taken for granted by many professional athletes – medical and therapeutic support throughout their entire active career – should also become available for dancers!
Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Benita Kuni will offer support and assistance on the following:

• Prevention of Dance Injuries
• Rehabilitation and How to Make a Comeback after a Dance Injury
• Analysis of Dance Technique and Technique Coaching
• Alternative Training Methods for Dancers
• “Dance Medicine Check-Up”
• Guidance and Supervision in the Field of Dance Medicine

Registration:
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This Contemporary Dance training is a combination of yoga, floor work and release based techniques. We start with a warm-up that slowly awakens the body-mind, engages the breath and gradually prepares the body thru simple movement patterns. Emphasizing the sense of gravity and ability to move with ease, the warm-up is followed by phrases that build up towards more complexity, focusing on: changes of level, locomotion, directions in space and altering tone of the body. The class aims at supporting and developing both, the gain of physical strength as well as the effortlessness of the body in motion.

Katja Mustonen is a Finnish dancer, teacher and dance maker, who currently works and lives in Frankfurt, Germany. She graduated from the Vocational Dance School in Outukumpu, Finland 2004 as dancer, and holds a MA degree in “Contemporary Dance Pedagogy” from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany. In the artistic field she is curious about the diverse possibilities and ever-changing landscapes within movement and improvisation, especially when it comes to performance and states of presence. She believes that art and life are not separate, and keeps pondering upon the question, how dance as a tool can be useful in making difference in individuals?

This Contemporary Dance training is a combination of yoga, floor work and release based techniques. We start with a warm-up that slowly awakens the body-mind, engages the breath and gradually prepares the body thru simple movement patterns. Emphasizing the sense of gravity and ability to move with ease, the warm-up is followed by phrases that build up towards more complexity, focusing on: changes of level, locomotion, directions in space and altering tone of the body. The class aims at supporting and developing both, the gain of physical strength as well as the effortlessness of the body in motion.

Katja Mustonen is a Finnish dancer, teacher and dance maker, who currently works and lives in Frankfurt, Germany. She graduated from the Vocational Dance School in Outukumpu, Finland 2004 as dancer, and holds a MA degree in “Contemporary Dance Pedagogy” from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany. In the artistic field she is curious about the diverse possibilities and ever-changing landscapes within movement and improvisation, especially when it comes to performance and states of presence. She believes that art and life are not separate, and keeps pondering upon the question, how dance as a tool can be useful in making difference in individuals?

This Contemporary Dance training is a combination of yoga, floor work and release based techniques. We start with a warm-up that slowly awakens the body-mind, engages the breath and gradually prepares the body thru simple movement patterns. Emphasizing the sense of gravity and ability to move with ease, the warm-up is followed by phrases that build up towards more complexity, focusing on: changes of level, locomotion, directions in space and altering tone of the body. The class aims at supporting and developing both, the gain of physical strength as well as the effortlessness of the body in motion.

Katja Mustonen is a Finnish dancer, teacher and dance maker, who currently works and lives in Frankfurt, Germany. She graduated from the Vocational Dance School in Outukumpu, Finland 2004 as dancer, and holds a MA degree in “Contemporary Dance Pedagogy” from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany. In the artistic field she is curious about the diverse possibilities and ever-changing landscapes within movement and improvisation, especially when it comes to performance and states of presence. She believes that art and life are not separate, and keeps pondering upon the question, how dance as a tool can be useful in making difference in individuals?

This Contemporary Dance training is a combination of yoga, floor work and release based techniques. We start with a warm-up that slowly awakens the body-mind, engages the breath and gradually prepares the body thru simple movement patterns. Emphasizing the sense of gravity and ability to move with ease, the warm-up is followed by phrases that build up towards more complexity, focusing on: changes of level, locomotion, directions in space and altering tone of the body. The class aims at supporting and developing both, the gain of physical strength as well as the effortlessness of the body in motion.

Katja Mustonen is a Finnish dancer, teacher and dance maker, who currently works and lives in Frankfurt, Germany. She graduated from the Vocational Dance School in Outukumpu, Finland 2004 as dancer, and holds a MA degree in “Contemporary Dance Pedagogy” from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany. In the artistic field she is curious about the diverse possibilities and ever-changing landscapes within movement and improvisation, especially when it comes to performance and states of presence. She believes that art and life are not separate, and keeps pondering upon the question, how dance as a tool can be useful in making difference in individuals?

Sat, 24.11., 3 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Sun, 25.11., 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Frey Faust is a veteran of the New York contemporary dance scene. In the late 90’s he developed an interdisciplinary movement analysis system. “The Axis Syllabus” system designates different parts of the body as “motors” and explores their potential for energy creation. The AS recognizes both broad general commonalities as well as unique individual qualities and proportions, and invites the student to work with rather than against their body’s resources.
In his workshop, Frey Faust invites the participants to practice for example the kinetic energy transfer from one body part to the other, practice joint centration and dynamic alignment, explore various options for optimal articular motion and turn physics to their favour for both large and small scale movements. The workshop addresses participants who have already gained basic experience in dance and movement techniques.

Students of the Master‘s Program in Contemporary Dance Education teach the profi-training classes on alternating days. During the course of Wilde Woche, the students build on team and individual teaching to offer a range of modern and contemporary dance techniques, training and exploration.

Students of the Master‘s Program in Contemporary Dance Education teach the profi-training classes on alternating days. During the course of Wilde Woche, the students build on team and individual teaching to offer a range of modern and contemporary dance techniques, training and exploration.

Students of the Master‘s Program in Contemporary Dance Education teach the profi-training classes on alternating days. During the course of Wilde Woche, the students build on team and individual teaching to offer a range of modern and contemporary dance techniques, training and exploration.

Students of the Master‘s Program in Contemporary Dance Education teach the profi-training classes on alternating days. During the course of Wilde Woche, the students build on team and individual teaching to offer a range of modern and contemporary dance techniques, training and exploration.

Students of the Master‘s Program in Contemporary Dance Education teach the profi-training classes on alternating days. During the course of Wilde Woche, the students build on team and individual teaching to offer a range of modern and contemporary dance techniques, training and exploration.

Kasia’s class is experimenting with diverse movement qualities, combining technique and different dynamics with personal interpretation and sensitivity. The class consists of phrases built upon spatial orientation, movement complexity and coordination, allowing space for individual movement exploration. This practice aims to establish energetic patterns and interconnectedness of the body parts. Being a result of personal investigation, this training is influenced by improvisation and classical training.

Katarzyna Kizior – dancer, teacher and choreographer born in Poland. She studied ballet and folk dance at the National Ballet School. Since 2006 she has been working with Swirls Dance Company and The Opera House in Warsaw, Polin- Museum and with The Dramatic Theater in Warsaw. Apart from dance experience, she choreographs for TV formats such as So you think you can dance Poland, films and commercials. In 2015 she obtained a master’s degree in Contemporary Dance Education from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. She expanded her classical dance background to more awareness-related work like Release Technique, Improvisation, and Yoga. The strength and value of her experience lies in diversity and multiple genres.

Kasia’s class is experimenting with diverse movement qualities, combining technique and different dynamics with personal interpretation and sensitivity. The class consists of phrases built upon spatial orientation, movement complexity and coordination, allowing space for individual movement exploration. This practice aims to establish energetic patterns and interconnectedness of the body parts. Being a result of personal investigation, this training is influenced by improvisation and classical training.

Katarzyna Kizior – dancer, teacher and choreographer born in Poland. She studied ballet and folk dance at the National Ballet School. Since 2006 she has been working with Swirls Dance Company and The Opera House in Warsaw, Polin- Museum and with The Dramatic Theater in Warsaw. Apart from dance experience, she choreographs for TV formats such as So you think you can dance Poland, films and commercials. In 2015 she obtained a master’s degree in Contemporary Dance Education from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. She expanded her classical dance background to more awareness-related work like Release Technique, Improvisation, and Yoga. The strength and value of her experience lies in diversity and multiple genres.

Kasia’s class is experimenting with diverse movement qualities, combining technique and different dynamics with personal interpretation and sensitivity. The class consists of phrases built upon spatial orientation, movement complexity and coordination, allowing space for individual movement exploration. This practice aims to establish energetic patterns and interconnectedness of the body parts. Being a result of personal investigation, this training is influenced by improvisation and classical training.

Katarzyna Kizior – dancer, teacher and choreographer born in Poland. She studied ballet and folk dance at the National Ballet School. Since 2006 she has been working with Swirls Dance Company and The Opera House in Warsaw, Polin- Museum and with The Dramatic Theater in Warsaw. Apart from dance experience, she choreographs for TV formats such as So you think you can dance Poland, films and commercials. In 2015 she obtained a master’s degree in Contemporary Dance Education from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. She expanded her classical dance background to more awareness-related work like Release Technique, Improvisation, and Yoga. The strength and value of her experience lies in diversity and multiple genres.

Kasia’s class is experimenting with diverse movement qualities, combining technique and different dynamics with personal interpretation and sensitivity. The class consists of phrases built upon spatial orientation, movement complexity and coordination, allowing space for individual movement exploration. This practice aims to establish energetic patterns and interconnectedness of the body parts. Being a result of personal investigation, this training is influenced by improvisation and classical training.

Katarzyna Kizior – dancer, teacher and choreographer born in Poland. She studied ballet and folk dance at the National Ballet School. Since 2006 she has been working with Swirls Dance Company and The Opera House in Warsaw, Polin- Museum and with The Dramatic Theater in Warsaw. Apart from dance experience, she choreographs for TV formats such as So you think you can dance Poland, films and commercials. In 2015 she obtained a master’s degree in Contemporary Dance Education from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. She expanded her classical dance background to more awareness-related work like Release Technique, Improvisation, and Yoga. The strength and value of her experience lies in diversity and multiple genres.

Kasia’s class is experimenting with diverse movement qualities, combining technique and different dynamics with personal interpretation and sensitivity. The class consists of phrases built upon spatial orientation, movement complexity and coordination, allowing space for individual movement exploration. This practice aims to establish energetic patterns and interconnectedness of the body parts. Being a result of personal investigation, this training is influenced by improvisation and classical training.

Katarzyna Kizior – dancer, teacher and choreographer born in Poland. She studied ballet and folk dance at the National Ballet School. Since 2006 she has been working with Swirls Dance Company and The Opera House in Warsaw, Polin- Museum and with The Dramatic Theater in Warsaw. Apart from dance experience, she choreographs for TV formats such as So you think you can dance Poland, films and commercials. In 2015 she obtained a master’s degree in Contemporary Dance Education from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. She expanded her classical dance background to more awareness-related work like Release Technique, Improvisation, and Yoga. The strength and value of her experience lies in diversity and multiple genres.

Natalia Rodina´s class is based on a Cunningham technique and also includes shares of ballet which will be applied and transformed into moving exercises.
Her training moves the body as well as the mind, builds stamina and improves the coordination. During this class your body will learn to move in harmony with specific muscles.

Natalia Rodina, dancer, choreographer and teacher, was born in Moskau in 1985. She studied at the Rotterdam Dance Academy and worked for/with The Forsythe Company, Dansgroep Amsterdam, Galili Dance and others.

Natalia Rodina´s class is based on a Cunningham technique and also includes shares of ballet which will be applied and transformed into moving exercises.
Her training moves the body as well as the mind, builds stamina and improves the coordination. During this class your body will learn to move in harmony with specific muscles.

Natalia Rodina, dancer, choreographer and teacher, was born in Moskau in 1985. She studied at the Rotterdam Dance Academy and worked for/with The Forsythe Company, Dansgroep Amsterdam, Galili Dance and others.

Natalia Rodina´s class is based on a Cunningham technique and also includes shares of ballet which will be applied and transformed into moving exercises.
Her training moves the body as well as the mind, builds stamina and improves the coordination. During this class your body will learn to move in harmony with specific muscles.

Natalia Rodina, dancer, choreographer and teacher, was born in Moskau in 1985. She studied at the Rotterdam Dance Academy and worked for/with The Forsythe Company, Dansgroep Amsterdam, Galili Dance and others.

Natalia Rodina´s class is based on a Cunningham technique and also includes shares of ballet which will be applied and transformed into moving exercises.
Her training moves the body as well as the mind, builds stamina and improves the coordination. During this class your body will learn to move in harmony with specific muscles.

Natalia Rodina, dancer, choreographer and teacher, was born in Moskau in 1985. She studied at the Rotterdam Dance Academy and worked for/with The Forsythe Company, Dansgroep Amsterdam, Galili Dance and others.

Natalia Rodina´s class is based on a Cunningham technique and also includes shares of ballet which will be applied and transformed into moving exercises.
Her training moves the body as well as the mind, builds stamina and improves the coordination. During this class your body will learn to move in harmony with specific muscles.

Natalia Rodina, dancer, choreographer and teacher, was born in Moskau in 1985. She studied at the Rotterdam Dance Academy and worked for/with The Forsythe Company, Dansgroep Amsterdam, Galili Dance and others.