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Mondays — Contemplative Dance Practice in Contact Improvisation

Every Monday, from 24.8. · 19:00–21:30 · All levels welcome · 12–20€

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Dive deep & dance with awareness.

Every Monday, starting 24.8., at 7:00 PM I invite you into a shared space of presence, movement, and connection. Together we create a gentle transition into the new week.

Our evening will flow through: 15 minutes of guided meditation, 15 minutes of self-guided body warm-up, 20 minutes of dancing in two rounds, and a short sharing circle to close the evening.

I offer this space as an invitation to reconnect with your heart, awaken your body, and return to yourself through movement.

The most important thing you can bring is whatever you are ready to leave behind. The most beautiful thing you can take home is a clear mind, an open heart, and a body and soul that feel lighter and more alive.

Every Monday | 7:00 PM
Schönfließer Straße 7, Berlin

Please arrive on time so we can begin the meditation together and hold the space from the very start.

Pay what feels right. Give what you can. Come as you are. Leave a little freer.

I look forward to moving with you.

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How do fights happen on stage without anyone getting hurt? What techniques exist for choreographing situations that look dangerous? Stunts can be fun, even if it looks different to the audience. But this requires good body awareness, communication and trust in your partner, in order to practice and master coordinated sequences.

This workshop focuses on teaching the fundamental techniques of stunt work: rolling, falling and striking.

The foundation for this is Ling Lom, also known as “Flying Monkey” or “Dancing Monkey”, a martial arts practice originating from Thailand and Laos. This technique is based on a five-stage system: evading, redirecting, blocking, binding and lifting/rising. These are the movement principles that every good stunt possesses.

The focus is placed on alert partner work, which also opens up the possibility for developing movement material.

Katja Richter studied Choreographie at the Academy of Arts „Ernst Busch“. In 2007, she received a scholarship for the choreographic exchange to Dartington College of Art in England, followed by an assistant to Ismael Ivo. Her choreographic work included, for example, productions at Hebbel am Ufer, Gripstheater, Berliner Festspielhaus and Tacheles et al. She choreographed music videos such as Dickes-B and Dancehall Caballeros of the Berlin band Seeed and let her performers in dizzying heights of 89 meters for the 50th anniversary of Gropiusstadt conquer the skies. As a stunt woman, she worked in more than 50 films, by Tom Tykwer, the Wachowski Brothers, Paul Anderson and Wolfgang Becker among others.