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[VOLTA] is an exciting opportunity for individuals in the field of performing arts to partake in free open classes in movement research and other physical techniques or other practices such as voice training etc. Participants are invited to join the current production cast in intimate classes, hosted by a network of professionals from the field who teach their various practices. With [VOLTA], the impetus is to host an occasion for exploration and experimentation, in, and through movement and body. This platform functions as an important format of exchange as it generates interest in the intrinsic studio process while also allowing external participants to hone new skills and encounters of their own.
Up-coming events
Teachers
Tomislav Feller
Tomislav (CRO) is a choreographer, performer and educator based in Amsterdam. Tomislav is a guest teacher at a visual art master program Sandberg and SNDO choreography school where he gives workshops, movement research classes and advises students in their creative processes. His practice is focused on the notion of heightened listening, framing performativity by witnessing and re-imagining the body as a landscape of charged images. Tomislav is a certified Gyrokinesis trainer and practitioner, often sharing his experience in a form of classes and workshops.
Together with Manue Scheiwiller, Tomislav established “Contemporary Cruising” a performance project that became an online magazine for contemporary performance. He was also an active member and one of a co-founder of both Young Boy Dancing Group and the artist run space and a performance collective “Jacuzzi” based in Amsterdam.
Leah Katz
Leah is a lover of movement in all of its glorious forms. Through her work as a dancer, she discovered yoga initially as an enhancement to her existing training. In many ways it has since become the basis of her approach to understanding and activating the body and the mind. She has fallen more in love with the practice the deeper she explores. Following a creative and flowing technique of Vinyasa yoga, there is a focus on safe and optimal alignment, exploring sensation, and bringing awareness to the body's infinite possibilities.
Alice Heyward is a dancer, choreographer and teacher from Australia living in Berlin. Alice's practice develops through diverse collaborations, as author, co-author and interpreter, constructing different situations for exchange and connection.
Johanna Peine is a voice coach who studied singing at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. After graduating she worked as a freelance singer in Germany and abroad and was a lecturer at the University of Cologne and has also completed her training to become an Alexander Technique teacher. With her role as a vocal coach, she has contributed to numerous productions in the field of performing arts.
Lisa Densem is a New Zealand dancer and choreographer who has been living in Berlin since 1999. Lisa worked in New Zealand for many years, moving to Berlin to work with the company 'Sasha Waltz and Guests' and later to work independently. She has worked with the choreographers, Junko Wada, Eszter Salamon, Laurent Chetouane, and Jana Unmüssig as well as continuing to teach and create her own work. Lisa is a recent (2014) graduate of the UdK MA Soda programme. Lisa also works as a teacher, mentor and has just finished a breath therapy education, Breath Experience, based on the work of Ilse Middendorf which she will present with [Volta].
Sigal Zouk is a dancer, performer and mediator in the field of contemporary dance. As a dancer, she worked with the ensemble of the Batsheva Dance Company (1994-1996), Sasha Waltz (1999-2004), Meg Stuart (2005-2007 and today) and Laurent Chétouane (2007-2015), among others. In addition to her career as a dancer, she has been supporting numerous choreographers in the artistic creative process since 2007 and teaches at various European dance departments and institutions, and enters into international collaborations with visual artists and musicians.
Diego Agulló is a teacher of Hunyuan Qigong. This technique is a mix of Neigong and Tai Chi created in China in the XX Century by Fen Zhiqiang. Exercises are rooted in precise breathing techniques and are used in combination with voice training. Together they generate a synchronizing of the body through singing Mantras. In this practice, Tai Chi wooden sticks are used to apply principles of self-massage, acupressure. The practice is an internal art that harmonizes energies in the body, producing an immediate uplifting effect on one’s state of mind and consciousness
VOLTA is funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the means of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Senate Departement for Culture and Europe Berlin
Images
© Jubal Battisti
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[VOLTA] is an exciting opportunity for individuals in the field of performing arts to partake in free open classes in movement research and other physical techniques or other practices such as voice training etc. Participants are invited to join the current production cast in intimate classes, hosted by a network of professionals from the field who teach their various practices. With [VOLTA], the impetus is to host an occasion for exploration and experimentation, in, and through movement and body. This platform functions as an important format of exchange as it generates interest in the intrinsic studio process while also allowing external participants to hone new skills and encounters of their own.
Teachers
Tomislav Feller
Tomislav (CRO) is a choreographer, performer and educator based in Amsterdam. Tomislav is a guest teacher at a visual art master program Sandberg and SNDO choreography school where he gives workshops, movement research classes and advises students in their creative processes. His practice is focused on the notion of heightened listening, framing performativity by witnessing and re-imagining the body as a landscape of charged images. Tomislav is a certified Gyrokinesis trainer and practitioner, often sharing his experience in a form of classes and workshops.
Together with Manue Scheiwiller, Tomislav established “Contemporary Cruising” a performance project that became an online magazine for contemporary performance. He was also an active member and one of a co-founder of both Young Boy Dancing Group and the artist run space and a performance collective “Jacuzzi” based in Amsterdam.
Leah Katz
Leah is a lover of movement in all of its glorious forms. Through her work as a dancer, she discovered yoga initially as an enhancement to her existing training. In many ways it has since become the basis of her approach to understanding and activating the body and the mind. She has fallen more in love with the practice the deeper she explores. Following a creative and flowing technique of Vinyasa yoga, there is a focus on safe and optimal alignment, exploring sensation, and bringing awareness to the body's infinite possibilities.
Alice Heyward is a dancer, choreographer and teacher from Australia living in Berlin. Alice's practice develops through diverse collaborations, as author, co-author and interpreter, constructing different situations for exchange and connection.
Johanna Peine is a voice coach who studied singing at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. After graduating she worked as a freelance singer in Germany and abroad and was a lecturer at the University of Cologne and has also completed her training to become an Alexander Technique teacher. With her role as a vocal coach, she has contributed to numerous productions in the field of performing arts.
Lisa Densem is a New Zealand dancer and choreographer who has been living in Berlin since 1999. Lisa worked in New Zealand for many years, moving to Berlin to work with the company 'Sasha Waltz and Guests' and later to work independently. She has worked with the choreographers, Junko Wada, Eszter Salamon, Laurent Chetouane, and Jana Unmüssig as well as continuing to teach and create her own work. Lisa is a recent (2014) graduate of the UdK MA Soda programme. Lisa also works as a teacher, mentor and has just finished a breath therapy education, Breath Experience, based on the work of Ilse Middendorf which she will present with [Volta].
Sigal Zouk is a dancer, performer and mediator in the field of contemporary dance. As a dancer, she worked with the ensemble of the Batsheva Dance Company (1994-1996), Sasha Waltz (1999-2004), Meg Stuart (2005-2007 and today) and Laurent Chétouane (2007-2015), among others. In addition to her career as a dancer, she has been supporting numerous choreographers in the artistic creative process since 2007 and teaches at various European dance departments and institutions, and enters into international collaborations with visual artists and musicians.
Diego Agulló is a teacher of Hunyuan Qigong. This technique is a mix of Neigong and Tai Chi created in China in the XX Century by Fen Zhiqiang. Exercises are rooted in precise breathing techniques and are used in combination with voice training. Together they generate a synchronizing of the body through singing Mantras. In this practice, Tai Chi wooden sticks are used to apply principles of self-massage, acupressure. The practice is an internal art that harmonizes energies in the body, producing an immediate uplifting effect on one’s state of mind and consciousness
Supported by
VOLTA is funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the means of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Senate Departement for Culture and Europe Berlin
Images
© Jubal Battisti
