September - October
JuanK Camilo Rojas
Bodies in flow
22.09.2025
Class description:
This workshop invites participants to reconnect with the joy of movement and the pleasure of dancing. Through contemporary dance and moments of improvisation, we will explore how the body can become stronger, more active, and more flexible—not only for dance, but as a resource for everyday life. The class combines technical sequences with creative dynamics that open space for sensory exploration and collective enjoyment. It is designed for a broad audience with an intermediate physical level, offering a balance between physical training and expressive freedom.
Biography:
Juan Camilo Rojas Arevalo is a Colombian dancer and movement artist with a background in Performing Arts, specializing in dance at Javeriana University. His practice explores the intersection of vulnerability and movement, integrating techniques such as contemporary dance, floor work, ballet, acro-yoga, and the López technique. His artistic research focuses on associating movement with the flow of nature, while investigating sequentiality, dissociation, and fragmentation as creative tools.
In recent years, Juan has participated in opera productions, freelance projects, and collaborated with Tanz Mainz, performing in festivals across Germany. His work bridges pedagogy and artistic creation, fostering an integrative perspective that recognizes the kinesthetic, emotional, rational, and sensory dimensions of being. Dedicated to building a conscious practice, Juan’s long-term project envisions a space for movement arts and knowledge exchange between Colombia and other continents.
Laura Ahumada García and Pihla Jaala
Raw Flaw
06.10.2025
Class description:
This workshop is an invitation to explore the dynamics of space, weight, and physicality through a hybrid movement practice that draws from contemporary dance, breaking, capoeira, and contact improvisation. RAW FLAW dives into the raw edges of movement and the finesse of flow—merging instinct with precision, technique with exploration. We work from foundational principles such as gravity, momentum, groundedness, and three-dimensionality through a responsive approach to the body in space, the workshop investigates how we initiate, absorb, and redirect force—individually and in relation to others. RAW FLAW is a space for deep physical research, somatic listening, and technical sharpening—an open lab for deepen the connection to movement in relationship to others and the space.
Biography:
Pihla Jaala is a social worker and dancer from Finland, currently enrolling in a Master program (MA CoDE) in Frankfurt. Jaala seeks international interdisciplinary collaborations. Her interest is in crafting sustainable attendable communities to research with body and movement in artistic and pedagogical processes.
Laura is South American Movement Artist, Performer, Improviser, Physical Theatre, Inter-arts Collaborator, Site-Specific and Educator currently enrolling in a Master program (MA CoDE) in Frankfurt. Since 2021 Laura has been a freelance dance artist, educator and choreographer in Germany. Her dedication for teaching, dancing and performing comes from her silliness, spontaneity, absurdity, simplicity, latin fire and finding togetherness in dance.
Mareike Buchmann
Körper, Spuren, Spüren
20.10.2025
Class description:
Mareike’s artistic and theoretical movement research on “Body, Traces, Sensing” is rooted in a long-standing engagement that combines dance, somatic bodywork, her own bodily history, and feminist theory. At the core is the observation that throughout life, diverse traces are inscribed in every body: movements, biographical experiences, and collective and normative imprints. These traces form our body-knowledge and simultaneously influence how we act, feel, and relate: to ourselves, to others, and to the world.
In her dance and teaching practice, Mareike is interested in how we can consciously connect with these bodily traces: On which traces do I move? Which traces do I feel? Can I share my traces and become multi-traced?
In her workshop “Body, Traces, Sensing”, Mareike shares her research practice and opens spaces for personal exploration as well as shared dance experiences. The workshop begins with somatic bodywork, directing attention to inner traces such as breath, sensation, and movement experience. Afterwards, we expand our perception into the space, share our traces with each other, and weave them into a collective trace-body.
Biography:
Mareike Buchmann is an interdisciplinary performance artist and movement researcher. In addition to her own artistic projects, she leads the IDA FLUX Ensemble and is the founder of SYMSOMA, a movement practice that invites us to engage with our own body: with ourselves, with other bodies, and with the world. Mareike completed her PhD at the intersection of art and science in Salzburg on the topic “Body, Traces, Sensing”. She is currently particularly interested in an embodied practice of traces as well as a practical philosophy of co-embodiment.
