September - October
Sarah Altherr & Laura Heise
in visible potential
17.11.2025
Workshop description:
Inspired by quantum mechanics, this workshop explores how observation shapes reality — and how seeing, watching, and being seen influence movement. Through playful improvisations, we’ll explore perception, connection, and collective movement — discovering what happens when we truly observe… or close our eyes.
Biographies:
Laura Heise is a German freelance dancer, choreographer, and performer based in Mainz. During seven years of dancing in theatres (2018–2021 at the Landestheater Eisenach, 2021–2024 at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg), Laura gained a broad movement repertoire by getting in contact with a wide range of choreographic styles. An open-minded and versatile artist, Laura looks forward to exploring new artistic horizons through project-based work in the independent dance scene. In this new creative phase, she is developing her own choreographic voice through original productions, thematically focussed on socio-ecological and philosophical topics.
Sarah Altherr was born in 1996 and grew up in Italy, Switzerland, France and Germany. In 2015 she completed her
ballet education in Mainz and went on dancing in different European dance companies, such as Staatstheater Schwerin, Ballets de France Toulouse and Theater Lüneburg. Since 2022 she is a freelance performer, choreographer and singer based in Frankfurt. Sarah creates interdisciplinary personal pieces, for example the solo “radically resting” (2024) that explores deceleration, body-memory and heritage.
Raquel Nevado Ramos
Tendu
01.12.2025
Workshop description:
This artistic research unfolds from the choreographic world of Tendu, where movement begins with the act of sensing. The palms become gateways of perception, guiding awareness into the body and extending it toward the surrounding space. Through touch, attention, and visualization, participants are invited to trace the flow of energy from the center of the hands through the body’s pathways, allowing it to expand, circulate, and interact with the environment.
The process takes shape as a living ritual; a cycle of awakening, cleansing, focusing, reaching outward, and gently returning inward. Each stage invites a deepened sensitivity to both the inner vibration of the body and the invisible field that connects us.
Biography:
Raquel is a dancer and choreographer from Granada, Spain. She trained at the Professional Conservatoire in Granada and earned a BA in Contemporary Dance and Pedagogy in Linz, Austria. She has collaborated with Daniel Morales, Angel Rodriguez, Theater Pforzheim, Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, Hui Tran, Marc Brew, Nadia Beugré, Ester Ambrosino, and Tomas Bünger.
Based in Wiesbaden, Germany, Raquel works as a freelance artist and is the one of the founders of Dance Nexus and co-creator of the collective AiR iTALiCS. In recent years, she has opened a new chapter as a choreographer, exploring her own movement language and artistic vision.
https://airitalics.framer.website/
Charlotte Hartz, Jana Burianová, and Ronja Eick
Hanging in the skin
15.12.2025
Workshop description:
In this workshop, we share our research on pulling, pushing, and guiding partners through grasping skin and tissue. We explore the sensation of “hanging in the skin” and find ways to integrate this experience into dance. This course invites participants to open up to new bodily sensations and to explore the particularities of skin and flesh with curiosity. We begin gently and gradually discover how wild this experience can become.
No prior experience is necessary.
The workshop involves touch. All exercises are performed clothed, and personal boundaries are respected at all times.
Biography:
Charlotte Hartz, Jana Burianová, and Ronja Eick are three dance artists who explore body awareness, touch, and movement as forms of communication in their work. Their diverse backgrounds — from physiotherapy and bodywork (Hartz), to somatic practice and performance (Burianová), to dance pedagogy and artistic research (Eick) — converge in a shared curiosity about the skin as a sensitive space connecting inner and outer experiences. Their work moves between improvisation and collective research and is understood as an invitation to feel and listen.