Julie Pécard
30.03 / 01.04 - Improvisation
What to expect:
I invite professional dancers into a focused exploration of groove as a motor and resilience as a sustainable improvisational practice. Rooted in contemporary technique, the training investigates how weight, pulse, and elasticity generate clarity, power, and adaptability in motion. Each day begins with a progressive warm-up that mobilizes the spine, awakens coordination, and deepens awareness. Through dynamic phrase work and structured improvisation, we explore rebound, momentum, suspension, and grounding as tools for efficiency and expressive range.
Biography:
Julie Pécard is a French-born choreographer based in Germany. Her work explores belonging, care, resilience, and embodied memory, shaped by her multicultural upbringing in the French Caribbean and Canada. After performing with ProArteDanza and the Kevin O’Day Ballett Nationaltheater Mannheim, she shifted her focus to choreography in 2015. She develops research-driven works and co-directs the Junior Dance Company at Eintanzhaus. In 2025, she co-founded COTA projects in Mannheim with Jonas Frey, serving as Co-Artistic Director. COTA projects connects choreography, outreach, teaching, and activism, promoting dance as a social practice that strengthens identity and initiates change. She holds a Master of Arts in Choreography (COMMA, Fontys and Codarts).
Martin Angiuli
13.03 / 15.04 - Contemporary
What to expect:
ANIMOTUS – Awaken the moving animal within you
ANIMOTUS is a somatic and performative practice that merges technique, instinct, and metamorphosis through movement.It arises from the meeting of floorwork, animal flow, contact improvisation, and psycho-emotional exploration, creating a dynamic and transformative experience that traverses body, imagination, and connection.
The body moves fluidly and organically, constantly shifting, deeply listening to instinct and guided by clear intention.
At the heart of Animotus lies the fusion of human and animal—not through imitation, but through symbolic, poetic, and sensorial integration.
Through physical exercises, perceptual practices, and creative imagery, Animotus invites participants to explore stage presence, expressive freedom, and the primal power of movement.It is designed for dancers, performers, and body artists seeking a space of authenticity, inquiry, and transformation.
Animotus is a journey for those who long to awaken their instinctive, vibrant, and untamed body.
Biography:
Martin Angiuli (Brindisi, 1992) is a dancer, choreographer, author, and teacher working across Europe and abroad. He has performed with companies and theatres including Landesbühnen Sachsen, Kinesis Dance (Canada), Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni, Compagnia Le Supplici, Compagnie Linga, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Tanztheater Erfurt, Theater Nordhausen, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Opéra de Lyon and so on.
He has worked as a choreographic assistant in Paris (ELSEWHERE Company) and recently at Theater Görlitz.
Martin is the author of Contraddizioni in movimento (2021) and Coraggiosamente Comuni (2025), and founder of UNDONE ( ex ConTrust Collective ). His creations span dance, video art, and photography, featured in festivals and galleries.
He also teaches in companies and various formats ( AnTanzen, Profi-training ) and developed Animotus, a pedagogical approach rooted in physical research of the inner animal nature.
Santiago Mariño
20.04 / 22.04 - Ballet
What to expect:
Ballet for contemporary dancers
Let's follow the regular structure of a ballet class — staring at the barre to warm up the joints and awaken the body, then moving to center practice to expand our dance and take up space, and finishing with jumps to keep our energy pumping. I invite you to enjoy the ride: bring oxygen to your muscles with every move, and refine your placement, alignment and coordination. Together we’ll make this movement language our own —connecting to the sensations of elongation that ballet provides, breathing deeply, finding ease within each phrase, and making it fun for ourselves. Let's emancipate from ballet's expectations of gender and class and race, let’s dismount it as a stage work and instead, approach it as a movement study, let's queer it up! A class that is emphatically open for all dancing bodies. You should expect a technically challenging class to keep it profi, but you are encouraged to join if you know the vocabulary of the technique and feel ready to flow along the journey.
Biography:
Santiago is a contemporary dancer, dance artist and dance educator from Bogotá, Colombia. He has worked as a dancer for over 10 years across South America and Europe, collaborating with companies in Colombia, France, Equator and Germany. He holds an MA in Choreography and Performance from the Hessische Theater Akademie and Justus-Liebig Universität.
As a teacher, his approach is person-centered, taking the time to actively accompany each dancer's process. His understanding of technique is that of physical sensations and anatomical coordinations, so instead of following a particular style, he focuses on what structured movement languages provide as an integral kinaesthetic experience. He holds pedagogical spaces where hierarchies of teaching are revisited and knowledge can be constructed and shared horizontally, circularly. Santiago has trained professional dancers in varied contexts such as Künstler:innenhaus Mousonturm, Hessisches Staatsballett, Stadttheater Gießen, Teatro Mayor Dance Company and National Center for the Arts Bogotá.