ImPulsTanz Vienna / Austria (Contemporary Technique, Physical Theatre)
Tanzquartier Vienna / Austria
(Contemporary Technique)
Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts
(Contemporary Technique, Performance Lab)
Codarts / Rotterdam Dance Academy / Netherlands
(Movement Research, Contemporary Technique - Release-based)
K3 Kampnagel / Hamburg / Germany
(Contemporary Training – Releaee-based)
Anton Bruckner Universitiy of the City of Linz / Austria
(Improvisation, Movement Research, Contemporary Technique – Release-based)
University of New Mexico / Department of Dance, Albuquerque / U.S.A.
(Contemporary Technique, Choreography, Movement for Actors)
University for Theatre Krakow / Poland
(Contemporary Technique - Release-based, Body Awareness)
Int. Dance Conference Bytom / Poland
(Contemporary Technique, Physical Theatre, Creative Works)
Danec Development Foundation Warsaw / Poland
(Contemporary Technique, Movement Research)
Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität/ Austria
(Contemporary Technique, Choreography)
SEAD Dance Acadamey / Salzbourg / Austria
(Contemporary Technique, Physical Theatre, Creative Works)
tanzpool Vienna / Austria
(Contemporary Technique, Yoga)
Easter- und Fall Dance Days Salzbourg / Austria
(Modern Technique, Partnering)
Dance Studio Margit Manhardt Vienna / Austria
(Modern Technique)
Studio an der Wien / Vienna / Austria
(Contemporary Technique)
Dark Camera Roma
(Contemporary Technique)
Company-Trainings a.o. for Liquid Loft, Tanztheater Wien, Tanztheater Homunculus, Tanz*Hotel, Pilottanzt, x-IDA Linz, item-Tanztheater Winterthur,...
Various Guest-Chorerographies for Professional Training and Dance programmes
Various projects for schools
Most practised teaching formats for training programmes and workshop series:
Contemporary Dance Training
The class starts with a guided movement improvisation to sensitize the awareness of the space inside and outside of the body and the perception of the group and is preparing as well as grounding the body at the same time for the floor work which is Release-based including approaches of the Feldenkrais-Method. There we concentrate on the flexibility of the pelvis, a good center and a free flow of the breathing, using the earth for an organic and dynamic form of spiraling up the dancing body. At the same time I am using visualization techniques to provoque other experiences to enrich the expressive and physical capabilities. A continuousely developped phrase on the floor prepares for the work in the center where we focus on modern based placements and curves, on swings and released drops and are developping shapes in a more extreme way, emphasizing unexpected spirals and turns and shifts along a vertical axis. A good feeling for breath, air and space is leading us to more risk and pleasure for dancing and for exploring the limits of our bodies.
A dynamic choreographical sequence will finish the class and everybody may relax and chill out practising some Asanas.
My wish is to pass on the pleasure of dancing with the need of exploring the own limits, developping at the same time a deeper awareness of the group and the space in which performing takes place.
Physical Theatre Training
Experimenting with expressive 'limit-experiences’
The warm-up for this training will be marked by elements of Yoga as well as the Feldenkrais Method. The group will create an energy pool by practising tasks for breathing and voice. Our centre will be activated and strenghtened, it will be tapped for expressive lust, mutual trust and transparent presence. We'll play with a variety of walks (e.g. silly walks), surface visualizations in space and on our own skin, as well as with the imagination of landscapes, that allow for individual travel in our body and for improvisation.
In this process we'll keep questioning the 'naturalness' of movement, which we may perhaps render nonsensical taking on different bodies. We'll also focus on the technical, muscular and formal principles of expression. Certain ritualized forms of dance and movement, like twisting, ondulating and transformative processes in walking and in the group as collective movement will open access to archetypal states, which prepare for working on phylogenetic-animalistic body layers, surreal body states - perhaps in connection with objects - and structured mass movements. Experimenting with expressive 'limit-experiences' will be confronted with learning through observing the others within the limita of a given space. To finish up the workshop small-scale evolutions and transformations with a clear-cut beginning and end will eventually allow for the emergence of individual sequences, which can then be interwoven with the stories created in the group.
This workshop is addressing especially dancers, who would like to expand their spectrum of habitual expression and invites them to take up new challenges in both body training and the creative play with imagination.
Movement Research – Release based
The class starts with a guided movement improvisation to sensitize the awareness of the space inside and outside of the body and the perception of the group. We will give a special focus on sensations of weight, of falling and rolling and how we can use our sceleton structure to move more effectively.
This approach is strongly influenced by the Feldenkrais method and the challenge to develop a personal concept of Release Technique.
The second part of the class will be opened to a more individual research and playful approach to movements and to a self-reflection of performing movements.
Inspired and motivated by the surrounding space and it’s limitations, by other bodies and the effect of gravity we might create new physical constellations and install a frame of performance within the group.
Other formats are adapted to more process-orientated periods like Movement Research and/or Guest-Choreographies for Education Programmes.
Recent Training Programmes combine also my approach to a contemporary dance technique with the Feldenkrais Method in collaboration and a co-teaching format with a certified practitioner from Vienna.
Trainings lab
Feldenkrais – Contemporary Technique
Georg Blaschke (A) / Sascha Krausneker (A)
The daily training will start with an ATM (Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement – lesson) that will take around 60 min. Each day will cover a different functional theme (e.g. extension, rotation, flexion etc.) that will bring us to more differentiation of the movement apparatus as well as our perception.
With the Feldenkrais Method we can learn to move with ease and to enlarge our comfortable movement range. The Method is a unique and revolutionary approach to the understanding of human learning, movement and function. Its focus is on the practical development of one’s own individual potential and ability.
Possible effects of an ATM can be: improved balance and posture, easier breathing, clarified relationship of bones an muscles in relation to gravity and the floor, more differentiated self organization, increased presence in our body and in space.
In the second part of the training we will explore possible connections between the functional themes of the Feldenkrais lesson and a contemporary dance technique. We will approach that process partly through an improvised movement research and partly through more structured and guided phrases.
We will focus mainly on a playful discovery of new and more differentiated qualities of movements that may emerge from an advanced inside awareness to enrich the dance vocabulary. A possible goal may be to question or re-define usual patterns and standards like rolling, spiraling, curving and spinning as well as the extension and dynamics of movement.
Furthermore we may experiment with a variety of possibilities to relate the method to personal concepts of center, gravity and release-based movements or even Yoga-postures.
On a meta-level we will open up the space for discussion and reflection about our presence and performing attitude within the daily training.
