Past and Present Teaching

17th and 24th of October, 2023 - Laura Stellacci

Dis- Inter- Rupture
Let’s start with a question: Is it possible to interrupt yourself? 
In this class we will experiment with the principle of interruptions, disruptions and the general idea of ruptured movement in score-based improvisation sessions. 
The class will begin with a collective warm-up, followed by a durational improvisation session that will use language and music as prompts for the exploration.  

Laura Stellacci’s work examines everyday gestures and technologies of the body through movement and dance, textiles and sound. Often working collaboratively, Laura choreographs the practice of stitching, sewing and cutting to negotiate the bind between performance and community. She is currently enrolled in the international Master’s program in Choreography and Performance in Gießen, Germany. 

10th of October, 2023 - Katja Cheraneva

In this workshop we will focus on listening (listening to the body, listening to the space, listening to other bodies in space). Through various improvisation tasks and scores we will practice how to direct and redirect our attention, tune in with other bodies and exercise active passivity.  

Katja Cheraneva is a freelance dancer and choreographer based between Berlin and Frankfurt. Her recent work explores notions of rehearsal/rehearsing, learning/unlearning, memory, and undoing. In the past, she has worked in close collaboration as a performer, co-creator, and choreographic consultant with choreographers such as Fabrice Mazliah, Lea Letzel, Francis Chiaverini, Janina Arendt, Ksenia Ravvina, as well as visual artists such as Anne Imhof(NATURE MORTE 2021, FAUST and FAUST JR. 2017, ANGST I, II 2016), Dudu Quintanilha, Gabriele Rendina Cattani, Dorota Gaweda and Egle Kulbokaite (BROOD). She has been a member of The Forsythe Company and a founder member of HOOD(Host Organisation fOr proDuction) that held an artistic fellowship at PACT Zollverein from 2017 - 2019.Together with Mazliah, she is currently managing a project space, Werkstatt, in Frankfurt. She was a stipend of #TakeCareResidency with her ongoing research Study on How Waters Move

29th of June, 2023 - Katja Cheraneva and Fabrice Mazliah

Katja Cheraneva is a freelance dancer and choreographer based in Frankfurt. She has been a member of The Forsythe Company(2010 - 2015) and a co-founder member of HOOD(Host Organisation fOr proDuction). Together with Mazliah and Milz, she manages a Werkstatt project space in Frankfurt.

Fabrice Mazliah is a choreographer and dancer based in Frankfurt where he collaborated for over 20 years with the choreographer William Forsythe. He is currently directing with Katja Chareneva the Werkstatt space.

15th and 22nd of June, 2023 - Reclaiming Dance/Anno Bolender, Reclaiming Dance/Keiko Schmitt

In the mixed abled dance workshops by Keiko and Anno from Reclaiming Dance, we work with the images of the ~AMPLITUDE~. It is about points in space, reference to other dancers, performative exploration of our frequencies with each other and in our surroundings.

18th and 25th of May, 1st of June, 2023 - Eslam Elnebishy 

Eslam Elnebishy is a choreographer and dancer, based in Giessen, Germany.
Eslam is interested in researching choreography from an improvisational approach, working with non technical physical material, and in un-learning dance techniques / composition through movement and approaching dance through playfulness and score based exercises. Working with a mix of dancers and non-dancers he is always enriching the research, where dancers can learn a lot from non-dancers, and vice versa.

27th of April, 4th and 11th of May, 2023 - Lukas Robitschko

Lukas Robitschko, 33 years old, lives in Frankfurt. Active dancer since 2001. Achievements at national and international level. Teaching since 2007. He is a founder of "Groundmovement by Lukas Robitschko". Currently teaching for HfMDK Frankfurt, DPM Mannheim and giving workshops for Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Tanztag Rhein-Main, Tanz- und Theaterwerkstatt.

6th, 13th and 20th of April, 2023 - Silke Wiegand

Silke Wiegand is a choreographer and dance facilitator from Frankfurt, and will offer Open Source Forms (OSF), as part of her Teacher Training with Stephanie Skura. 

23nd and 30th of March, 2023 - Eri Funahashi Geen

Eri Funahashi Geen was born in Japan, raised in Japan and Canada. Since 2018, she has been working as a dance artist based in Frankfurt. Her interest in her artistic research and choreographic work lies in the intersection of dance/performance/somatics and other fields such as philosophy and issues of our present time. She holds a BA in ballet and contemporary dance from the Rambert School (UK) and an MA in contemporary dance education from the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.

2nd, 9th and 16th of March 2023 - Viktorija Ilioska

Viktorija Ilioska is a Macedonian choreographer and performer who lives and works between North Macedonia and Germany. For over a decade now, she has been actively working at programs for the support and development of contemporary dance, both collaborating with institutions as well as strengthening the independent scene. Since 2010, she has been a member of Nomad Dance Academy, through which she works on bringing connections and collaborations within the local and national contexts of the Balkan region. Viktorija holds a Master's degree in Choreography and Performance from the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies at Justus Liebig University, Gießen. Playing with different forms of provocation, her work often addresses the notions of labor, identity, and female representation in the public sphere.

2nd of February 2023 - Maria Kobzeva

Maria Kobzeva is a freelance dance artist, based in Frankfurt. She studied at the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St.Petersburg. Upon graduation, she joined SPBT Theater touring worldwide with a broad classical repertoire. To expand her movement knowledge, she studied contemporary dance at HfMDK Frankfurt, where she worked with various choreographers and participated in numerous interdisciplinary projects. Maria's choreographic practice includes solo, duo, and group pieces, as well as theater productions and works for film. In 2019 she received the audience award for two of her works. Currently, she collaborates, dances, and creates with artists from the region, and teaches various age groups/levels, in different contexts.

12th & 17th of January 2023 - Magdalena Dzeco

Magdalena Dzeco is a contemporary dancer and choreographer of German - Mozambican origin. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in contemporary and classical dance at the HfMDK in Frankfurt am Main and her Master of Arts at the HU Berlin. She frequently collaborates interdisciplinary with  artists in film, acting, music, performance, dance and visual arts. She is a founding member of the Sphere Collective.

8th & 15th of December, 2022 - Verena Kutschera

Verena Kutschera is a performance artist, choreographer, lecturer, and co-founder of the artist collective Kunstschaffende Frankfurt. She has been part of the independent dance scene in Frankfurt for several years and shows her work at Frankfurt LAB, Gallus Theater and Kunstverein Familie Montez. She received her BA HONS at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London and her Master's degree MACoDE at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, supported by a Deutschland Stipendium. Verena is inspired by visual art, performance art and multimedia work, and she enjoys collaborating with artists of different genres; she strives for a conscious, horizontally organized, and collective work. Her current installational dance performance RÄUMLICHE DIMENSIONEN is about possible spaces of encounter, expanding the spatial dimensions in which encounter can take place on an architectural, physical, and choreographic level.

17th & 24th of November & 1st of December, 2022 - Laura Hicks

Laura Hicks was born in Canada, and is a choreographer, performer, and educator based in Frankfurt am Main. Her interest is in sensory states, qualities and intensities explored through improvisation. Drawing from the contradictoriness and aliveness inherent in bodily experience, her works are often marked by an intense physicality and moments of humour. She has worked since 2004 as a dancer and has been producing her own work since 2008, first in Canada with the support of the Canada Arts Council, and since 2015 in Germany. She presents her works internationally and continues to develop projects with other artists. As an educator she offers classes in Anatomy for Dancers and Scenic Body Work for actors in the HfMDK and holds an MA in Contemporary Dance Education. You can follow her work on instagram: @laurahicks_projects

27th October, 3rd & 10th of November, 2022 - Max Levy together with Noemi de Rosa, Jerneja Fekonja & Stella Covi

Max Levy

Born in Tokyo, Max Levy completed his training at the San Francisco Ballet, joining the ensembles of American Repertory Ballet and Charlotte Ballet before joining as a soloist with Ballett Staatstheater Nürnberg until 2017. He now works as an independent performer and choreographer, having danced numerous roles by prominent choreographers including Crystal Pite, William Forsythe, among others. He was nominated in 2015 as Most Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer by Dance Europe.

His meditative approach to choreography and performance has been presented through Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Roxy Ulm, Ballett Staatstheater Nürnberg, ACUD Theater, PAF Berlin, and Gdansk Dance Festival, as well as being top finalist at the 32nd International Choreography Competition Hannover, Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition 2019, and being awarded Best Dancer by SOLOCOREGRAFICO 2017. His films have also been screened at TANZAHOi Hamburg, Rollout Macao Film Festival, and Gießener Auftritte. He continues to work as an international artist and choreographer based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany where aside from choreography, he also produces music and visual art related to his work.

NOEMI DE ROSA

Noemi De Rosa, born in Italy in 1997 she started dancing at the age of 3 and began her dance education at the "Ballet Professional Dance” and at Choreutic High School of Salerno where she graduated in contemporary dance.After her graduation she was admitted at the "Nation dance academy" of Rome and as a dancer for the "Teatro Verdi" of Salerno. Afterwards she successfully completed her B.A. dance studies at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. During her studies she worked with various choreographers such as: Rodolpho Leoni, Jill Crovisier, Malou Airaudo, Stephan Brinkmann, Henrietta Horn. She has been part of several festival performances such as: "HundertPro Ringlokschuppen Ruhr" in Mülheim and for the "Ruhrtriennale" in Bochum. In 2021 she took part in the reconstruction of "The Rite of Spring" by Pina Bausch. In 2022 she worked as a dancer for the Theater Hagen. Currently she is a freelancer.

Stella Covi is originally from Italy and started her studies at the ESDC Rosella Hightower at the age of 13. She graduated with a Bachelor in Contemporary Dance at the Zurich University of the Arts and became a member of the Tanztheater Pforzheim between 2018 and 2022. Since then, she has been working as a freelance dancer based in Stuttgart. During her studies and career, Stella has performed the works of Itzik Galili, Ishan Rustem, Barak Marshall, Michael Schumacher as well as freelance projects with Katja Erdemann, Alexandra Karbelas and Max Levy. In addition to her work on stage, Stella is pursuing a Master's Degree in Arts and Cultural Management at Rome Business School.

22th & 29th of September, 2022 - Nastya Dzyuban

Nastya Dzyuban works with dance, choreography, and dramaturgy. She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine and has been based in Gießen, Germany for the past 5 years. Since 2015 Nastya has been developing her artistic practice and creating performative works, mostly in collaboration with her close friends and colleagues. Her artistic interest embraces the intersection of theater and choreography dispositives as well as topics such as potentiality, displacement and the notion of common. Her works were presented in Kyiv, Frankfurt, Bochum and Mannheim. Nastya has recently finished Master program in Choreography and Performance in Gießen and works as a freelance artist.

18th, 25th of August, 1st of September, 2022 - Morena Margiela

Morena Margiela is a ballet dancer and one of the first voguing dancers in Germany, thus she brought the voguing culture to Hesse. She was able to prove her historical and dance knowledge of Voguing by winning several dance battles, as well as Germany's victory at the World Championship Funkin' Stylez 2013 in Berlin and Balls ("Balls"). At that time, there was still little literature or other information about the ballroom scene. Accordingly, she was very active on the net and used social networks as an exchange platform for all voguers in the world. As a result, she was asked to join the Iconic House of Ultra Omni in New York in the summer of 2013. The Iconic House of Ultra Omni was founded in 1979 and is one of the founding houses of the ballroom scene that brought voguing to life in Harlem in the 1970s.

Until 2019, Morena Ultra Omni, she joined the Royal House of Maison Margiela in early 2022, was known for its fabulousness as well as its continuous fame. Thus, today on Balls, Morena defends the name of Maison Margiela.

14th of July, 2022 - Niranh Chanthabouasy

Niranh aka Lil Rock started dancing in 1992. As a B-boy with the Crew “Southside Rockers” he was in various battles like The Battle of the Year, UK Championships etc. After that time, he continued learning and mastering many different dance styles such as Popping, Strutting, Locking, NY Style Hip Hop, House and Krumping. He was very fortunate to meet and tour with some of the Originators of these dance styles like Don Campbelllock, Boogaloo Sam, Poptart, Henry Link, Tight Eyez and many more. In 2003 he joined the Dance Company “E-Motion” that were based in Düsseldorf. This is where he got together with Takao Baba, Amigo, Benny Kimoto, Andrea Böge and Nadia Espiritu to bring these Urban dance styles on the Theatre Stage. Which was successfully touring for many years around the globe. During this time Benny Kimoto realized and acknowledged Lil Rock ́s skills in dance and Choreography, Which is why he asked him to join and help the “Flying Steps” to get back into the dance and performance world in 2005. Together they won all the Red Bull Beat Battles and created “Flying Bach” in 2010 which is still touring today. For this “Hip Hop” Workshop, he will be teaching the fundamental roots and basics of this style and the concept of where it ́s going today. Some key elements of how to improvise and freestyle. And help find your own way of expressing and creating your own style in Hip Hop.

30th of June, 7th and 14th of July, 2022 - Victoria Söntgen

Victoria Söntgen studied at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt. As a dancer/choreographer she is active in the independent scene throughout Europe. -most recently in the production of "Swan Lake" by Willy Praml. as Odette in a modern staging (2021/22) and in the dance production dance production "Wonderland" (2019-2022) by Celestine Hennermann for children&s theater. She also works as a dance instructor, both in her own dance school "Die Tanzetage", which she took over in 2017, as well as in as well as in the context of cultural education at various institutions,among others Igs Nordend/Gesamtschule. Her own project "Tanz ins Alter" (Dance into old age) she has been carrying out since 2007 (due to the pandemic, however, access to the homes has become even more difficult than before). has become even more difficult than it was before). She works with children from 3 years old (in kindergarten) to adults in old age.

9th,16th and 23th of June, 2022 - Eslam Elnebishy

islam Elnebishy is a choreographer and dancer, based in Giessen, Germany.
He is mainly interested in researching choreography from an improvisational approach, working with non technical physical material, and more interested in un-learning dance techniques. Also composition through movement and approaching dance through playfulness and score based exercises in an interest in his research.
Working with a mix of dancers and non-dancers is always enriching the research, as in this approach, dancers can learn a lot from non-dancers, and vice versa. Currently studying Choreography and performance master’s program(CUP) Giessen. A graduate of Maat|CCDC contemporary dance school 2019. He studied a lot with David Zambrano over the last 5 years, Which affected his ideas about dance and teaching.

26th of Mai & 2nd of June, 2022 - Patscharaporn Krüger-Distakul

Patscharaporn received her Bachelor in Dance from Codarts, Rotterdam Dance Academy and has completed a further education in cultural management at Kölner Institut für Kulturarbeit. She has worked for various dance companies and with choreographers in freelance projects around Europe. Currently she is developing her own work focussing on the topic of female menstrual cycle in dance, documentation and retelling life experiences from female perspectives. 

19th of April, 26th of April, 2022 - Amelia Uzategui Bonilla

Amelia Uzategui Bonilla was born in Lima, Peru. She has performed professionally since 2007 in the United States, South America, and Europe. They started choreographing in 2010, and learned with innovative artists, notably, Marina Abramović, Luís Antonio Vílchez, Anna Halprin, Cunamacue Afro-Peruvian Dance Theater, NAKA Dance Theater, and Nina Wise. Amelia is a graduate of Juilliard (BFA with Scholastic Distinction) and the HfMDK Frankfurt (MA CoDE). She is currently an associate professor at the HfMDK Frankfurt teaching contemporary dance technique and co-artistic director of ID_Frankfurt's ID_Tanzhaus Frankfurt Rhein-Main.

5th of April, 12th of April, 2022 - Alessandra Corti

Alessandra Corti - Dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. She completed her studies in dance and theater at the Accademia d ́arte drammatica Paolo Grassi in Milano. She worked for over 15 years in several state theaters, Bremer Theater, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Staatstheater Mainz and in the free scene. Working mainly in repertoire companies, she collaborates with renowned choreographers such as Jan Pusch, Guy Weizmann and Roni Haver, Ina Christel Johannessen, Omar Rajeh, Ann Van den Broek, Sharon Eyal, Koen Augustjinen and Rosalba Torres, Alexandra Waierstall. During her dance career, Alessandra cultivated and developed her choreographic signature characterized by a sensible, fragile and extreme accurate body language.
In her choreographies she works with the concept of storytelling, involving the performers in a personal commitment, balancing on a fine line between reality and fiction, personal and public, secret and explicit. Alessandra created pieces for companies, such as tanzmainz and BallettCompagnie Oldenburg, young audience and solo works.
Collaborating with the video artist Andreas J. Etter she produced two short films, “Kokkola/Coccola” (September 2020) during her Residency in Absence by Dance All Year Long Kokkola, Finland, and “About me” supported by the ministry of science and culture Rheinland-Pfalz, (March 2021). Alessandra is mother of two girls inspiring her work and life every day. She is enrolled in the MA CoDE program since April 2021.

15th, 22th, 29th of March, 2022 - Eng Kai Er

Eng Kai Er (Kai) creates performances, working mostly solo or in small groups, and studies MA Choreography and Performance in Gießen. She is interested in sports and intimacy. Her dance and performance work is informed and accompanied by a long-term, slow-burn, practice of Contact Improvisation (CI). She has been dancing CI since 2007 and she was a teacher, organiser, and dancer of CI in Singapore during the years 2013-2018.

22th of February, 1st and 8th of March, 2022 - Juan Urbina

Juan Urbina is a dance artist currently based in Frankfurt am Main who works developing community dance projects in various social contexts while collaborating with multidisciplinary artists. He trained and worked in Venezuela, Ireland, Spain and Germany and holds a Master in Contemporary Dance Education (MA CODE, HfMDK). He is interested in forms of collective joy, ecstatic dancing and the recognition of multiple dancing selves. Juan's research combines the concept of moving identities with his cultural upbringing as a form of uplifting the dancing selves of each individual.

1st, 8th, 15th of February, 2022 - Gry Tingskog

Gry Tingskog works with choreography together with dance, sculpture, technology and text, weaving together threads of performance and visual arts. Mostly in the dark. Their practice moves between making performances, performing, imagining collaborative formats for sharing practices, teaching and writing. In 2017 Gry co-initiated INSISTER SPACE, an artist-run organisation imagining choreographic methods to rethink and reorganise artistic work in practice. They were also part of founding höjden, a trans-disciplinary workspace for artists and cultural workers in Östberga, Stockholm. Gry is based between Stockholm and Gießen where they are currently graduating from the MA in Choreography and Performance. Since 2017, they hold a Bachelor degree in Dance Performance from DOCH/Stockholm University of the Arts.

13th and 20th of July, 2021 - Viktorija Ilioska

Viktorija Ilioska is a Macedonian choreographer and performer who lives and works in Germany. Her movement practice is strongly based on touch, pressure, and transfer of the weight. In the past year she is searching and experimenting with new forms that can substitute the impossibility to come close to each other. Her interest for this class is to create a body that is imagined as a shelter and escape, with its presence producing a suspension of time, a delay, a period of rest and relief: You touch yourself and I feel it because I see it.

22nd and 29th of June, 2021 - Kristina Veit

Ausrichtung des Trainings ist die Entwicklung der Wahrnehmung für den eigenen Körper, so wie für den Raum um uns herum. Durch somatische und koordinative Übungen entsteht nicht nur Kontrolle des Körpers, die meist mit An-Spannung zu tun hat, sondern vielmehr Führung unseres eigenen Tanzes. Dynamische schnelle Wechsel geschehen hier fast im Ruhezustand des Geistes und aus der maximalen Entspannung des Körpers heraus.

8th and 15th of June, 2021 - May Zarhy

Choreographer and performer May Zarhy is an independent artist creating works that range from stage pieces, to site-specific and participatory works. In her work, she is drawn to the intersection of choreography, performance, and sound art. She explores the materiality of the human body through movement and sound.

18th, 25th of May, 1st of June, 2021 - Luis Garay

“I enjoy working with micro-worlds and the question of scale. I create Queer temporal objects: environments where our ideas of productivity, time and presence can be destabilize and explore anew. States where flesh and mind, conscious and unconscious move in borderlines and confuse each other. I identify and feel comfortable working with Queers and nomads.”

27th of April, 4th of May, 11th of May, 2021 - Frédéric De Carlo

Frédéric De Carlo is a French dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. Fred studied contemporary dance at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris, and he also holds the French Dance Teacher Diploma. After having been a professional dancer with Odile Duboc at the Centre Chorégraphique National in Belfort in France, he decided to develop his own projects, and collaborative dance pieces. In Berlin, he was part of the collective group «Praticable». In Frankfurt, together with Fanti Baum and Joana Tischkau, they created the piece Hors de combat. He was also involved in the performances by Caroline Creutzburg and by Ravvina/Veit.
What he especially values about the theater and dance scene in Frankfurt is the solidarity that exists here. Therefore, since the summer, he’s part of the leading team of ID_Frankfurt.

6th, 13th, 20th of April, 2021 - Cyril Baldy

Born in France, he studied ballet in Paris at The Conservatoire National Supérieur. As a dancer he worked with the Jeune Ballet de France, Nederland Dans Theatre II, Nederland Dans Theatre I and Frankfurt Ballet before The Forsythe Company from 2005 to 2014.

Since 2014, along side teaching internationally, he primarily choreographs, teaches and stages William Forsythe’s repertoire.

 9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th of March, 2021 - Katja Cheraneva

Katja Cheraneva is a freelance dancer and choreographer based between Berlin and Frankfurt. As a choreographer, she primarily works with improvisation drawing the physicality from the interdependency between thinking-sensing-doing. She mainly engages in collaborative processes and her recent work explores notions of rehearsal/rehearsing, learning/unlearning, memory, and undoing. In the past, she has worked in close collaboration as a performer, co-creator, and choreographic consultant with Anne Imhof(ANGST I, II; FAUST and FAUST.JR), Fabrice Mazliah, Lea Letzel, Francis Chiaverini, Janina Arendt, Ksenia Ravvina, and Dudu Quintanilha. She has been a member of The Forsythe Company and a founder member of HOOD(Host Organisation fOr proDuction) that held an artistic fellowship at PACT Zollverein from 2017 - 2019.