Workshop

2022  3 workshops at Werkstatt, Frankfurt.

"In these sessions we will move our perception. I’m interested in working with scores or tasks that form a point of departure, more than a specific point of arrival. Through playing with fiction, language, objects and sensations, the scores become ways to open the situation differently and re-sensitise the body through gaps, misapprehensions and disorientations. Together we will see what grows out of the scores, follow where they might take us, maybe drift away."

Seminar The mess we’re in

2020 – 2021  3-months weekly seminar co-taught with Prof. Dr. Bojana Kunst's seminar Plants and Performance for the MA in Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies Gießen and MA in Contemporary Dance Education at HfMDK Frankfurt. The co-teaching format explores relations between theory and practice in dance education.

"To see both the forest and the trees, and the myriad other species that inhabit and make the forest; this class sets to challenge perception. Taking the body as a point of departure, we will attend to embodiment not as a personal endeavour, but as a complex entanglement at stake in-between bodies, and attune to the specific knowledges and performativities that unfold in-between them. We will indulge in practices to trouble the ways in which we receive information, think, learn, know and respond, to cultivate other understandings of selfhood; a porous body, entangled with, and constituted through, the surrounding elements.
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We will commit to a continuous undoing; not a commanding brain but a thinking taking place in the entire body synchronised by nerve connections, dispersing agency, awareness, desire, intention and consciousness. We will commit to a continuous doing; listening to the materials we practice with as they act back, responding. We will change perspective to turn presumptions around as means to explore other ways of making sense.
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We will spend time with the sensed more than the seen. We will attune to times and speeds and linger with what we cannot immediately recognise. We will play with practices as a soil for things to grow out of—out of hand and not at all. We will spend time with verbs more than nouns—planting as a leap into the not-known, not sure, not-yet, not-finished, not-assured. We will play with words to trouble the language that is complicit in any dancing—turning meaning and perception around. We will cultivate abundance and a sense of togetherness. We will experience force and encounter resistance. Hopefully our circumstances will allow us to touch; touch each other, our selves, touch plants, the (in)visible presence of plants in the papers we read. We will write and collect sentences of the remains, memories, the compound of the materials we practice (with). We will get our hands dirty digging into this mess and see what grows out of it—ravelling performativities, forms that never settle and some dances to sprout for."

Seminar Dance Fictions

2020  3-months weekly practical classes at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Gießen (cancelled due to COVID-19)

"In this seminar we will use dance as a way of spending time together. We will trouble dance as a disciplinary technique to train away subject habits, neutralising movement patterns and optimising bodies. We will visit specific notions of ‘body’ and the worlds they are enmeshed in to emphasise the fiction or construct of ‘the neutral body’. What if dance could be a space to practice thinking differently? We will try to in practice ponder upon embodiment not as a personal endeavour, but as a complex entanglement at stake in-between bodies. Specifically, we will spend time with practices that propose ways of meeting and spending time together, such as group bodies, partner work and choir dancing. We will bear in mind that doing together does not entail doing the same.  We will use touch to guide perception and zoom attention—to render specific information present. We will work with gaze to challenge our perception and attention—to receive impressions differently. We will play with language to turn presumptions around—to consider other ways of making sense. Anyone can attend this seminar no matter previous experience with dance. We will together try to undo the conventions, norms and expectations that have been embedded into the dance class format as such. Instead, we will explore multiple of ways of spending time together through, and with, dance."

Weak Proposals

2019 – 2020  Weak proposals  Co-initiator, organiser and host. Weak proposals is an invitation to share practices we're anyways busy with or always wanted to try out and happens 3 days/week. The aim is to create a collective memory of methods, practices and exercises. For each session one artist proposes a dramaturgy for 1.5 h. At the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen

Professional daily training

2019  One week of professional daily training at höjden, Stockholm organised by INSISTER SPACE within the format AT ISSUE: practice
2018  Professional daily training class at Danscentrum, Stockholm organised by INSISTER SPACE within the format AT ISSUE: practice
2018  1-week long meeting of sharing practices at Skogen in Göteborg organised by INSISTER SPACE within the format AT ISSUE: practice
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AT ISSUE: practice is a practical study circle on practices situated in experimental dance and expanded choreography developed by INSISTER SPACE. AT ISSUE challenges the dance class format and the roles it reproduces through its knowledge economy: each week a practitioner in the field invites the study group to visit their practice, with the urgencies, questions, pleasures or issues they are busy with. AT ISSUE is a space to collectively work with the practice, rather than to train the body as a tool. The aim is to create a collective memory of practices, exercisers and issues through the duration of the study circle.

POSSE Dance and Reading Group

2017  Workshop based on scores from cheating discipline and other artistic affairs moving between reading, moving and writing at POSSE Dance and Reading group, Stockholm