Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin LEVEL:
O
Vibrant Body
Kurs
with
Katrina Bastian, Soroa Lear
In my practice I am interested in uncovering and expanding the infinite universe living within each unique and individual body. By breaking down the body into its layers of skin, flesh and bone, we can create more space within the container of our body and radiate beyond its borders and limits.The isolation of different body structures allows for increased physical awareness and a growing sense of possibilities within our physicality. The practice builds up to a place where the body can operate as a whole by connecting all the layers within itself while still allowing for space to exist between them.Throughout the practice we surrender to the groove and vibrations we receive from music and allow ourselves to be taken by and merge with it. My practice draws inspiration from Sidra Bell’s methodology, Gaga, Dose of Pleasure by Alvin Collantes and my personal choreographic work among others.
Katrina teaches 9th of August, Soroa 16th of August.
Katrina teaches 9th of August, Soroa 16th of August.
Katrina Bastian
Katrina is a movement artist and teacher back in Berlin after having lived for 2.5 years in New Zealand! She grew up in the South of Germany and the Northeast of the United States. Katrina holds a Bachelor of Arts Dance + Literature from the Reed College / Portland, USA (2011 – 2015) as well as an MA in Choreography from the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst / HZT, Berlin (2017-2019). Besides she received a Yoga Certification in September 2020 from the Contemporary Yoga New Zealand. Between 2020 – 2022 Katrina worked with the New Zealand Dance Company, Footnote Dance NZ (Choreoco), Black Grace Dance Company, Dance Plant Collective, and Mary-Jane O'Reilly. Her work was presented in The Performance Arcade, Tempo Dance Festival, Experimental Dance Week Aotearoa, Auckland Fringe, and NZ Fringe. Since moving back to Berlin Katrina has worked with Haptic Hide, Yoriko Maeno, and Sergiu Matis as well as receiving funding from Neu-Start Kultur and Dis-Tanz-Solo to research their newest work Heartfeld beside teaching Yoga regularly.
Soroa Lear
Soroa Lear is a Cuban-American dancer, performer and writer based in Berlin. She completed her studies in contemporary dance and comparative literature at Reed College, which sparked her interest in the intersections between critical theory and movement. In her practice, she explores the ways in which movement can enable a reordering of our subjectivity, allowing relationality, pleasure, and physical affect to determine our understanding of the self. In this centering of sensation, there lies the potential to become ‘undone’; to experience the body outside of its linguistic and subjected identity, and instead through bodily sensation. Her practice is heavily influenced by Gaga, contact improvisation and Berlin's nightclub culture - something she was able to practice and study thanks to a research grant she received in 2019. She has performed and worked with Oriantheater, Sebastian Abarbanell, Nora Tormann, and Søren Siebel amongst others. Her written works have been published by Penny Press and Confluence Journal.
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