Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin LEVEL:
O
Morning Groove
Kurs
with
Soroa Lear, Victoria McConnell, Sara Lu
In the frame of Summer/ing at Tanzfabrik
This class is a happening where all movers can join. No matter what your background is, whether you dance in clubs or don’t dance, do belly dance or ballet, all of you are welcome to this Movement Experience. Morning & Evening Groove seeks as an internal and sensorial, rather than a visual experience of movement and dance. The class is based on the premise that movement always exists in all of us all the time and is a celebration of this movement and the sensations we can receive from it. By understanding and experiencing the functionality of our body — its anatomy, layers, and mobility — we can exist in a space between activating/directing our movement and giving in to its forces. This naturally creates sensations in our body which can stimulate the inevitable continuation of movement. This class is created and offered as a place for anyone who is curious to move, who likes to breathe, to dance up a sweat; for those wanting to ground the mind in the body and to embody spaciousness.
Who teaches when:
July
23.+25.07.24: Sara Lu
30.07.24: Soroa Lear
August
01.08.24: Kerri Fitzsimons
06.08.24: Sara Lu
08.+13.+15.08.24.: Victoria McConnell
20.+22.+27.+29.08.24: Sara Lu
Who teaches when:
July
23.+25.07.24: Sara Lu
30.07.24: Soroa Lear
August
01.08.24: Kerri Fitzsimons
06.08.24: Sara Lu
08.+13.+15.08.24.: Victoria McConnell
20.+22.+27.+29.08.24: Sara Lu
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.
Victoria McConnell
A native Californian, Victoria earned a BFA in Dance from Belhaven University in 2008, and worked in Washington and Oregon. Since 2015, she is based in Germany performing, teaching, and creating collaboratively in Europe. From Berlin, she has worked with composers Katya Sourikova and Adriano Fontana, with musicians Joshua Tennent and Livia Rita. As a dancer, Victoria has performed for Joachim Schlömer, Tanz Company Gervasi, Sara Angius, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and others. She also performs for camera and in comedy. In Seattle from 2009-2015 she danced for many artists including Catapult Dance, Ilvs Strauss, Alana O Rogers Dance Company, and Coriolis Dance Collective. Curating through ada Studio in Berlin, since 2018 she creates events for the series “NAH DRAN extended". While in Seattle, she co-produced dance events through the nonprofit Abbey Arts in 2013 and 2014.
Sara Lu
Sara Lu (she/they) is a Berlin-based performer, movement director, and facilitator with a background in ballet, contemporary dance, and Butoh. Throughout their artistic journey, Sara continually seeks authentic expression and tools to bridge inner experiences with the physical realm. They explore somatic awareness, the use of voice and sound, and various dance and movement approaches to achieve this connection. Since 2016, Sara has been working as an in-house choreographer at RambaZamba Theater, an inclusive institution that empowers artists with disabilities. For more information, visit www.saralu.de
EN | from 23.07.
Registration