- Somatic Research and Documentation
Module 3 with Andrea Keiz & Susanne Martin
This module uses strategies and forms of reflection from artistic research and applies them to somatic processes.
Artistic Research has been developing since the last decades as a recognized form of 1st & 2nd person research and thus also includes the researching person (I) and his or her counterpart (You) in the research and cognition process. Thus, artistic research offers good foundations to apply to somatic research. Since somatic processes can also involve the risk of losing oneself in the doing or of losing insights already gained, research and documentation practices form a valuable and necessary basis for individual and professional development.
This weekend will teach the basics of Artistic/Somatic Research and thus tools for critical reflection on one's own somatic and creative process. This supports the development of an inquiring attitude. Different documentation possibilities will be introduced and tried out in order to be able to choose one's own documentation practice suitable to the research project. The engagement with documentation helps to sharpen one's own research interest and later to reflect on the process of research through individual evaluation.
Ausführliche Seminarinformationen
Aim of the training
The aim of the training is to understand and accompany body-perception processes, to use this knowledge for the care of our self-world-relationship and the shaping of our living-environments. Environmental Somatics are oriented towards an experienced sensory availability and bodily presence. Thus, the practice strengthens the ability to adapt and attune to situations and to act in relation. The aim is to make the practice part of our responsibility for the common good!
Additionally to the regular modules the training includes:
- 3 individual coaching sessions of 60 minutes each outside the modules
- 3 group coaching sessions outside the modules
- Individual project support and peer evaluation
- Feedback on own text production
- 2 supervised trail-presentations
- Organisational and content-related support for the final presentation and its evaluation
- Additional teaching material
Applied methods in the training
- Feldenkrais Methode
- erfahrbare Anatomie & Physiologie
- Improvisation
- Meditationspraktiken
- Outdooraktivitäten
Including
- Body philosophy
- Cognitive Sciences
- Natural sciences
- artistic-somatic research
- fields of application
For whom is the training recommended?
The training is suitable as a complement to or a new orientation for a wide range of professional fields: for example, architects can incorporate the intensification of spatial perception into their planning designs, urban planners can take sensory aspects into account when designing social spaces, or teachers can learn mediation strategies in order to design experientially immediate spaces for their teaching in a world that is becoming more and more virtual.
The training is aimed at all those who want to use somatic strategies constructively, visionarily and respectfully to shape our living environments and our life together.
It enables the individual embedding of contents and practices in different fields of action and leads to certification by the Somatic Academy Berlin with a final public presentation. Participants learn to apply body awareness in their private, professional, social or political work.
Curriculum of the complete Environmental Somatics Training
This training includes 5 modules and 250 hours.
The modules 1-4 can be booked seperately as workshops as well. The training will be in english (with german partial translation) or german, it depends to the group.
Module 1 | May 26 - May 30, 2025 | Body & Environment | in & around Berlin
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Module 2 | Sep 27 - Oct 04, 2025 | Orientation & Ways | In the Alps
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Module 3 | Mar 28 - Mar 29, 2026 | Research & Documentation | Berlin Somatic Academy
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Module 4 | May 23 - May 20, 2026 | Dimensions & Connectedness | At the Baltic sea
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Module 5 | Sep 29 - Oct 04, 2026 | Design of environmental references | In & around Berlin
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Team
Pedagogical direction:
- Katja Münker (Feldenkrais Method / Somatics / Dance/Choreography / Artistic Research / Walking Art / Mountain Guiding)
Guest teachers:
- Andrea Keiz (video documentation / video art)
- Susanne Martin (PhD, Dance / Performance / Research)
- Undine Eberlein (PhD, Body Philosophy / Somatic Research)
Video-Impressions from the Module Body & Environment 2021
Seminarleiter*innen
Susanne Martin
www.susannemartin.de
choreographer, performer, researcher, and teacher in contemporary dance.
She presents her work internationally in solo performances and collaborative stage works. Her artistic practice and research focus on improvisation, contact improvisation, critical practices and narrations of age(ing), artistic research methods, and improvisation-based approaches to knowledge production and knowledge dissemination. Festivals that presented her performances include: International Dance and Theatre Festival (Gothenburg), Aerowaves (London), Nottdance (Nottingham), Opera Estate (Bassano del Grappa), Tanec Praha (Prague).
Her PhD dissertation Dancing Age(ing): Rethinking Age(ing) in and through Improvisation Practice and Performance was published 2017 by transcript. In her postdoctoral research at EPFL, Switzerland (2018-2021) she examined dance improvisation in its potential to rethink and advance processes of learning and researching in a technical university.
credit: Frank Post
Anmeldeinformationen
- Full Price: 280.00 EUR
This module is part of the continuing education Environmental Somatics. It will be in English and can be booked separately as well.
ENVIRONMENTAL SOMATICS - Somatic/Artistic Research & Documentation
EN | 2-day workshop with Andrea Keiz & Susanne Martin
Mar 28, 2026 – Mar 29, 2026
