- Somatic/Artistic Research and Documentation

EN | 2-day Workshop with Susanne Martin & Andrea Keiz

Mar. 28 2026 – Mar. 29 2026

This workshop 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.

This workshop is also a module of the continuing education Environmental Somatics Training. It will be in English.

Ausführliche Seminarinformationen

Seminarleiter*innen

Andrea Keiz

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

Kosten

Costs

280€ | single workshop
2800€ | whole continuing education Environmental Somatics

Dates

Mar 28-29, 2026 | Saturday - Sunday | 10am - 5:30pm

Curriculum of the complete Environmental Somatics Training

This training includes 5 modules and 200 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 28 - Jun 01, 2025 \| Body & Environment \| in & around Berlin Basics of somatic pedagogy and its application in environmental contexts Experiences in the application of somatic approaches will be gathered in different urban & natural landscapes and compared in their effects Based on Feldenkrais Method and experiential anatomy, understanding of states of presence, of movement and environmental awareness Improvisation & meditation exercises are used to train the ability to be in place
Module 2	Sep 27 - Oct 04, 2025 \| Orientation & Ways \| In the Alps Development of movement, orientation and navigation in mountainous terrain Based on Feldenkrais Method & experiential anatomy, teaches human orientation skills using the nervous system and senses Exploration of both the inner body and landscape pathways to allow a location-based, improvisational action and a satisfying connection with the environment
Module 3	Mar 28 - Mar 29, 2026 \| Research & Documentation \| Berlin Somatic Academy Strategies and forms of reflection from artistic research are applied to somatic processes Basics of Artistic/Somatic Research Critical reflection of one's own somatic and creative process Development of one's own documentation practice appropriate to the object of research
Module 4	May 23 - May 20, 2026 \| Dimensions & Connectedness \| At the Baltic sea Expands and deepens orientation skills by exploring the experiential dimensions of height, depth, expanse, closeness, and distance Philosophical and neuroscientific foundations are used to provide a deeper understanding of relatedness and empathy The somatic emphasis is on the perception of space and environment, the breath, and the ability of resonance
Module 5	Sep 29 - Oct 04, 2026 \| Design of environmental references \| In & around Berlin Strategies for designing lively, inspiring and responsible body/perception expereiences Developing topic- and site-specific, somatic outdoor projects For dealing with groups, body/perception-based skills in leadership/leading and going along/following are trained

Anmeldeinformationen

Zeiten
Mar. 28 2026 –
Mar. 29 2026

10am -5:30pm

Veranstaltungsort
Berlin

Somatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor

Preise

Full Price: 280.00 EUR

Zahlung Banküberweisung, PayPal

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