EMERGE // Somatics in Dance
Continuing Education for creative, mediating and performing professions
Somatics in Dance, Choreography & Performance
The sentient body and the experience/experiencing of oneself in movement and in interaction with the environment are the focus of this dance-choreographic advanced training.
The methods Body-Mind Centering®, Feldenkrais Method and Authentic Movement form the basis for movement training and aesthetic research. With improvisation and composition strategies, these experiences are made creatively-creative and performative-artistic usable. This enables the development of individual dance abilities in their deep, embodied potential. Connected to the somatic experience, choreographic criteria and tools are taught. The participants are thus guided through an artistic development process in which they (further) develop their own present, powerful and subtle penetration of movement as an aesthetic form and conclude with a presentation.
The Emerge advanced training is modular. It is possible to join at any time.
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Continuing Education Emerge // Somatics in Dance, Choreography & Performance is a modular and in-service specialization in Somatic Pedagogy for use in artistic, creative, performance & educational professions.
250 hours // 5 facilitators // 9 Modules // Coaching & 1:1-Sessions
Ausführliche Seminarinformationen
EMERGE Continuing Education // Somatics in Dance, Choreography & Performance
Concept: Heike Kuhlmann & Katja Münker
Lecturers: Andrea Keiz, Heike Kuhlmann, Susanne Martin, Katja Münker & Andrew Wass
Emerge // Somatics in Dance, Choreography & Performance is a 250-hour, modular, in-service specialization in Somatic Pedagogy for use in artistic, creative, performative & educational professions.
The sentient body and the experience/experiencing of oneself in movement and in interaction with the environment are the focus of this dance-choreographic advanced training.
The methods Body-Mind Centering®, Feldenkrais Method and Authentic Movement form the basis for movement trainings and aesthetic research. With improvisation and composition strategies, these experiences are made creatively creative and performative-artistic usable. This enables the development of individual dance abilities in their deep, embodied potential. Connected to the somatic experience, choreographic criteria and tools are taught. The participants are thus accompanied through an artistic development process in which they (further) develop their own present, powerful and subtle penetration of movement as an aesthetic form and conclude with a presentation.
For whom is Emerge recommended?
This continuing education is aimed at educators, therapists, teachers, dancers, dance/theater educators, choreographers and anyone who wants to implement creative action and relaxed, confident performance in their everyday life or profession.
What does Emerge promote?
- Development of somatic-choreographic action through a strengthening of sensory reference in decision-making and in the use of choreographic strategies.
- Unfolding creativity through training in strategies for shaping individual and collaborative creative processes, strategies for overcoming creative blocks.
- Deepening embodiment through body awareness training (being at home in the body), strengthening the body's own resources and sensory reference in movement.
- Performativity by strengthening individual and collective expressiveness, by strengthening sensory references in public performance, in solo and group performances and in application in individual areas of interest.
What does Emerge include?
The Emerge continuing education is modular. It is possible to join at any time. The completion is based on
- participation in 250h compulsory & elective modules,
- participation in 3h somatic & 3h artistic coaching each,
- artistic contributions to the workshop-internal performance shows,
- Documentation of the individual somatic process (max 5 pages) and
- Documentation of the artistic process (max 5 pages) with follow-up discussion
Curriculum 2023-2024
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Module 9 | Nov 15-17, 2024 | Expanding Project Unfolding // Tensegrity-principles & Fascia anatomy in dance with Katja Münker
| 430€ |
Additionally, according to the individual focus or interest:
90h Continuing education | Recognition from advance training possible or optionally bookable in
| varies according to selection or pre-training |
Artistic Coaching | Optional with one lecturer of Emerge
| 60€/h |
1:1 Somatic session | Optional with one lecturer of Emerge
| 60€/h |
Documentation, feedback, certification | Both
| 200€ |
Die Teile
Time to Move - Time to be still // Feldenkrais Method in Dance, Choreography & Performance
Module 1 with Katja Münker
The conscious and multifaceted interplay of skeletal movement, perception, nervous system and alignment in space form the field of play in both the Feldenkrais Method and...
Artistic Research and Documentation
Module 2 with Susanne Martin & Andrea Keiz
In addition to practical exercises in dance and improvisation, there will be theoretical input on artistic research. With different practices of documentation we will...
Authentic Movement as ressource for creative processes
Module 3 with Heike Kuhlmann
Authentic Movement creates a space in which the mover enters the not-knowing. The mover asks herself and the space which movement she should make next, which inner impulses she...
Body-Mind Centering® as base for creativity
Module 4 with Heike Kuhlmann
Somatic work is a work of getting to know oneself, so that experiencing and experiencing are initially in the foreground. If somatic approaches are to be used for artistic...
Ensemble Thinking
Module 5 with Andrew Wass
Ensemble Thinking (ET) is a system of collaborative group performance practices. These compositional exercises refine the individual’s ability to perceive, initiate, and...
dance improvisation as an art
Module 6 with Susanne Martin
In this module we further our dance and improvisation skills. We study how, when and how much we influence or guide each other while improvising as a group. We watch each other...
Connecting Creating Appearing // Somatic Choreography & Performance-Project
Module 7 | Performance-Project with Katja Münker
With release technique, Feldenkrais method, somatic research, experiential anatomy and improvisation / instant composition skills in somatic choreography are trained. In a...
Somatic choreography & performance project with Body-Mind Centering®, Contact Improvisation & Authentic Movement
Module 8 | Performance-Project with Heike Kuhlmann
This performance project 3x3 is about co-creation. The open as well as complex question: How do people create together, is, besides the decision of the participants to get...
Expanding Projecting Unfolding // Tensegrity-Principles & Fascia-Anatomy in Dance
Module 9 with Katja Münker
In this module we use these principles, based on experiential anatomy, Feldenkrais Method and Somatic Yoga, to access and deeply understand these capacities of the fascial...
Seminarleiter*innen
Katja Münker
www.movement-muenker.de/
Dance | Choreography | Performance | Somatics | Artistic Research | Walking Art | Mountain Hiking Guiding
Continuing education lecturer and director of Environmental Somatics and EMERGE/ Somatic in Dance at the Somatische Akademie Berlin. Member of the German Feldenkrais Association & ISMETA-registered RSME/RSMT/RSDE.
Trained as a physical therapist, Feldenkrais teacher, and mountain hiking guide, as well as in contemporary dance, (contact) improvisation, instant composition.
Conscious and embodied learning, the potential between individual freedom and collective inclusion in the environment, as well as joy, ease, and consciousness in the movement are the focus of her teaching. Her research-oriented practice is informed by deep-sensing investigation and reflecting evaluation. Beyond teaching her work includes performance projects, conference papers, and publications focusing on somatics and choreography, as well as on walking. Regular teaching at universities including FU Berlin, UdK Berlin, and HZT Berlin. Artistic research collaboration with AREAL_artistic research lab Berlin.
Heike Kuhlmann
www.heikekuhlmann.net
MSME, BMC®-Practitioner, dancer, -educator, choreographer, MA Performance Studies/Choreography
Heike is interested in the unfolding process of human beings. It is more than the individual unfolding, but in how people can meet each other at eye level through personal development and inclusion of structural conditions in her somatic facilitations. Being a condition to become Critical Somatics. She accompanies somatic processes in individual sessions, courses, workshops and trainings. Activism and somatics are interwoven in her artistic work. More information on: www.somatik-tanz-choreographie.de, www.heikekuhlmann.net
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
Andrew Wass
www.wasswasswass.com
Hailing from Southern California, Andrew Wass is a choreographer, dancer, and researcher. His interests lie at the crossroads of philosophy, cognitive science, and improvised dance. Looking to dissolve the boundaries between academic research and performance, he juxtaposes corporeal and cognitive practices to discover their theoretical commonalities. These commonalities then reveal more potential in his teaching and performance practice. A member of Lower Left and a graduate of the SoDA program at the HZT in Berlin, Wass is pursuing a PhD in Dance at Texas Woman’s University.
Kosten
Costs
3900€ | total for the complete continuing education Emergecosts excl. 1:1 Somatic sessions, artistic coaching, certification and 90h continuing education (varies according to selection or pre-training)
All modules can be booked individually and do not have to be completed chronologically. The prices vary depending on the module and (guest) lecturers, see curriculum. A price saving results when booking all modules.
Dates
Curriculum 2023-2024
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Module 9 | Nov 15-17, 2024 | Expanding Project Unfolding // Tensegrity-principles & Fascia anatomy in dance with Katja Münker | 430€ |
Additionally, according to the individual focus or interest:
90h Continuing education | Recognition from advance training possible or optionally bookable in
| varies according to selection or pre-training |
Artistic Coaching | Optional with one lecturer of Emerge
| 60€/h |
1:1 Somatic session | Optional with one lecturer of Emerge
| 60€/h |
Documentation, feedback, certification | Both
| 200€ |
Anmeldeinformationen
BerlinSomatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor
- Full Price: 3900.00 EUR