Almost Home 2021 ©Matthias Wäckerlin
BLOG: Diversity in the Performing Arts, blog entry written for FAIRSPEC, October 2022
Figures 2020 ©Matthias Wäckerlin ©Oliver Hochstrasser
Overview Inclusive Work
Commissioned Work for Inclusive Dance Companies: Forward Dance Company Leipzig, TanzFlug Zürich, Dançando com a Diferença Madeira, Beweggrund Bern, Candoco Dance Company London, Ballet ID Jakarta
2026 Teacher Training for inclusive dance facilitation, Landesmusikakademie Hamburg
2023-2024 tanzlab Norderstedt, Community Dance Project in collaboration with the Office for Culture and Education of the City of Norderstedt and sense-the-steps Hamburg
2023 Dance Limerick, Inclusive Training Day for dance paedagogues
2022/23 sense-the-steps, Hamburg, Teacher Training Inklusive Tanzvermittlung / inclusive teaching practice, sense the steps_teacher training 2022
2022 Inklusiver Tanzkongress Bremen, International Symposium
2021 Webinar - Zugang zu Kultur: Teilhabe und künstlerische Qualität organised by Christoph Merian Stiftung Basel, wildwuchs and IntegrART
2020 Mit Tanz zur Toleranz/Projekt Seite an Seite, Hamburg, Inclusive Dance Workshop
2019 Tanz_bar Bremen, Symposium: ‘TANZ INKLUSIV - vom Werden und Sein’, Schwankhalle Bremen
Dançando com a Diferença, Madeira/Portugal, choreographic research / newspaper article on my work with the Company
Making A Difference, Uferstudios Berlin, Inclusive Teacher Training
2018 Making A Difference, Uferstudios Berlin, Inclusive Teacher Training
BewegGrund Bern, Inclusive Dance Workshop
Tanzfähig Berlin, Inclusive Dance Workshop
2017 2nd Indonesian Ballet Gala, Jakarta/ID, CLOUD PASSADE, Choreographic Commission, Candoco Dance Company/Ballet ID Jakarta
2016/17 TLT Tanz Luzerner Theater (Kathleen Mc Nurney), Lucerne/CH, Teacher Training / Mentoring
2016 Wellcome Collection London, DISPLAY, Choreographic Commission Candoco Dance Company
2015 Lagos/Nigeria, professional mentorship for emerging Nigerian choreographers, Candoco Dance Company
2012 Festival Tanz!Heilbronn, Heilbronn/DE, Inclusive Dance Project, Candoco Dance Company
2012 - present Associate Artist Candoco Dance Company London
International teaching, facilitating workshops and teacher training (UK, Germany, India, Ukraine, Nigeria, Armenia, Belgium, Jakarta etc.).
©Candoco Dance Company
Teacher Training for inclusive dance facilitation
I facilitate Teacher Training for inclusive dance facilitation: 1 -5 day professional development courses, workshops, lectures, mentoring
The Teacher Training is an opportunity of professional development for dance teachers and dance artists with an interest in inclusive practice and community dance. The focus lies on artistic work with diverse and mixed groups, (disabled and non-disabled participants, intercultural and intergenerational groups, participants of different backgrounds and dance experience).
The teacher training is practice-oriented and provides insight into my artistic work, dance pedagogical approaches and experience of leading inclusive dance projects internationally.
Among other things, we will deal with the following questions and thematic blocks both theoretically and practically:
What does the theory say? principles of inclusive dance practice
How is it put into practice? awareness of space, moving with a group, structured improvisation, contact work, contemporary dance technique
How to implement it into my own teaching? participants reflect on their own specific teaching realities and apply new learnings to their teaching practice
Questions are more important than answers, the Teacher Training is not about delivering a ready-made instruction manual for inclusive practice, but is above all about stimulating creativity and collecting new tools for inclusive dance facilitation. The aim is to reflect upon our own practice, raise challenging questions and facilitate shared learning.
—> Insight into the Teacher Training 2022, and follow up Teacher Training 2023 (mentoring) for sense the steps, Hamburg
Teacher Training Hamburg 2022 ©sense the steps, Research ©Candoco Dance Company
Inclusive Dance Workshops: Improvisation and Composition
I facilitate inclusive dance workshops and create inclusive choreographic work internationally
This workshop is based on structured improvisation, instant composition and using sensation as a starting point for the creation of an individual physical language. Movement is not fixed but defined in each moment. Alone, as a group and often working with a partner, the dancers explore and broaden their movement vocabulary and decide about its composition in time and space. Fine tuning our listening towards our own body and each other, we search for new movement patterns and dive into a state of curiosity, presence and play.
Ballet ID Indonesia ©Candoco Dance Company
tanzlab Norderstedt, 2023/2024
We are excited to present our latest Community Dance Project in collaboration with the Office for Culture and Education of the City of Norderstedt and sense-the-steps Hamburg. I have been leading a Dance Laboratory Intensive over two consecutive years, co-facilitated by dance artists Elena Morena Weber and Chen Nadler. Ongoing dance workshops led by Sense the Steps Hamburg continued on a regular basis over two years to establish a thorough movement practice and diverse community group. The work culminated in two public performances that were received with great enthusiasm and joy.
OFF-BALANCE 2023 ©David Reineke