Cora Kartmann

Contemporary Dance (subbing for Heidi Weiss)

03.06.25, 19:45–21:15
Level: Intermediate

Bio

Cora Kartmann is a freelance dancer, choreographer and dance teacher in Berlin. After 3 years of education as a professional dancer, she completed her studies in contemporary dance pedagogy at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (MUK) and deepened her knowledge in the weissmann teacher training programme. From 2010 to 2022, she worked with the Berlin choreographer Volker Eisenach in the field of community dance. In Vienna, she performed on stage at Impulstanz Festival with her solo meadow on the ground and all over me, a movement research on the modern teacher Gertrud Bodenwieser. In 2022, Cora Kartmann founded the Impala Dance Company with Selin Dörtkardes and Tsun Yin Wong, with whom she creates interdisciplinary dance projects in cultural education for young adults.
Cora teaches modern and contemporary dance for children and adults, beginners to professionals, in various dance studios in Berlin.

Class Description

Cora teaches an energetic, structured and technical contemporary dance class with elements of modern dance, yoga and urban dance. The structure and style of the class is based on the approach of the weissmann technique. A grounding warm up begins to include the breath into yoga movements and creates a flow to arrive with one’s mind in the body and on the dancefloor. The class continues with moving technical exercises for footwork, legs, swings and curves to strengthen and prepare the dancer’s body. Further on, adding themes like directional changes, big movements through space, floor work and musicality which will create joyful moving sequences that go across the floor and culminate into a choreography at the end of the class. The final choreography gives the dancers room to combine the technique they’ve learned throughout the class with expression and to challenge the presented movement material.