Hugh Stainer

Workshop Riding Momentum

31.05. + 01.06.2025
31.05.25, 15:00–20:00
01.06.2025, 15:00–18:45

Contemporary Training Riding Momentum

26.03.2025, 14:00–15:30

Bio

Hugh is a Dance Artist & Movement educator specialized in Floor Work & Contact Improvisation. He has over 20 years of teaching & performance experience. He began dancing when he was 15, training in Break Dance and Contemporary. He went on to train at Northern School of Contemporary Dance, graduating in 2008. Since then he has worked with companies such as 2Faced Dance, Tom Dale, STAN Won’t Dance, and Wim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez.
He has taught internationally at the Goa Contact Festival, Goa Dance residency, Thailand Contact and ecstatic arts festival, Berlin Contact Festival and Portugal Contact Festival and for National Dance company Wales (NDCW) as well as organizing his own workshops and retreats in Portugal, Germany and Israel. Within his teaching practice he combines his experience in Break Dance, Contemporary and Contact Improvisation to create a highly physical, technical and intuitive approach to movement exploration.
He is a TMW (Tai Chi Movements for Wellbeing) facilitator. The principles of Tai Chi and Qi Kung underpin his approach to teaching and sharing movement. Guided by the ethos of presence and play, Hugh’s work emphasizes listening to the body’s innate wisdom and exploring movement that feels organic and authentic. His sessions offer a gentle yet powerful space to reconnect with breath, awareness, and the freedom of self-expression, encouraging participants to find their own sense of joy, balance, and ease in movement.