Laura Guy
Contemporary for Dancers
01.11. + 02.11.2025, 13:00–14:30
15.11. + 16.11.2025, 13:00–14:30
Training for Dancers
Bio
Laura Guy (FRA/DNK) is a dancer and movement teacher based in Berlin. After graduating in 2014 she joined the junior company; Cie Le Marchepied by Corinne Rochet & Nicholas Petit, in Lausanne for one season. Thereafter she participated in several courses and workshops in the Gaga movement language in Israel, with the Batsheva Dance Company, by Ohad Naharin (2015/2016). Later on, Laura travel to India where she obtained her certification as a yoga teacher & relaxation healing techniques in India (2017-2018). And in 2022 she further educated herself in the Gaga Movement Language, Via The GagaRoom (Intensive studies in Gaga). During her career as a dancer and performer, Laura has worked with a variety of companies and choreographers/artists and leading institutions such as Sasha Waltz & Guests, Staatsoper Berlin, Marina Abramović, Eva Duda Dance Company, Roni Rotem Dance and Yarra Dolev (Batsheva Studios, Israel) and more. She has performed and taught internationally across Europe, Asia/Middle East, and the U.S., with recent projects in Paraguay and Argentina (Espacio E, Cia.Danza Bethania Joaquinho, Espacio EK, La Fábrica, Cia. Les Posibles).
Laura has created and performed her own works at venues such as Gdańsk Dance Festival, Poetic Hafla No. 14, Lake Studio Berlin, Arizona’s Vision Gallery (USA), Espacio E (Paraguay) and more. In early 2025, Laura premiered her first full evening solo work, ‘La petite Laura’, which ran for three sold-out performances in Asunción, earning high acclaim from both press and audiences. Her work is known for its inclusive, cross-border practice and personal movement language that explores physicality, textures, images, sensations and joy of movement.
She recently started developing pieces for companies and has previously worked with/ taught company class/ profi-training via institutions such as Deutsche Oper Berlin, Dock 11, DART Dance Company, Frontier Danceland and T.H.E Dance Company in Singapore, Centre de Création Chorégraphique TROIS C-L (Luxembourg), Tanzfabrik, Uferstudios, Produktionszentrum Tanz + Performance, and Tanztheater Katja Erdmann-Rajski in Stuttgart.
Laura’s classes are rooted in her self-developed method “Healing via Movement and Joy” research (supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste and the NEUSTART KULTUR program.)
Her classes are guided improvisation classes followed by choreography/ phrase work. Within the guided improvisation class and the choreographic phrase work, Laura draws inspiration from diverse choreographic styles and dance techniques such as highly physical improvisation classes, Gaga movement language, Movement therapy, and Yoga practices.
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Class Description
This class is a guided improvisation class followed by choreography/ phrase work. The class begins with a focus on strengthening the body and mind through an improvisation-based warmup, with an emphasis on giving joy and sensation through movements and the language of dance. Moving and movement in the present. Focusing on not only creation-based improvisation but also on connecting to yourself and your body.
After connecting and igniting our instincts and artistry, we tap into layered tasks that happen in many dispositions. Visiting your skills, lines, and groove. The final portion of the class includes a choreographed phrase. The choreography serves as an anchor for the dancers to apply all the different tasks, textures, skills, and multitasking that we practiced in the first half of the class. You will discover a gradual awakening of your pure movement instincts through the language of dance. The aim of this class is to give joy to your body, dig deeper into your creativity, challenging yourself, and enjoying to dance.
