Nir de Volff
Contemporary for dancers
26.05. – 30.05.2025, 12:00–13:30
31.05. + 01.06.2025, 13:00 – 14:30
Training for Dancers
Bio
Nir de Volff was born in Israel, where he studied dance and took his first steps into the local professional companies. In Tel Aviv he was a guest for Pina Bausch’s Viktor at the Israeli Opera House. In 2000 he moved to Amsterdam and started to create his own work. In 2004 he moved to Berlin and created his first piece for Sophiensaele Tanztage Festival. In the summer of 2007, he founded his company TOTAL BRUTAL. Since then, the company has been working at Dock 11 as a base. In 2013 the company expanded productions in the Sophiensaele. On September 2014, Total Brutal premiered at the prestige theater Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, a collaboration with the theater director Falk Richter, with whom de Volff created further for Wiener Festwochen(2016) and Théâtre National de Strasbourg(2019). Nir de Volff also create for and with artists such as the group She She Pop at HAU Berlin, Katarina Niminnen at 3. Stock Volksbühne, at Maxim Gorki theater with Nurkan Erpulat and lastly with Antù Romero Nunes at Thalia Theater Hamburg (2019-20). In 2020-21 De Volff is the first selected choreograph for a mixable dance company FDC at LOFFT theater Leipzig. De Volff creates international cultural exchange projects worldwide mixing social-political subjects with entertainment values in metropolitan cities and teach his movement method BBM-Breathing Bodies Movement worldwide. TOTAL BRUTAL works with wide range of theaters nationally and internationally.
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Class description
De Volff has developed the BBM- Breathing Bodies Movement method, a method which explores our somatic structure and its harmonic-disharmony relation with our breathing system. BBM focuses on somatic areas which we often tend to ignore and asks to bring them alive. The method aims to research the harmonization and coordination between the body and the emotional system of dancers and non dancers. De Volff’s method stimulates freedom and honesty in the bodies of the individual. It demands that one neglect self-judgement. While this method was designed to find greater range within a physical practice, other by-products appeared through the participant’s exploration of this technique, some of which were social, political or therapeutic.
BBM has been invited to prestige dance centers around the world. De Volff’s style offers a new dimension for movements, as well as a new exploration of the body „as we know it“. This method, the search for a total freedom of the muscles, leads dancers to a new physical sensation and expansion of their borders as well as learning haw to protect to body from injuries. It allows creativity to be daily explored in the studio with the intention of leaving behind limitations and habits. The class is based on self-exploration and evolves into a high level of energy within TOTAL BRUTAL’s movement style.
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