Taylor Unwin

Contemporary for Dancers

11.05. – 15.05.2026, 12:00–13:30
16.05.2026, 13:00–14:30

Training for Dancers

Bio

Unwin works as a freelance dancer-choreographer in Berlin. Her interests revolve around embodiment and imagination while her practices weave together fine and performing arts with somatics.

Previously based in Los Angeles, she regularly performed with The Assembly Dance, Fabe Dance, and Bloc Talent Agency. In addition, she performed in Academy Award winning experimental film Simulacra, (antiquated) Augmented Reality at Sundance Film Festival and LACMA, and Hive Rise with Industry Opera at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

In Berlin, she engages in freelance performance projects with KDV Performance Group and Sugar Army Collective. Recently, she was a featured artist in the KDV Performance Group x Y3 Paris Fashion Week show at Palais Brongniart, as well as in Partenope Opera at Teatro San Carlo, directed by Vanessa Beecroft. Continuing her choreographic development, she has created work in the Bad Lemons Project choreographic residency and as Resident Choreographer for Iowa Choreography Festival. She is currently offering her creative practice via performing, teaching, movement direction, and somatic bodywork practices.

Class Description

I call my proposed practice research Morning Pages, a physically sensitive yet rigorous and somatic practice, alluding to the writing practice that helps us gain access to the subconscious mind. The goal of my offering is to facilitate others to work with what’s inherently present, allowing what’s behind our daily consciousness to come forward through listening, curiosity, and expression.

We’ll take what’s processing mentally, emotionally, and energetically, then chew on it, express it with our bodies even when we don’t understand what it is formed of, with intention. How does it move through us and where does it lead? Further, how does this affect the group from within and what are the effects of a witness?

Class is structured by guided improvisation and proposed tasks. In most sessions, choreography will emerge. We’ll explore our choice-making selves within the framework of choreographed structures and movements and their possible evolution.

Overall I aim to leave participants feeling soft, grounded, more connected to their wild selves, and thoughtful about their choices and connections with others. We make space to express wide ranges in physicality, effort and emotion, where we meet our barriers, access catharsis and find release.

Teaching Clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfzFhzzyJ6I