RIDING MOMENTUM

Workshop with Hugh Stanier

31.05. + 01.06.2025
31.05.25, 15:00–20:00
01.06.25, 15:00–18:45

Fee
marameo Members:
100€ / 90€ Early Bird until 17.05.2025
Non-Members:
125€ / 115€ Early Bird until 17.05.2025

Level
Aimed at people with an existing movement practice in Contemporary, Contact Improvisation, Parkour, Breaking, BJJ, Playfight or similar who are looking to deepen, expand or find different input for their practice. Not suitable for beginners.

Registration at Eversports

Workshop Description

Spiral movements and Floor Work research weekend workshop.
 The focus of this workshop is a combination of floor based, technical movement sequences and
 improvisation. Beginning from a soft, slow, somatic place and gradual building towards moving dynamically on
 the floor & from ground to standing and back again through spiral pathways. Using momentum
 and suspension to feel lightness and to find a feeling of flow through the sequences.
 Then the focus will shift into improvisational play and experimentation with the techniques 
offered in the sequences.
My approach has been developed from my own experience of training the body throughout my
 career over the last 20 years, with the predominant focus towards finding efficiency and
 economy in movement. Drawing on Somatic practices, developmental movement patterns,
 Floor Work and Break Dance techniques, and working with a combination of choreographed
 exercises & improvisation. Allowing the dancing body to deepen its own innate intelligence. This
 helps greatly with expanding creative enjoyment of moving and also with building strength,
s tamina and resilience. Additionally, I find this approach helps with injury prevention and finding
a deeper source of creativity.

The principle aims of the training:

● To cultivate awareness and intelligence in the body/mind.
● To provide tools to support you in further developing your own movement a gauge.
● Softly & deeply warming the body from the core to the extremities with a focus on
nourishing yourself for a lifelong movement practice.

Developing an inquisitive and resilient mind and body.

About Hugh Stanier

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.