SP25 THE GROUP MOTION WORKSHOP

Summer Intensive with Heidi Weiss

23.08.25, 15:00–20:30

Part I: 15:00–17:30 Yoga & Improvisation
Part II: 18:00–20.30 Group Motion Workshop

Open Level

Whole Event
50€ marameo members
60€ non-members

Evening Session only
18€ marameo members
22€ non-members

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The Group Motion Workshop is a two hour long, non-stop guided process of dance/movement improvisation with live music. Based on structures and scores created and developed by Brigitta Herrmann and Manfred Fischbeck, the Workshop combines highly refined structures of improvisation, movement meditations, and contact dance. It is an outgrowth of their work with the Group Motion Dance Company originated in 1971. It is conducted regularly every Friday night in Philadelphia for over fifty years and has toured to festivals, dance centers, colleges and schools in the US and other countries such as Japan, Taiwan, Argentina, Germany, France, Poland, Lithuania, Cyprus, Bermuda and Barbados.

This tradition is now being implemented and carried on by Berlin based teachers Jennifer Mann and Heidi Weiss. An ensemble of musicians supports this interactive space with live improvised acoustic and electronic music. No previous dance experience is required.

The Group Motion Workshop offers a space for interactivity and communication which is spontaneous, deep and direct, allowing for new channels of creative potential to open. It serves as a resource for creative and authentic expression through movement and sound, and can be utilized as a creative practice for all levels and all ages. The overlap of participants from different backgrounds and of different ages, adds a powerful dimension of mutual learning and exchange of movement information and encourages the integration of body, mind and spirit. These structures are practiced in ways of playing, discovering and experiencing individually and collectively.
Compositions and choreographic patterns can be spontaneously created and experienced. The Group Motion practice creates a ritual space for building community.

The workshop will be lead in English, with German translation when necessary.

About Heidi Weiss

Heidi Weiss, originally from New Jersey (USA), has been working as a freelance choreographer and lecturer for contemporary dance in Germany since 1998 and teaches internationally. She is co-founder of the weissmann dance company and the weissmann Teacher Training and regularly performs her choreographic works on national and international stages. As a certified yoga and meditation teacher, she also leads workshops and seminars throughout Germany.

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