WORKSHOPS

Get out of the care home and into the theatre

In order to actively involve older people from care homes in cultural life, the team of Dance On Participation tested the new format Raus aus dem Heim, rein ins Theater last year: residents from the Johannastift Spandau and the Schönow care home saw three selected dance pieces in the Radialsystem, the Sophiensäle and at Tanz im August. In preparation, knowledge about dance was taught in workshops, movement approaches were tried out and ideas were exchanged. This was followed by discussions, dancing and an exchange of impressions. The positive response from all those involved, especially the participating residents, encourages us in our desire to establish long-term educational programmes and visibility for this target group.

Artistic Direction: Laura Böttinger, Dance On Participation: Laura Böttinger, Angela Deutsch, Collaboration: Anastasia Luck, Documentation: Phil Dera, Consulting: Prof. Dr. Michael Bossle

Cooperation partners: Tanzscout Berlin, Schönow nursing home, Johannastift Spandau, Fahrservice Schulz

We are delighted to be able to realise this special project with the support of Fahrservice Schulz.

Thanks to Prof Dr Michael Bossle, Andreas Rath and Eva Meyer-Keller.

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Past Workshops

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S.K.A.T. #9 – AGE DANCE?

Workshop with Ziv Frenkel and Madeline Ritter

When are we old? How can experience and lived knowledge be used creatively? And how can dance contribute to questioning the prevailing idealisation of youth in our culture? The Dance On Initiative from Berlin has been dealing with the value of age in dance and society for many years. In this S.K.A.T. round, the participants embark together on a stimulating exchange of ideas that sets body and mind in motion and illuminates the different facets of the question "Does dance age?".

On 28.06.2023 from 2-5 p.m.
at the Centre Français de Berlin
in the framework of S.K.A.T. (Seniorinnen und Senioren Akademie für Tanz)

With: Ziv Frenkel (Dancer Dance On Ensemble), Madeline Ritter (Artistic and Executive Director Bureau Ritter), Anastasia Luck (Dance On Participation), Esther Ningelgen (Communication Dance On), Johanna Schumacher (Communication Dance On)

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Workshops with Miki Orihara, Marco Volta and Laura Böttinger

Miki Orihara and Marco Volta (professional dancers of the Dance On Ensemble) and Laura Böttinger (Artistic Director Dance On Participation) offer three dance workshops on the first weekend of December at Studio EDEN***** in Berlin Pankow. At the end, Dance On Lab will show the piece Tideland, which premiered in London in June 2022.

The dance workshops and the showing give a first impression of the range of the Dance On Initiative's mediation program. In each of the workshops, a small choreography will be developed from different dance perspectives.

No previous dance experience is necessary. Interested people of all levels are invited to learn new things and to create their own.

Location: Studio EDEN*****, Breite Strasse 43, 13187 Berlin (Pankow).
Workshops and Showing are free of charge. Registration: workshop@bureau-ritter.de

December 3, 2022
10-11:30 Graham Work
Workshop with Miki Orihara in English language
This class will explore the idea of Martha Graham's work, learn her choreography and create new choreography.
Open to all levels & ages

12-13:30 Invisible Threads
Workshop with Marco Volta
In individual improvisation and dance in pairs, participants will experience the potential of their own bodies and the bodies of others.
Open to all levels & all ages

18-18:45 Tideland
Performance with dancers of the Dance On Lab
Dance On Lab is a regular dance offering for interested people 50+ who want to develop dance skills and create their own choreography. Their latest piece, Tideland, premiered in London in June 2022.
Artistic direction: Laura Böttinger, Dancers: Hedy Friese, Eva Günther, Angela Haardt, Gudrun Korittke, Martina Krause, Walburga Pauels, Joan Plank, Claudia Knaus, Ingeborg Rasch, Monika Ungruhe, Bärbel Walter, Sound: Mattef Kuhlmey, Light design: Arno Truschinski, Light adaptation: Vito Walter

December 4, 2022
15:30-17 h Choreographic Lab 50+
Workshop with Laura Böttinger
In this workshop the focus is on the development of choreographed and improvised performance material. The focus is not on teaching dance technique, but on creating choreography together. How do I develop my own movement sequences? And how do I find the courage to show and change them? We will develop strategies to stimulate our own creativity and to rediscover the diversity of dance.
Open to all levels & ages 50+

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Workshop with Laura Böttinger

"Choreographic Laboratory 60+"

Under the guidance of the artistic director of the Dance On Ensemble's outreach programme, choreographic approaches to the theme of the exhibition "Farbe ist Programm" in the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn will be developed.

Dates: 17 - 19 May 2022 / 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. each day: Bundeskunsthalle Bonn

45 €/reduced 38 €
The participation fee covers both the visit to the exhibition and the visit to the performance "Making Dances - Dancing Replies" by the Dance On Ensemble on 18 May 2022.
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Workshop with Jone San Martin and Laura Böttinger

Dancer Jone San Martin (Dance On Ensemble) and Laura Böttinger (artistic director Dance On Participation) will be guests at the Centre Choreographique National and give a workshop at the elderly home “La Castellane”. Jone San Martin will also be part of the regular workshop “Sentir la Fibre”.

Dates: 9 - 11 May 2022, Centre Chorégraphique national, Rillieux-la-Pape

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Workshop for deaf people

Workshop with Jone San Martin, sound designer Mikel R. Nieto and four hearing dancers for deaf people. We invite you to an exchange between sign language and dance. No previous dance experience is required.
Participation free of charge.5 - 8 April 2022 / 10:30-13 h each day.

Dates: 5.-6. April: Studio FLÖZ, Lehderstr. 39/ 41, 13086 Berlin
Dates: 7.-8. April: Kiez Zentrum Villa Lützow, Lützowstraße 28, 10785 Berlin
Write to l.boettinger@bureau-ritter.de

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Online workshops

Since the beginning of the Corona crisis, the director of Dance On Lab, Laura Böttinger, has been giving public online workshops for older people at home.

Past dates: 15.12. 2021 // 9.06.2020 // 30.04.2020

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Workshop at the Onassis Stegi in Athens

with Laura Böttinger and Christine Kono

Date: 06 November 2019

On the occasion of the premiere of "You should have seen me dancing Waltz" by the Dance On Ensemble at the Onassis Stegi Theater in Athens, Laura Böttinger and Christine Kono conducted a workshop for the in-house amateur group 65+Company.

: © Pinelopi Gerasimou

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Workshop scholarship at Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop

with Laura Böttinger

Date: 05-18 August 2019

In the ten-day choreographic laboratory, Laura Böttinger works together with the project participants at Künstlerhaus Lukas to develop approaches to her own choreographic traces.

The participants will use research processes in nature as a starting point. Where do I leave traces and are they always comprehensible? What traces do my movements leave on others?

The results of the laboratory will be presented to the public and put up for discussion during the Long Night of Art at the end of the stay at Künstlerhaus Lukas. In addition to a performative presentation, the team opens its doors and invites interested amateurs to the workshop to get to know the principles of the Choreographic Laboratory.

Public presentation during the 20th Long Night of Art on 17.08.2019, 7 & 8 pm, Neues Kunsthaus in Ahrenshoop.

The workshop scholarship at Künstlerhaus Lukas is funded by the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Workshop in the frame of Tanzland cooperation with Lessingtheater Wolfenbüttel

with Laura Böttinger

Date: 09-13 Oktober 2019, Lessingtheater Wolfenbüttel

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Choreography Lab in Cooperation with Lessingtheater Wolfenbüttel

With Laura Böttinger & Gerda Raudonikis

For participants 50+

Date: 10 - 14 October 2018, Lessingtheater Wolfenbüttel

The workshop Choreography Lab focused on the development of choreographed and improvised performance material. The aim was to develop strategies to stimulate creativity and rediscover the diversity of dance.

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DANCE ON LOCAL

With Martin Nachbar and the DANCE ON ENSEMBLE

Dance amateurs aged over 50 and professional dancers are coming together on an equal footing in a project by and with the choreographer Martin Nachbar: while members of the DANCE ON ENSEMBLE are bringing their many years of dance experience to the project, dance amateurs are doing the same with the specific skills they have acquired in the course of their lives. Together, they will develop an artistic format that picks up on the practices of the DANCE ON dancers and translates them in such a way that interested amateurs can benefit from generating movement material and dancing together.

First formats were already developed in two workshops in February and April 2017 in the Berlin Uferstudios, which were then deepened in July 2017 during a residence week at Schloss Bröllin with other participants from Pasewalk and the surrounding area.

The Schloss Bröllin association is supported by the Ministry for Education, Science and Culture of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Region of Vorpommern-Greifswald

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