Workshops
Katja regularly teaches workshops which are informed by her research of the coherence of touch and movement, of improvisation and release technique, Shiatsu and Aikido, trauma healing and dance therapy. She finds delight in integrating her artistic background as dancer and choreographer into her body work and in sharing her multifold artistic as well as therapeutic experience and expertise. Her teaching aims at personal development and individual liberating processes.
Forest dance - ongoing project
Forest dancing derives from the japanese forest bathing (Shinrin Yoku) in the sense of getting in touch with the forest, to dive into its unique atmosphere as if it was spring water, to resonate with its forms, colours, sounds and smells.
The project takes you to selected energetic places where you will be led through a warm-up preparing you to explore the connection between yourself and the environment. Improvisation then opens up for new experiences, playful joy, interesting dialogues between body and nature, individually as well as within the group, thereby you create your own sparkling web of movements in time.
Each last Saturday of the month 12 am-2 pm, meeting point S-station Grunewald
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Dance your life - your life a dance
How does your life form your dance? How does your dance imprint your life? The body contains our life experiences and stories. In this workshop we explore movement spaces that allow us to try out different perspectives onto our selves and our environment.
Prepared by a warm-up with stretches and breathing exercises we focus on the body's connections to space and gravity, as well as revealing the channels to feelings and memories. Led improvisations offer us approaches to our physical expression and emotion, in exchange and reflection within the group as well as in resonance with the nature around. Free of pre-scripted forms open movement scores deepen our sense of time, rhythm, spatial levels and the individual capacity to express yourself and your own sense of life.
Sat, July 27th 2024 2:30-5:30 pm, meeting point S-station Grunewald
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BALTIC SEE DANCE RETREAT
Yearning for a time-out for body, mind & soul? Do you wish for "quality time" with yourself? Do you desire to unwind thoroughly, to follow your innermost impulses, to express and reflect them in a safe setting together with nice and empathic people? Then come on and join us at the Baltic See Dance Retreat!
September 27th-29th 2024, Fri 18-21 Sat/Sun 10-13 hrs
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MAKKO-HO - Breath of the Organs - online
Makko-Ho is a series of stretches of the energy lines connected to our inner organs. We focus on the breath as portal to the organs which we get to know and learn to sense. Thereby we deepen the breath, calm the mind, strengthen the immune system and activate the self healing forces.
Get in touch with yourself and stay healthy - take your time for the breath of the organs!
Online-course 5x fridays at 5 pm. CET
dates: Oct. 18 / Nov.1st / 15th / 29th / Dec.13th 2024
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Past workshops
Dance Improvisation INTENSIVE
Berlin >>> June 24-28 2019
This one week intensive offers a unique experience of moving and researching together in the realm of improvisation. You will have the opportunity to unfold your physical creativity and widen your expressive range. You will get to know a large set of artistic tools that sharpen your body awareness, your sense of space and time, as well as the parameters of effort, energy and direction. Starting from scores that intensify your proprioception and group awareness we will introduce more complex structures for solo and group improvisation. On that base we will explore the art of „instant composition“ in the course of the week - thereby developing short movement pieces that emerge out of the moment. The main focus is always on the Here & Now. That entails surrendering to whatever is there and wants to show itself, no matter if pretendedly crazy, amazing or boring. Open to all levels.
Shiatsu + Contact Improvisation
Weekend workshop in Berlin >>>
December 10 & 11 2016
The workshop researches various modes of interplay between Shiatsu and Contact Improvisation. CI as the art of fluently moving together and Shiatsu as deeply relaxing and vitalizing body work complement one another not only in their use of touch, weight and gravity but also in their culture of listening in heightended awareness to the partner's body. Learning the basic principles of both techniques we experience in this fruitful combination the flow of movement in beneficial touch. In partners and small groups we explore the realms of playfully giving and taking weight and a variety of transitions back and forth between 'hands on' and dance. The fun of movement and the refinement of an aware touch both find unfolding here.
Body Voice & Nature - with Joao Charepe
Spring workshop in Lisbon >>>
April 9 & 10 2016
Tracing the connections of body and voice, we will open up new spaces for resonance and creativity, inspired by nature in the near environment, in parks, near the river, under the blue sky this one-week workshop will be co-led by Katja Wolf and the singer, voice trainer and music teacher Joao Charepe from Lisbon. We will gather research material in outdoor locations in order to deepen and refine the experiences in the studio - with the option of a final showing. Feel free to bring a song by heart and/or a little text.
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Makko-Ho into movement
Weekend workshop in Berlin >>>
April 23 & 24 2016
Ever since I learned that fantastic little series of meridan stretches at the beginning of my dance education at the European Dance Development Center it belongs to my daily repertoire of favorite movements! Don't miss the chance to learn that series - including the meridians - in just one week-end, two hours each morning! There will be time and space to explore their effect also in free movement on the floor and in space.
23th & 24th April 2016 10-11:30 am. MIME Centrum Studio 2 Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz Berlin-Kreuzberg
Contact Improvisation
Weekend workshop in Berlin >>>
April 23 & 24 2016
The compact workshop gives you a good base in Contact Improvisation. After a thorough warm-up that makes you familiar with the use of touch, weight and gravity and through that with the culture of listening in heightended awareness to your own as well as to a partner's body you will learn the principles of rolling over the floor and following and influencing a rolling point of contact in spontaneous movement dialogue. In partners and small groups we explore the realms of playfully giving and taking weight and a variety of easy transitions between floor and medium height co-transportations. The fun of movement and the refinement of an aware touch both find unfolding here. Dancing is being together!
23th & 24th April 2016 11:30 am.-2 pm. MIME Centrum Studio 2 Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz Berlin-Kreuzberg