After Work Sessions

We invite you to join us – here you’ll find the program for our upcoming after-work sessions over the next months: Through a changing range of shared experiences, experts from different fields of body-based practice will bring us moments of energy, connection, and relaxation.

Among the offerings are several Contact Improvisation sessions with dancers and choreographers Darwin Diaz and Marcela Ruiz Quintero. Under the title “Connected Flow,” they combine a sense of individual physical autonomy with an experience of connectedness within the group.

And of course, ECSTATIC DANCE by and with Ben J. Riepe is back. Following a shared breathwork session, we will dance through changing light and fog atmospheres to ecstatic sounds and gradually building beats & melodies – in a drug-free “safe space,” free of expectations but full of feel-good hormones!

After Work Sessions
ECSTATIC DANCE
by and with Ben J. Riepe

29 may 2026, 7:30 pm
19 june 2026, 7:30 pm
10 july 2026, 7:30 pm

After a short shared breathwork session led by and with Ben, we will dance freely through shifting light and fog atmospheres to ecstatic sounds as well as slowly intensifying beats & melodies – in a drug-free “safe space,” without expectations and in a relaxed atmosphere.

The session is open to everyone and welcomes all ages and all bodies. No prior dance experience is necessary: everyone dances according to their own comfort and intuition. Please come in comfortable clothing and remember to bring water.
After the two-hour session, we invite you to stay for fresh vegetarian soul food snacks and drinks. How the evening continues is up to you: the session may send you home relaxed to your sofa – or full of energy into the night.

Join us and feel the Energy of your Body!

Tickets available on rausgegangen.de (25,00€, erm. 18,00€) – spots are limited!
Feel free to contact us with any questions: freiraum@benjriepe.com

After Work Sessions
Contact Improvisation
with Marcela Ruiz Quintero and Darwin Díaz

11 may 2026, 5 pm
08 june 2026, 5 pm
22 june 2026, 5 pm
13 july 2026, 5 pm

The two dancers and choreographers are closely connected to the Ben J. Riepe team as rehearsal directors and workshop facilitators. Across NRW, they work as teachers and movement facilitators at various institutions, as well as choreographic collaborators with artists including Ben J. Riepe and Stephanie Thiersch.
Under the title “Connected Flow,” Darwin Diaz and Marcela Ruiz Quintero combine a sense of individual physical autonomy with an experience of connectedness within the group: sometimes in larger constellations, sometimes in one-on-one encounters, always through responding to the impulses of one another.

The workshop is open to people of all ages, to professionals from all artistic disciplines as well as dance-interested non-professionals alike, and concludes with a dance session based on the movement vocabulary developed together.

Join us and feel the Flow!

Tickets available on rausgegangen.de (15,00€, erm. 10,00€) – spots are limited!
Feel free to contact us with any questions: freiraum@benjriepe.com