Agnetha Jaunich

Agnetha uses contemporary dance improvisation and principles of body anatomy combined with breath work to create a constant flow of movement, where the dance floor becomes a playground of possibilities; our bodies become more awake through movement – both to the outside and the inside.

Agnetha Jaunich is a freelance dancer and performer. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Performative Arts from HbK Braunschweig and a Master’s in Scenic Research from Ruhr University Bochum. Since 2012, her experimental practice has taken shape in the form of independent productions. Her interdisciplinary works explore multifaceted perspectives on the body, space, and materiality.

Enora Gemin

The “Feldenkrais Method,” developed by Moshe Feldenkrais, is a somatic learning approach based on neuroscience and motor development. Through mindful exploration and a playful approach, we can expand our range of movement and deepen our connection to our bodies.
Fundamental movement patterns can be explored in a comfortable and effortless way—guided by curiosity, a non-judgmental attitude.
Enora studied dance in France and at Folkwang University in Essen. As a freelance dancer, she has collaborated with Folkwang Tanzstudio, Giovanni Zazzera (LU), and Chun Zhang (DE). She integrates her experience as a performer with her Feldenkrais practice, sensitively exploring new movement possibilities.

Dawna Dryhorub

“Flexibility training helps improve the mobility of muscles and muscle groups while relieving tension. In addition to exercises, movement concepts and approaches from my neurology studies also flow into the class.”
Dawna Dryhorub started ballet at the age of three. After training in classical and modern dance at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, she moved to Düsseldorf, where she worked with Tchekpo Dance and was a soloist for many years with rodolpho leoni dance.

Ricardo Campos Freire

“Movement, flow, energy, consciousness… This course will explore these and other concepts by trying out new choreographic exercises, each one a bit more intense than the last.”
Oskar Eon is a French dancer based in Düsseldorf. He studied at the Paris National Conservatory and the Rudra Béjart School in Lausanne. Today, he is a member of the Nowaday Dance Company Association in Düsseldorf, where he is dedicated to fostering the rise of a fresh and powerful spirit within a new organization.

Ricardo Campos Freire

Dance Warm Up is a contemporary dance class led by Ricardo Campos Freire. In this class, dancers are guided to develop their unique movement identity through exercises that explore continuous motion, space, and diverse rhythms. Emphasis is placed on meaningful movement, encouraging participants to discover their bodies’ potential as dynamic and creative entities.
Ricardo Campos Freire is a Dancer and Choreographer born in Lisbon, Portugal, and educated at Superior Dance School in Lisbon and Stockholm University of the Arts. Started as a dancer with the Portuguese Company of Contemporary Dance and went on to perform with the Croatian National Theatre, Bitef Dance Company, Ballet Hagen, and Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern.

Lara Pilloni

Warm up your body and enhance your dance skills with the comprehensive Ballet Warm Up class! Open to everyone, regardless of age or experience, the class focuses on improving flexibility, strength, and technique. Together, we will work on core strength, balance, and alignment, incorporating elements that not only improve your ballet technique but also contribute to overall physical fitness and well-being. Come and discover the joy of movement. Lara is a freelance dancer based in NRW. She holds MA in Dance and Performance from Folkwang UdK, Essen.

Alfonso Bordi

“Floor Barre” is an isometric bodywork developed for dancers with the aim of isolating and strengthening the (mostly internal) muscles needed for stabilization in dance and everyday life. It contains elements from yoga and Pilates.

Hanna Maxi Schumacher

“Kundalini Yoga” is a simple and dynamic form of yoga that leads you to yourself and your power in a fast way. With the help of breath, movement and mantras you activate your strength and can then start the day strengthened and focused.

Darwin Diaz

This class puts the emphasis in the breath as a tool to achieve deeper awarness of the body. Through continious breathing and moving we prepare the body to be able to move in an organic way. This training combines two techniques: Hatha Yoga and Release Technique. By combinig the knowledge of Hatha Yoga and Release Technique we explore and experience the unity of body and mind. We develope consciousness for standing on the feet, in how to go into and out of the floor using as less muscular energy as possible. We encourage the instincts and body intelligence to open new dimentions and possiblities of moving.

Anca Huma

Elisa Marschall

The breath is the bridge between body and mind. When we are able to breathe calmly and consciously, our entire nervous system is equally relaxed and serene. Through conscious breathing we are able to observe our own emotions without letting them overtake us. This simple knowledge exists in our society in its theory but is rarely integrated in everyday practice. Therefore, in this yoga class we will consciously focus on our breathing in combination with the movement sequences, with the goal of exploring and, in the best case, feeling the unity of body, mind and spirit.

Daniel Smith

WarmUp! – Daniel Smith is a freelance choreographer and performer based in Düsseldorf. This class is a combination of simple dance exercises (both on  the floor and standing up), strength training and guided improvisations. A chance for us to start the day by connecting to our physicality and creativity to prepare for the long day ahead.

Irina Hortin

Kati Masami Menze

A 60-minute session to activate your body, based on the practice of “Gyrokinesis”®. As a perfect start to the day, we will mobilize the spine and the whole body through breathing and gentle but organically complex twists.

Marcela Ruiz

Starting the day with my Mobility Session releases endorphins, balances the nervous system, and frees us from emotional tension. What I offer in Start the Day Moving sometimes focuses on joint lubrication, sometimes on stretching, and sometimes on massage and partner work. Everything is based on elements of somatic techniques that accompany my dance practice. At the end of each session, we translate the experience into movement — that is, we dance the experience we have just made.

Leonie Türke

This is an invitation to everyone who would like to get to know the classical dance of ballet from the very beginning. Ballet offers training in balance, strength, musical feeling and joy! Come and join us!

Jelena Ivanovic

Jelena Ivanovic is a trained ballet and contemporary dancer and has been teaching dance for 20 years. In 2016, she completed her training to become a certified Vinyasa yoga teacher. Since then, she has taught in many different workshops and studios in Germany and Switzerland. Her classes are characterized by small sequences of movements that flow in harmony with your own breathing rhythm.

Phaedra Pisimisi

Movement improvisation – everyone is welcome! Dancer Phaedra Pisimisi uses contemporary dance elements combined with dynamic improvisation exercises to awaken a passion for and pleasure in movement.

Ben J. Riepe

Join me for my morning routine…
Since my own yoga training in 2012 in an ashram in India and extensive research trips, including with the yogi Navtej Johar from 2009 – 13, I regularly lead yoga sessions as part of my training routine with performers and also frequently integrate elements from yoga into my choreographic practice.
I teach yoga according to Sivananda, which is an integral yoga, i.e. with sun salutations, asanas, relaxation and pranayama (breathing exercises). This alternation of tensing and relaxing, stretching and bending, stretching and strengthening, deep relaxation, meditation and breathing strengthens you and your body and brings you peace, focus and energy for the whole day.

Deepanwita Roy

As a contemporary movement artist and trained biotechnology engineer, Deepanwita aims to create impact on an environmental, social and personal level. She focuses on the exploration of inner movement. A risk-taker who loves nature, she often steps out of her comfort zone and experiments with her ideas, connecting her practice to social and environmental issues. She strives to evolve Indian movement practice and create a sustainable structure that connects art and nature.

Amy Frega

Let’s be children for 1 hour and discover our voices with childlike curiosity! The aim of this session is to better understand the functions in our body that make and shape the sounds that we produce, to find more possibilities of sounding and to get creative with it!  we are going to do exercises to warm up our voices and discover our instruments. We will play games, sing and create the space for improvising and expressing ourselves with sound.

Ida Aga Zinnen

With somatic improvisation we will wake up the body and make it more accessible. Different senses and imaginations are activated and tension centres in the body are tried to become more permeable.

Ida will guide the class openly and adapts to the participants.

Katarzyna Kozielska

“Morning energizer “
A 60 minute workout training with Katarzyna Kozielska.
Activities to increase your energy and focus. Good Energizers are great for boosting your energy levels throughout the whole day. When you exercise, your body releases chemicals called endorphins. These endorphins interact with the receptors in your brain that reduce your perception of pain.

Michel Schwarzkopf

Michel – as a Yoga teacher and Yogatherapist – is a long-term student of the traditional family lineage of the legendary Yogi T. Krishnamacharya and his son TKV Desikachar. In our shared practice you will (re-)discover and experience yourself while focusing on familiar and unknown Yoga postures and ancient techniques of Yoga wisdom. It’s all about you: your body, your breath, and beyond. Even though the body postures may appear to be quite simple or too complex, don’t worry: your practice with Michel is open and beneficial for everybody. Just come by, be yourself and make it your yoga!

Find out more about Michel through his Instagram (michelschwarzkopf.yoga) or on www.inhaleexhale.yoga.

Robert Schulz

Robert Schulz works freelance as a performer, dance educator, dramaturge and project manager. In the context of “Start the day moving” he gives insights into his physical practice, which helps him daily to prepare physically and mentally for the challenge of a complex artistic everyday life.

Unity cannot be imagined or felt, but experienced through practice (1.1 Yogasutra).

Feel your body, perceive your thoughts, get to know yourself. In a dynamic vinyassa sequence we connect body, mind and soul, accompanied by meditation, mindfulness practices and pranayama (breathing exercises). Each class has its own individual theme, which will help you grow further in your personal development.

Oskar Eon

« Motion, flow, energy, awareness… The class shall approach those notions and others by going through a few new choreographic exercises, each one a bit more intense physically than the one before. »
Oskar Eon is a dancer, born in France. He studied at Paris national conservatory and Rudra Béjart dance school in Lausanne. Today he is a member of the Nowaday Dance Company Association in Düsseldorf where he steps up and commits to the ascension of the fresh and vigourous spirit of a new organization.