Brasilianische Körperpraktiken
workshops

The workshop is inspired by definitions of environmental sculpture and biomes. We start from the ground by engaging sensual experiences with time perception, physicality of plants-and-animals with architectural structures. Through these improvisations we experience different body states, from figurative into abstract forms. As our ways of perceiving and moving evolve into floating. We observe how environments, distance, compressed air, and human relations store energies by bridging somatic neuro-cognitive work with capoeira angola. Releasing more flexibility and space in our minds and bodies. We flow into a journey of contact improvisation, with periods of weightlessness and shape shifting. Upon generating these states. We add directions of higher intricacy, inspired by the Jooss-Leeder method, such as science of qualities and science of spaces. 

Biography:

Learning from his family in Northern Europe and Latin America Patric Lindström was introduced to the philosophy of Capoeira Angola alongside the practice of abstract painting since early childhood. He studied Cultural Anthropology and followed studio-based formations in Fine Arts and Performing Arts. He is often borrowing concepts from the sciences, mainly quantum physics and cognitive-neurosciences, to foster dialogue on contemporary concerns with mirrors to the ecological and non-human. Patric Lindström is regularly invited to commissions and guest collaborations, serving in various roles as a performing artist, scenographer, researcher, and educator. He completed the International Touring and Environmental Responsibility Pathfinders programme partnered by the Danish Arts Foundation, Arts Council Norway, Arts Council England, Julie’s Bicycle, and In futurum, while performing for Latin American artists Marta Minujín and Christiane Jatahy. He is currently completing a specialisation under the mentorship of Vietnamese-German visual artist Sung Tieu.

Credits:

The development of the workshop concept was supported by Artists for the Amazon and the Amazon Aid Foundation.

Foto: Antonella San Martín

This workshop invites participants to experience Afro-Indigenous Brazilian dance and movement languages through rhythm, body, and Xequerê. At its center is the connection between dance and percussion: rhythm is not only heard and played, but felt with the whole body and translated into movement.

The Xequerê — a beaded rattle used in various Afro-Brazilian musical traditions — becomes both a musical and physical partner in this process. Participants learn fundamental playing techniques and rhythms and connect them with movements, steps, and dance sequences.

Drawing on Afro-Indigenous Brazilian traditions, a shared space emerges in which rhythm, movement, musical expression, and encounter come together. The focus is not on perfect execution, but on listening, on the dialogue between body and rhythm, and on the joy of experiencing this together.

The workshop is open to participants aged 16 and up, with varying levels of prior experience welcome. It will be taught in Portuguese, German, and Spanish.

Biografie:

Juliana Docio is a dancer, dance and theatre educator, and musician. Working interdisciplinarily, she brings together music, movement, theatre, and community art. She is the founder and director of the collective Xequerinas and is active as a shekere player in various musical projects.

Foto: Adriana Tavares 

Workshop is suitable for practitioners, students, and enthusiasts in somatic practices, dance, choreography, performance art, and urban studies.

How do the trajectories of our bodies reshape the socio-political architectures we inhabit? How do our bodies hold the archives of a place? This intensive 3-hour workshop explores choreography as a critical method for unveiling archives of spatial memory. Participants will engage in deep listening and somatic movement practices designed to expand physical awareness and enhance spatial perception. By tuning the body into a sensitive instrument capable of reading subtle transformations in the urban landscape, we investigate the deep layers and relations running between our physical structures and the public spaces we dynamically build and inhabit. Through experimental scores, we will transform our collective movement into a performative historiography—rummaging through the city to unlock hidden memories, challenge dominant narratives, and map new somatic landscapes within Frankfurt.

Workshop structure includes exercises on: Somatic Attunement and grounding exercises to expand sensory and perceptual capacities beyond standard visual parameters; guided movement research targeting how weight, breath, and orientation shift when negotiating gravity, thresholds, and architectural boundaries; Drifting and archiving, structured micro-drift through the immediate surroundings of the festival site, treating the urban territory as a palimpsest, participants will be invited to actively gather traces, debris, and memories embedded in the modern landscape; translating physical collections, stories, and spatial data into physical configurations, exploring how bodies and environments offer mutual, unstable support to one another.

Biography:

Rodrigo Andreolli is a Brazilian artist and choreographer, long associated with Teat(r)o Oficina. His work intersects performing arts, architecture, and mixed-reality installations to activate public space. An MA graduate from Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and former MIT affiliate researcher.

Foto: R. Andreolli

Through the rhythm of the drums, this workshop invites participants to explore the body as a space of perception, agency, and self-determination. The workshop brings together contemporary dance and the movement qualities associated with the Orixás. Beginning with the body as an archive, participants explore ancestry, nature, identity, and posthuman perspectives through improvisation and movement research.

Dance and movement have long played an important role within diasporic contexts, offering ways of connecting with one's identity, grounding, and sense of belonging. These dimensions are deeply present in Brazilian culture, where dance educator and choreographer Barbara grew up.

Rather than approaching the Orixás as fixed representations, the workshop creates a space for embodied research: How can movement become a way of listening to ancestral knowledge? How can the body relate to nature beyond a human-centered perspective? And how can rhythm, imagination, and movement open new possibilities for experiencing and understanding the body?

No previous dance experience is required. The workshop is an invitation to listen, move, experiment, and discover.

Music: Bernhard Bub

In cooperation with Escuna Criativa e.V. and protagon international performing arts e.V

Biography:

Bárbara Luci Carvalho is a Brazilian dancer, performance maker and educator based in Frankfurt am Main since 2010, working with antagon TheaterAKTion. She graduated in Theatre Pedagogy from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and holds an M.A. in Choreography and Performance from JLU Gießen. She teaches Afro-diasporic contemporary dance, physical theatre and somatic body awareness from a decolonial, Black feminist perspective.

Foto: Claudia Simchen Fotografie