Workshops

How is movement created? What inspires artistic work in dance? This year, artists will once again open windows into their working methods and movement practices – and invite you to experience the festival programme first-hand.

For one thing, we are again offering a workshop in collaboration with Tanzfabrik Berlin on 23.8. – open to all levels of experience. This year, the workshop will be held by choreographer Yara Boustany, whose work “The Valley of Sleep” will be shown at the festival.

We are also delighted to have Making a Difference and Berlin Mondiale as new strong partners at our side, whose expertise brings important impulses to the programme.

In collaboration with Making a Difference, we are offering both a workshop led by Treacle Holasz (responsible for the production “I am rooted but I flow”) and a workshop held by J Neve Harrington (“Screensaver Series: Sleeper Softwares”). Both are aimed at neurodivergent people and are free of charge.

We are also pleased to be able to offer further free workshops together with Berlin Mondiale. For example, and as part of the production “When the Bleeding Stops”, by Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir, we invite you to a workshop on the menopause. This workshop also forms the basis for possible participation in the performances of the production in Berlin.

As part of “Outbox Me Battle x Tanz im August”, another workshop invites everyone who wants to move in the open air on the Tempelhofer Feld on 17.8.

More information will follow soon.

Imaginary Bodies Workshop in the run up to “The Valley of Sleep” with Yara Boustany

Imaginary Bodies is a choreographic workshop that explores the poetics of physicality through embodied imagination. Through movement, sound and imagery, we stimulate the discovery of the body and its untamed potentials.

Through this embodiment, we undo habitual patterns and explore primal impulses. The workshop invites participants to tap into unacquainted forces slumbering within their bodies—allowing the imaginary bodies to emerge.

Yara Boustany is a Lebanese multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, performer, and artistic researcher. Her work spans choreography, visual art, and performance, exploring sensorial stimuli that guide humans toward unexplored dimensions of existence - she looks for enchantment and disturbance. She is the founder of Amalgam Studio Beirut, one of the few remaining performing arts spaces in Beirut, dedicated to alternative artistic expression. She holds an MA in Choreography from Codarts and Fontys University of the Arts in the Netherlands, a diploma in Circus and Theater from CAU in Spain, and a BA in Cinema and Audiovisuals from ALBA in Beirut.

The workshop will take place on 23.8.2025 from 11:00 to 13:30 in the Tanzfabrik Berlin Schule and will be heldin English.

Participation in the workshop is open to experienced movers. Special subsidised price: 20€

For registration please visit the website of Tanzfabrik Berlin Schule

The workshop is in collaboration with Tanzfabrik Berlin and as part of "The Valley of Sleep", a production by Yara Boustany, which will be presented at Tanz im August on 28-30 August at HAU3.