Ballet Basics
In this course, we work on the basics of ballet technique - for newcomers who want to get to know ballet and anyone who wants to familiarise themselves with the basics of technique and consolidate their foundations. Based on the Waganowa method, body awareness, placement, musicality and musculature are trained. A fixed sequence of simple exercises on the ballet barre is followed by small choreographies in the centre of the room and through the room, in which the feeling for the body in space, coordination and sense of rhythm are trained.
Children's dance
Running, jumping, creeping, rolling, turning - in this course we try out different forms of movement and qualities. Building on children's natural joy of movement, we teach basic elements of dance technique adapted to their individual stage of development. We practise coordination and a sense of rhythm in movement games and age-appropriate exercises. Together we learn to express and realise thoughts, feelings and fantasies through dance. With curiosity and fun in experimenting, we expand our individual repertoire of movements.
Laura Sophie Faiß is a freelance dancer and dance teacher based in Berlin. She studied psychology in Tübingen and Enschede (NL) and then completed her contemporary dance training in Berlin at Seneca Intensiv, the Berlin Dance Institute and Etage Berlin (graduating in 2021). She then danced at the Theater an der Parkaue and began realising her own projects at the same time. In 2022, she received research funding from the state of Berlin for her project ‘through the hands’ and #TakeHeart funding for ‘NIEMIEC’. In 2024, her solo performance ‘It settles like dust over me’ premiered at Brotfabrik Berlin. As a dancer and performer, she endeavours to translate these oral histories into the body and use the archive of the body to carry them into a performative space. Political and social issues are worked out and artistically processed using the example of the individual. Her classes focus on unleashing the participants' natural creativity and developing individual expression.