D'FRAC | day-long 3RD FLOOR | 01.03. / Col23

A multi-level space where you can step in and out of movement as you like. You can join from the beginning or arrive at any time; we start with a joint warm-up in the main space, guided by Sarah Gordon Butler, then it’s open to choice. Attend a workshop in one of the surrounding rooms (see below) or stay in the main space where you'll enjoy an open floor with curated music by ShugenFlewgen , and hangout areas with food and drinks. Once the two rounds of workshops conclude, we bring everything we soaked in back to the dance floor, for a joint Closing Dance Session guided by Sarah Gordon Butler with music by The Flowering State. To wrap up the day we'll set the space and the sound for a laid back decompression - stretch, roll, have a bite - and take your time to land.

12:00-12:30

We start the day with a collective arrival to the space and our bodies. Sarah Gordon Butler guides us through a gentle warm-up journey, slowly opening up our physical potential and harvesting some tingling excitement.

12:30-16:45

The huge, vast open floor we call 'The Field' will host a joint warm-up session to start the day and a guided Closing Dance Session close it. In between, The Field is yours to play around, with music selected by ShugenFlewgen

Experienced movers will guide studio sessions that deepen our movement vocabulary. These are not choreographed or follow-along classes, but rather frameworks for introducing improvisational qualities, embodied inquiry, and structured tasks, giving you tools to investigate and evolve your personal physical language.

12:45-14:00

* May include some physical contact

The CBS is a movement methodology guiding dancers toward a deeper, intelligent relationship with their bodies. It emphasizes consciously building and channeling strength through mindful, structured exploration, rather than external aesthetics. Movers engage with their unique anatomical architecture safely and sustainably, developing precision, clarity, and sensitivity. Through playful solo, partner, or group improvisation tasks, participants learn spatial awareness, collaboration, and improvisation tools.

Bio: Roberta’s Modern Dance and Classical Ballet training began in 1998 in Rome. In 2006, she began her professional career in Italy, working with the Revers Dance Company and performing in Rome, Pesaro, and New York. In 2009, she moved to Madrid to join the cast of the Gran Vía musical 40 el Musical. Since 2008, she has taught Modern, Urban, and Contemporary Dance in several studios in Rome, Madrid, and Berlin. In 2014, she moved to Berlin, where she is a founding member and performer of the CHAIM GEBBER – OPEN SCENE company. Since then, she has worked on Chaim Gebber’s creations in Germany, China, South Korea, Italy, Austria, Morocco, and Brazil. In 2018, she premiered her solo Resilienz, which was performed at Acker Stadt Palast in Berlin, the Haraka Dance Festival in Tangier, and the Institut Français de Fès, Morocco. She has also worked as a guest dancer and performer in theatre productions such as Cabaret at Theater Augsburg (2016), and Golem and Mujer at RambaZamba Theater Berlin (2021–2023).

Since 2015, Roberta has taught the Conscious Body System in classes and workshops in Germany, China, Morocco, Italy, and Brazil.

12:45-14:15

Explore and celebrate all the movement that happens when you might think no one is watching. Whether it's a sloppy forward roll, itching your sweaty bum cheek, or impersonating a monkfish…we chase the joy of playful movement even if it's not exactly meeting our expectations. Borrowing from clown and physical theatre, we will warm up with rhythms, games, and a plethora of funny faces to try and leave your thinking behind and embrace our playful instincts. We then embrace those instincts to move solo and a group finding new games and improvisations, always with curiosity and listening at the core. Experience the surprise, simplicity, strangeness, and utter delight of what can happen when you tap into those childlike instincts. As Natasha Bedingfield says “Release your inhibitionnnnnnnns”

Open workshop for movers of all experience because we are all weird anyway. 

Bio: Ash is a performer, theatre maker, and educator, approaching each discipline with movement and embodied practice. Ash chased physical theatre from where they grew up in Uganda, to the USA, and now to Berlin for the past 6 years.

With a multi-cultural and nomadic background, Ash uses performance as a way to collide mediums and explore the unexpected truth of our time in live, unrepeatable, encounters. Ash works on several projects as a movement teacher for actors, producers and directors, and appearing on stage in youth theatre performances, and evenings for the after-dark strangeness of performance that awakens with the city.  Learn more at awillison.com. Together with Shai Cohen they founded Commotion (commotionpeople.com) to spread clown-inspired movement training to the ever increasing virtual world.

14:45-16:15

Unfortunately, Beatriz will not be able to guide the workshop since she's under the weather.

Check the new WORKSHOP C for the replacement details.

Movement Invitations is an open-level movement practice rooted in rhythm, musicality, and collective energy. Guided by Afro-Latin music, footwork, breath coordinations, vibration, and a grounded relationship to gravity, participants explore flow, phrasing, silence, and interaction while moving between solo, duo, and group experiences. Drawing from Beatriz’s background in Latin popular dances and professional contemporary dance training, the session weaves elements of salsa, house dance, flying low, and release-based practices into a playful space to sweat, listen, connect, and enjoy dancing together through guided improvisation invitations, movement research, and shared encounters.

Bio: Beatriz Silva Aranda is a Chilean dancer, choreographer, and movement educator based in Berlin. With over ten years of experience in contemporary dance and interdisciplinary creation, her work explores the relationship between body, territory, and materiality through feminist and decolonial perspectives. She teaches internationally using collaborative approaches focused on movement research, improvisation, and real-time composition. Her choreographic work has been supported by programs such as Tanzpraxis, Fonds Daku, and Culture Moves Europe, among others, and presented at venues and festivals including K3 Kampnagel, Fabrik Potsdam, Oyoun, Fusion Festival, and Linha de Fuga. More at: www.beatrizsilva.net

14:45-16:15

This is not your typical choreography-based reggaetón class.

In this session, we’ll focus on groove, musicality, and personal expression rather than learning a long, set routine. Through follow-along sequences, across-the-floor exercises, and small guided freestyle moments, we’ll explore different textures and energies within reggaetón music.

The aim is to connect to the vibe of reggaetón,  its groove, flow, sensuality, groundedness, and playfulness, while discovering multiple ways to move to the music. We’ll work with repetition and variation so you can really embody the movement instead of memorizing steps.

Open level. Come ready to sweat, feel the bass, and enjoy the flow.

Bio: Pamela Moraga is a choreographer and dancer based in Berlin since 2018. Her work explores sociopolitical themes from a migrant perspective through movement in theater contexts. She has been supported by Dachverband Tanz Deutschland (2022–23) and joined the board of LAFT Berlin in 2024. Her recent work includes the premiere of Gig (2026) as part of the 30th anniversary edition of Tanztage at Sophiensæle. Alongside her choreographic work, she has developed an ongoing teaching practice, sharing contemporary technique, choreography, and reggaeton. Since 2024, she has been developing a reggaeton practice for dance enthusiasts, grounded in her cultural heritage and long-standing dedication to dance, contributing to the growth and visibility of the reggaeton dance scene in Berlin.

14:45-16:15

Explore, sense, listen and enjoy the simple pleasure of moving. 

Starting from a moment of stillness and meditation, we guide our focus to different parts of the body, exploring different possible generators for movement. Through anatomical explorations, touch, imagination and bodybased improtasks, we awaken and challenge our movement possibilities, looking for unexpected dances to emerge that reflect our own sense of time and inner rhythm.

Bio: Eva is a contemporary dancer from Belgium, based in Berlin. She graduated from Northern School of Contemporary Dance (UK) and proceeded to work as a freelance dancer with Imogen Reeve & co., Valentina Menz Nash and OOPSALA dance theater collective for young audiences. She’s a trainer at Bewegungskollektiv Berlin, a yoga teacher and a student at Xuan Gongfu Academy. Her practice is rooted in release technique, floorwork and internal martial arts as well as a persistent curiosity for movement possibilities and alternative ways to relate to the body and to others. 

She has been developing her artistic practice through collaborations with Kerem Shemi, Matina Kaiafa and others, and was supported by funding from Dachverband Tanz Deutschland for artistic research and residencies like Hyle as a point of view (Delta pi, Duncan Dance Center - Athens).

16:45-18:00

An open-level, guided dance improvisation co-created by the participants (You, Us, We), a Movement Guide (Sarah Gordon Butler), and a DJ (The Flowering State). The session begins with guided improvisation using verbal metaphors to explore shifting boundaries, sensations, and imagination. As the guidance fades, the music and the group take the lead, allowing collective momentum to unfold.

After the closing dance session we'll set the space and the sound for a laid back decompression - stretch, roll, have a bite - and take your time to land.

Designed with an innovative timber-hybrid construction that combines natural materials with modern architecture, the building spans several levels in a flexible maisonette layout, offering open and adaptable spaces. Its thoughtful design and intended spaciousness is for us, dance enthusiasts, a loud invitation to step in and re-purpose.

Throughout the day, and especially in the closing sessions, ShugenFlewgen and The Flowering State will play music to move to. Listening with curious bodies means letting the music shape our dance, so we keep the input as versatile as the movement we hope to inspire, shifting through different textures, BPMs, and genres.

Open Level

You don’t need dance experience., just curiosity.

This is a space for those who want to explore the dance floor as a place for creative energy, playful expression, and spontaneous co-creation.

• Clean Shoes or House Shoes: clean indoor-only shoes or socks for dancing (bare foot is also just fine!), and if you don't dance with shoes we recommend bringing house shoes to walk around and between the spaces.

• Comfy clothes: different layers for different states of body and mind.

• A small bag (like fanny pack, Bauchtasche) for your valuables.

• Closing Dance Session 

• guided Warm up

• Open floor x DJ sets

• Hangout areas offering food and drinks

• Stretch & Hang - decompression time