Bodywork/ Body Action

Charlotte Kreft works as a coach for managers and teams in the context of transformation projects and self-mindfulness. As a certified mindfulness trainer, she leads workshops for self-development and further training with a systemic approach based on the motto “Change always starts with yourself.” Together with Ray, she is interested in the interplay of coaching, mindfulness and dance - let's try something new!

BODY ON MY MIND
Workshop mit Charlotte Kreft & Ray

Sun 15.06.2025 11:00 – 13:00
1 date
All levels
Age group 16-99
Course number: 2512F280

Kunie Baba has been a part of the tanzhaus nrw teachers’ team since 2010, convincing her participants (and us, too), with an irresistible mix of heart and knowledge. She was long active as a ballet dancer before finding her way into yoga. She is both a Federal Yoga Assocation and Yoga Alliance certified teacher, specialising in power yoga, hatha yoga and raja yoga.

Dance has been occupying a large part of Laura Virgillitto’s life since she was three years old. Following a five-year stay in New York where she studied at the renowned Martha Graham Dance School and at other places while also learning to utilise the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM® for her dancer’s career, the native Italian came to Germany in 1997. She worked as a dancer with several different choreographers and companies. Today, Laura is mainly active as a freelance instructor with different companies and institutions both nationally and internationally, among them the Folkwang Tanzstudio, Stadttheater Bielefeld, PACT Zollverein, VA Wölfl’s NEUER TANZ, and also at tanzhaus nrw for about 15 years now. She is a GYROKINESIS® master trainer and heads her own studio in Cologne. She teaches the GYROKINESIS® movement system which puts an emphasis on somatic aspects, addressing both people with and without prior dance experience, as well as a contemporary training for professional dance creatives at tanzhaus nrw. 

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Eray Gülay is a freelance dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and model. After successfully completing his dance studies at the Folkwang University of Arts, he worked in the dance company “Folkwang Tanzstudio” in the 2017/18 season and has since performed in dance pieces by renowned choreographers such as Ben J. Riepe, Jérôme Bel and Reinhild Hoffmann. In addition, Eray worked as a choreographic assistant and participated in the pieces “wilderness tender” by Stephanie Miracle (2018) and “Femina Saga” by Marie Zoe Buchholz (2020).
He has worked commercially with companies such as Tamaris, Vogue CS, Men's Health and Schwarzkopf. He has danced for German artists such as Salomea and Frida Gold and choreographed long-term for pop singer Matthew Wood. He has performed live on stage with international artists such as Cakes Da Killa, TT The Artist and Barbara Tucker.
Since 2014, Eray has also been part of the ballroom scene and a member of the House of Elle. As an active member of the scene, he teaches voguing at tanzhaus nrw and gives international voguing workshops. He also works in the Shapes & Shades collective and organizes workshops, panel talks and balls as part of Ballroom.