Contemporary Dance

Course with Paolo Fossa

Paolo Fossa combines elements from various disciplines such as martial arts, yoga, body wheat and physical theater with contemporary dance techniques. His work focuses on the use of imagination and instinct. Complex actions are broken down into primary movement parts and analyzed to gain a deeper understanding of the architecture and physical structures in the movement, increase body awareness, accept one's own limitations and learn to work with them to improve one's talents and avoid injury. Simple movement sequences and elements of improvisation are used in lessons. Participants are then encouraged and guided to integrate and complement the movement patterns they have just learned to create increasingly complex and articulate combinations that stimulate their creativity. By training our imagination, we train our nervous system and thus improve concentration and coordination. An ideal supplement for daily well-being. The aim of the course is to impart basic independent knowledge about the body in motion. In addition, the course participants will actively create a short choreography together with the teacher.

Paolo Fossa

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Paolo Fossa is choreographer, dancer and teacher. He has been working throughout Europe for the last 20 years, applying his knowledge of the body in movement to contemporary dance and improvisation. He teaches in many theatres, dance companies, at Folkwang University, Academy of Theatre and Dance Amsterdam University of Arts, Tanzhaus NRW in Düsseldorf, Fontys in Tilburg and DansArt Akademie in Bielefeld. In cooperation with these institutions he also realises choreographies that stand alongside his numerous independent productions. Some of his latest works: Körpererzählung (2019), Stray Dogs (2018).Due to his pronounced communicative and organisational skills, he has been running a dance education project in Shenzhen/China since 2017 together with the Giessen Dance Company, where he has been working as a ballet master for contemporary dance since 2015. The aim is to develop a curriculum for contemporary and improvisation techniques at the Shenzhen Arts School. Parallel to his work on stage, he works with private and city institutions and leads several social projects with young people. Together with the choreographer Gerda König, creator of the first project of the M.A.D.E. ( Mixed-Abled Dance Education ), he is working on the creation of a new method of studying contemporary dance, which will enable students and dancers with and without disabilities to pursue a joint education.