Contemporary Dance

Course with Paolo Fossa

Paolo Fossa combines elements of martial arts, yoga, body weather and physical theater with contemporary dance. The course is about becoming more aware of your own body, discovering the joy of movement and finding new possibilities for expression. With the help of imagination and instinct, movements are explored, simplified and built up step by step. In this way, participants learn to get to know their possibilities better, to be mindful of their own limitations and to work safely with them.
The lessons are open to people with different previous knowledge. Simple movement sequences and improvisation gradually create lively, clearer and more versatile combinations that promote creativity, concentration and coordination. A particular focus is on developing choreography together with the teacher. The course not only offers training and well-being, but also the opportunity to experience movement artistically and actively shape it.

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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.