Open Class: Progressing Ballet Technique PBT®

Open Class with Dawna Dryhorub

Progressing Ballet Technique is an innovative, varied dance training method that was developed by the Australian ballet dancer Marie Walton-Mahon and is particularly aimed at ballet dancers of all ages. With the support of various aids such as balls, posture, strength, weight shifting, outward rotation, control and balance can be improved and the activation of the correct muscle groups can be practiced. The focus is on muscle memory, because once the body has correctly stored movement sequences, attention can be focused on artistic aspects. PBT also aims at rehabilitation and injury prevention and is an intensive strengthening program that includes all muscles.

Participants are asked to arrive 10 minutes before the start of the course in order to inflate the PBT balls.

Registration not required, single ticket 20 € / concession. 17 €, ten ticket 190 € / reduced. 160 €, payable on site.

Dawna Dryhorub

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When Dawna Dryhorub first started ballet dancing at age three, the decision was already taken: “I want to be a dancer!” She took additional classes in tap dance, jazz dance and folkloristic dance, subseqently pursuing her dance education at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre where she specialised in Graham and classical dance. She received an invitation to collaborate on a project in Düsseldorf during the mid-1990s and swiftly became an artist close to the “Werkstatt”, the precursor of tanzhaus nrw. The native Canadian remained in Germany and participated in various productions by, among others, Rodolpho Leoni and Samir Akika. She offered trainings at Folkwang Tanzstudio for many years and was a guest lecturer for classical dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts. 2020 will see Dawna concluding her Master’s degree in dance sciences from Bern University in 2020.