Open Class: Or 60+

Open Class with Irina Hortin

This course is an ongoing dance project that has been relating body, dance and voice together with Irina Hortin since 2019. Especially when new phases of life bring unexpected challenges, it's about finding a way to express yourself, recognizing your own ways of moving, rediscovering them and sharing them with each other. Through dance and improvisation, the group learns to experience themselves and each other in a new way and to create shared movement impulses choreographically. In cooperation with the Center Plus of the Diakonie in Gerresheim and their network, 1-2 outreach offers are to be undertaken during the course semester in order to introduce the target group 60+ to new ways of movement and relationships through dance and to integrate them into their own everyday life in a playful way.

Registration not required, single ticket €10, payable on site.

Irina Hortin

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Irina Hortin first studied linguistics and literature in Germany, France and Argentina before going on to study contemporary dance in Cologne and Munich. She performs internationally, regularly choreographs for Schalktheater in Zurich, heads youth dance theatre projects and teaches contemporary dance, contact improvisation as well as tango at international festivals. The encounter with Frey Faust, an important figure within French contemporary dance and editor of movement dictionary Axis Syllabus, was of special importance for Irina’s vocational biography, and Irina, as a certified Axis Syllabus (AS) teacher, references the dictionary. The interdisciplinary AS research network surveys the functions of the human body in motion. In the process, information from biomechanics, anatomy, physics and medicine come into use to analyse our motion apparatus and to have it start to move in a functional and caring way. The focus always lies on a respectful contact with oneself and others – and, of course, on the fun in dancing!