Dancing makes you happy! That's why we offer contemporary dance clubs in Darmstadt, Wiesbaden and Frankfurt for people who are not dance professionals but have a great desire to dance themselves. The dance clubs are aimed at different age groups. Each dance club meets once a week over the course of a year. In addition, all dance clubs of the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main come together once a year at a joint dance club workshop day. The season also ends with a joint performance by all dance clubs.
Every Monday you can refine your dance moves with techniques drawn from breaking and contemporary dance.
Starting with flowing movements while standing and on the ground, we will explore different perspectives on dance and movement over the course of the year. We focus on dancing together and developing our own choreography. Dance enthusiasts between the ages of 13 and 18 who are interested in learning vocabulary from breaking and contemporary dance, expressing music with their own movements and having fun dancing together are in the right place here. No dance experience necessary!
Pihla Jaala completed her Master's degree in Social Sciences and Social Work at the University of Eastern Finland in Outokumpu in 2020. There she was introduced to contemporary dance. In her education she focused on a variety of practices such as contact improvisation, performative practices, somatic practices and anatomy. She is interested in creating sustainable, visitable communities to work with body and movement in artistic processes. She engages with questions, issues, ideas and stories, always exploring the reality around her and questioning the structures we have created for ourselves.
The dance club Cosmic Dances invites you to explore new and old connections together; between bodies, their histories and with the environment around you. Club leader Frida Laux sees the body as a place of alternative knowledge production that is fundamentally different from the knowledge production of capitalist scientific societies. In the dance club, you will set yourself, your body and your mind in motion through somatic practices and experience what it means to be part of a vast cosmos. All bodies welcome. No dance experience necessary!
Frida Laux (1987) is a choreographer and dance mediator. She understands dance as a practice in which the body is used to generate alternative knowledge and thus change the perception of what is and what could be. She studied dance and theater at the Folkwang University of the Arts and holds an MA in choreography and performance.
Many experiences, relationships, cultural and social influences become inscribed in our body memory over the course of a lifetime. In the “Körper(ge)schichten” dance club, we are inspired by the layers and stories of our individual body biographies. We experiment with movement and together we create spaces of encounters, discoveries and opportunities for creative expression. The dance club is based on various approaches to contemporary dance and movement improvisation. No dance experience necessary!
Lena Kunz is a performance artist and dance mediator from Wiesbaden. She studied at the Center for Contemporary Dance Cologne (Master of Arts in Dance Studies), completed further training as a dance teacher at Seneca Intensiv in Berlin and worked at the Hessian State Ballet. She is currently particularly interested in body stories and participatory formats that enable connections between art and everyday life.
BALANCE, FLEXIBILITY, STRENGTH AND COORDINATION - GET YOUR BODY MOVING
In this dance club, experienced dancer and choreographer Maria Kobzeva will introduce you to various choreographic concepts from contemporary dance. Using both, free movement and fixed sequences, we create a space to experience your own variety of movement.
Theoretical excursions help to create a deeper understanding of the anatomically healthy movement of the body. The club also sees itself as a field of experimentation in which a collaborative creative process is to be initiated among the participants. No previous dance experience necessary!
MARIA KOBZEVA is a freelance dance artist and dance mediator. She studied at the Vaganova Ballet Academy and has toured the world as a member of the SPBT Theater. To expand her knowledge of movement, she studied contemporary dance at the HfMDK Frankfurt. She has worked with various artists in the independent scene and has also produced her own interdisciplinary pieces. Her most recent theater productions include SINGULARITÄT (2019), Patterns of perception (2021), and ƎWV⅁ (2023). As she is curious about the film world, she has worked on dance films (2020/22). Maria enjoys teaching and passing on what she has learned in different contexts and to different age groups.
In the coming season, dance enthusiasts who have had little or no experience with house as a dance style will have the chance to learn from an outstanding figure in the European scene in weekly dance training sessions. Danny Son is a dancer, music producer and founder of the House Roots community, an network of house dancers and fans.
Every Wednesday, Danny will teach you basic knowledge and techniques of this versatile dance style that combines and expands movements and approaches from various other styles. House is more than just a dance, however, and Danny will also teach you a thing or two about the origins and significance of house culture since the first house heads frequented Chicago clubs in the early 80s. No previous dance experience necessary!
Danny Son currently lives in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is a co-founder of the House Roots community, a platform that helps house dancers develop a holistic approach to deep house culture. Danny considers himself a cultural ambassador and an active part of the German house dance culture. His first contact with house dance was in 2008, when he was trained in all street styles by his first mentor, Rob LAWRAY. In 2011, he was able to learn from the pioneers of house dance culture for the first time at the SDK Festival. It quickly became clear that a certain house dance style, influenced by Rabah Mahfoufi from Paris/France, appealed to him. Since then, he has taken every opportunity to learn from Rabah, making him one of Rabah's students. To this day, he has laid the foundation for his particular interpretation of this dance culture, which Danny represents on an equal footing through the path of “Deep House Dance”.
