Samtidsdans med Nina Wollny

Exploring and learning about how the human body works and how the different parts collaborate can have a strong and sometimes even magical impact on our movement, presence, perception. The heightened state of awareness, that this brings us in can enrich and strengthen the way we dance.  

Each day the class will be based on one topic related to how the human body works from a small simple detail to bigger connections within the organism. Each topic will be explored by looking at visual material, free physical exploration, guided exercises and gradually accumulate into an energetic movement phrase, that plays with all levels of space, speed, flow and the forces that move us. I am looking forward to start the day together and dance with you.

Om Nina Wollny

Nina Wollny studied modern and contemporary dance at the Rotterdam Dance Academy, Codarts, in the Netherlands. After her graduation in 2002 she joined the company Anoukvandijk dc and has worked there as dancer, rehearsal director and artistic assistant for more than 10 years. She performed in almost all of Anouk van Dijk’s work during that time, including the collaborations with director and playwright Falk Richter and Anouk van Dijk’s first work as director of Chunky Move in Melbourne, Australia.

Since 2004, Wollny is a passionate teacher of the countertechnique and is regularly teaching at dance academies, companies and studios for professional dancers around the world. She also teaches performers with various backgrounds like breakdancers, physical theater performers or actors. As one of the main teachers of countertechnique, she has contributed to the continuous development of the technique and has reached the level Master Teacher. She is also Countertechnique Program Manager and supports and coaches the new countertechnique teachers. Since 2012, Wollny is performing and collaborating regularly with German choreographer Jenny Beyer at Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany.