frame for freedom /
choreographic tools

In this workshop, participants will explore the balance between structured movement and creative freedom. The first part focuses on developing a strong technical foundation, expanding the movement vocabulary while heightening body awareness and its relationship to gravity.
Cristiana Casadio’s style is highly physical and dynamic, drawing strong influences from ballet and release techniques, while being reshaped through her personal movement research. Floor work is central—not only for technical development but also for fostering efficiency through the support of the floor. This awareness leads to cleaner, freer movement quality, even in upright work. Dancers will engage with shifting dynamics, suspensions, off-balance moments, spirals, slides, and falls, all while playing with physical momentum.
The movement material is designed to improve agility and coordination, playing with a wide and complex dance vocabulary.
Cristiana always emphasises that technique is a just tool - an important one - but ultimately a means to enhance the joy of movement and broaden the dancer’s physical expression.
In the second part of the workshop, the choreographic material developed will be transformed in various ways through clear tasks and creative games. Participants will personalise the movement, working individually or in small groups to create distinct scenes. They will experiment with how the same sequence can evolve into something entirely new through compositional shifts - becoming duets, trios, and larger group formations. As the material transforms, it will take on new meanings, textures, and emotional tones, allowing it to tell different stories and express a range of emotions.
Throughout this process, dancers will investigate intention, imagery, and sensory input to deepen their movement quality, resulting in more authentic and expressive performances. The goal is to provide participants with a "frame for freedom" - a structured approach to discovering their own artistic voice, while mastering technical skills and creative versatility.

6 - 8. 09. 2025 Marameo Berlin Summer Program

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shaping motion /
composing the body

Cristiana Casadio & Julia Maria Koch

This workshop explores a rich and dynamic movement vocabulary designed to enhance agility, efficiency, and physical awareness,  while explicitly targeting the compositional objectives of time, space, and 
quality. Through choreographic sequences, guided improvisations and playful tasks, the dancers will explore these compositional parameters in interaction and learn to combine rhythmic complexity, spatial design and expressive textures into a coherent material in order to find ways to create and personalise material.
Alongside the physical practice, we will examine how movement takes shape and how material comes alive, evolving into new textures, emotional  tones, and meanings, allowing it to tell different stories and express a broad 
range of emotions.
By the end of the workshop, you will not only be left with fresh movement material, but also with a deeper understanding of how to structure and shape it in the fundamental compositional dimensions.

https://juliamariakoch.com/

19 - 20. 07. 2025 Katakomben Berlin

bodies and objects

Cristiana Casadio & Stefan Sing

This workshop is designed for anyone fascinated by the interplay between movement and objects and interested in merging the two to develop a personal artistic language.
It emerged as a natural outcome of the extensive research process behind the creation of our duet, “Tangram.” In “Tangram,” we developed strategies to integrate our two disciplines (dance and objects manipulation) seamlessly, discovering how profoundly each could influence the other.
The workshop will delve into the intrinsic connections between objects and body movement—specifically, how objects can inspire dance and how dance can, in turn, reshape our perception and approach to objects.
Using the language of contemporary dance, as well as improvisation tasks and games, participants will explore various ways to interact with objects. They will develop a movement repertoire both with and without objects. These practices will culminate in solo and partnering work, focusing on nurturing each student’s natural creativity and highlighting how relationships with objects can deepen and enrich personal expression.

https://www.stefansing.com/

February 2019 Katapult Berlin
12-15.06.2021 Ljubljana