The emotional body

This workshop introduces Anne-Mareike Hess's artistic work and approach to working with the body. Starting from the premise that the body is a mirror of our society, the participants will explore the connection between movement, sensation, and emotion.

The workshop is structured like one long physical journey, devoted to warming up the whole body, finding skeletal support, and particularly focusing on opening the senses and becoming sensible to all the information constantly flooding into our bodies through our senses. Inspired by somatic practices, anatomy, and presence work, we are using improvisation and imagination to put the whole body—including the face—in motion.

Workshop details:

Maximum participants: 25 people

Requirements: Dance enthusiasts with a strong interest in improvisation.

Price for 2 days: (8.02+9.02 or 10.02+11.02) - 25 leva

Full price 4 days: 40 leva

Language: English

Tickets online from the button "Запиши се за участие"!

Anne-Mareike Hess will perform "Warrior" in Toplocentrala on 12.02. from 19:00 in hall 2, every participant in the workshop will receive free entrance to the show.

Anne-Mareike Hess:

"My main focus lies on the body and its inherent potential for transformation, its status and exposure in society, and its presentation, representation, and perception on stage. My work is characterized by precise movement language, embodying and materializing identity questions and themes relevant to our times and sharing them with an audience. Throughout the years, I have developed a movement practice, which I call “the emotional body”, where I use a combination of imagination and sensory work to put the whole body - including the face - into heightened physical and emotional states to create permeable bodies in which every emotion, every mood, and the atmosphere becomes visible. Works like "Tanzwut" (2014), "Synchronization in Process" (2016) and "Give Me a Reason to Feel" (2017) are based on this practice. Since 2018 I have been focusing my artistic work around the (de)construction of gender stereotypes and the body as a projection surface for patriarchal desires and ideas, which so far has led to the solos “Warrior” (2018) and “Dreamer” (2021) and the trio “Weaver” (2023)."