Resonance - sensitive connection between voice and body

Charlotte Zerbey
16 - 20 October 2025
Resonance - sensitive connection between voice and body

The aim of the work is to bring the participant into contact with the creative authenticity of voice and movement. This sensitive connection between voice and body reveals how gestural and vocal expression arise from the awareness of movement, at the basis of every vital action. Vocal expression is fundamental in daily life and when sufficient attention is paid to its use, other possibilities may be discovered.
This work amplifies the perception and intuition that links the study of movement and voice to personal and artistic creativity and communicativeness and converges them, beginning with the breath and vocal emission. Vocality and gesture are explored in relation to the perception one has of the surrounding environment, as this tends to facilitate the willingness and sensitivity to observe resonant spaces/places.
In particular, the work focuses on "natural" vocal expression, without effort and without pretense, opening possibilities to contact one’s own critical vision, personal patterns and preconceived ideas. Exploratory modes and techniques of listening to movement will be used to perceive organically, improving awareness in each action, in each creative choice bringing one in touch with their own stage presence.

Charlotte Zerbey trained in modern and classical dance at the University of Utah (USA), and from 1979 to 1982 worked in Europe with Katie Duck's Group/O, Company Gaby Agis (UK), Company Hamilton (UK, NL) Parco Butterfly (ITA). In 1989 she founded Company Blu together with Alessandro Certini and is its co-director and choreographer.
She has collaborated with Sasha Waltz and Guests (D) from 1994 until more recent years.
Charlotte was also influenced by the study of techniques such as Contact Improvisation, Ki - Aikido, Alexander Technique and Authentic Movement, Voice with Tomasella Calvisi, and most recently studying Body Mind Centering, taking her choreographic creation beyond conventional codes, developing work on 'physical presence', the voice and composition in real time.

Tuning Scores (Lisa Nelson’s)

Jurij Konjar
11 - 15 December 2025
Tuning Scores (Lisa Nelson’s)

Tuning Scores are the life’s work of the artist Lisa Nelson, and as such can’t be put down in just a few paragraphs.
They are a tool that Lisa Nelson with colleagues have been developing since many decades.

For starters though, we can say that through practicing Tuning Scores together, we show each other how we see dance. The unity of the doer and the watcher, of the “inside” and the “outside” perspective, is felt and practiced. We notice how we ourselves edit our dance, through internal “calls”. Some of these calls can then also become audible, as they are made by any individual, to the whole space. Some examples of “calls” are: pause, begin, end, repeat, reverse, re-situate, report, etc. The calls are often surprising and by applying them we practice detachment to the material.
The final destination of Tuning Scores Practice is the so-named state of “Go”, where the calls are no longer necessary, because the group has tuned-in. For the rest, it best be experienced. We’ll explore it together.

Jurij Konjar is a Slovenian artist working in the field of dance. After his training at PARTS in Brussels, he moved on to create his first works. In 2007, following a head injury, he shifted his research towards the potential of the present moment.
In 2009, an in-depth observation of Steve Paxton's video Goldberg Variations sparked what became his improvisation practice and provided a basis for a rich dialogue still ongoing.
Collaborating with Steve Paxton (2010-2016), he performed Paxton's works Bound (1982), Flat (1964) and Quicksand (2016), as well as staged Satisfyin' Lover (1967). In 2014 he launched Habitat, a nomadic workspace for process-oriented practices. His latest work Biodegradables debuted in Ljubljana in April 2021. He has been practicing and teaching Contact Improvisation since 2012.

Theater Works - working with sound and music

Julyen Hamilton
15 - 19 January 2026
Theater Works - working with sound and music

Working to combine dance, sound and music, these classes mobilize the worked ability of each of these art forms through an intense and guided listening to how music and dance live and resound in the performance arena. The work is geared to develop the ability of both musician and dancer to hear the other while deep in their own way of creating. The elements of space and time, phrasing and the theatre imagination are handled and enriched for both musicians and dancers.
Feed-back is given from hours of making together. These classes are part of Julyen Hamilton´s “THEATRE WORKS” syllabus.

Julyen Hamilton is a dancer / choreographer / poet / teacher / musician. He has been making and performing dances for 45 years throughout the world. He has made over 100 solos as well as 20 years of Company pieces and numerous collaborations with dancers and musicians and theatre performers.
Born and brought up in England he trained in London in the 1970’s, a time of radical experimentation, he has been an exponent of innovative performance since that time. His work is mostly improvised: he composes dance works instantly as well as the texts which often accompany them. His work with text is unique. It fuses naturally his long-term writing practice with his refined skills in dancing.
When working with his company ALLEN’S LINE he directs dancers and lighting designers to make and perform work through this same immediacy.
Since the 80’s he has performed constantly in close collaboration with many of the highest quality musicians from all over Europe. It is with some of these musicians that he gives readings of his poetry. He is at present performing the solos ‘INTERVIEW’, ‘HELD DEAR’ and ‘a KOAN for our Times’ performing with bass player Barre Phillips and Nuria Andorra amongst many others.
With his company ALLEN’S LINE, he has been performing ‘The Eclipse of Reason’ in Rome, Paris, Bruxelles and France. In 2022 he presents "Goat Ocean".

Escape from the Planet of the Apes - Experiential Anatomy

Elena Giannotti and Massimiliano Barachini
12 - 16 March 2026
Escape from the Planet of the Apes - Experiential Anatomy

The Anatomy that we call experiential is a study (or a discovery) of how the tissues, organs and anatomical-physiological systems (nervous, respiratory, fascial, muscular, bone, lymphatic, etc..) contribute to completing, simultaneously and synchronously, a motor action, maintaining the sense of bodily unity.
The practice sets in motion the awareness of the mechanisms that are the basis of every motor action: a muscular action, a structural change, captured in the surrounding space, in the relationships between myself and objects, others, places, infinite space and combines a cognitive and conceptual understanding of anatomy with the direct subjective experience of one's body in doing and feeling.
The practical explorations of movement and listening in a specific way activate the energy fields which are information and vibrations at the basis of the knowledge of our being. We bring awareness to a particular anatomical system and influence the energy system. We will also use the practice of visualization, anatomical and creative imagery in order to influence the sensory and motor pathways of the body, thus releasing tension and creating more efficient movement patterns.

Elena Giannotti, dancer, choreographer, Tuina operator, expert in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Host for the practice of Social Dreaming. She was Rosemary Butcher's principal performer and collaborator for more than 10 years. Since 1994 she has worked with the Ensemble of M. V. Hoecke, Virgilio Sieni, Yoshiko Chuma, Daghdha Dance, Fearghus O'Conchuir, Company Blu. She has taught in various universities and European centers for dance and choreography such as Laban London, TanzQuartier Vienna, Freie University Berlin, University of Limerick Ireland, University of the Arts Berlin, Center National de la Danse Angers among others. Among her artistic collaborations: Nicole Peisl / Forsythe Company, Ioannis Mandafounis, Roberta Mosca, Max Barachini, Bruce Myers, Paul Elliman. Since 2014 she has been Alessandro Sciarroni's assistant, collaborator and interpreter in projects and creations. Since 2019 she has collaborated with Daniele Ninarello as a movement coach and accompaniment to the creations.

Massimiliano Barachini dancer, choreographer, Biodynamic Craniosacral operator, is a Doctor in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (Letters and Philosophy, Pisa), Master of Arts in choreography (Laban, London), Operator and Instructor A.CS.I. of Craniosacral Biodynamics, and musician. He has danced in Italy, London, Ireland, New York. He has danced and collaborated with Roberto Castello, Company Blu, Virgilio Sieni, Lische, Arc Dance Company, Cathy Seago and dancers, Emma Diamond, Mark Bruce, Stefanie Nelson. He has taught Cunningham technique and release at Laban, The Place, London Studio Center in London. In Italy he teaches experiential techniques of movement, improvisation and composition and also teaches craniosacral biodynamics at the Lama Tzong Khapa institute in Pomaia.

The Thinking Body - composition and interpretation

Vera Mantero
14 – 18 May 2026
The Thinking Body - composition and interpretation

Relaxation, the use of the voice, writing, breathing and free association are some of the means that will be used in this workshop to find the movements and actions that happen within us. We will first explore them separately, to then incorporate them into longer and more complex improvisational processes. The idea of ​​entering a particular state of consciousness will be very important. Awareness and the use of space and the exploration of objects and materials will not be forgotten. Irony and empty hands will take us far. A pen and normal paper are required for all participants.

Vera Mantero studied classical dance until 18 years old and danced in the Gulbenkian Ballet (Lisbon) between 1984 and 1989. She started choreographing in 1987, and since 1991 has been presenting her work all over Europe, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Canada, Singapore, South Korea and the USA. Since 2000 she has also been exploring vocal work and co-creating experimental music projects. She represented Portugal at the 26th São Paulo Art Biennial 2004 together with the sculptor Rui Chafes with the co-creation “Eating your heart out”. Her artistic work has been recognized with institutional awards such as the Prémio Almada (Ministry of Culture - 2002) or the Prémio Gulbenkian Arte for her career as creator and performer (2009). She regularly teaches composition and improvisation, both in Portugal and abroad. In 2024, she donates her Archive to the Serralves Foundation.