As a longtime active artist of the Luxembourgish scene, Sascha combines an acting and music career. The multi-language vocalist, improviser, composer, actress and poet likes walking along unconventional paths in her musical output embracing free and jazz improvisation, imaginary folklore, contemporary music and reaching out for extended vocal techniques. She studied in Amsterdam, Bombay, [...]
Come in! Every weekend in June contemporary musicians come and play at VEDANZA STUDIOS in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere... A great way to meet people, enjoy music and the beginning of Summer!
“Perhaps the way that the world sees itself is changing, and the divide between participant and observer, object and intelligence, is diffusing into field activity.” –Antony Gormley In this workshop we explore the polarities of moving and being moved as well as touching and being touched. What moves us when we move? And how do [...]
A Convivial Dance A weekend contact improvisation workshop with Karl Frost Contact Improvisation is a 40 year old art form exploring the possibilities of bodies moving through physical contact. In this workshop, we explore the conviviality of contact improvisation... the interdependence and lively togetherness of exploring the physics of two bodies in a system of [...]
Directing Circularity - From the Personal to the Collective Unity The first part of the workshop proposes a dynamic collective warm up drawing from sports science techniques that focus on co-ordination, agility and stamina that refine all-around availability for a multitude of movement potentials. Progressively elements from techniques such as Cunningham and Release will be [...]
Movement of becoming - Butoh based workshop Chapter : INSECTS The workshop is about movement of becoming based on butoh practice and the choreographers’ personal research. Movement of becoming here means the movement towards dissolving into something else – a process of metamorphosing. Butoh is a dance which has its roots in the new dance [...]
Pivot Almighty - Axis Syllabus, C-Force and CI Pivot… a special concept in the English language, a term for the way we overcome or use friction to spin or shift our limbs or supports on the floor and/or on our partners. Shifting pivot points is the pretext for spiral motion, which in turn allows us to negotiate [...]
This workshop is open to anyone who has experience in contemporary dance and/or in urban styles. We will be working on cardio exercises and strength training with an interest in discovering our own physicality and consider elements of injury prevention. The workshop also addresses body awareness exploring different qualities of movement such as body isolate or tatting and focusing [...]
Authentic Movement in Mover-witness-dances In this workshop we explore the polarities of moving and being moved as well as touching and being touched. What moves us when we move? And how do we move when we are actually moved by someone? What movement is generated when we have a witness? In this introduction to [...]
ContacTango Connecting through the depth – exploring corkscrew movement We touch the deep knowledge that is ingrained in the body of every single one of us. Through embodied anatomy, i.e. through visualisation and diving into our body system, we sense and move in various supportive qualities. In this case we experience different lines/structures in the [...]
Atelier d’introduction au toucher fasciapulsologique et corps en mouvement . « La Fasciapulsologie est une thérapie manuelle fondée et développée par Christian Carini (IFCC- Paris). Elle implique un toucher particulièrement doux et précis, permettant d’accéder à la perception des membranes conjonctives, qui constituent le maintien cohérent des structures du corps autant que leur équilibre [...]
Chapter IV - Bird The workshop is about movement of becoming based on butoh practice and the choreographer’s personal research. Movement of becoming here means the movement towards dissolving into something else – a process of metamorphosing. Butoh is a dance which has its roots in the new dance movement of the late 1950s in Japan. [...]
Dear Contact Impro people! As you can see, we are in the process of migrating the Contact Impro jam sessions from Hariko to Vedanza Studios. With a rate of once a month, we organise a dance and live music jam. Date may change, but basically it will be always on Saturday or Sunday at the [...]
TUFA 25 Apr 20:00 BOOK UNDO is a new 60-minute performance project conceived by Emanuela Iacopini, Hannah Ma and Rajivan Ayyappan. A contemporary creation produced and performed by VEDANZA Luxembourg, the piece is a research and tribute to movement of the human body. Interpreted by seven dancers and one musician the piece [...]
