Shoe Making Lab: Hand Clad Feet
Practicality, durability, flexibility, anatomical support and style.
Frey will teach you the fundamentals of shoemaking, including designing for anatomical comfort, cutting, gluing, sewing, and finishing.
To participate in this workshop, you will need to think about and acquire the following:
– Materials for closures, such as buttons, buckles, laces and zippers.
– Thin, flexible leather for the upper parts (about 3 sq m)
– Thin, tough leather for the soles and heels.
– Light, thin rubber sheets for the soles.
– Hook awl
Thick waxed cotton thread
Four large tubes of contact glue.
Heavy-duty scissors
– Needle-nosed pliers
Large blunt needle
Dates and Times:
The workshop runs for 2 weekends: 10-11 and 17-18 January 2026
Saturdays 10am-1pm + 2-5pm
Sundays 10am-1pm
Venue:
VEDANZA STUDIOS, 18 rue Louvigny, 1st floor, L-1946 Luxembourg city.
Registration:
Please send us an email at info@vedanza.org mentioning your name and “Shoe making Lab”
Price and payment details:
Price: 250€/180€*
*concessions for students, independent artists, and jobseekers.
Workshops are payable in cash or by making bank transfers to:
ATTN: NEW ACCOUNT !
Account name: VEDANZA Asbl
IBAN number: LU04 1111 7713 7935 0000
SWIFT/BIC code: CCPLLULL
Frey Faust
Born in 1960, Frey Faust began performing at the age of 8 with his family as a traveling troubadour. He is a second generation contact improviser and an alumnus of the 80´s New York dance scene. Some of his more important early influences came from: Shekhinah Mountainwater, Nita Little, Pavel Rouba, Rene Bazinet, and Janet Panetta. He has worked with and for a number of artists (order of appearance): Ohad Naharin, Donald Byrd, David Parsons, Gina Buntz, Howard Katz, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Randy Warshaw, Bob Een, Stephen Petronio, Danny Ezralow… to name a few. He founded or co-founded three dance companies, and has created or co-created over 40 choreographic solo and group works. Following an independent study of anatomy, biomechanics, and physics, he has been able to build a pedagogical approach that has made him a sought after teacher, personal coach and technical counselor. After fifteen years of research, he consolidated his findings in a book, ‘The Axis Syllabus – human movement lexicon’, which he continues to edit with the help of the Axis Syllabus International Research Network. Founded in 2009, the ASIRN is a rapidly expanding group of experts from many related fields in the human movement and education sciences. Recently, his work on the AS has been focused into the construction of a symbol set with the potential to streamline movement documentation and analysis. He also makes shoes, speaks 4 languages, continues to create and perform dances.