The Instrument composition classes offer a tactile and musing practice, articulating the body with time, space
and the imagination. The classes engage with composition in real time, encouraging flow, precision and bodily wisdom
as a pathway to dance making and performance. Involving attentiveness, musicality, collective and personal awareness;
the work deepens a sense of presence, choice and vision, and highlights the interplay between movement and image.
Joining these elements in the process of dance making, the practice takes its fascination in relationships between
human beings, environments and choreographic narratives.
In workshops, we extend these elements and deepen the study within three main themes:
Embodying Musicality - which places a focus on the relationship between rhythm, sound and
harmony and the moving / dancing body.
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Transfiguring Space- in which we study space through the kinesthetic and
conscious abilities of the moving body and mind, as an integrated subject in choreography and performance.
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Dance Composition and Aliveness -in which we investigate the depth of our (theatrical) presence, attentiveness and
hunger for imagination as performance makers.
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Maya leads classes / workshops in Berlin and internationally on a regular basis.
In the past fourteen years Maya has been a guest teacher at HZT University (Berlin),
Staatstheater Kassel (Johannes Wieland), Theater Greifswald (Jan Pusch),
Impulstanz (Vienna), Fabrik Potsdam, Carte Blanche (Bergen), CND Lyon, CNSMD Lyon,
CCNR Rillieux (Cie Yuval Pick), Le Pacifique / CDC (Grenoble), Kelim Choreography Center (Israel)
and SEAD Academy (Salzburg) to name a few.
Roy and Maya also conduct workshops together, in which they engage their collaborative experience
within a process of group learning and dancing with live sound / music.