Profitraining David Kummer
"Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening."
Pauline Oliveros
„Community is where community happens“
Martin Buber
About the training
This training is an ongoing practice of listening, perceiving, composing, relating, moving and being. It weaves together Release and Klein Technique, Feldenkrais, and eastern approaches such as Aikido, Qi Gong, and Shiatsu. Drawing on experiences from different choreographic and dance experiences we explore the dialogue between inner and the outer environments. Qualities such as softness, quickness, jumpiness, grounding, and landing are central, as are musicality and joy. Individual practice meets collective care; touch becomes a mode of relation. Through exercises of and work with scores we are activating our dancing and thinking body, landing in the now.
About David
David Kummer (1989) is a dancer, choreographer, and shiatsu practitioner based in Berlin. He has received scholarships from Künstlerhaus Lukas, Zumikon Kulturstiftung, Dachverband Tanz, and others for his artistic works Resonanzsphären (2018), Raumstaunen (2019), and Stadtlauschen (2021). David has danced for Isabelle Schad, Daniela Georgieva, Stella Geppert, Sabine Zahn, Anne-Mareike Hess, and many others, as well as for collectives such as See! (DE), Badco. (HR), and WeGo (DK). He collaborates closely with Kilian Jörg on their artistic-activist-post-anthropocene intervention Diverting Public Spaces and with DISCOllective on the ecological-choreographic Planthroposcene Pause practice. He is member of the Mobile Ensemble Wiesenburg Berlin and he is part of the cross European collective ERRATICA. 2025 he was part of artistic exchange program Long Life Burning and a Residency on Eco Choreography in Ljubljana.