Profitraining with Susanne Grau
About the class
In the warm-up we will make use of our breath, voice and touch to sense connections within the body and inspire different relationships to the ground, to the space, to each other. Within improvisational frames and partner exercises we will tune into our senses for rhythm and volume. We will take time for some detailed movement explorations and shifts of attention, between anatomical and poetic imagery, zoom in and out, with the intention to sense into presence and potential. We will dance set movement sequences that allow us to work with our gaze, train different qualities of movement, listening and attention and search for what it means for each person today to dance, or what could be the promise of this dance.
About Susanne
Susanne Grau works as a dancer, performer and choreographer, currently based in Berlin. She studied Contemporary Dance at University for Music and Dance in Cologne and the MA program „Performing arts practice and visual culture“ in Madrid. In 2013 she was an intern at Movement Research New York. Since 2012 she regularly collaborated with Cologne based MichaelDouglas Kollektiv. In 2015 she received the danceWEB scholarship at ImpulsTanz Festival Vienna. As a performer she worked with artists like Fabrice Mazliah, Alexandra Pirici, Davis Freeman, Juana del Mar Jimenez Infante, Özlem Alkis, Rocio Marano, Shai Faran, Choy Ka Fai, Prue Lang, May Zarhy, Reut Shemesh. Across projects she explores relationships of language, physicality, imagination and rhythm. She is interested in multiple points of attention, the simultaneity of invisible and visible activities and what those splits of attention are inviting to appear. Since October 2023 she is a certified practicioner of Rolfing® - structural integration - a hands-on myofascial body work and movement studies. She likes to see performative practice as a facilitation of encounters, as a kind of seance and psychomagical field of experimentation. At the moment Susanne is enrolled in the MA program "New Performative Practices" at Stockholm University of the Arts.