Labs & Workshops, LAYOUT EN, Upcoming events
Playful, and full of joy, Sônia invites women* of all ages to get their bodies moving.
She works with subtle, gentle, relaxed, and playful exercises for the body and space. These are built up calmly and repeated several times until you feel something happening…
Just move – as naturally as breathing, playing, or watering plants. Curiosity, desire, and trust open doors to expression, play, and vitality.
Basics of the training:
• Accept gravity and let it carry you
• Find balance – inside and out
• Explore and deepen movement qualities
• Let new things arise from your imagination
• Move, experience, and be in the here and now
No previous experience necessary—all levels welcome!
DATES
Thu, 20.11.25 | 6 – 7:30 pm trial session
Sat, 22.11.25 & Sun, 23.11.25 | 10 am – 2 pm weekend workshops
REGISTRATION
Please register via tanzen@ehrenfeldstudios.de.
Trial session: free of charge
Weekend workshop: 15€
No one will be excluded from participation for financial reasons.
About Sônia Mota
Sônia Mota, born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1948, has lived and worked in Cologne since 1989. She is primarily active in the independent dance scene in Brazil and Europe. Since 2018, she has danced for Kabawil e. V., tanzfuchs PRODUKTION, Kimchibrot Connection, MIRA by Julia Riera, ip-tanz by Ilona Pászty, and Tanzwerk VanekPreuß in Bonn, among others. In August 2024, her book Art of Presence/Presence in Art about her dance methodologies in Brazil was published.
Funded by
Foto: Günther Kremer
LAYOUT EN, On stage, Upcoming events
EINFACH SO | Caroline Simon
Just do it, just keep going, just relax, just have fun, just like that… How easy is easy? And how easy does easy seem? Using simple means (movement, body, space), Caroline Simon creates a real-time performance: reduced, pictorial, simply surprising.
NOTE TO SELF | Bryce Kasson
Note to Self
an improvisation by and with Bryce Kasson
a lecture on time, interrupted.
a soundtrack of recorded dreams, beatboxed song ideas, cracking ice, stray thoughts and wind, gathered (and gathering dust) over years.
swirling weather patterns of movement.
la fortaleza de una máscara.
all of this. and also (maybe) none of it…
CREDITS
An improvisation with composition, text, sound design and performance by Bryce Kasson.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bryce Kasson is an improvisor – dancer, clown, musician – and teacher who has lived and worked in the USA, Argentina and now Germany. For the past 30 years, the core practices of his dance research, performing and teaching have been Contact Improvisation and Tuning Scores. He’s often invited to research and perform Tuning Scores in small groups with Lisa Nelson and other international Tuners. He’s keenly interested in the moment when an action becomes meaningful, either to the mover or the watcher.
DATE
Fri, 21.11.25 | 8 pm
TICKETS
Sliding Scale: 10 – 20 Euro
Reservations at: karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Barrier-free access.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
On request we offer a touch tour before the performance. Please contact us via karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Foto: Viktor Brim
LAYOUT EN, On stage, Upcoming events
Our daily life is full of seemingly insignificant moments, merging one into another. We stumble over them without noticing them. But what surprises do they contain? What can we discover, when we stretch, extend, and inflate time? With One moment, please, Caroline Simon invites everyone aged 3+ to dive into a world full of fantasy, poetry and humor, where everything is possible, and nothing is obligatory. Every performance is different, just like every moment…
DATES
Sat, 20.09.2025 | 4 pm
Performance for families
Mon, 24.11.2025 | 10 am
Kita Performance
TICKETS
Sliding Scale 10 – 20 €
Kids 5 €
Reservation & Infos: karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Barrier-free access.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
On request we offer a touch tour before the performance. Please contact us via karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Photo: © Michael Zerban
Labs & Workshops, LAYOUT EN, Upcoming events
In this workshop, improvisation technique meets personal physical and dance possibilities as well as individual fantasy, imagination and creativity.
Various principles and basics of dance improvisation are introduced and explored in solo, duo or group situations.
The focus is on the fun of dancing and the (democratic!) values of dance improvisation.
For everyone aged 16 and over, with or without previous experience.
DATE
Fr, 05.12.2025 | 6 – 9 pm
REGISTRATION
Participation fee: 45 – 145 Euro
No one will be excluded from participation for financial reasons.
Registration & Info: tanzen@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Barrier-free access. Participation with a rollator or wheelchair is possible.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
Photo: © S. Große-Wortmann
LAYOUT EN, On stage, Upcoming events
A multi-medium performance for young audience with two dancers and touchscreens.
The dancers are entering through the screens into a virtual wonderland which takes them into a journey around the world. Through the screen, they virtually travel in different countries and cultures, and learn new music. During this journey they discover new things about themselves and they learn that what surrounds them is as interesting as the phantasy world they meet through the screen. In Flugmodus, the screens are also digital dancers, and together with the human dancers they create a choir of touchscreens. With movement, sound and videos the performers will ask the audience to turn their smartphones into flight mode and invite them to join them on an interactive journey in the technological wonderland through the screens.
CREDITS
Choreography: Ido Grinberg
Dancers: Ido Grinberg, Maayan Reiter
Outside Eye: Daniela Riebesam
DATES
Fr, 05.12.2025 | 1 pm (performance for schools)
Sat, 06.12.2025 | 4 pm
TICKETS
Children: 5 euros
Adults: Sliding scale: 10 – 20 euros
Reservations at: karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Barrier-free access.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
On request we offer a touch tour before the performance. Please contact us via karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologn, the NRW State Office for Independent Performing Arts and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Photo: Oliver Strömer
