This workshop is part of our CONNECT Community Arts Festival. Click here for an overview of the entire festival program.

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!

DATE
Sat, 19.09.2026 | 10:00 – 11:30 am

PARTICIPATION FEE
Our workshops follow a solidarity-based pricing model with a sliding scale. Within this framework, you decide for yourselves how much you’d like to and are able to pay. Those who can afford to pay more help support other participants.

Workshops (90 min): 15–30 euros
For two or more CONNECT workshops: starting at 10 euros per workshop

No one will be excluded from participating 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.

CONNECT Community Arts Festival is funded by RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur and Office for Cultural Affairs Cologne.

Foto: Günther Kremer