SAVE THE DATE for this year's SEEDS dance lab from 08.09. - 12.09.2025!
This year, Karolin Stächele, the artistic director of the independent ensemble DAGADA dance, and the musician, dancer and actor Simon Wehrli will meet for the first time. During the 5-day workshop, the choreographers will share their approaches and ideas with professional dancers from Stuttgart and the region, creating an exciting exchange between the two artists as well as with the participating dancers.
"Based on an in-depth exploration of a selected piece of music, Karolin and Simon discover different choreographic approaches together with the participants. How do we want to relate to the music? In space, in the body, in feeling? Choreography and music should meet at eye and ear level."
Schedule
Monday, 08.09. - Friday, 12.09.2025
10 am - 5 pm
Showing
Freitag, 12.09.2025, 5 pm
Guest choreographers
Karolin Stächele (Freiburg) has been creating full-length pieces for various spaces and stages under the label DAGADA dance since 2014. Based in Freiburg, she works with a dynamic group of artists from different genres and develops a repertoire that includes both solo and group performances. In an open, participatory artistic discourse, she choreographs a pulsating dance language that always refers to the social change surrounding her. The company has presented its work nationally and internationally, including in Berlin, Leipzig, Basel (CH), Haarlem, The Hague (NL), Brest (FR), Barcelona (ES) and Prague (CZ).
Karolin was co-founder and active member of tanznetzIfreiburg (2018-2022). Since September 2021 she is co-director of the education programmes at bewegungs-art freiburg.
"My work is loud and tender, it seduces and confronts, it challenges by not being content to please, but daring to explore the raw and uncomfortable - that which lies hidden deep within us all and is part of us."
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Simon Wehrli (Switzerland / Slovenia) started out as a musician, then attended the Accademia Teatro Dimitri in Verscio (CH) and studied contemporary dance at Trinity Laban London (UK). Simon has toured in Europe, the USA and Africa as part of the theater group Collettivo Spettatori, the dance improvisation group 50collective and “Sons of Sissy”/Simon Mayer. He has worked as a dancer, actor and musician for choreographers in London, New York, Brussels, Porto, Zurich and Basel, among others. From 2010 to 2015, he took part in various projects by David Zambrano (including “50 days of flying low and passing through Costa Rica”). In 2013, his first full-length production “Greatest Hits” premiered in co-production with Tanzhaus Zürich, followed by the site-specific performance “How to become Clairvoyant”. From 2015, further pieces followed in collaboration with Jasmina Križaj (False Entries, Nature Poetry, Nothing Works (Shakira, Shakira), Deep Purple). In recent years, he has also increasingly developed pieces with young people (e.g. Zurich Opera House). Simon is also a guest lecturer for the Bachelor of Dance at Manufacture Lausanne (CH) and regularly teaches at other institutions.
Costs and registration
5-day workshop: 150,-€
Reduced price for students, PZ members: 120,-€
The workshop is aimed at professional dancers. Artists from related fields and dance enthusiasts with the appropriate level of training are also welcome.
Registration from Tuesday, 01.07.2025 on via info@produktionszentrum.de with a short letter of motivation explaining why you identify as a professional dancer and would like to take part in the SEEDS Dance Lab.