Teaching
Bild von Alexander Ehhalt, Project Moving Stories by C. Guerin
I am a trained dance educator specializing in contemporary dance and improvisation. My classes are designed for both professional dancers and dance enthusiasts.
In addition, I have completed the Level 1 Basic Training in the Tamalpa Life/Art Process by Anna and Daria Halprin at the Center for Movement-Based Expressive Arts Education & Therapy (USA), as well as the "Choreography Today" program at the Theater Werkstatt Heidelberg. Currently, I am attending the Body-Mind-Centering training at the Somatic Academy in Berlin.
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​I look forward to your message for individual coaching or workshop inquiries!
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I currently offer the following courses:
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Professional training - Movement Research - Dancing with the Living World - Dancing the exhibition
Professional training
My contemporary class is based on the exploration of fundamental movement principles such as push, pull, placing, sliding, rolling, and shifting to unleashing powerful, wild, and grounded contemporary movements. Through a dynamic blend of improvisation and set material, the participants are playfully invited to investigate their body's organization in relation to the floor to deepen a profound understanding of grounding, gravity, and the interplay of forces. As we play with gravity, we seek to capture the poetic potential of the intangibe and, on a journey into the unknown, discover the diverse nuances of movement.
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Bild: Miriam Markl, Residenz @Dansverkstadid, Angular Displacement
Movement Research
How can we explore the world through dance?
What do our bodies reveal?
Which knowledge lies dormant in our movements?
In this course, Miriam Markl provides insights into her own artistic practice and invites you to explore using your dancing bodies.
Changing themes and questions serve as inspiration. Anatomical knowledge, perception exercises for body and consciousness as well as dance exploration of movement patterns provide further impulses.
In a guided warm-up, the basics of dance improvisation and the interplay with the parameters of space, time and body can be experienced through dance.
Participants are invited to expand their own movement vocabulary. Depending on the topic, other artistic media such as speaking, sound, creative writing and painting will also be used.
Together we create a space to connect through movement and explore everyday, scientific or world-changing topics through creative expression.
No previous dance experience is necessary.
Bild: Miriam Markl, Project 48 at Tanzlabor Ulm, credits Flaviamash Photography
Bild: Miriam Markl, credits Lys Y Seng
Dancing with the Living World
a site specific movement and dance workshop
In this workshop Miriam Markl is sharing her ever changing movement practice that emerges from the interplay between the body and its environment. We will search for authentic forms of expression in movement which enables us to enter into correspondence with other(s). How can the idea of „becoming landscape“ enable us to move through the world? What can embodiment teach us about oneself, others and the world around us? Can the body as an agent of knowledge reveal new insights? What interactions between one’s own inner milieu and the outer environment can be perceived as a dance?
Participants will be guided trough different movement and awareness tasks to enter into sensual explorations and discover the movement which lies within themselves as well as in the world around them. Movement explorations will happen both inside and outdoors.
Open to all levels, bodies and beings, no previous movement experience required.
Bild: Teilnehmende des Workshops in Mannheim, credits Miriam Markl
Dancing the exhibition
discover the future of art perception through dance improvisation
In this dance improvisation workshop, we will explore a variety of methods to perceive and experience visual art through the medium of dance. Collectively we will seek answers to the questions: How do we perceive art? How does our perspective change our observations? What movements are inspired by the works? What new insights and experiences can we gain by engaging with the exhibited works through dance?
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Under the guidance of dancer, choreographer and movement artist Miriam Markl, participants will immerse themselves in the world of embodied art interpretation and are invited to connect with the artworks on display in the exhibition through dance. By interweaving movement and observation, we create a deeper understanding of the works through playful explorations and guided improvisation tasks, generating a personal connection and learning ways of perception and interpretation that go beyond traditional methods of viewing art. The focus is on perception and free dance expression in response to the exhibited works.
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Join us for a dynamic exploration that crosses traditional boundaries and opens the doors to future approaches to perceiving art.
No previous dance experience is required - this workshop is open to anyone who wants to playfully experience how we can be moved by visual art.
Bild: Miriam Markl, beim community dance project "moving your stories" ein Porjekt von C Guerin, credits Alexander Ehhalt