Our events and classes take place in our space at Magdalenenstraße 26, 20148 Hamburg. If you wish to attend, please reach out via info@lab26.art.
Ready for Jam
Saturday, December 6
Ready for Jam is aimed at dancers of all experience levels who want to engage consciously with the challenges and possibilities of the open jam space. Contact Improvisation is a dance form without an official definition — and that is intentional. Its originators, especially Steve Paxton, deliberately chose not to fix the form in order to preserve its openness. Even so, many dancers encounter similar questions throughout their practice.
In this workshop, we explore tools and skills that support navigating the jam as a multilayered, sometimes challenging, but incredibly rich dance environment.
Register via info@lab26.art
Moving Bodies
Saturday, December 13
Our bodies are made for movement. Muscles, tissues, joints, and bones suggest movement through their structure and interaction — often without our awareness, leaving us to move from an incomplete picture of ourselves. By looking closely and sensing attentively, we rediscover our moving bodies with ease and curiosity.
Each workshop focuses on a specific theme. Through clear theoretical inputs, experiential exercises, and playful partner work, we open access to dynamics, coordination, and expression. Inspired by Axis Syllabus, Feldenkrais, Contact Improvisation, Soft Acrobatics, and Contemporary Dance, we create a space where research and dance, analysis and perception, come together.
Register via info@lab26.art
Between Play and Stillness
Sunday, December 14
In this workshop, we explore the fundamentals of dance improvisation using so-called scores: clear, playful tasks that don’t prescribe movement but open up possibilities. We work in solo, partner, and group settings. Dance collaboration may arise through direct physical contact (for example, through elements of Contact Improvisation) or through subtle, nonverbal communication in the space — observing, responding, and moving in resonance.
Register via info@lab26.art
Advanced Contact Improvisation Training
November 6 – December 11 | 6 sessions
Over the course of six sessions, we move as a committed group beyond the limits of what an open class can offer.
This training is aimed at dancers with prior experience in Contact Improvisation who wish to deepen their practice through regular research.
The title Embracing the Unknown is meant to inspire a gradual letting go of the familiar and a curious exploration of new territory along one’s individual edges. We train foundational principles and develop each person’s solo practice further, building toward deeper embodiment — towards the contact body.
Register via info@lab26.art
Our events and classes take place in our space at Magdalenenstraße 26, 20148 Hamburg. If you wish to attend, please reach out via info@lab26.art.
Ready for Jam
Saturday, December 6
Ready for Jam is aimed at dancers of all experience levels who want to engage consciously with the challenges and possibilities of the open jam space. Contact Improvisation is a dance form without an official definition — and that is intentional. Its originators, especially Steve Paxton, deliberately chose not to fix the form in order to preserve its openness. Even so, many dancers encounter similar questions throughout their practice.
In this workshop, we explore tools and skills that support navigating the jam as a multilayered, sometimes challenging, but incredibly rich dance environment.
Register via info@lab26.art
Moving Bodies
Saturday, December 13
Our bodies are made for movement. Muscles, tissues, joints, and bones suggest movement through their structure and interaction — often without our awareness, leaving us to move from an incomplete picture of ourselves. By looking closely and sensing attentively, we rediscover our moving bodies with ease and curiosity.
Each workshop focuses on a specific theme. Through clear theoretical inputs, experiential exercises, and playful partner work, we open access to dynamics, coordination, and expression. Inspired by Axis Syllabus, Feldenkrais, Contact Improvisation, Soft Acrobatics, and Contemporary Dance, we create a space where research and dance, analysis and perception, come together.
Register via info@lab26.art
Between Play and Stillness
Sunday, December 14
In this workshop, we explore the fundamentals of dance improvisation using so-called scores: clear, playful tasks that don’t prescribe movement but open up possibilities. We work in solo, partner, and group settings. Dance collaboration may arise through direct physical contact (for example, through elements of Contact Improvisation) or through subtle, nonverbal communication in the space — observing, responding, and moving in resonance.
Register via info@lab26.art
Advanced Contact Improvisation Training
November 6 – December 11 | 6 sessions
Over the course of six sessions, we move as a committed group beyond the limits of what an open class can offer.
This training is aimed at dancers with prior experience in Contact Improvisation who wish to deepen their practice through regular research.
The title Embracing the Unknown is meant to inspire a gradual letting go of the familiar and a curious exploration of new territory along one’s individual edges. We train foundational principles and develop each person’s solo practice further, building toward deeper embodiment — towards the contact body.
Register via info@lab26.art