Improv for Dance Enthusiasts

OPEN STAGE during MAD MARCH
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14.03.2026
19:00

at Tónabíó
Skipholt 33,
105 Reykjavík
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We invite all dance enthusiasts, professionals and amateurs to sign up for a Night of Improvised Dance Performance!
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Participation is free and all donation at the door will be split between the performers!
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How it works:
Everyone can sign up through a form (link in bio) for time slots up to 21 minutes as a solo, a duo, a trio, a small or a big group. It’s all about improvising dance!
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Who:
Everyone who is enthusiastic about dancing is welcome and appreciated, regardless of their skill level or dance experience. Our aim is to create a safe environment for all kinds of ideas and bodies and remove the holiness of the stage aka. let you claim space!
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What:
Improvised dance, spontaneous movements, instant ideas. But mainly to have fun on stage together and celebrate! Everything is allowed if boundaries and safety of others are respected.
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Send us a message if there are any questions!
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This is only possible due to the great support of who allows us to be in their space! 🫂

SPECIAL WORKSHOPS during MAD MARCH
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7.3. Ocean Dive
14–16 Facilitated by Katie Hitchcock

(...) We will start indoors, open up movement possibilities in the body while warming up and begin to build our underwater sensing toolkit. Then we move outside to the beach on Ægisíða to take these practices out in the environment to react and play. Important to dress in layers with good outdoor clothes and shoes.

Dansverkstæðið,
Hjarðarhagi 47,
107 Reykjavík

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14.3. Working with Scales
14–17 Facilitated by Janosch Bela Kratz

(...) The workshop will partially take place outside, it’s recommended to bring warm clothes as well as your favourite pen. Materials for the maps will be provided. Make sure your phones are charged, as we will use them in some cases.

Dans.Haus / Hlemmur.Haus
Laugavegur 114,
101 Reykjavík

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21.3. To =Excel a Dance – Janosch & Magdalena Tworek
14–17 Facilitated by Janosch Bela Kratz & Magdalena Tworek

(...) Please bring your own computers and clothes to move with!

Hafnar.Haus
Tryggvagata 17,
101 Reykjavík

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28.3. Intention Seeker – Felix Urbina Alejandre
12–14 Facilitated by Felix Urbina Alejandre

(...) We will also visit the possibility of using intimacy, care, and companionship as performative materials - how to empower the other through our gaze or presence. Curiosity and playfulness welcome! Open to movers of all levels and backgrounds.

Dans.Haus / Hlemmur.Haus
Laugavegur 114,
101 Reykjavík

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Prices:

Drop-In: 4.000kr
All workshops: 10.000kr

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Sign up or questions:
DM or via [email protected]

MAD MARCH is here!

We are happy to announce that besides our regular Monday classes we will offer an additional program including workshops, performances, open stage, and events in March!
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Its very simple:
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Regular classes happen on
Mondays between 19–20:30, at Dansverkstæðið.
Themes and practices introduced here will be diverse!
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On the 23rd of March there will be a dance jam with live music in a different location.
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Special Workshops on Saturdays take place at various times and locations. They will be announced soon. More information on the workshops will follow as well!
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The Open Stage happens on the 14th and everyone is welcome to sign up to perform. Location and time yet to be announced.
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Additional program is free or pay what you want and will pop up throughout the month!
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Pricing:

This time we offer a subscription for our Monday Classes and one for the whole month, Drop-ins are welcome for both, classes and workshops. Please contact us if you want to buy a subscription, or simply join our first Monday Class of the month!
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12.000kr 5 Monday Classes
20.000kr 5 Monday Classes
& 4 Saturday Workshops
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3.000kr Drop-In Monday Class
4.000kr Drop-In Saturday Workshop
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Per usual it is possible to get our subscriptions refunded by your union, get in contact with us! If you want to join but can’t afford, please get in contact with us as well!
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Fees go directly into paying facilitators, musicians, organisation and space rent.
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Everyone is welcome, bloody beginner or professional dancer!
Every Body is welcome, we try to ensure that the spaces we use are accessible via ramps and elevators.
Please contact us if you want to aquire information about the spaces.
Consent and boundaries play a center role in our work, please respect the boundaries of others! Only Yes means yes, no means no!
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Yours,
Dance Enthusiasts

Contact:
[email protected]

Gazing Berlin
a workshop of improvised movement and non-performance-performance in public

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This event is happening in Berlin!
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The more you look, the more there is to see.

Looking directly into the sun I burn my retina.
Flooded with white light it continues to burn
and burn bright and from this
a kaleidoscope of colour
fills my closed-eye sight.

How is it to be so wooden and so stiff and so straight?

All you need is curiosity.
How can I allow the outer world to pass through me?
From the visual to the somatosensory system.

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What you can expect is an imaginary journey, movement explorations, gazing research.
Bits of scientific knowledge to feed the curious minds and bodily explorations of different sorts.

We will co-create a space where all minds and bodies are welcome to explore, share, misunderstand, follow curiosities and have fun, or not.

Open to all, no matter the previous experiences or physical preparation.

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General schedule

Saturday 1 - 5pm a movement workshop in a studio space
Sunday 1 - 5pm a museum visit, researching practices in a public space

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Accessibility

Unfortunately, the studio space has stairs and no elevator.

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Info

More info and sign up form in bio

Thank you, Zagreb

A dance that ferments…

“We really enjoyed travelling to Gaia Terra, Italy, together with eight of our learners. It was fantastic to witness their learning development and active engagement with the hosting organisation. We particularly enjoyed the peer-to-peer learning aspects between volunteers, learners, teachers, and accompanying staff. We’re impressed by the fermentation score booklet we created collectively, and how it allowed for a synergetic learning environment to emerge. We look forward to a continuous collaboration!”

Reflection accompanying staff for Group Mobility to Gaia Terra, Italy, August 2026

Check out our reflect-toolkit (link in bio) to read and test the fermentation dance score, and join our ongoing classes at Dansverkstæðið (:

Pictures by Jubilea

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This mobility was supported by the project KA122-ADU-000232112“Embodied Learning: Dance to empower the local community”. Thank you, Erasmus+ Adult Education , for supporting us financially.



“Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or Erasmus+ programme. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. ”

Dear Community,

We are closing this year with a lot of satisfaction and gratitude.

Gratitude towards our beautiful dance enthusiasts community,
the project partners from Iceland and abroad,
festivals and cultural institutions that gave us a platform to show our creations,
and towards funding institutions that have been supporting our work!

In the year 2025, we have been

hosting learning spaces, jam sessions, and experimental laboratories,
developing performances with participants of workshops,
dreaming together what 2026 should look like,
educating ourselves as facilitators and
researching new ideas for performing improvisation on stage.

We also recently finalised the European project L.E.A.F.: Learning through ecological art forms that brought us many new perspectives and inspiring encounters! Hugs to all who were involved in any way 🙂

And special thank you note to .gretars who has been an amazing supportive friend to our collective since the beginning. You rock !

All in all with this post we want to say thank you to everyone we have met on the way.
We celebrate you ❤

Yours,
Dance Enthusiasts
Janosch, Linde, Magdalena, Meeri, Yelena

dance enthusiasts team
eu






partners

fundacja sztuki współczesnej


haus.hlemmur
dansdagar



kikmalone
Silvia Marchig




dancenetwork

sztuki

vitatorg centre

collaborators

coudeyre


funding

Thank you for the collaboration and congratulations to Dansverkstæðið and Fundacja Sztuki Wspolczesnej !

Warm greetings to all participants 🌞

You can now watch their performance from the Grófin City Library from September 2024 :)

📽️ Watch the performance video (filmed by Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgnudi1PH0U&ab_channel=Dansverkstaedid&fbclid=IwY2xjawMb_XtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFXUzlocTB5ZEVUMFlKMUlXAR6SNouFR7K_1pNIOEGEvyyuhZUnNDNE-5LXT84uQxWgJxCkscT1_EcaKDl5nA_aem_4x6dpiWiOmCLkh0jAuaX3A

🌐 Explore the platform with practices & exercises
https://www.reflect-toolkit.eu

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More to come !

OPEN CALL
for performers

We will perform “Audio Walk for Seashores” again for on the 31st of August.

We are looking for performers who will follow simple improvisational scores along the route of the walk.

The scores will touch on the subjects of rest, resistance, connectivity, ecosystems.

It is a result of our community project L.E.A.F.: learning through ecological art forms.
It is an unpaid performance and we welcome both experienced and inexperienced improv enthusiasts 🙂
 
We will organise rehearsals for the scores and for the performance walk every Monday of August 18:30-20:30. You don’t need to participate in all of the rehearsals but it is recommended to take part in at least two of them to feel secure on the performance day. We will also have a general rehearsal together before the actual performance so the whole group can practice the flow together before performing.
 
Send us an email [email protected]

DANCE JAM WITH LIVE MUSIC
26th May / 18:30 — 20:00
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We facilitate an Open Dance Jam with Live Music.
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The entrance is free but we are taking donations 🙂
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All bodies and skill levels are welcome!
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The building is accessible via ramp and elevator.
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To be able to provide a safer space we depend on your help. Please respect other peoples individual boundaries of touch and consent. We want everyone to feel comfortable and safe! Only Yes means Yes. We ask everyone kindly to read our safer space guidelines available on our website!

Open Call Eight Days Dance Excursion
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Dance Enthusiasts x Gaia Terra (IT) 10th - 18th of August 2025
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YOU CAN APPLY THROUGH THE OFFICIAL FORM: https://forms.gle/6MS2cAvaKfTPzF1z6
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We are looking for eight Dance Enthusiasts to travel to Gaia Terra Ecovillage in Italy for a week of work-based and peer-to-peer learning. We will be exploring ways of community-based group engagement and more sustainable living.

As a participant you will take part in regular activities taking place at Gaia Terra like for example gardening, maintenance, cooking and group circles. We will also spend time on practicing dance improvisation and creating instant site-specific performances offering those activities and showings to others who will be spending time onsite. There will be a platform for skill sharing in which you will be able to offer and take part in various activities.

You will be accompanied by Magdalena Tworek and Yelena Arakelow from Dance Enthusiasts collective who are organising this travel and learning opportunity.

Deadline to apply is the 10th of June 2025. You will receive an answer from us by the 16th of June.

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Questions?
Email us at [email protected]
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Details:

Where: Gaia Terra, Via Francesco Petrarca, 45, 33061 Rivignano Teor UD, Italy

Dates: 10-18th of August 2025

Travel days via Venice: 10th and 18th of August

Accommodation: camping or shared open dormitories

Food: vegetarian / vegan meals

Costs: All travel, accommodation and food expenses for and during the project will be covered by Dance Enthusiasts. You must have your own health insurance and bring your European Health Insurance Card (blue card). https://island.is/en/european-health-insurance-card.

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The mobility is co-funded by the European Union within Erasmus+ Adult Education.

Project Title: Embodied Learning: Dance to empower the local community

Project ID: KA122-ADU-8BCCAEB5

Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or Erasmus+ programme. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.