This special course is a deep dive into connection, partnering, and shared dynamics across 4 sessions of 2 hours each. Unlike a one-off workshop, the continuity allows us to develop trust, shared understanding, and a collective base that grows stronger each week. Our focus will be on connection, trust, and the shared dynamics of moving together.
Each session combines guided exercises, playful games, and improvisation. We will draw inspiration from contact improvisation, contemporary dance, and acrobatics, gradually moving into balances, shared weight, and more daring lifts. The emphasis will remain on flow, safety, and awareness while expanding our technical and creative possibilities.
Our journey will culminate in creating a final partnering phrase, weaving together everything we’ve discovered collectively.
✨ What to expect: Progressive building of trust and communication; Space for experimentation and creative discovery; Technical and expressive development in partnering; A committed group growing together from start to finish.
👉 Commitment to all 4 sessions is required, so that we can sustain the process and develop the material together.
TEACHERS
CAROLINE ALVES, based in Berlin, is a dancer, teacher, and
choreographer with over 20 years of experience. After high school, she
joined the Brazilian state company Cia. de Dança Palácio das Artes for
seven years. She also graduated in Psychology (PUC-Minas, Brazil) and
developed a research on creative process in dance. Since moving to
Berlin in 2013, she has been an active member of
Grupo Oito and also part of the performance experiment collective
Machine to Become.
She premiered her first full-length choreography, TRANSATLANTICA, at
English Theatre Berlin in 2022. Since 2016, she has been giving regular
contemporary dance classes in Berlin, and she has conducted workshops in
various locations across Europe and Brazil. As a teacher, her work is
characterized by being highly physical, and informed by floorwork,
contact improvisation techniques, somatic practices, improvisation &
composition techniques, capoeira and insights from the Get Physical
Process - a practice used by Grupo Oito and developed by Ricardo de
Paula. Learn more at
www.carolinealves.art
MARTINA GARBELLI started studying dance as a little child and has worked in the
field for more than 15 years. After completing her education at SEAD
(Salzburg) she worked with different choreographers and companies
(Compagnia Aiep, cie. Willy Dorner and Zaches Teatro), touring in
various European countries. Since 2012 she is based in Berlin and active
in the freelance dance scene as a dancer (a.o. guest by Constanza
Macras), performer (for video artist Yvon Cabrowski) and creator (“Liven
2014, - “Althea” 2016). Since 2015 she is part of the dance collective
Grupo Oito and has been involved in the artistic and organisational
processes of the group. In 2021 she received the DIS-TANZ SOLO grant for
her research “Medusas”. In her contemporary dance classes and
workshops, she accompanies her students in the exploration of principles
of movement. Through different dance and somatic techniques (like
floorwork, release technique, contact improvisation, capoeira and and
Get Physical Process) and using tools of improvisation and instant
composition, her work as a teacher aims to foster self-knowledge and
interconnection. Learn more at www.martinagarbelli.com
📅 Dates - 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th November 2025
🕕 Time - 18:00 – 20:00
📍 Where - Berlin - Location to be defined
💰 Price - For the Autumn Special there are two registration options: the Individual Fee (for those joining alone) and the Duo Fee (a reduced price when you register together with a friend).
The Duo Fee is a special offer: instead of each person paying the full individual price, you register as a pair and both get a discount. The total cost for two people is lower than registering separately.
Individual Fee
* Early Bird (until 26th October): 100€
* Regular Price (after 26th October): 120€
Duo Fee (register together with a friend)
* Early Bird (until 26th October): 170€
* Regular Price (after 26th October): 210€
* Although this is a partnering workshop, you don’t necessarily need to register with a partner — individual registrations are also welcome.
Do you have any question?
shareddynamics.info@gmail.com
