The purpose of Klein Technique™ is education, not on the superficial level of mimicking form, but on a profoundly deep level of understanding the full use of the body as an integral whole to maximize full function of each individual’s unique movement potential.

Klein Technique™ is Susan Klein’s personal struggle and education, both physically and intellectual, as a result of a serious knee injury developed as a dancer at 19.

„Klein Technique™ is a process through which the body is analyzed and understood to improve and to further movement potential. It is intellectual in that it uses anatomical realities. It is corporeal in that we strive for an internal knowing, an understanding which is integrated into the body. It is a movement education and re-education, that can be an underpinning for all movement styles, improvisations, athletics, and for the general health of the body in everyday movement. It is a technique that honors the individual. Klein Technique™ works at the level of the bones, to align the bones using the muscles of deep postural support: the psoas, the hamstrings, the external rotators, and the pelvic floor. We don’t work to exercise these muscles but rather to wake them up, to become conscious of their role in the support and movement of the body. We work for the body to become elastic, responsive, and open to choices and expression. Although Klein Technique™ was developed by a dancer for dancers, it is a technique that works for everybody, from the virtuosic dancer to the non-dancer. When the bones are aligned we become connected, we become powerful and we become strong. The body becomes efficient and alive, and injuries often heal.” ©2007 Susan T. Klein

Klein Technique™ has been taught for more than thirty years in numerous countries. Among the hundreds of Klein Technique™ students are the most well-known members of the dance community including Trisha Brown, Stephen Petronio, Bebe Miller, Wally Cardona, Jeremy Nelson, Sasha Waltz and members of their companies. Those who have followed the precepts of Klein Technique™ have gained a confidence and completeness that serves to underpin their work whether as a dancer, an athlete, or as a non-dancer interested in improving their everyday function and health.

*the above text is selected from the official sites of Klein Technique™ and Hanna Hegenscheidt.

Hanna Hegenscheidt | BIO

Hanna Hegenscheidt is a choreographer and teacher, based in Berlin. She studied dance, Klein Technique™ (with Susan Klein and Barbara Mahler) and Laban-Movement-Analysis (CMA) in Hamburg and New York. She teaches Klein Technique™, dance and choreography (Susan Klein School of Dance, N.Y., HZT Berlin, HfM Cologne, Sasha Waltz & Guests, Meg Stuart, Studio LaborGras, K3 Tanzplan Hamburg, Dance theater of Ljubljana/Slovenia, and Toronto Dance Theater, among others). In April 2011 she opened the studio 142 in Berlin-Kreuzberg, where she offers open classes on a regular basis. Currently she is enrolled in the Master program for Choreography at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool foor de Kunsten.

As a performer she has worked with Gina Gibney Dance, Robert Wilson, Lise Brenner, Michael Simon, Gitta Barthel, Reinhild Hoffmann, Michaela Fünfhausen, David Weber-Krebs, Achim Freyer, Martin Clausen/Two Fish among others. 2008/09/10 she was choreographic assistant to Achim Freyer in Wagner´s Ring Cycle at Los Angeles Opera.

In 2004 Hanna Hegenscheidt began to create her own work in collaboration with dancers and actors from New York and Berlin. She has been presented at the Sophiensaele, Radialsystem, Uferstudios, Tanztage Berlin, Yorkshire Dance Festival, fabrik potsdam, Kampnagel Hamburg, Schwankhalle Bremen, Frankfurt Book Fair, Freshtracks DTW/N.Y., West End Theater/N.Y., Villa Warschau and others. In 2012 she directed Shock-Headed Peter at the MOKS-Theater Bremen. Hanna Hegenscheidt´s work with children and young adults involves projects with immigrant teenagers for the City Theater Münster and the Cactus Theater Münster and with the TanzZeit-Youth-Company Evoke. She is also part of TanzZeit-Time for Dance in Schools, where she co-founded the Kindercompany Radialsystem together with Livia Patrizi and Sasha Waltz and co-directed the TanzZeit-Nucleo Kücüc Kids Company2011/2012.

More information about Hanna Hegenscheidt : http://www.hannahegenscheidt.de

Movement workshop following the Feldenkrais method

„My meeting with the Feldenkrais method has profoundly influenced the way I dance, create and teach. In 2013 I started specializing at Istituto per la Formazione Feldenkrais in Milan, founded by Mara Della Pergola, a direct student of Moshe Feldenkrais, and for many years I have been researching with different groups, from professionals to amateurs, the impact of body study on our personalities and on our way of being.”

What is movement?

The Feldenkrais method starts by questioning the body.
It considers the movement as a powerful instrument of knowledge, a part of a complex phenomenon that encompasses emotions and thinking.
Changing the way we normally move means changing our thinking and emotional patterns.

How can we become more aware of ourselves through movement?

Each of us has a unique way of moving and holds an infinite potential of actions, but, in lack of constant exploration and body awareness, these possibilities of action never materialize.

We feel before we understand.

This method teaches us that creativity, movement and sensibility in what we do changes the way we think and behave.
For Feldenkrais, thought, perception and emotion are all present while we act.

What will we do?

The method relies on organic learning and addresses all the persons who want to get to know themselves better: from young mothers to fathers and grandparents, from dancers to psychologists and physiotherapists, from professionals of various specialties to athletes. Through a series of lessons that eviscerate the infinite combinations and components of action, we get to reinvent neuromotor habitual schemes through playful and creative exploration. In this deconstruction of action schemes, agonist and antagonist muscles find balance and, once tensions disappear, emotions, images, ideas and other associations start to manifest themselves. In this context, we free ourselves from patterns, anxiety, conflicting emotional states, while accessing our personal potential and a harmonious and positive way of being.

Objectives

The entire workshop will be as if we would learn, for a second time, in infinite ways, beyond our habits and the blockages we identify with. Without exterior models and through our sensations, we will become capable to free ourselves from unnecessary tensions, disorganized breathing, hurry, or the need to satisfy the others. Feldenkrais says:

“We don’t know ourselves. Actually, and you will realize this in a few minutes, the way we know ourselves doesn’t allow us to have real control upon ourselves. (…) You are not the ones who act out, but your pains, your illness, your inabilities, your old learned habits that you can’t even remember -these dictate your actions.”

Useful information:
This module consists of 5 classes
Enrollment tax: 250 LEI.
Enrollment tax for students: 200 LEI
Payment will be made in the first day of class.
It is possible for payments to be done in two installments: 50% in the first day of class, 50% in the 4th day of class.

Dates:

Mondays: March 2, 16, 23, 30 | 19:00 – 21:00
Thursday: March 12 martie | 19:00 – 21:00

Participants are required to bring along a thin mattress or a blanket.
The number of participants is limited.

Registration: contact@waspmagazine.com, with e-mail subject: SOFT INSIDEOUT Workshop Registration. Deadline: February 28, 2015.

Valentina de Piante | BIO

Valentina de Piante Niculae is a choreographer and dancer, with a PhD in Performing Arts. She is Assistant Professor at the Choreography section of UNATC I.L. Caragiale in Bucharest. As a choreographer, she studies the co-present of different types of body intelligence, a route from the biological to the imaginary that integrates different levels of consciousness: emotional, sensory, cognitive.

She participated in courses and workshops held by Lola Keraly, Yasuko Yokoshi, D.D. Dorvillier, Miguel Gutierrez, Ori Flomin, Gwen Welliver, Serenella Fonzar, Laura Aris, Odette Guimond, Mark Tompkins, Lisa Nelson, David Zambrano, Inge Kaindlstorfer, Yvan Wolf, Joseph Nadj, Anouk Van Dijk, Abbondanza-Bertoni, Roberto Galvan, among others.

She is a visiting professor at various universities and research institutes. In 2009 she participated in the TTT – Teaching the Teachers – Bucharest seminar, along Jan Ritsema, Bojana Cvejic, Jan Kopp and Jennifer Lacey. Starting the autumn of 2013, she began training in the Feldenkrais method at the Feldenkrais-Milan Institute to become a practitioner of the method.