CURRENT NEWS

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DANCE WORKSHOP

with Juliane Wabnitz & Giovanna Lehmann

12. & 13.09.2025 // 4 to 7 pm & 11 am to 3:30 om

@HOTEL CONTINENTAL – Art Space in Exile - Elsenstraße 87, 12435 Berlin 

Anmeldung via kontakt@senecaintensiv.de / free of charge

This dance and movement workshop is open to all ages and levels, and everyone interested. This workshop is primarily aimed at people who had to flee Ukraine as a consequence of the Russian war of aggression.

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Cultural Diversity in Dance Education - SINIPARKSI Training Kit Workshop

with Sabrina Marwa & Juliane Wabnitz

October 16, 2025 // 9:00 am to 3:00 pm

@SENECA INTENSIV Studios

Registration / free of charge

The workshop is aimed at dance professionals and dance educators who would like to lead community dance projects and are looking for methodological support. We will introduce the findings of the European exchange project SINIPARKSI and present exemplary methods. Together, we would like to facilitate an exchange on pressing questions surrounding the handling of cultural diversity in such projects: How do I deal with multilingualism? How do I lead exercises involving physical contact and what do I need to bear in mind? What structures are needed to enable people without dance experience to engage in a dance creation process?

SINIPARKSI

The European exchange project SINIPARKSI aims to make contemporary dance accessible to as many population groups as possible while consciously embracing the cultural diversity of people living in Europe. In order to do justice to this aspiration in dance projects, there is a need for further training opportunities for choreographers and dance teachers on how to deal with heterogeneity in dance. Through the exchange of four European dance institutions, such a support program is to be developed and made publicly accessible. 

Four European dance companies and dance schools from France, Greece, Germany and Croatia will exchange ideas about the potential, practices and challenges of cultural diversity in dance projects. The choreographers from the four participating institutions consciously test their artistic and pedagogical practice in cultural contexts other than the ones they are familiar with and accept the challenge of creating together with people with or without previous dance experience. The knowledge gained will be shared with other choreographers in the form of a "training kit", i.e. a written pedagogical guide and a video tutorial. 



Our aim is to promote the development and dissemination of participatory artistic projects that respect the cultural rights of Europeans. Cultural rights are part of human rights and protect the identity, language and traditions of a cultural community and its expression without discrimination or coercion. They also call for cultural participation for all.