Movement Workshop: “Sensorial Landscapes: Dramaturgy of Knowing Bodies” by Inge Gappmaier (Austria)
This workshop is dedicated to immersing ourselves in our bodies’ inherent physical intelligence, playfully exploring its logics, poetics and inner musicality. By guiding attention through inner and outer landscapes, we will delve into versatile sensations of presence as well as discover and reflect upon movement qualities and choreographic aesthetics.
We will use dance sequences as rule-bound games and structured improvisation as free-form creativity, rehearsing the empowering practice of play. Our constant dance partners are gravity, space, sensation and curiosity, intuition and choice. Recognizing organizing patterns of the body, we aim to deepen our physical awareness, marvel at their poetic articulations and the dramaturgy that unfolds. Grounded in analysis of early modern, post-modern as well as contemporary approaches to dance and choreography, we guide the focus from a visual articulation of dance to a musical composition and sensational co-creation.
Date: 9 – 11 of October, 2025 Time: 12pm to 4 pm Location: Studio Emad Eddin
Deadline for Application: October 3rd, 2025
Price: 300
Language: English with Arabic translation
Selection Criteria:
Participants are required to have prior experience in dance, choreography, or movement-based practices.
Workshop Goals:
The workshop aims to foster exchange among participants and serves as a platform to inspire new ways of thinking and moving the human body in relation to its surroundings and the interdependencies in which it is embedded in. It seeks to deepen physical awareness and supports versatile expression in dance by offering methods to train the body and cultivate its innate physical intelligence.
About the trainer: Inge Gappmaier
Inge Gappmaier is a freelance choreographer, dancer, dance educator, dramaturge and researcher based in Vienna (Austria). In her work she examines the contemporary conception of the human body between poetry and socio-political structures, technology and history. Her current research is dedicated to the inscription of digital logics into human interaction. She articulates these themes through various stage settings, dance, performance, installations as well as digital formats.
The immersive dance performance NOW and the duet with herself, PROTECT. there is no wind in geometrical worlds premiered most recently at brut Vienna.
She studied Choreography and Performance at the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen (GER), as well as Contemporary Dance Education at Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna with an Erasmus Scholarship at DOCH Stockholm (SWE). Received various scholarships, publishes articles, teaches laypersons as well as professionals and is engaged with cultural politics.
Artistic engagements a.o. with brut Wien, KubusEXPORT, Lebendiges Tanzarchiv Wien, Plesni Teater Ljubljana, Albanian Dance Meeting, Kosmos Theater Wien, KoresponDance Festival and Novi Ganz Zagreb.
***This workshop was part of the 13th edition of D-CAF festival 2025