WEEKEND WORKSHOP SERIES: AUTUMN 2023

Dramaturgy in Movement
– with Cat Gerrard & Adi Weinberg
Saturday 30 September & Sunday 1 October 2023 | 10:00 – 17:00

Join us in an exploration of the world of the dramaturg: the one in a creative process who listens to what wants to happen next. We will guide you through a movement research practice working with paintings as a starting point, through which we can experience some of the key principles of the dramaturg: embodied listening, guiding the process and storytelling in space.

Polyphonies of Story
– with Cat Gerrard
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 October 2023 | 10:00 – 17:00

This workshop is a dive into stories as multiplicitous assemblages of beings and voices. We will work with fairy tale and myth to see how we can unmute the voices that have been silenced by the Hero story. To find different ways to tell a kind of polyphonic story. We will explore the craft and research of embodied storytelling: deepening the connection with breath, voice and imagination through an exploration of verbal and non-verbal telling.

Materials & Objects: Puppetry as Reciprocity
– with Cat Gerrard & Adi Weinberg
Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 November 2023 | 10:00 – 17:00

This workshop is a playful investigation into reciprocity with and listening to materials and objects. We will open the senses and connect more deeply to our bodies in order to activate the poetic and imaginary body and to deepen our embodied listening. We will explore techniques of puppeteering as listening: to how we might allow the material/object to become a subject. We will investigate ways to bring our subjects alive through our bodies, in the space and see what stories they might like to tell us. We will work with movement, larval masks and, of course, with objects and materials.

**For dancers, performers, directors, creators from any field, with any
level of experience and with curiosity to move and explore **

Venue: Dock11, Kastanienallee 79, 10435 Berlin

Fees: per workshop choose from 150€ OR 175€ OR 200€

We would like to keep the workshop accessible, while covering our costs, so we offer
you three price options. Please pick the amount that feels best for you from these
three options.
You must buy a ticket in advance and places are limited – so please reserve your
ticket to ensure you can join us!

BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE:

Dramaturgy in Movement

Polyphonies of Story

Materials and Objects: Puppetry as Reciprocity

To contact us please use the „Contact the Organiser” button on the Ticket Tailor
booking pages linked above or email catgerrard@gmail.com

Photo credit : Jonas Zeidler

Cat Gerrard (she/her; GB/DE) is a storyteller, dramaturg, puppeteer and facilitator from the UK, based in Berlin. She trained in acting at Drama Studio London and later in collaborative performance-making at LISPA (now Arthaus Berlin). Cat’s work is multi-disciplinary and always created in an intuitive, collaborative, devised process. At the heart of Cat’s work is story – from the personal to the mythic, the individual to the collective. She circles around how we embody story, how we can develop a metaphorical kind of thinking, experiencing and transmission of artistic work. As a puppeteer, Cat is most proud of being one of the core creators/devisors and puppeteers for Theatre Témoin's show The Fantasist, which sold out the Edinburgh Fringe two years in a row and toured extensively around the UK and Ireland. As a dramaturg – primarily in theatre and dance – and facilitator, Cat’s work seeks to integrate the various elements of a process: to include the dynamics and interplay between the personal, interpersonal and transpersonal elements that are in each creative process. Cat mentors, curates and teaches various workshops (both online and off) and is a regular teacher at Arthaus Berlin and Cours Florent, Berlin. www.catgerrard.com

Adi Weinberg (she/her; IL/PL/DE) is a dancer, choreographer and Gaga teacher. She graduated from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, the Haifa Program for Professional Dancers and did an apprenticeship in Vertigo Dance Company. As a contemporary dancer she has performed at many festivals around the world. She has worked with many choreographers and institutions, including: Andrea Costanzo Martini, Nadar Rosano, Efrat Rubin, Rachel Erdos, Noa Zuk, Aviv Eveguy, Shimrit Golan, Agnieszka Glińska, Fresco Dance Company, the Israeli Opera, and the Polish National Opera. Since 2014, she has been developing her work as a choreographer and performed her creations at various platforms and festivals, including Machol Shalem International Dance week, Tel Aviv Dance festival at Suzanne Dellal, MAAT festival, MSTT festival, KRoki festival, Instytut Teatralny in Warsaw, fabrik Potsdam and more. In 2017 she was awarded a grant from Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts for developing her choreography. In 2022 she took part in the DiR choreographic residency program at fabrik Potsdam where she later premiered her new creation If The Bull Won’t Come. She has been building the Gaga community in Warsaw since 2017, teaching Gaga and movement research workshops for different audiences in Warsaw, Berlin, Potsdam and at various venues and festivals across Europe and Israel. She often curates and collaborates various workshops, courses and training for artists and creators with Cat Gerrard. She is a curious student practicing Tai Chi, Qi Gong and Feldenkrais. www.adiweinberg.com