Begin your day with a sensorial awakening and imaginative movement practice. Sense. Feel Imagine. Become matter in motion. 

Throughout the week, we will explore how to move through imaginary landscapes and embody more-than-human beings. Through somatic listening, improvisation, and guided visualizations, we will tune into the body’s subtle layers and go beyond habitual patterns of movement and perception. 

You will move alone and with others, exploring relational movement, resonance, and responsiveness. Practices include vibrations, touch, breath synchrony, and nurturing embraces to create shifting landscapes of connection between humans and materials. 

This is a shared space for care, attunement, and playful transformation. The practice supports sensory presence, deep listening, and renewed relational awareness, offering tools you can carry into dancing, performing, and choreographing. 

Come as you are, with openness and curiosity. You are welcome to bring a notebook. 

The classes are held at Dansehallerne, Franciska Clausens Plads 27 DK-1799 Copenhagen V in Studio 3.

Getting there
Studio 3 is located on the ground floor with step-free access from the main entrance.

Dansehallerne has an elevator with step-free access to all floors. Accessible and gender-neutral toilets and wardrobes are available on the ground floor.

We kindly ask you to arrive 15 minutes prior to class in time for check-in with the QR code on your ticket.

All members can participate in Dansehallerne’s training activities – a year-round program with approximately 5 days of training per week and now also workshops every other week. This is for all professional members regardless of background in dance training, and it is also possible to participate in a drop-in class.

International guests can participate in training for free for up to 1 month. If you have comments or good tips for the training program, you can always send an email to the curators; trainingcurator@dansehallerne.dk

MATTER IN MOTION is a movement practice centred around breath, the senses and the imagination.

In the classes, we will explore moving from various sensorial inputs, moving in imaginary worlds and developing individual movement collections.

With a Sensorial Awakening, we attune to our sensorial experiences and explore how the senses and imagination connect to movement. The Scenting Body allows us to put focus on respiration, slowness and moving through breath waves. We connect to our common breath rhythm, our physical closeness and imagine our bodies as a giant olfactory system.

Through Imagination Journeys, we guide you into imaginary spaces, encountering new beings, shapes and landscapes which we transform into movement. Finally, we use the previous explorations as roots for creative material in the form of movement collections, associative writing or other means.

Our practice encourages encounters with others, relinquishing control and exploring the communal possibilities of the present moment.

Please bring a notebook and a blindfold.

NB: The class is accessible to dancers with physical and visual impairment.