Training

The class is structured around a series of exercises aimed at activating the body’s connective tissue (fascia), followed by a range of movement material that enables rapid transitions through complex overlapping patterns. This is explored particularly in relation to shifts of weight, and the work of the legs in interplay with the pelvis and spine moving through space, especially through jumping.

The work departs from a vibrant desire to move expansively across the floor and strives toward a virtuosic movement practice, as a means to the dancer’s spirit and excess.  

The technical parameters direct attention toward the oblique planes of the spine and ribcage, with an emphasis on tilting and displaced curves.

As part of the class, choreographic material from Le Scénario will be practiced.

Philip Berlin (b.1991) is based in Stockholm and works with dance in Sweden and internationally. Berlin has shown his works at Théâtre de la ville, Dansens hus, Oslo opera house, MDT – Moderna dansteatern and Moderna Museet.
Berlin has been a recurring artistic collaborator with Cristina Caprioli, and was involved in the creation of ’Omkretz’ which was staged at MoMA PS1 New York, Annenberg Center Philadelphia and Fabbrica Europa Florence.
Furthermore, he has collaborated with Gisèle Vienne and toured internationally with the production ‘Crowd’
Berlin has worked with Ballet de Lorraine, where he danced in works by Merce Cunningham, Mathilde Monnier, William Forsythe, Tero Saarinen, Faustin Linyekula and Maria La Ribot, among others. He has also danced in works by Björn Säfsten, Mårten Spångberg, Sidney Leoni, Frédéric Gies and Mats Ek.
In 2014-2019, together with Ulrika Berg, Cristina Caprioli and Anna Grip, he initiated the project SUNDAY RUN UP – a context that brought together artists working in literature, choreography, music and visual arts. A project emerges to create space for artistic practices and social processes.

These classes are in close collaboration with Danish Dance Theatre and we are happy to be able to offer the classes in the DDT’s studio.

These classes are held at the Opera:
Ekvipagemestervej 10, 1438 Copenhagen K. You will arrive to the stage entrance, big grey sliding door and enter the reception. We kindly ask you to meet latest 15 minutes before the class, so that it is time to find your way to the studio and show your QR code on the ticket.

Over the last 20 years Heidi Vierthaler has been developing her
Stream-Flow Movement Method, which is incorporated into the daily practice of prominent contemporary internationally. It is the starting point for all her choreographic works, creating a common language for common ground.

Streamflow Method quietly works deeply within the body. It has an intuitively progressive guidance that allows one to discover a sense of full body freedom and interconnection. Through imagery and sensation it provides an in-depth look at how each part of the body, when examined clearly and simply, can be a catalyst for naturally occurring, complex movement.

After taking the class, new movement channels open in the body and a heightened awareness for what it means to be fully present in one’s own movement research. The dancers will experience a series of deep listening exercises to connect to forgotten places in the body. While slowly tapping into small sections that won’t immediately overwhelm, complexity and expanded space will begin to reveal itself without forced effort. Exchange and conversation is vital to this process, which automatically opens a listening that connects us to ourselves and surrounding community.

This event is arranged in collaboration with Skånes Dansteater.

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

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

Heidi Vierthaler
With a 35-year career encompassing roles as a dancer, educator, and multidisciplinary creator, Heidi has a wealth of experience and an influential network across Europe. Her collaborations with groundbreaking choreographers, including William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Mari Kajiwara, Budo master Akiro Hino, have provided her with a lawless yet safe space for exploring the boundless possibilities of the dancing body. These experiences form the strong foundations that have propelled her on a fulfilling and inspiring journey. With dance as her medium, she communicates through her Somatic Streamflow Method, that fosters respectful dialogues with leading contemporary dance companies in internationally, creating pathways for new artistic collaborations, and further nurtures her rooted connections with diverse dance communities and visual artists worldwide.

Alma (she/her) teaches an improvisation-based class that invites you to access your full physical capacity while cultivating a strong relationship to music. Because the body’s availability is closely linked to the state of mind, the warm-up weaves coordination and strengthening games together with somatic tasks and gradually expands into solo and partner explorations. You will refine your sensory and spatial awareness while staying in active dialogue with music, touch, thoughts, vision and the surrounding space. This form of practice encourages you to sense how internal impulses and external conditions interact and shapes your choices in real time. Through this method, constraints become catalysts that guide clarity, adaptability and nuance in your improvisation, supporting a grounded sense of freedom in movement. 

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

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

Alma Toaspern studied classical and contemporary dance in Frankfurt/M. and graduated from P.A.R.T.S., Brussels. She was member of Corpus at The Royal Danish Theater and guested at Ballett Basel and Danish Dance Theatre. She works internationally with Tim Etchells, Trajal Harrell, Tilman O’Donnell, Bobbi Jene and Kristin Helgebostad, among others. She co-founded the company toaspern|moeller together with singer and composer Mathias Monrad Møller. In the 2025/2026 season, she is LAB artist at Kaserne Basel, Switzerland. 

In my class I will weave together and physically find a thread between things I’m interested in now, and past experiences and knowledge. A collage with my favourite exercises that I’ve learned from teachers and a fun combination of material from shows I have made as a choreographer will set the atmosphere of the room. Through sharing of attention oriented entrances in to movement, the thinking as a source of sensing, and doing, I want to propose links between the different tasks and invitations.

The first part of the class will be focused on a warm up, related to body awareness as the engagement with the perception and introspection will be the main focus. I will guide through own made up multitasking elements of somatic scores and practises, in relation to a word I call Tactilize. This word for me is coming from a show called ”A sensoral Lecture”, and is questioning the word visualize, and invite new ways of dancing with touch/tactility as a companion throughout the movements.

In the second part of the class I will teach a phrase or movement combination. This longer dance will give a frame where the experience from the warm up can be applied on and played with.

I often like to use the heart, eyes, and bones as main areas of attention, partially as a tonus of moving with, but also as a way to navigate and orient functionally. Some of the material and guidance will be inspired and coloured by current studies in Feldenkrais.

The class will include touch, slower improvised parts, moving in space with more dynamic and quick feet, and material to remember.

If you have access needs or special things you want to share with me before class, please contact me. My aim is to make the space inclusive and teach in a way we can do things accordingly to our own capacities.

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

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

Sindri Runudde is working as adancer and choreographer, based in Stockholm. They are trained in contemporary dance and circus, internationally and at ”stockholm University of the Arts.

A grounding and energetic warm-up will open the morning class, preparing our bodies for dancing through a range of qualities and dynamics. I will share repertoire from my own works — both phrases and movement practices developed in the making of the solo High Tide and the collective work On My Tongue. 

The class will focus on a FULL ON approach to dancing — tuning into the nuanced textures of our movement: the tonal shifts, the imagery, and the performative gestures that pop up — while staying grounded in how our bodies actually feel. This is a space to explore how the sensed and the imagined inform one another as we move, supporting responsive and expressive dancing. 

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

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

Emilie Gregersen (they/them, she/her) is a choreographer and dancer based in Copenhagen. Gregersen’s choreographic work takes it starting point in speculative fiction as a way to depict new worlds and is driven by a curiosity for questioning and transforming meaning. Through themes of intimacy, erotic ambivalence, the uncanny, and the understanding of power dynamics Gregersen works with physical practices to create staged performances that evoke the senses. 

Website: https://emiliegregersen.com/ 

Over four days in “Awareness Through Movement – into Improvisation!”, we will start each morning gently with a Feldenkrais ATM lesson, followed by guided improvisation. This space invites you to explore how you sense yourself through movement, integrate your experiences, and experiment with different approaches to your dance. 

When do you feel fully immersed in dancing? How does it feel, and how do you get there? In today’s improvisation, what stood out as particularly effective for you?  What would it take to enjoy dancing even more? 

Each day, we will explore a different Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® lesson, each with a specific focus. These lessons help you notice habitual patterns and guide your attention to discover ease within each movement. By taking time to pause and perceive subtle changes as they unfold, you engage in the “game” of exploring what can feel like a challenging task. This process of slowing down and attending to small beginnings supports more efficient, healthy, and complete use of yourself—savoring the quality of your movement, gaining more choice, and becoming responsive rather than reactive. 

The improvisation part will shift focus each day, sometimes encouraging deeper individual exploration, other times engaging in a collective instant composition. Each day concludes with an exchange of insights, allowing us to learn from and be inspired by each other’s discoveries. 

Classes are taught in English. Come with curiosity and care, and leave inspired and full of new possibilities. 

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

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

Joel Fritzon (he/him) is a dancer/performer and teacher, educated at the Danish National School of Performing Arts (2011). He has worked with, among others, MYKA, Hotel Pro Forma, and Danish Dance Theatre. He is very passionate about improvisation and he is a certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® (2025). 

In this class we work on getting the individual inner femininity to manifest itself in the physical expression. We challenge sensuality, lines, balance and musicality through technical heels training, femme release, floorwork and choreography. In working and training with dance that has an imposed “sexy” expression, we research the individual’s authenticity behind the movements. In this way, we pursue a playful goal of strengthening feminine self-confidence in the body and improving our skills. All bodies are welcome, this is not a gendered class, but the focus is on the feminine expression in all its forms. This is not a beginner class in dance in general, but prior experience in heels dance is not required. Bring your own heels and perhaps kneepads. You are welcome to participate without heels.  

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

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

Thea Carla Schøtt is a Danish multidisciplinary artist. Her artistic practice is rooted in the queer art of camp and examines the absurdity of human nature. She performs internationally across the broad spectrum of entertainment and has danced for artists such as Lenny Kravitz, Jean Paul Gaultier, Lil Uzi Vert, Travis Scott, Les Rita Mitsouko and Pussy Riot. She starred in Gaspar Noe’s CLIMAX and has since then danced and acted in TV and musicals. She has movement directed for Copenhagen Fashion Week, Vogue, various pop artists and was recently the revival choreographer on ‘The Merry Widow’ at The Opera House in Copenhagen. 

This class will make you feel soft and connected. We will listen to both ourselves and each other and achieve greater clarity and playful simplicity in movement. 

We begin from the body’s fluid ground, from the fluid, volume and membranes of the cells. We connect this with the body’s nervous system, the central and peripheral nervous system. What dance creates the oscillation between rest and movement, between sensation and movement, and how does it change your perception of yourself, of space?

You can expect to move from your inner living body to relating to, shape and move in interaction with the spaces around you.

The tone of the class is exploratory and through anatomical knowledge, visualization, somatization, hands-on exercises, communication through touch, improvisational scores, Birgitte Lundtoft facilitates a listening, caring and playful movement class with inspiration from her studies in Body-Mind Centering(r).

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

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

Birgitte Lundtoft (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer and somatic movement teacher based in Copenhagen. She creates learning environments, performance installations and site responsive works. She cultivates a language that paints with tactile, visual and moving articulations and explores themes such as nonlinear and polyrhythmic networks of things, weaving of body and place & radical softness.

She holds a degree in Dance & Choreography from Danish National School of Performing Arts and is currently studying Body-Mind Centering® (2022 till ungoing) and Psychology.