Training

This class functions as a laboratory for embodied research, inviting students to engage in task-based improvisation as a method for questioning physical habits, exploring individual creative choices, and developing nuanced physicality.

Beginning with breath work and somatic grounding, the class progressively activates the body through a layered approach that integrates sensory attention, physical rigor, and conceptual awareness. Touch is introduced not as a passive element, but as a dynamic mechanism for opening, aligning, and transforming the body — an active massage that unlocks new physical pathways and perceptual states.

Through structured improvisations, students work with complexity, resistance, and articulation, fostering clarity in decision-making and depth in movement quality. The aim is to cultivate a critical, responsive body that thinks, listens, and moves with intention — one that navigates between intuition and precision in real time.

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

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 register in the reception.

Marina Mascarell (she/her) is the Artistic Director of Dansk Danseteater, the National Dance Company of Denmark. She is an internationally acclaimed choreographer recognized for her thought-provoking and interdisciplinary work. Previously, Marina was Resident Choreographer at Korzo Theatre in The Hague (2011–2021) and an Associated Artist at Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona until 2022. Before transitioning into
choreography, she was a dancer with Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) and Cedar Lake
Contemporary Ballet in New York City. Beyond her independent creations, Marina has been commissioned by renowned institutions such as Nederlands Dans Theater 1 & 2, GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, Lyon Opera Ballet (Biennale de la Danse de Lyon), Skånes Dansteater, Dance Forum Taipei, and Sydney Dance
Company for the 50th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House, among others.

Her artistic practice extends beyond dance, engaging with visual arts, film, music, and theater in
interdisciplinary collaborations. Her work has been presented worldwide, including in The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Italy, France, Greece, Taiwan, China, Korea, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Throughout her career,
Marina has received several awards and recognitions, including the BNG Excellent Dance Award
(2015), acknowledging her impact on the field of contemporary dance.

In this class you will learn and dance phrases inspired by the score that Trisha Brown used for her dance performance “Locus” (1975). The dance phrases take place in an imaginary cube, with 3 levels and 25 spatial directions. With a continuous fall and in balance by extending body parts between different points in space, the dancers turn, curve and spiral around themselves.

The class will start with anatomical explorations and guided free form to set into motion. Followed by exercises such as plié and tendu. 

The classes are held in 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

Karin Bergman (she/her) works with dance and choreography as a freelance artist based in Copenhagen. She was educated at The Danish National School of Performing Arts from 2013 to 2017 and is currently studying Body-Mind Centering®. Karin has been teaching contemporary dance at institutions such as The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Dansehallerne and Danscentrum (SE). Karin has worked as a dancer with choreographers Tilman O’Donnell, OR/ELLER (Anja Arnquist & Madeleine Lindh), Boaz Barkan, Rebecka Berchtold, and Joana Öhlschläger, among others.  

We’ll point our toes, fall through space, spiral, and befriend gravity and breath. Yes, we’ll also plié, tendu, sous-sus—all that good stuff. But mostly, we’ll sense, move, and care a little less about form while dancing ballet to a wide range of music. It’s a balletalletallet class—come join! Similar exercises, different music. Marco promises the music will be good. 

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

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; trainingcurators@dansehallerne.dk

Marco Herløv Høst has danced with a range of companies and choreographers, performing everything from neo-classical works to experimental pieces. His experience and interests stretch across many styles and expressions of dance. Now, he is shifting focus toward sharing that journey with others—through teaching and rehearsal directing. At the heart of his balletalletallet class lies a blend of complexity, simplicity, and ambitious play.

This ballet class is a new approach to the technique of classical ballet that centers and uplifts bodies that have often been othered in dance and the real-world through a queer and contemporary lens, letting dancers co-create worlds, fairy tales, and story ballets of their own. 

The class works with four principles: Kill the cop in our heads, technique as a tool for longevity, we’re allowed to do whatever we want, and the moves don’t matter. 

How can re-engaging with this art form be a practice of joy and resistance in equal measure? Classes follow the traditional structure of a ballet class, moving with our skeletal, muscular, and emotional bodies to find both functionality and space to make wildly imaginative choices.

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

Carro Sharkey is a Berlin-based dance artist that will go anywhere for you. Their work has been shown across the US and Europe most recently at Tanztage Berlin, often performing in unconventional spaces such as abandoned slaughterhouses, moving buses, and ball pits. They believe their role as an artist is to blow over a house of cards from 50 meters away. After starting testosterone, Carro found a renewed connection to ballet within a body that aligns with their fantasies.
carrosharkey.com

During these three mornings, I will share my practice rooted in house dance and other street dance techniques. My work focuses on weight and grounding, drawing energy from the floor.

Together, we will explore both personal and collective swing and groove.
Im interested in the complexity of how social dances connects, vibes and intertwine bodies beyond the surfaces. Implies that I´m looking past aesthetics or technique and toward embodied connection, intimacy, rhythm, tension, affect, or even social and cultural meaning.

Through this aspect, I will introduce some of the thoughts and practise that im exploring in the creation of SHOUT, that we will be performing 16th and 17th of September at the Yes-dance biennale at Dansehallerne. 

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

Jens Jeffry Trinidad is a Filipino-Norwegian performing and creating dance artist with a background from X-Ray/UKH in Oslo, where he began dancing hip hop in the late 90s. In his own projects and works, Jens approaches choreography from a performer’s perspective, with the act of performing as a central driving force both in the process and on stage. He is rooted in club and street dance styles and works across projects within contemporary dance and performance. Currently, Jens is developing his own practice, focusing on physicality—presence, sensorial awareness, and new approaches to movement—while also challenging genre conventions. 

The movement practice of “Da Da Dance” aims to provide tools and strategies that support dance as a sustainable lifelong passion and career.
Through drills, improvisations, and creative challenges, we will explore our sense of care, humor, and failure in order to redefine ideas of growth and relevance.
We will begin each session by breathing together and collectively activating the space. From there, we
will dive into a series of guided improvisations and compositional exercises that invite us to reorganize
our physical pathways while welcoming both the absurd and the tender.

Caring for both our bodies and our creative engines, we will connect with the thrill of impossible tasks and physical contradictions,
practicing how to distinguish impulses and desires from trends and imposed aesthetics.
These are classes of bodily Dadaist poetry.

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

Lúa Mayenco is a dancer, choreographer, illustrator, and educator based between Brussels and Copenhagen. After graduating from The Juilliard School, Lúa moved to Denmark to join Danish Dance Theatre. Since 2024, she has been performing and creating independently across Europe, recently becoming a Tanja Liedtke Foundation Fellow. Through her movement and choreographic practices, Lúa aims to develop physical and reflective experiences that serve to ignite conversation, exchange and attunement.

The class is a practice in performing with improvisation as tool and material. Participants practice, both by audience-ing and performing, the listening that is the heart in the work. It is a listening and awareness of the buzz; the vibrations and resonance of bodies, sounds and music in the space. We work from wonder and curiosity, navigating the ever-shifting landscape of the space, constantly negotiating stillness and movement in the instant, and getting to know the dance as it unfolds.

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

Malin Astner has been working in the field of dance and choreography since graduating from Danshögskolan in Stockholm 2002. Her interest in improvisation and working with live music and musicians started during her years in Berlin where she also took part in creating the performing platform Meetingpoint. Malin has been working as performer, pedagog and rehearsal director both freelance and at institutions, amongst other Skånes Dansteater. Between 2016 and 2024 Malin worked as part of the faculty of dance and choreography at The Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen.

Jean-Louis Huhta. Born in Gothenburg, now living in Copenhagen. Has been obsessed with sound and rhythm since childhood. He has played in bands such as Anti-Cimex, Cortex, Lucky People Center and Skull Defekts. Under the name Dungeon Acid he has played around the world and released records on various underground record labels. As a composer for dance he has worked with, among others, Cullberg Ballet, Cristina Caprioli, Per Jonsson, Philippe Blanchard and Rasmus Ölme.

Professional members of Dansehallerne are welcome to share the studio with other dancers this week after the summer holiday.

Please be respectful of other dancers using the space, and co-decide music or no-music together.

Book your ticket as usual, scan and start the morning training in your own tempo.

The classes are held in Studio 3 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

The aim of the class is to work with a specific machinery in order to put in motion

This class is based on the themes falling, pressing and the wiring and the question …and then what….

The class starts lying down and is sometimes followed by exercises by a wall. The floor and the wall is used to practice the above mentioned principles a.o and will work as co-workers during the first part of the class.

Short movement phrases across the floor will follow after the work on the floor and by the wall.

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

Anna Grip has been teaching for more than 40 years in institutions and educations as well as in the independent dance field. She has also worked as a choreographer’s assistant, dance coach, artistic director, senior lecturer and school leader, and has also been a member of several boards within the cultural sector. Apart from teaching at different constellations, Anna Grip is from 1 jan 2014 working at the choreographic platform ccap under the direction of Cristina Caprioli.

Professional members of Dansehallerne are welcome to share the studio with other dancers this week before summer holiday begins.

Please be respectful of other dancers using the space, and co-decide music or no-music together:)

Book your ticket as usual, scan and start the morning training in your own tempo.

The classes are held in Studio 4 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