Ich schreibe dies am Küchentisch eines lieben Freundes im Süden Deutschlands. Ich passe hier zwei Wochen lang auf das Haus auf, ruhe mich aus, erhole mich, verarbeite, sortiere und schwelge in den vielen Erinnerungen und Eindrücken der letzten Wochen, bevor ich meine siebenwöchige Reise in die Schweiz fortsetze. Ich schätze mich glücklich, diesen Sommer eingeladen worden zu sein, nacheinander Intensivkurse beim Impulstanz Festival Wien (mittlerweile schon seit 16 Jahren in Fo

Michael Bean has an extensive background as a film and television actor, and as a teacher of professional actors. Although his first love was ecstatic dance, he’s explored deeply in improvised social partner dances and is passionate about blues-fusion and contact improvisation, and loves to take influence from a variety of styles. You can find him professionally at @confidenceoncamera and www.confidenceoncamera.com ___ "Good Choices - A holistic conversation about dance, art

What does it truly mean to expand our somatic awareness and integrate the depth of the body into our modern world? In this second solo episode of Good Choices, Sabine Parzer continues her deep dive into Somatics and Applied Anatomy. Moving from the foundational concepts of the living soma, Sabine shares a rich historical roadmap and outlines practical ways to bridge the gap between deep inner inquiry and active external expression. Sabine maps out the historical timeline wher

Andrew Wass A dancer and researcher, Andrew Wass blurs the boundaries between empirical inquiry and embodied experience. With a background in Biochemistry from UC San Diego and a PhD in Dance from Texas Woman’s University, Wass situates his inquiries in the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and process-oriented concert dance. He has explored and taught contemporary technique, Contact Improvisation, and Ensemble Thinking for over two decades across Europe, Asia, a

What does it truly mean to experience the body from within? In this solo episode of Good Choices, Sabine Parzer breaks down one of the core pillars of her work in Holistic Dance: Somatics and Applied Anatomy. Moving beyond the clinical definitions, Sabine explores how somatic practices shift our focus from a purely performative, measurable body to the deeply rich, subjective landscape of the living soma. Sabine dives into the origins of the field, explaining the fundamental d

Raja Feather Kelly is a choreographer, director, and the Artistic Director of the feath3r theory (TF3T), the Brooklyn-based dance-theatre-media company he founded in 2009. Over the past decade, he has created 19 evening-length works with TF3T to critical acclaim, most recently Bunny Bunny at The Invisible Dog. In 2026, TF3T will present a triptych titled A Body of Dangerous Ideas: Between Two Confessions. Between Two Confusions. (choreographed by Bill T. Jones and performed b

Content Note / Trigger Warning: This episode contains references to sexual abuse, trauma, and sensitive personal experiences. In this fourth and final episode of the Healing Series on my Good Choices Podcast, I share parts of my personal story for the first time publicly. I want to be clear: I am not going into details. There are aspects of my story I choose to keep private — to protect myself and my family. And at the same time, it feels important to name it. I am a survivor

What is Contact Improvisation — really? In this solo episode of Good Choices, Sabine Parzer dives into the history, philosophy, and deeper principles of Contact Improvisation — beyond festival impressions and “touch dances”. She speaks about: • CI as an open-source form (not a fixed method) • its roots in postmodern dance and the radical research of the 1970s • the difference between soft skills (listening, gravity, center, counterbalance) and hard skills (lifts, movement pat

„Too much body/ Zu Viel Körper“ ist ein kompositorischer Input, den Chris Aiken und Angie Hauser während ihres fantastischen Workshops in Wien im Januar 2026 als Inspiration gegeben haben. Sie haben uns eine Liste mit scheinbar widersprüchlichen oder rätselhaften Impulsen zum Tanzen angeboten. Jeder einzelne davon hätte Anlass für eine eingehende Auseinandersetzung oder sogar einen Performance-Score sein können. Ich liebe diesen Impuls „Zu viel Körper“, er scheint so widerspr

In this third and final solo episode of the Good Choices Podcast Healing series, Sabine Parzer turns her attention to integration — the often overlooked, yet essential phase of healing. Following Embodiment (Part 1) as an ongoing daily practice and Transformation (Part 2) as a condensed, intense phase of change, this episode explores integration as the process of digesting, sorting, weaving, and anchoring what has been experienced. From her perspective as a professional dance

In this second solo episode of the Good Choices Podcast, Sabine Parzer continues her exploration of healing, this time focusing on the theme of transformation. Building on Part 1, where embodiment was introduced as a daily, non-verbal practice, Sabine reflects on healing as an ongoing, never-finished process — one that changes throughout different phases of life, personal history, and lived experience. In this episode, she explores: Healing as a dynamic, lifelong process rath

Good Choices | A Holistic Conversation about Dance, Art & Life with Sabine Parzer In this solo episode of the Good Choices Podcast, Sabine Parzer reflects on the theme of healing — a complex and often loaded word that is deeply connected to embodiment, transformation, and integration. As the founder of the Holistic Dance Institute and an experienced dance pedagogue and somatic practitioner, Sabine shares her perspective on healing as an intention rather than a promise. Drawin

Ich bin gerade dabei, mein Buch über Holistic Dance zu schreiben, und dieser Prozess hat bisher verschiedene Phasen durchlaufen, und ich gehe davon aus, dass noch weitere folgen werden. In den letzten zwei bis drei Jahren habe ich Texte gesammelt und archiviert, die ich selbst geschrieben habe und die mich inspiriert haben. Als ich 2023 das Begleitbuch zu meinem Holistic Dance-Kartenset veröffentlichte (das deutsche Kartenset erschien 2018, die englische Version 2020), spürte

Dieses Jahr hatte ich das besondere Privileg, mein Format „Anatomy of Touch“ auf Korfu in Griechenland, in Berkeley, Kalifornien, USA, und in Goa, Indien zu unterrichten. Alles in einem Jahr. Auf drei verschiedenen Kontinenten und umgeben von drei verschiedenen Ozeanen… dem Mittelmeer, dem Pazifik und dem Indischen Ozean. Die Größe dieser drei Workshops variierte zwischen 6, 15 und 40 Teilnehmern, und jede dieser Gruppen hat mich geprägt. Anatomy of Touch ist ein Intensivkur

Nina Wehnert is living in Berlin and Italy, is a certified Practitioner and Teacher of Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®). She is part of the directing and core teaching team of moveus, the licensed BMC® Training Program in Germany. She is offering her own training program at Somatische Akademie Berlin and teaches BMC® internationally at Contact Improvisation festivals, in workshops and in dance and yoga teacher trainings. She is dancing Contact Improvisation since more than 30 year

Angie Hauser is a BESSIE award-winning performer, choreographer, and director with training in modern and postmodern dance, ballet, and contact improvisation. Angie Hauser’s research focuses on the creation and performance of dances for the stage, and it is grounded in the interrogation and practice of movement, improvisation, and collaboration. Known as a bold performer who mixes set choreography and improvisation with personal history, she is described by The New Yorker as

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