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“ is a compositional input Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser offered during their fabulous workshop in Vienna in January of 2026. They offered us a list of seemingly contradictory or puzzling impulses to dance with. Everyone of them could have been a prompt for an in-depth exploration and even a performance score. I love this prompt „Too much body“, it seems like such a contradictory statement when all we do is focus on reconnecting with the body, deepening our embo

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

I am in the process of writing my book about Holistic Dance and this process has had different phases so far and I foresee more of them to come. In the last 2-3 years I have been collecting and archiving texts that I have written myself and those texts that have inspired me. While publishing the accompanying book for my Holistic Dance cardset in 2023 (the german cardset was puplished in 2018, the english version in 2020) I could already feel that there is more that I want to

This year I had the very special privilege of teaching my format „Anatomy of Touch“ on Corfu in Greece, in Berkeley, California, USA and in Goa, India. All in one year. On three different continents and surrounded by three different oceans…the Mediterranean Sea, the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. The size of these three workshops have varied from 6 to 15 to 40 participants and each of these groups have left a mark on me. Anatomy of Touch is an Intensive that I created as part

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...

Selena La Brooy, also known as ‘Selena BoBeena’, lives off-grid on Salt Spring Island, where she explores her relationship with land,...

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In this solo episode of Good Choices – A Holistic Conversation about Dance, Art & Life, Sabine Parzer shares her personal and...

Good Choices - A Holistic Conversation about Dance, Art & Life | Episode 23 - Sabine Müller Sabine Müller is a movement explorer,...

Dance is communication. Pure and simple. There is no communication without a body. Even if we tried we could not speak without our...

Anja Grundner: When did you realize that you wanted to start your own dance education? Was it a single formative moment or a process of...