PROFITRAINING ⎮ ILANA REYNOLDS

Improvisation and Set Material This class is Serious Play. Focusing in on tapping into our playful nature - one that gives way to a sense of invigorating agency and joy, we will draw on a rich and varied range of dance trainings (experiential anatomy, somatics, yoga, improvisation skills and contemporary dance approaches) and we will enter into creative, physical and imaginative states with our bodies and with each other. The class will flow between deepening our attention to sensations, and refining textures and articulations in the body, and grow into active physicality and risk taking. By bringing attention to the individual and collective experience, the aim is to connect to a sense of aliveness, adaptability, and lightness. The class will finish with a phrase that is built up throughout the week.

Ilana Reynolds (she/her) works in the fields of dance/performance, choreography, and artistic research. Her influences are based in Afro-brazilian dance/Capoeira, somatics, and improvisation techniques. She teaches contemporary dance to students and professionals in Germany and abroad and is an active performer and choreographer in the freelance dance scene, often collaborating and producing work with choreographers Laura Hicks, Sabrina Huth, and Valentin Schmehl. Ilana also works as a dance dramaturge for choreographer Célestine Hennermann in Frankfurt a. Main.

© Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, a project of Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm and Hessian State Ballet, is made possible by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and is funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art and the Foundation Alliance [Aventis Foundation, Crespo Foundation, Dotter Foundation, Dr. Marschner Foundation, ODDO BHF Foundation, Foundation Polytechnic Society Frankfurt am Main].