08.02.2025—09.02.2025
Unscripted Spaces: Exploring Movement and Narrative
Workshop
with Saar Magal
with Saar Magal
Venue:
Kreuzberg 1
Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin
Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin
Dates:
Info:
Level: Professionals + Performers
in English
Price: 80€
Individual days can be booked for 50€
in English
Price: 80€
Individual days can be booked for 50€
Description
- the aim of getting to know dancers -
This workshop offers an opportunity for dancers and performers to connect with me for potential future collaborations. Participants will explore the research techniques used to create performative and scenic material for my work. Together, we’ll dive into topics, stories, emotional landscapes, and visual journeys, drawing from a rich mix of ideas, fictional and phenomenological literature, and other materials to build fresh contexts for movement and narrative. The workshop provides insight into a collaborative, “playground” environment that encourages creative exploration. Through improvisational “games,” performers will train their bodies, voices, and senses to generate meaning and form group dynamics. These practices cultivate awareness and provide a physical vocabulary for engaging with visual and textual contexts, fostering spontaneous interactions and artistic discoveries. The process emphasizes experiential learning, encouraging risk-taking, bold choices, and moments of surprise, free from predefined expectations or judgement.
This workshop offers an opportunity for dancers and performers to connect with me for potential future collaborations. Participants will explore the research techniques used to create performative and scenic material for my work. Together, we’ll dive into topics, stories, emotional landscapes, and visual journeys, drawing from a rich mix of ideas, fictional and phenomenological literature, and other materials to build fresh contexts for movement and narrative. The workshop provides insight into a collaborative, “playground” environment that encourages creative exploration. Through improvisational “games,” performers will train their bodies, voices, and senses to generate meaning and form group dynamics. These practices cultivate awareness and provide a physical vocabulary for engaging with visual and textual contexts, fostering spontaneous interactions and artistic discoveries. The process emphasizes experiential learning, encouraging risk-taking, bold choices, and moments of surprise, free from predefined expectations or judgement.
Please note: Please bring, along with comfortable clothes, an extravagant outfit with props for the creative process.
Biographies
Saar Magal
Saar Magal is a director and choreographer working across dance theater and opera. She collaborates with dancers, actors, musicians, visual artists, and scholars, bringing bodies, objects, storytelling, and audiences into shared performative contexts that open new spaces for movement and discourse. Recent projects include A Kafka Project (2023) at Theater Basel; 10 Odd Emotions (2023) at Schauspiel Frankfurt, co-produced with Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company; and Love Me More (2022) at Schauspiel Köln. Other notable works include ObSessions (2021) at the Burgtheater Vienna; A Monteverdi Project (2018) at the Staatsoper Berlin; and Jephta’s Daughter (2015) and Hacking Wagner (2012) at the Bayerische Staatsoper.
Magal has taught at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and Stanford University, as well as at institutions in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Most recently, she served as Valeska Gert Professor at Freie Universität Berlin, where she developed a new project that premiered at Haus der Kunst Berlin and was later conceived and presented as a full dance theater production at Schauspiel Essen in 2025.
Magal has taught at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and Stanford University, as well as at institutions in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Most recently, she served as Valeska Gert Professor at Freie Universität Berlin, where she developed a new project that premiered at Haus der Kunst Berlin and was later conceived and presented as a full dance theater production at Schauspiel Essen in 2025.