22.04.2025—26.04.2025
Somatics into Vibrancy
Workshop
with Sebastian Abarbanell, Soroa Lear
with Sebastian Abarbanell, Soroa Lear
Venue:
Kreuzberg 1
Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin
Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin
Dates:
Info:
Level: with movement experience
in English
Price: 240/210€*
in English
Price: 240/210€*
Description
This workshop will be a somatic approach to our teaching practice “Vibrant Body” with an analytical and sensorial focus. The aim will be to offer tools that can allow the participants to gain a deeper understanding of their body’s functionality — its anatomy, layers and mobility. Building on this we can learn about the endless possibilities to direct movement through our bodies and create sensation that can induce and stimulate pleasure, ecstasy, trance states and emotional release. Throughout we will acknowledge and utilize external and internal circumstances and influences that have direct or indirect effects on our movement. The workshop will lead to a place where we can embark on individual and collective sensorial movement journeys that aim to empower and celebrate each participant as part of the collective making the visual experience of movement peripheral.
Biographies
Sebastian Abarbanell
Sebastian Abarbanell (he/him/his) is a dance artist, performer and award-winning choreographer based in Berlin. After graduating from Trinity Laban in London in 2015, he spent 4 years in New York City where he collaborated and performed with a variety of artists and companies including Sidra Bell Dance New York, Gallim Dance and BIRDHOUSE. Sebastian has presented his work at international festivals across Europe, USA, Canada and Mexico and received awards such as 1st Prize and Audience Prize at contact.energy Tanztheater Festival Erfurt, the Residency Award at Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival Stuttgart and the Emerging Choreographer Award at SoloDuo Festival in Cologne. In 2021 Sebastian celebrated two World Premieres. His commissioned work at Theater Pforzheim premiered online from July 24-August 15 and his solo production ‘HOME’ at Uferstudios from August 12-14. Currently Sebastian works as a freelance dancer and choreographer and he is a member of Kianí Del Valle’s KDV Dance Ensemble.
Soroa Lear
Soroa Lear (she/her) is a queer Cuban-American dancer, performer, and writer based in Berlin. She studied dance and comparative literature at Reed College, sparking her interest in the intersections of movement and critical theory. Influenced by physical theater, drag, Gaga, and nightclub culture, she sees performance as a way to break hearts and make people laugh—connecting the dramatic and subtle, ugly and beautiful. She has worked with Staatsoper Berlin, Deva Schubert, Rebecca Howell, Sebastian Abarbanell, and Aru Ray Tormann, and performed at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlinische Galerie, Sophiensaele, KINDL, Ballhaus Ost, Uferstudios, and in many nightclubs with drag artists. She has created and performed works including Look! Lilies, Limerence (2024) and THIS IS A LOVE STORY(2025), and is part of the collective RAYNE & CEREMONY. She also teaches the improvisation class VIBRANT BODY at Tanzfabrik Berlin, and her writing has been published by Penny Press and Confluence Journal.