Tanzfabrik
Berlin
School
School

02.01.2026—04.01.2026

Places of Transitions - Architecture of Softness – Exploring Stability in Motion

Workshop
with Ka Rustler
Venue:
Kreuzberg 4
Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin
Dates:
Info:
Level: open
in English and German
Price: 175/145€*  

Description

A new year begins – an invitation to approach the new with a fresh attitude and keen perception. In this workshop, we explore how movement arises from the depths of our tissue: not as a form, but as a living process – spiraling, breathing, open to inner impulses and new directions. Our ligaments – often overlooked, yet essential supporting forces – are the silent architects of our innermost being: They reach into the deepest layers of our spine, anchoring themselves there like fine roots and thus connecting the periphery and the center in a subtle, powerful way. They integrate, hold, guide – not rigidly, but springy, twisting, dynamic. They reveal a primal intelligence of movement: elastic, adaptive, full of potential for new paths. Subtle shifts and spiral-shaped impulses lead to an expansion of the nerve pathways and at the same time gently stimulate the glandular system. Joints are spaces of freedom – they combine stability with mobility and enable fluid, differentiated movement. In them, inner lightness can be experienced. We explore how we think, feel, and remember through the body—and how movement can become a space for new perspectives. In an interplay of somatic practice, touch, dance, and theory, spaces are created in which we follow our own bodily wisdom.
Biographies

Ka Rustler

Ka Rustler has been researching and analyzing somatic practices and their embodiment in movement, choreography and therapy for over 35 years. She is a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner and Teacher, co-chairwoman of the BMCAssociation and the Glia Association, second-generation pioneer of Contact Improvisation, member of the early collective Tanzfabrik Berlin and co-founder of the Authentic Movement Research Group Unwinding the Body. As a co-author of multifaceted productions, she performs with numerous artists and creates social and ecological contexts that are situated within a feminist understanding of embodied subjectivity. Ka teaches internationally, designs training curricula at private and state institutions and in her work combines methods and systems whose application and relevance interface performance, neuroscience and somatics in natural and urban environments. Living next to the forest, neighboring a farrowing brook, she is married, mother of two children, stewarding a permaculture garden with newts, violet carpenter bees as well as edible treasures and (potent smoothie) weeds.