Tanzfabrik
Berlin
School
School

24.08.2026—27.08.2026

The Body The Player The Journey

Workshop
with Rafaela Sahyoun
Venue:
Kreuzberg 3
Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin
Dates:
Info:
Level: open
in English
Price: 220/190€*  

Description

The Body The Player The Journey is dedicated to movement practices that unfold the perceptual repertoire, integrating sensory-motor, cognitive, subjective, and imagetic dimensions of learning. Nurturing a bodily intelligence that is simultaneously physical, sensitive, and reflective, participants develop resources to modulate their dance and inhabit their authenticity. Through improvisation procedures, games, and scores, the work stimulates the organism's innate capacity for attunement and resonance, cultivating internal and external complexities as an interconnected, self-regulating, and adaptable field. The investigation of mobility is based on the perspective of the body as a dynamic network, mapping anatomy experientially while considering each participant's particularities. The work deepens the gaze on structural materialities, relationships, and reverberations. The principles that guide these practices are systems of interconnection, biotensegrity, gravity and body axis, distribution of tension and modulation of tone, the folds of the body, spirals, multidimensionality, asymmetries, body pulsation and impact absorption. These practices help perceive, integrate, and reorganize the body in motion, developing authorial strategies that challenge crystallized patterns and open pathways toward more sustainable and authentic moving. 
Biographies

Rafaela Sahyoun

Rafaela Sahyoun is a dance artist based in São Paulo, Brazil. Her work shifts between performing, teaching & making. Since 2019 Rafaela has been a guest teacher and collaborator at Pera School of Performing Arts – GAU teaching the Bachelor's Degree in Dance as well as leading the auditions. Besides teaching, she has made two dance productions at the university: VAWM (20/21); Wheel of Radical Affection (2021). Since 2020 she teaches at the Post-Graduate Program Corpo: Dança, Teatro e Performance at Célia Helena Centro de Artes e Educação in São Paulo. Rafaela is a faculty member in the dance curriculum at ECO Teatral, a theater formation program in São Paulo. Since 2020 she has been a company member of Cia. Perversos Polimorfos (BR). She is featured in productions by Sara Shelton Mann (USA), Judith Sánches Ruíz (CU/DE), Renan Martins (DE/BR), Alessandro Sciarroni (IT), Morena Nascimento(BR),  Clarice Lima (BR),  Marco Torrice (IT/BE), Clair Lefevrè (FR/AT), Nigel Charnoch (GB), Willi Dorner (AT), and other people she admires. From 2015 till 2018 she was a company member of Jorge Garcia Dance Company in São Paulo. Rafaela graduated from SEAD - Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (Austria) in 2013 and graduated with the program Dance Studies at Trinity Laban (London) in 2010. www.rafasahyoun.com