Testimonials

“ I attended Tania’s contemporary technique release- based classes in South London for six months. She made the class very enjoyable. She was very patient at explaining her technique, and often provided visualisation cues to help with the movement. She also adapted the class to whoever was attending. I would highly recommend you attend one of her classes. “
By Alison Furey

“I had a really good time at my class with Tania. She is a really energetic teacher and taught me many cool moves I never thought about before. It’s a great class and my body felt really good afterwards.“
By Rome Magen.

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Workshops

Let’s rave regenerative stories workshop in July 2021 as part of la Triennale Jeune Création (LU) 

“How do you do?”, a workshop as part of Towards Regenerative Cultures, 29 February 2020, at The Green, London (UK)

OpenLab facilitation of “Sounding the body-landscape“, 31 January 2020, at Chisenhale Dance Space, London (UK)

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Teaching material & history

I mainly teach Contemporary dance, as well as facilitating workshops, improvisation, and creative and choreographic practice. My teaching and classes are rooted in Release Technique, LABAN and Bartenieff Fundamentalls, Experimental Anatomy, Floor Work and Contact Improvisation, and nourished by my practices of Aikido, Tai Chi and Chi Gung. I had a consistent long time training in Ballet and trained in Cunningham, Graham and Limon, and took classes in Axis Syllabus, Flying Low, Passing Through and Capoeira, among others. My movement approach is influenced by my experiences in somatic practices, within my training, classes or projects, such as Skinner Release, Feldenkrais, Body Mind Centering, Fascia Pulsologie, and Yoga. My practice has also been fundamentally nourished by my year and a half Shiatsu studies, based on Chinese Medicine.

I was teaching through my BA (hons) course, where I did the teaching technique and community dance modules, and within the Postgraduate Dance Company EDge. I have been assisting dance classes for kids at LABAN in 2003 and 2015, and for Greenwich Dance Agency in 2006. 

Since 2005 I taught dance classes ranging from kids’ movement and dance classes, from the age of three, to teenagers, adults, seniors and dance students. I taught various classes ranging from carer and toddler, to creative dance, ballet and contemporary dance. 

I initially gave workshops based on Bartenieff Fundamentals, Release Technique, improvisation, and composition, and later around the themes and practices I am with within my artistic work.

I taught at the Conservatoire of Luxembourg city in 2017, as well as in primary and secondary schools, in private dance schools, and through the council, in Luxembourg and London. 

I also taught professional dance classes and in dance centres such as Trois C-L (LU), the Firkin Crane in Cork (IE), Y-Space (HK) and George Aposto Centre (RO). 

I facilitated sessions as part of Exit Map, offering Shared Training and Shared Practice for professional Dancers at The Green in Nunhead, at Trip Space in Haggerston, and The Old Tidemill School in Deptford (UK), among others.

I am inspired and interested in various expressions of movement and dance, partaking in African dance classes and workshops, break dance, house, afro house, hip hop, dance fusion and Kung Fu classes.

Professional contemporary dance classes

3-7 April 2017: Professional Dance Class at Trois C-L: 

29 February - 4 March 2016 : 10.00-11.30: Professional Dance Class at Trois C-L Luxembourg
Regular Contemporary Soul Groove classes in London

2016-2017 at the Stretch at Goldsmiths, London

2018 at Chisenhale Dance Space

2019 at The Green Community Centre in Nunhead
Contemporary Soul Groove workshops in London

14 April 2016: 19.30-21.00: Contemporary Soul Groove Workshop at White Hart Studios

14 March 2016: 19.00-21.00: Contemporary Soul Groove Workshop at the Conway Hall, London

13 + 14 February 2016: 11.00 and 13.30: Contemporary Soul Groove Workshops for kids 5+ and parents at the Mini Vault Festival  

11 January 2016: 19.00-21.00: Contemporary Soul Groove Workshop at the Conway Hall, 

Teaching Chronology

2020: Sounding the body-landscape workshop at Chisenhale Dance Space and Towards Regenerative Cultures: How do you do? at The Green in Nunhead.

2018-2019: Regular Contemporary Soul Groove Dance Classes at Chisenhale Dance Space and the Green Community Centre in Nunhead

2017: June and October: Teaching for Community Focus, London: 

2017: 3-7 April: Professional Dance Class at Trois C-L: 

16/12/2016 - 2017 winter term: teaching Contemporary Dance year 1-6 in the Conservatoire de la ville de Luxembourg: 

2016-2017: Teaching Contemporary Soul Groove at the Conway Hall and at Goldsmith’s Dance Society

2016-2018: Teaching Dance Workshop in the Progress Department at City Lit

2016: 29 February – 4 March: Professional Dance Class at Trois C-L

2015-2018: Teaching at the Edmund Waller Primary School in New Cross. London

2015-16: Covering contemporary jazz classes in the Central School of Ballet

2016: Teaching Ballet and Street Dance for Aim High Dance Academy

2015-15: Covering Ballet and Street Dance for TEAM in Crystal Palace and Ikanwin in Plaistow.

2015: Assisting creative dance, contemporary dance and dance fusion classes at LABAN

2015: Volunteering for heart’n’soul, an arts organization for people with learning disabilities

2014-2015: Facilitating Shared Practice at the Tidemill School in Deptford, Trip Space, Shadwell and in New Cross Midi Music Company

December 2011: Teaching a  workshop as part of the I-Dance Festival in Hong Kong

September 2011: Career and toddler class at 3 C-L, Luxembourg

April 2010: Giving a one week workshop of contemporary dance for high school kids in Luxembourg, Lycée Alyne Mayrish

February 2010: Teaching professional class as part of our residency at the Firkin Crane, Cork, Ireland.

May 2009: Teaching weekly contemporary dance and contact improvisation within our residency at the Centrul de Cultura GEORGE APOSTU, Bacau, Romania,

April-May 2007: Contemporary dance classes at the Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourg

4-8 April 2007: Similar differences, different similarities, five day workshop in contemporary dance and creation, Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourg

January-March 2007 : Choreographing and teaching a monster dance for primary school children, Ecole Gaston Diderich, Luxembourg

January-Juin 2007: Teaching contemporary dance at the Studio de la Danse in Strossen, Luxembourg

December 2006: Replacing dance classes, ballet and contemporary, for children from the age of four till 18 at the Studio de la Dance in Strossen, Luxembourg

November 2006- Juin 2007: Teaching dance classes to young people from 12 till 16 and older people +55, organized by the Service Sportif de la Ville de Luxembourg

November 2006: Dance classes for musician children, UGDA, Luxembourg

25th of April-4thof July 2006: Assisting children classes, twice a week, 6-8 years and 8-10 years, at James Wolfe Primary School, London, through Greenwich Dance Agency

2-6 November 2005: Similar differences, different similarities, five day workshop in contemporary dance and creation, concluding with a showing in the Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourg

Spring 2003: Assisting career and toddler classes and creative dance classes for children aged 3 to 4, Laban