Movement
The body, a fluid territory. Gravity - our constant. Searching for articulation, freedom of movement and elastic springload.
RE-lease RE-store
RE-load RE-bound
Fascial Body Training
WHAT LIES BENEATH THE SKIN
a deep dive into the Myofascia
a FascialBody Training Block Course
Time: 7/14.3. and 4.4. 2025, 6-8 pm
Location: Studio Créarte, Bern
Price: CHF 75 per session CHF 195 for all
How do we use our muscles? And what changes when we connect more consciously with our fascia?
How do we move through life with our myofascia?
We start with the skin and dive in...
Re- LEASE - we perceive what emerges beneath the surface
Re- STORE - refueling, preparing, opening
Re- FINE - we sensitize our connection to movement so that fine motor skills also take hold and we deal organically with our system.
Re- LOAD - we charge the body with elastic tension through the fascia
Re- BOUND - we release this energy and land on a new plateau
A mixture of moving anatomy, basic exercises and then lots of movement, application and integration helps us to get to know our myofascia.
Smooth and composed
A fascial body laboratory
Suppleness - happiness resides in it, even beyond midlife
Location: Room for Movement, Bahnhofstr. 16, BURGDORF
Dates: May 9/ May 16/ May 23
Time: 6 - 8 p.m.
Price: CHF 75 per evening, CHF 195 for all three
We immerse ourselves in the structures of our body through research. Our attention is focused on the fasciae.
They surround the muscle tissue. They envelop it, they hold and embrace the muscles. They are the watchful skin between the muscles. Our movement comes alive and takes shape in their flowing and gliding.
The three evenings in our body lab are exploratory journeys with a clear, alert focus on the fascia tissue and the movement spaces it opens up for us. We follow the form and surrender to the sensation. How do we find ways to continue to be in the bliss of movement with our changing physical possibilities?
The body lab is open to people with different movement biographies. Anyone who is curious about movement, exploring and listening to the world of fascia is welcome.
The three evenings can be attended individually or as a series. A continuation at regular intervals is planned.
Registration:
please mail to elke.anker@gmail.com
Gentle Dancing
SAVE THE DATE
A unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of dance icon Kirstie Simson . Together with Charlie Brittain and Chris Lechner, a mosaic of experiences and insights will be created that will come together in a lasting embodiment.
8th/9th/10th: August
Zwischenraum, Mauerrain 5, Bern
Times:
Friday 6pm - 9pm,
Saturday 10am - 1pm and 2pm - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 2pm
Price:
Sliding Scale 380-420 CHF
Early bird until 31 june: 30 CHF less
Reduction for dance professionals. please enquire: wishlink.lechner@gmail.com
Performance Saturday August 9 7:30 pm
Special Event Sunday, August 10 3:30 - 5 pm
This workshop explores healthy approaches to dance and life that participants can integrate into their own practice.
We will explore how embodied intelligence and imagination provide an innovative framework in which we can listen to the body's innate abilities to access wholeness, balance, creativity and healing.
This three-day workshop offers the opportunity to combine movement and discussion with creative and therapeutic explorations, improvisational scores, experiential journeys and concepts from philosophy and how these can be woven into an embodied learning process.
The sessions will provide valuable information for "Every-Body", but especially for movement and health practitioners of all experience levels and abilities.
here a teaser
to get to know Kirstie, Charlie and Chris
Pre-registration: wishlink.lechner@gmail.com
Fascial Body Training
How do we use our muscles? And what changes when we connect more consciously with our fascia?
How do we move through life with our myofascia?
Fascia is the most sensitive organ in our body, not a lifeless system of tension and pressure!
More than 250 million nerve endings communicate every tiny change not only to the brain, but because fascia is a continuous, uninterrupted continuum, to every other part of the body.
Why don't we hear about it?
This is mainly due to the fact that these stimuli communicate with our autonomic nervous system. That which controls our heartbeat, breathing, digestion, etc., without us being aware of it.
So what do we gain when we consciously perceive the fasciae?
Similar to when our breathing gets out of balance and we center ourselves with a few conscious, calm breaths, we can fundamentally change the way we use our muscles when we immerse ourselves in our movements through the filter of fascia.
We bring more balance, better function and more efficiency to our bodies, but also a huge "more" quality of life!
We feel younger, stronger and more relaxed with supple muscles that don't ache.
Movement Research.
Tuesday Class
This class brings together several strands of inquiry. How I train my body. How we generate movement material that has identity and performance potential. How we explore principles of this movement material.
The signature of this class is GravityMotion, which I have developed over the last 1 5 years, and also offer as yoga inspired work.
This class is for participants of all ages - professional or not - anyone who loves movement. The level is not necessarily suitable for beginners, but is accessible to all those who are already moving with their bodies.
Tuesday Class Schedule
Whenever Tanzhaus Brückenpfeiler is not available we will be in the Rhythm Rebels Studio, Aarbergergasse 40, Brückenpfeiler is also a profi-training.
at Tanzhaus Brückenpfeiler, Dalmaziquai 69, 3005 Bern
from 10:00 to 12:00
Price CHF 30 per class (professional discount CHF 20 and reduction possible)
at the Rhythm Rebels Studio, Aarbergergasse 40, 3011 Bern
from 10:00 to 12:00
Price: CHF 30 (professional discount and reduction possible)
Data :
2025
21.1. Tanzhaus
28.1. Tanzhaus
18.2. Tanzhaus
25.2. Tanzhaus
25.3. Tanzhaus
1.4. Tanzhaus
13.5. Tanzhaus
27.5. Tanzhaus
teaching experience
2014 - ongoing Contemporary technique and GravityMotion, classes at Tanzhaus, Bern, CH
Profitraining Bern, Basel , St. Gallen and Zurich, CH
2012 Solo and partner work, "No Borders"led by Vangelis Legakis, international, inter-disciplinary project in association with Chang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2012 Master class with Michel Casanovas, Ignite! Festival, Delhi , India
2011 Professional training, "Solo Kinesphere", K3, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
2011 Master classes, "Solo and Group Kinesphere", "Ignite!" dance festival, Delhi, India
2006-09 contact Improvisation and Contemporary dance technique, "Terence Lewis Contemporary Dance Company", Mumbai, India
2006 Outreach classes, solo and partner work, as part of the Fin Walker's "Essence" touring program, Dartington, New Castle colleges, UK
2001-06 profitraining, "On/Off", Bern and "Tanzhaus Wasserwerk", Zurich, CH
2000-11 Contemporary dance, solo and partner work, coaching, Contact Improvisation, Attakkalari, Bangalore,India, for the company and since 2006 as guest faculty of the one year Diploma course
2001-03 Solo and partner work, Brighton, UK
Workshops
2016 - 19 "Toolbox" Y Institute at the BUA Bern, with Andi Otto
since 2016 "Tuning Scores" Workshops inspired by Lisa Nelson Bern, Basel
2014-16 "Suspended States" Yoga into motion, winter workshop at Akar Dance, Bern, CH
2014 "Repetition is change", with Sunita Asnani, Movement Loops for interdisciplinary work, in Andi Otto's "Toolbox program" BUA, Bern, CH
2014 "Dive Dance", with Sunita Asnani, body journey, Riga, Estonia
2012 "Improvisation in solo and partner work, "Moving water", Delhi, India
2011-12 "Moving in waters", Workshop, with Sunita Asnani, Gara Vasara Festival, Riga, Estonia
2006-10 "Voice and movement", workshops and residencies on improvisation, Sapphire Dance Company, Kolkata; and Rafiki, theatre company, Bangalore, India
2009 3 week laboratory on movement in installation, "Installing the gesture", "Shrishti", college for design and technology, Bangalore, India
2001-06 "Yoga in motion", workshops in improvisation in solo and partner work "On/Off", Bern,CH
2005-06 "Improvisation processes", Dance Lab initiated by Michel Casanovas, Ceret, France
2004 "Improvisation in solo and partner work", "Tanzkaserne", Ludwigsburg, Germany
2000-04 On the collaborative process of "Light and movement" with Swiss light designer Daniela Zehnder, Trivandrum, Bangalore, India
2003 Movement Anatomy, Yoga and movement workshops with Gary Carter, "Fluid origins of movement", "Body Journeys", Brighton, UK
2001 Symposium on dance and light in Delhi / India, along with Russel Maliphant / Michael Hulls (UK) and Anna Huber (Germany, Switzerland
1998 "New directions in dance", Karlsruhe, Germany
Mentoring
2011 Mentor at choreographic residency, "Gati Summer Residency", Delhi, India
2004 Facilitator, mentor at "Facets", international choreo-lab organized by Attakkalari in Whitefield, Bangalore, India
Aquatic Motion
2013 Liquid Reflex, Movement workshop in water and on land for diverse abilities, Bern, CH
2011 "Aquatic Motion", Fluid maneuvers, Workshop Intensive, Berlin, Germany
2010 "Continuum movement and aquatic motion" Laboratory for water practitioners at "Watsu Auroville", Pondicherry , India Workshops, laboratories and jams, "Aquatic Motion", at the ocean and in "Watsu Goa", Goa, India
2011 Creator of the body journey format "Lost Elements", movement on land and in water, Berlin, Germany and Ibiza, Spain