MOVE - dance and choreography platform

Our Program in a Nutshell:

• Daily Classes of Contemporary Dance, Ballet, Yoga, Pilates, Voguing, Kids Classes, Meditation, Acrobatics and more.
• ‘Weekend Intensives’ with professionals offering workshops in dance techniques, composition, contact, somatic practices, improvisation, acro-yoga, and transdisciplinary frames in which the body encounters other media.
• ‘Friday night live!’, a platform for work-in-process showings of performance
• ‘Talk-Talk’, a night for artist talks, lectures on different subjects, panels, readings, etc.

• Weekly contact improvisation Jam
• ‘Foreplay’, a cross disciplinary performance series that provides the encounter of a choreographer and a chef, that culminates on a performative dinner.
• ‘Artist in Focus’, a program where choreography meets curatorial practices in which we invite the artist to program Agora MOVE for one month in relation to her artistic research.
• A three month residency program to offer a sustainable process of creation for Berlin artists.
• Offering rehearsal / production space for rent.

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With Agora MOVE we would like to create content that will respond to the interest of the following communities; the professional and independent scene of dance practitioners of Berlin; the freelancers, co-workers, members of Agora and beyond, as well as the families and expats of Neukölln.

Our motivations for the project are:

• To offer a space in which new choreographic practices and approaches to the body can be supported and developed
• Empowering the community through a space that is run by artists for artists
• Sustainable formats that support Berlin based artists - continuity being the key word
• A house as a place of reference for newly arrived dancers in Berlin
• Develop a bridge between the various communities of Neukölln and Berlin

• Berlin needs more space, more resources for the development and expansion of dance and performance in the city
• Any daily routine can benefit from body based practices
• The independent local scene of berlin needs support from within, responding truly to the desires of the artists.

• Painting the space
• Building a separation wall, that enables MOVE to have 2 studios
• Building a sprung wooden floor
• Buying the dance floor (Marley)
• Buying a sound system for classes and rehearsals
• Setting-up of a changing room for participants
• Buying teaching materials, (yoga mats, pilates props, meditation cushions, blankets, etc)