In this 5-day workshop, Mani Obeya orients participants to explore their individual expression as it manifests vocally and physically, as well as to collaborate with other participants to depict conflict resolution and the nuances of communication with song, play and physical rigor.

Where: Tanztendenz München e.V., Lindwurmstraße 88, 80337 Munich, Germany

When: 05 – 09 August, 2025

How do we deal with the alien, with someone whose intention we can neither read nor understand? How do we manage to translate them? Do we first have to find common tools or do instinct and intuition suffice? How do we bridge the gaps of incomprehension? Is mutual comprehension even necessary to coexist?

With song, play and physical rigor, the participants of this workshop will create something together, they will encounter one another, enter into dialog and resolve the conflicts that arise from the inability to “communicate” and “understand” the other.

The baseline of this workshop with Mani Obeya is to explore one’s individual expression, which manifests itself in movements or the voice either instinctively or through a conscious choice/decision. The working process will be defined by the will to express and communicate, to empathize and to enter into an equal exchange.

Mani is a Nigerian born, British raised dancer, singer/songwriter and choreographer. Mani was a soloist at the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, Nationaltheater Mannheim and UnterwegsTheater Heidelberg. After working four years with TTW – Tanztheater Wien under the direction of Liz King, he became a soloist at the Volksoper Wien where he danced and co-choreographed until 2003. In 2006, he became a guest performer with The Forsythe Company; in 2004, a member of Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre in Ireland with which he toured worldwide for more than a decade. Mani has been Michael Keegan-Dolan’s rehearsal director for several years.

Currently, he is a choreographer with D.ID Dance Identity, a platform for choreographic research and movement-based art in the Burgenland, works internationally on diverse youth programmes and creates work with asylum seekers recently arriving in Austria.

How to register:
All workshops can be booked directly via our online form. Upon availability, sign-up is also possible on the first day of the workshop (05 August) at the workshop desk. If you have already created a profile last year, you can simply log in again with your access data.
https://www.jointadventures.net/en/tanzwerkstatt-europa/workshops/mani-obeya-aliens-talking

Costs for participants:
130 EUR (Professionals Price), 160 EUR (Amateurs Price), One-off registration fee: 50 EUR (from 12 June)

Contact details:
Teresa Pazzini
+49 89 189 31 37 14
t.pazzini@jointadventures.net
Telephone availability: Mon – Fri 10 – 17 H

For further information, please visit https://www.jointadventures.net/en/tanzwerkstatt-europa/workshops/mani-obeya-aliens-talking

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