Manifest Dance-Film Festival

Ripple Effect: An Embodied Movement Practice' is a workshop based on Melitta's current contemporary dance work, Ripple Effect. Through guided physical explorations and task-based movement processes, participants are invited into the choreographic research that informs the work. Together, they will investigate the dynamics of action and reaction, cause and effect, construction and deconstruction, and how the body absorbs, resists, transforms, and responds to internal and external impulses. The workshop encourages participants to experience movement as a process of inquiry, fostering awareness of relationality, adaptability, and the subtle ways in which one action can create a ripple through the body, space, and those around us.

Workshop Duration 2 hours

A session on the techniques of Whacking/Waacking that can be read as resistance against the Trans Act.

Workshop Duration 2 hours

Creative Movement for Children is an interactive movement workshop that introduces children to movement as a space for curiosity, imagination, and creative discovery. Through playful improvisation, movement games, and guided explorations participants are encouraged to investigate how their bodies move, respond, and communicate. They will explore concepts such as body and space awareness, rhythm, balance, levels, and dynamics in a playful and supportive environment. The workshop encourages curiosity, problem-solving, teamwork, and creative thinking, empowering children to create their own movement ideas rather than simply following prescribed steps. Rooted in the principles of creative movement and contemporary dance, the workshop celebrates each child's individuality and imagination, fostering self-expression, communication, and a joyful relationship with movement.

Workshop Duration 1 hour

Rather than asking what movement can express, this workshop asks what movement can teach us to perceive. Drawing on Odissi, yoga, and contemplative philosophy, participants will explore simple practices that cultivate presence, sensitivity, and awareness through movement.

As a classical dancer ritual has always been an important aspect of my practice. Ritual being the familiar from where one leaves and to which one returns. Ritual is that liminal space – charged with hope, courage and faith. What do we use ritual for? How are rituals made? Are there contemporary rituals for contemporary times?
This workshop guides participants into the fascinating world of ritual movement drawing from the facilitators own journeys where she’s found herself drawing that invisible curtain between the seen and unseen – that place of sacred inspiration and information.

Workshop duration 1 hr

Ripple Effect: An Embodied Movement Practice' is a workshop based on Melitta's current contemporary dance work, Ripple Effect. Through guided physical explorations and task-based movement processes, participants are invited into the choreographic research that informs the work. Together, they will investigate the dynamics of action and reaction, cause and effect, construction and deconstruction, and how the body absorbs, resists, transforms, and responds to internal and external impulses. The workshop encourages participants to experience movement as a process of inquiry, fostering awareness of relationality, adaptability, and the subtle ways in which one action can create a ripple through the body, space, and those around us.

Workshop duration 2 hrs

A session on the techniques of Whacking/Waacking that can be read as resistance against the Trans Act.

Workshop Duration 2 hours

Rather than asking what movement can express, this workshop asks what movement can teach us to perceive. Drawing on Odissi, yoga, and contemplative philosophy, participants will explore simple practices that cultivate presence, sensitivity, and awareness through movement.

Duration 2 hours

As a classical dancer ritual has always been an important aspect of my practice. Ritual being the familiar from where one leaves and to which one returns. Ritual is that liminal space – charged with hope, courage and faith. What do we use ritual for? How are rituals made? Are there contemporary rituals for contemporary times?

This workshop guides participants into the fascinating world of ritual movement drawing from the facilitators own journeys where she’s found herself drawing that invisible curtain between the seen and unseen – that place of sacred inspiration and information.

Duration 1 hour

An outdoor screening of an eclectic curation of international dance-film shorts.
Includes Dinner and a Drink

Duration 1 hour

An outdoor screening of an eclectic curation of international dance-film shorts.
Includes Dinner and a Drink

Duration 1 hour