Johanna Sauer &
Alkis Barbas
Alkis grew up as a dancer in the cultural scene of Thessaloniki, Greece and later moved to the Netherlands to follow a bachelor of dance in Arnhem. As an interdisciplinary performer he's been performing around Europe since the end of the lockdowns in 2021, for both young audiences and adults.
Alkis has had a rich path in movement through physical theater, martial arts, butoh, folk, classical, urban, partner acrobatics and contemporary dance forms. Alongside the dance studies, he has explored various ways of training that maintain and grow avail-abilities of the body and mind, while keeping it healthy. This is what brought him to pick up teaching Contact Improvisation and facilitating jams for dancers of all levels of experience.
“In my practice and in my class, I place care highly in my priorities, without compromising the search for excitement and individual limits. I love connection, I love to combine playing with learning, and I love to share my passion for movement.”
Alkis Barbas
Johanna is a dancer, choreographer and teacher from the Netherlands. In 2022 she got her bachelor as artist educator in dance at Artez. She deepened her knowledge about contemporary dance and choreography at La Faktoria, choreographic centre in Spain. Johanna enjoys the physical play with gravity within contact improvisation. She loves to interact through movement and discover different possibilities within physical contact and the dance together.
Johanna Sauer
How to accelerate without losing the sense of touch. In this more advanced class you will partly learn techniques and partly play with the possibilities at the edge of your comfort zone, in the safety of the mats.