

Falling into Flying
Falling is surrendering into gravity, letting go, in order to gain momentum and speed. Falling can be frightening, as we enter a space of not knowing what will happen next. So we will work with trust. Trusting yourself, knowing that anywhere you are, you are always able to catch yourself. To me, that is the key in order to fly. When we trust ourselves to be able to catch ourselves, we can trust our partners to let us fly.
In order to build this relationship of trust with yourself, we will start by exploring different ways to fall into the floor. Becoming more comfortable with letting our weight go and finding different ways to catch our weight. From there we will start to fall into our partners. Never truly collapsing, but surrendering whilst being ready. We will focus on how we redirect the falling energy into a different movement. In order to do so, we use the momentum created by the fall into a different direction. From falling, we go into flying. Falling endlessly into the space, allows us to fly through the space.
Teacher Bio
Johanna is a dancer, choreographer and educator. She graduated as an artist educator in dance from Artez in 2022. She then deepened her dance practice by studying contemporary dance and choreography at La Faktoria Choreographic Centre, in Spain.
Contact improvisation is to me both a physical research and play with gravity, as well as a listening practice that allows you to connect differently to the people around you and can offer a mirror to your ways of relating to the ones around you.
For me, dance has different faces. It allows me to ground myself, allowing me to be present in my body. Through movement I find different dimensions or capacities of my physical body that I want to research, explore and share with others. I encourage a curious mindset and playfulness in my workshops, as well as stillness, deep listening to yourself and the other and reflection through movement.
Falling into Flying
Johanna Sauer

