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berlin, mitte, 2024
jump into the freedom
parkour-choreographic research lab
Here comes a text about research of how parkour is about freedom and about a Berliner Mauer
Address
Mitte
Participation fee
free
facilitator
Vera Shchelkina
    • somatic practitioner and movement educator (graduating from the Somatic Academy in Berlin);

    • dance practitioner and facilitator of various contemporary dance programs for all types of audiences;

    • dance artist and choreographer, who co-created many dance and performance pieces, such as: "CO-TOUCH", "The Imposture Lab", "SMRTъ", "Vibrant matter", "Unplanting the seeds of hatred" etc.

    Currently I began my master's in choreography at HZT (Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch").


  • Nora Mansmann
    parkour trainer
    Nora Mansmann, born in 1980, works as a director at the municipal theater and in the independent scene, writes theater texts, libretti, children's plays and occasionally journalistic texts. She has also worked as a trainer and teacher since 2015.

    Nora Mansmann's theater texts have premiered at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, the Theater junge Generation Dresden and the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, among others. She has worked as a director at Theater Kiel (I hired a Contract Killer, Tannöd), Theater Aachen (Jugend ohne Gott, Michael Kohlhaas, Clyde & Bonnie) and Stadttheater Bremerhaven (Amerika), among others. In addition, numerous independent projects, open formats, play developments, such as the Supernova music theater course with Make Make Produktion, the play development Goldherz with Mareike Mikat at the Staatstheater Braunschweig or numerous projects with Drama Köln. One focus of Nora Mansmann's theater work is on productions, performances and explorations outside the theater space. International projects have taken her to Israel, Australia, New York, Ukraine, Italy, Switzerland and Austria.

    Nora Mansmann has also been working as a trainer for parkour, children's sports, health & fitness and cultural education since 2015. From 2017-2020, she completed an extra-occupational educator training course with a sports and movement education profile and worked in a daycare center with a focus on language and movement in Berlin-Neukölln.

    2001-2009 Studied history, musicology and German language and literature in Berlin and Göttingen. Internships and assistantships at the theater with Jürgen Gosch, Armin Petras, Ingo Berk, Mareike Mikat & German Theatre Abroad Berlin/New York.
program
walk 1
date:
time:
route:
- Meeting at:
- 5 stations with 20 minutes of 1 dance and one parkour exercise
- Creating your own practice;
- Sharing practices;
walk 2
date:
time:
route:
- Input from an invited neuroscientist: neuroscience of hatred;
- Practicing one of the practices from common archive;
- Creating your own practice;
- Sharing practices;
walk 3
date:
time:
route:
- Input from an invited artist;
- Practicing one of the practices from common archive;
- Creating your own practice;
- Sharing practices;
Collaborators
"Chto delat" Emergency Project Room
Brunnenstraße 43