In this workshop, we will use the style of Argentine tango as the main focus for exchange. In the dance style of Argentine tango, female dancers must center their weight on their male partners, who lead the spatial direction.

Dance maestro Didik Nini Thowok will share the basic body movements of Tari truno (Truno Dance), a folk tayub dance from Central Java created in 1983. The choreography of Tari Truno was created by Didik Nini Thowok for a film titled “Banteng Mataram: Ki Ageng Mangir” (1983)

The workshop will introduce Marrugeku’s improvisational approaches to embodying social, cultural, personal and interspecies expression to develop new gestural dance and theatre.

In this masterclass, choreographer and dancer Leu Wijee, will share his newest discovery/movement research that he calls Powerstation/Arus. Participants are invited to understand how Leu Wijee organizes continuous movement-word-energy, work with scores, and the time-space continuum in the mind-body.

This workshop invites participants to learn a core principle of being a dancer: knowing your own body. Mastery of the body will make the anatomy of choreography more mature and ensure the body's readiness to receive various ideas, data, and intentions in the next stage of creating any work.

In this class, Olé will share his techniques, vocabulary, working methods and creative process to explore participants’ own artistic research. Olé will then transmit techniques and movements of the different techniques that forge his dance and on their marriage which singles out his vocabulary.

Created by Arco Renz, Spiral Gong is a movement practice that energizes and connects mind and body, allowing them to resonate and to move as one.

This workshop is a brief provocation from Fitri Setyaningsih through simple themes, presenting or bringing to life components according to their nature at the moment or when they occur. Fitri invites participants to converse their anxieties on an unlimited focus of the body, then spark a creational approach across media or disciplines.

Dance artist Kim-Sanh Châu leads a workshop centered on the squat, bringing together Asian and North American references. Explored as both a physical practice and a cultural image, the squat becomes a site of resilience, grounding, and empowerment.

This workshop explores how movement can emerge from the shifting weight of the body. Rather than searching for a movement form in advance, participants will follow how the body responds as weight moves from one point of support to another, paying attention to balance, direction, energy, and the impulse to move.

In this workshop, participants will harness foundations of floor-based breaking-influenced pathways, explore ideas around ‘live composition methodology’ and learn ways to generate unpredictable movement compositions using Hamilton’s unique counting system, utilised throughout his catalogue of creative works.

This workshop touches on the Indigenous Peoples' Basic Punk Law II with Fangas Nayaw. Central to the work of Amis choreographer Fangas Nayaw is the dilemma of how to adjust to the reality of contemporary social life, and in the face of globalization, while preserving tradition.

This workshop invites participants to explore Krump as a practice of giving, receiving and connection. Rooted in movement, emotion and presence, we will explore how energy is offered, shared and received through the body.

This workshop invites participants into an ongoing process of inquiry. Working through exploration of embodied knowledge, memory, and transmission. Through movement and experimentation, participants will discover connections between their own practices and those of others, while remaining open to unexpected encounters and new possibilities.

Team Chiipro’s Menstruation Sumo Dance explores the social contexts of menstruation through shiko, the traditional stomping movement in sumo.

Melanie shares her ongoing exploration of the mythical body, conjuring strategies for the material and immaterial, enchantment and magic.

Painscriptions is a workshop emerging from Sina Saberi’s choreographic research on pain, informed by medical practices such as EMDR and Somatic Experiencing among others. Through simple somatic instructions and shared movements, participants are invited into an embodied exploration of pain. Drawing on Saberi’s concept of “writing pain,” the workshop approaches pain as a lived experience that can be witnessed, engaged with, and moved through collectively.

Dance works that display gender expressions outside the binary are often framed as forms of artistic expression related to issues of equality and human rights.

In the world of dance, the development of creativity requires fertile ground that allows for the growth and development of sustainable art.

This discussion will explore in depth how performing arts festivals play a vital role in promoting cultural, economic and social vitality.

This session delves into the concept of dance as a living archive, exploring how bodies, movement practices, memories, and relationships serve as dynamic repositories of knowledge beyond conventional documentation.

What does it take to create conditions in which artistic practices can grow without determining in advance what they should become? Tending What Grows brings together practitioners from different artistic development platforms to consider incubation as both a practice of care and a form of infrastructure.

How does a woman build and sustain an artistic practice as life continues to change? Making, in Her Own Rhythm brings together three choreographers from different generations, contexts, and artistic trajectories to reflect on how a practice grows alongside a life.