Workshop Series
A Cooperation with PalaisPopulaire by Deutsche Bank

In Motion: The Balance Between the Individual and the Collective

How can a small movement extend beyond one’s own body?
How do individual decisions influence a group – and vice versa?
 What holds people together?

As part of the film series OnView – Power, this workshop series invites participants into a shared choreographic research process. Starting from the individual body, the collective is explored as a social construct. At the centre is moving together – between freedom and safety, between solidarity and self-assertion, as well as between acceptance and resistance. We will explore how community emerges through proximity, distance and spatial relationships, and how movement creates resonance. Through simple choreographic scores, improvisation and embodied listening we will develop individual and collective compositions in real time. The workshop series is conceived as an ongoing process. The choreographic outcomes developed during the workshops will be presented in a public sharing on April 12th – the final Sunday of the film program. The workshops are led by choreographers Patricia Woltmann and Viviana Defazio.

Patricia Woltmann is a choreographer and performance artist working at the intersection of dance, performance, video and somatic practice. Her participatory works explore fragile relationships between bodies, landscapes and social structures, as well as themes of perception, ecology and collective behavior.
Viviana Defazio is a stage dancer and choreographer. Her dance practice, intertwined with her experience as a Shiatsu practitioner, focuses on dialogue, mutual listening and transformation. In her work, she uses touch, deep listening and visualization to understand different perspectives.

Participation Requirements
For people with some dance experience and/or curiosity about body awareness. 
Commitment to attend at least three workshop dates is required.

Registration deadline: March 2nd 2026
https://www.ticketspopulaire.de/#/product/event/185?date=2026-03-07&date_id=3749

Dates: Saturday, March 7
th, March 28
th, April 11
th, April 12
th //  from 3:00 – 5:30 pm
Participation fee: €20, reduced €15 // limited number of participants

PalaisPopulaire
Unter den Linden 5
10117 Berlin

Contact and further information:
Sophie Heldt
Program & Education at PalaisPopulaire
sophie.heldt@db.com

Upcoming Dance Improvisation Classes

Re-connect
Mondays (start: Feb. 9th)
17.45-19.15 (intermediate/advanced)

Tuesdays (start: Feb. 10th)
18.00-19.30 (open level)

It’s time to reconnect. With yourself, with others, and with space – together. In this group setting, you will re-claim and re-experience space through movement – whether in a studio or public space, indoors or outdoors.  Through guided improvisations and movement scores we explore the contrasts and qualities of closeness and distance. Each session begins with a warm-up that combines elements of yoga, Klein technique, and release-based work. Through dance-technical and improvisational approaches, the basic principles of force/weight, time and space are individually experienced and learned. We will try out movement tasks together – to music or in silence – which evolve into playful compositions.

Re-collect
Tuesdays (start: Feb. 10th)
19.45-21.00 (open level)

In this class, we explore dance as a way to deepen self-awareness, release stress and connect with others. Re-Collect  invites us to let go of tension, rediscover both inner and outer spaces of movement, and perceive the body in a new way – with more sensitivity, clarity, and strength. Re-Collect is also an invitation to a collective rest – a shared space where we can slow down, replenish our energy, and draw new strength. The focus is on the individual and collective experience of dance and movement. Through floor work, partner exercises and improvisation, a space is created for mutual encounter, play, and expression. We use somatic impulses, touch, weight, and gravity to arrive in the body, connect with it, and rediscover its intuitive wisdom.

Saalbau Neukölln
Theaterprobensaal
Karl-Marx-Str.141
12043 Berlin

For more information and enrollment please contact pattywoltman[at]gmail.com

January 17th 2026
from 3 – 5.30pm

November  7th, from 4.30-7pm
November 12th, from 4.30-7pm

Workshop

Was macht ein Kollektiv aus? Wie entstehen Vertrauen, Zugehörigkeit und gemeinsames Handeln? Gemeinsam erkunden wir, wie sich gesellschaftliche Grundwerte durch Bewegung, Wahrnehmung und Resonanz körperlich erschließen lassen. Über somatisch-tänzerische Übungen erforschen wir das Zusammenspiel von Individuum und Gruppe, Nähe und Distanz, Zugehörigkeit und Entscheidung. Offen für alle.

Fabrik Osloer Straße
Osloer Straße 12
13359 Berlin
2.Hinterhof 1. Etage
Cafe und Theaterraum

Anmeldungen unter: info@demokatrie-in-der-mitte.de

Screening and artist talk

Film, movement and reflection on shifting landscapes
Exploring bodies and terrains in flux
Video and live intervention on ecological and human change
An evening of moving images and somatic response
 

Precarious Terrains presents recent video works by Berlin-based artist and choreographer Patricia Woltmann, who investigates the shifting relationship between body, environment and belonging. Developed during residencies at AADK Spain in 2024 and 2025, the works were filmed at the former salt extraction site, Salinas del Curro in Valle de Ricote, Spain. They trace cycles of emergence and disappearance, erosion and renewal – reflecting on how human presence and natural forces shape vulnerable terrains. The evening includes a screening, a live intervention and an artist talk with open conversation.

Hošek Contemporary Gallery
MS Heimatland
close to Fischerinsel 3
10179 Berlin
Germany

5th & 6th July 2025

Summer Workhsop

We are bodies. Bodies speak directly. In this workshop, we explore spaces in between – a meeting zone – together, directly from the moment. Together will re-appropriate the space in movement – whether in the studio or in the surrounding public space, indoors or outdoors. Each day ends with a cool-down and longer relaxation. If the weather is good, we may also use the surrounding (green) urban space in Neukölln in addition to the studio space.
Open Level: For advanced and beginners with some dance experience
Please bring: Lunch + water bottle, sun protection (cream, possibly a hat, a change of long clothes)

From 10.00 – 14.45h

Sallbau Neukölln
Karl-Marx-Str.141
12053 Berlin

For more information please contact me.

March 31st – April 4th 2025

I am happy to participate this week of research with French choreographer Catherine Contour, hosted by choreographer Alice Chauchat.

From dance to gardens, from the art of the nap to the tea ceremony, from photography to ceramics, from film to hypnosis, Catherine Contour transforms experiences into objects or ‘rituals’ that suggest a shift towards fantasy and the imaginary. Her creations, in a variety of formats, suggest ways of living in which choreographic figures and ways of being together can unfold, intensifying our presence in the world.

studio Kultur Räume
Leipziger Str. 54
10117 Berlin

March 22nd 2025
from 3pm – 5.30pm

Workshop

What holds us together and makes us part of a community? Whether in private life, the family, a self-chosen group, or a group brought together by fate, how can shared experiences and paths be lived and shaped? In the context of the new film series OnView – Togetherness, this workshop explores individual or collective experiences of belonging. Starting from the individual body, the community is examined as a social construct. By exploring the rules of togetherness, spaces of encounter are created where the qualities of proximity, distance, and space are tested.

The workshop will be led by Patricia Woltmann, choreographer, dancer, and performance artist. Central themes in her work include the individual and collective body, as well as the body as sculpture. She investigates proximity and distance, presence and absence, and the potential of the body for transformation.Limited capacity. You can buy a ticket here:

https://palaispopulaire.db.com/Program/adults

PalaisPopulaire by Deutsche Bank
Unter den Linden 5
10117 Berlin

March 23nd 2025
from 2.30pm – 5pm

Workshop

What holds us together and makes us part of a community? In the context of the new film series OnView – Togetherness, this family workshop will attempt to answer these questions and explore when individual people become a group. We will discover how our bodies can function as “architecture” and “sculptures,” while maintaining the individuality of each participant. Everyone is welcome to contribute and explore their own movement language. Please wear comfortable clothing!

The workshop will be led by Patricia Woltmann, choreographer, dancer, and performance artist. Central themes in her work include the individual and collective body, as well as the body as sculpture. She investigates proximity and distance, presence and absence, and the potential of the body for transformation.

Limited capacity. You can buy a ticket here:

https://palaispopulaire.db.com/Program/children-youth

PalaisPopulaire by Deutsche Bank
Unter den Linden 5
10117 Berlin

February 2025

I am pleased to announce my artistic research project – “desire & disaster” – on the topics of body, territory and spatiality.

AADK Spain, Centro Negra
Blanca, Spain

Supported by Culture Moves Europe
Funded by the European Union
Distributed by Goethe Institut

25th and 26th January 2025

We are bodies. Bodies speak directly. What does it mean to be together and how do we form a community without losing ourselves? With our bodies we create meeting spaces in movement, in togetherness. In this workshop we will explore the basics of instant composition – movements that are composed, performed and shown in the moment, which distinguishes them from a predetermined choreography or composition. The movements are immediate and often based on sensory input and collaborative dynamics. Each participant can experiment, find their own movement language and feel liveliness.

For more information please contact me.

Classes are hosted by VHS Neukölln, Berlin

Patricia Woltmann & Lizzy Le Quesne
Video Screening

January 10th 2025 at 8pm
Group Show

Sonja Althäuser, Susanne Britz, Teresa Casanueva, Frederik Foert, Malte Hagen, Yuki Jungesblut, Guy Königstein,
Jennifer Oellerich, Julieta Ortiz de Latierro, Thomas Ravens, Klaus Sievers, Hildegard Skowasch, Danielle Stabel, Anja Teske, Daniela Trixl, Patricia Woltmann and Lizzy Le Quesne, Ilyn Wong

Axel Obiger
Raum für Zeitgenössische Kunst
Brunnenstr. 29
10119 Berlin
Germany

26th October 2024
at 12.30 noon

Performance

12 young people explore inner and outer states of beings at Pablo Neruda Library, Berlin
A site-specific performance moving through the mundane,
every-day-like in order to discover the extraordinary.

Concept and Choreography: Patricia Woltmann & Viviana Defazio
Sound: Kayla Elrod
Photography: Saeed Foroghi
Assistance: Louisa Moser

Pablo Neruda Bibliothek
Frankfurter Allee 14A
10247 Berlin
Germany

Supported by Chance Tanz II Aktion Tanz
A co-operation between Pablo Neruda Bibliothek, Feuerwache e.V., Blumen Grundschule, menschenskinder gGmbH

July 19th and 20th 2024
at 2pm and 2.30pm

Performance

Concept and Choreography: Patricia Woltmann
Performance and Creation: Cecile Boos, Julia Kafizova, Lea Moon, Stanislaw Yekaterynin, Yen Lee
Soundcollage: Cecile Boos, Julia Kafizova, Lea Moon, Stanislaw Yekaterynin, Yen Lee, Anastasia Putsykina,
Soundscape: Varoujan Chetirian

UdK Berlin
Rundgang – 2024
Hardenbergstr.33
Centre of the Garden
10623 Berlin
Germany

May 22nd – July 18th 2024

Performance Workshop for Body Sculptures

Performance’s being.. becomes itself through disappearance. (Peggy Phelan)

How do collective bodies negotiate autonomy and relationality? How does the individual negotiate community? How can collective bodies change a situation through group dynamics? In this workshop we investigate the collective body versus the solitary body. Playfully we look at the phenomena of interconnectivity of bodies as interrelated systems that function, exchange and share information. Utilising movement, touch and voice work we examine dramaturgical choices in relation to the use of space, participatory interaction and modes of audience reception.

Performance & Time Based Media Class / Klasse ter Heijne
UdK Berlin – Berlin University of the Arts
Salzufer 14 – 15
10587 Berlin
Germany

Artistic research on the topics of body, territory and spatiality,
focusing on presence, absence and belonging.

AADK/Spain
Centro Negra, Blanca
Spain

November 27th – December 2nd 2023

Workshop Intensive

Erika Klütz Schule für Theatertanz und Tanzpädagogik
Daimlerstr. 71a
22761 Hamburg
Germany

November 8th – 10th 2023

Performance Workshop

Universität der Künste Berlin
Faculty of Fine Art
Performance & Time Based Media Class ter Heijne
Gutshof Sauen
15848 Rietz-Neuendorf
Germany

23rd September  2023
at 2.30pm

12 young people investigate forms of identity inspired by the sculpture collection of Bode-Museum Berlin.
Playing with gesture, posture, space and sound, they develop their own unique positions.

Choreography: Patricia Woltmann and Viviana Defazio
Music: Mattef Kuhlmey
Photography: Silvit
Assistenz: Anastasia Putsykina

Bode-Museum Berlin
Am Kupfergraben
10117 Berlin
Germany

Was wäre wenn..?
Supported by Chance Tanz II Aktion Tanz
A co-operation between Jugend im Museum e.V., Bode Museum Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Julateg Wedding e.V., Deutscher Kinderschutzbund e.V.

24th July 2023
at 15.00 on Radio Alex Offener Kanal Berlin

Bettina Hirsch (Journalist, Host of Monday Movie Talk)
Barbara Greiner (Tanzfabrik Berlin)
Patricia Woltmann (Choreographer, Dancer)
in conversation about the current state and needs of the “Freie Tanzszene” in Berlin

25th June 2023
17.00h and 18.30h

Concept and Choreography: Patricia Woltmann
Performance: Lisa Lotte Giebel, Patricia Woltmann
Artistic Collaboration: Lisa Lotte Giebel
Sound: Varoujan Chiterian
Photo: Kay Kastner

48 Stunden Neukölln Kunstfestival
Polymedialer Ponyhof
Kienitzer Str. 11
12053 Berlin

Open Rehearsal
January 21st 2023

Concept and Choreography: Patricia Woltmann
Performers: Elena Mune Cobacho, Jacob K. Langford, Signe Emilie Tveskov, Simikka Hansen

Saalbau Neukölln
Theaterprobensaal
Karl-Marx-Str. 141
12053 Berlin

Thanks to VHS Neukölln and Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin

October 7th – December 4th 2022

Saalbau Neukölln
Theaterprobensaal
Karl-Marx-Str. 141
12053 Berlin

Thanks to VHS Neukölln and Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin

12th October 2022

Leipziger Tanztheater
LTT Company
Halle 7 / Spinnereistraße 7
04179 Leipzig

August 4th 2022

Participative movement intervention with Patricia Woltmann

When you touch something, you touch something that either touches or repels you, that interests you or that has become a habit for you. Everything is movement. How do we share space with each other? What does it mean to be present? Under guidance we explore the moment of movement and rest together. What is practical can become poetic.

4.30 pm in German
5.30 pm in English

Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
Invalidenstr. 50-51
10557 Berlin

The event takes place within the frame of Volkswagen ART4ALL. The series happens monthly each first Thursday from 16 to 20h. Admission is free for this extensive offer of events.

1st March – 30th April 2022

I am pleased to announce I am invited to research on the topics of body, territory and spatiality focusing on touch, presence and absence at AADK Spain /Centro Negra, Blanca.

Visting guest: Lisa Lotte Giebel – dancer and performer

Gefördert durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland

March – June 2022

Gefördert durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland

January 10th – February 28th 2022

Contemporary dance and improvisation course
Rixdorfer Grundschule
Donaustr. 120
12043 Neukölln

For more information contact: p[at]pattywoltman.com
Thanks to VHS Neukölln, Berlin

August 24th – October 12th 2021

Dance improvisation and composition course
Bouchestr. 75
12435 Berlin

For more information contact: p[at]pattywoltman.com
Thanks to VHS Neukölln, Berlin

Set Expanded // Museum bewegen
Bode Museum, Berlin

May 28th 2021
10 – 16h

Digital Symposium for lab.Bode Finale
Movement activation and impulses by Patricia Woltmann

Bode Museum, Berlin

February 17th 2021 // lab.Bode Pool launch

When is a body alive? The human body as sculpture – embracing the idea of presence and absence.                Sculptures are bodies. As a viewer, you project ‘life’ into the statues contextualising yourself and history.
untitled explores the notion of presence and absence in the contrast with the living/moving bodies and the unliving/standing sculptures. Where is the body immediate, where has it departed?

Concept and choreography: Patricia Woltmann
Artistic collaboration: Signe Tveskov
Performance: Signe Tveskov, Patricia Woltmann
Camera and editing: Verena Vargas, Camilo Vargas
Sound: Norbert Lang

Supported by lab.Bode, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Kinitiras, Athens

December 18th 2020, 2 -5 pm (utc+2)

Concept, choreography and performance: Patricia Woltmann
Cinematography and postproduction: Karl Ingar Røys
Choreographic assistance: Maja Zimmerer

more information:
kinitiras.com/transitionecb

Transition I Enter Communities of Body International Community Dance Residency is a collababoration of Kinitiras Artistic Network of Performing Arts, the Goethe-Institut Athen, the French Institute of Greece, the Flux Loboratory Athens, realised with the kind support of the Franco-German Cultural Fund. Part of the residency is realised by the kind support of J.F. Kostopuloulos Foundation and the Institut Francais de Bukavu.

Athens, Greece // Berlin, Germany

November  – December 2020

September 1st – December 1st 2020

Dance improvisation and composition course
Bouchestr. 75
12435 Berlin

For more information contact: p[at]pattywoltman.com
Classes are hosted by VHS Neukölln, Berlin

August 31st – November 30th 2020

Contemporary dance and Improvisation course
Rixdorfer Grundschule
Donaustr. 120
12043 Neukölln

For more information contact: p[at]pattywoltman.com
Classes are hosted by VHS Neukölln, Berlin

July – September 2020

Choreographic research

live online performance project

March 18th – June 3rd 2020

A house . . . allows the poet to inhabit
the universe
. . . the universe comes to inhabit
her house.

(Gaston Bachelard, “The Poetics of Space”)

Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

March 2nd – 6th  2020

Concept: Marie Newid and Patricia Woltmann
Choreography: Patricia Woltmann
Idea and project management: Marie Newid
Musical elaboration: Eldina Suljkanovic
Film: Dasa Raimanova, Max Kerkoff
Photography: Pascal Rohé

Berlinische Galerie
Museum für Moderne Kunst
Alte Jakobstr. 124-128
10969 Berlin

Chateau Fengari, Clerac/France

August 2019/March 2020
An outdoor research project

experiencing dance history
January 14th – June 16th 2020

Dance Improvisation and Composition Course
Bouchestr. 75
12435 Berlin

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dance class
January 13th  – June 15th 2020

A video documentary by Janine Graubaum, 2019

September 10th – December 10th 2019

Improvisation and Composition Course

Playfully exploring compositional tools of influential choreographers of the 20th century, this course focuses on historical and contextual perspectives from a contemporary viewpoint. During weekly sessions, practical experiments in movement and composition are brought together with shared reflection and discussion.

Bouchestr. 75
12435 Berlin
This class is hosted by VHS Neukölln.

Contemporary Dance and Improvisation Course

September 2nd  – December 9th

Rixdorfer Grundschule
Donaustr. 120
12043 Neukölln

unarchived // Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin

July 14th 2019

Kleine Humboldt Galerie
Invalidenstr. 110
10115 Berlin

KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin

19th and 20th January 2019

KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststraße 69
10117 Berlin

HARD TIMES
British-German Magazine (No.100/2/2017/16)

lab.Bode, Bode Museum

July 10th – 14th 2017

Choreography: Patricia Woltmann, Rike Flämig, Josep Caballero Garcia

Bode Museum/ Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Am Kupfergraben
10117 Berlin

Dance-based performance
May 27th 2017, 20:00

Idea and Choreography: Patricia Woltmann
Textile Installation: Beate Baberske
Curated by Rike Flämig

Uthopia Festival
Refo Moabit
Beusselstr. 35
10553 Berlin

Dance-based Performance

KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin

April 6th 2017

Choreography: Patricia Woltmann and Margret Schütz
A co-operation between a7, Heinz Brandt Schule, Kunsthochschule Weissensee, KW Berlin e.V.

a geometrical blueprint for abolishing the apocalypse

Premiere: 10^th February 2017, 17.00h and 19.00h
Further Performances: 13^th February 2017, 10.00h and 12.00h
an interdisciplinary theatre project starring two 6^th grade school classes

Direction: Eva-Maria Reimer
Dramaturgy: Martin Brandt
Choreography: Patricia Woltmann
Music, Soundscape: Norbert Lang
Stage Design, Costumes: Angelika Ludwig

Labor der Trigonauten
Alt-Köpenick 31/33
12555 Berlin
Germany

A co-operation between Schloßplatztheater Köpenick and Grünauer Schule, Berlin
Supported by Berliner Senat, Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung

an exploration into performance

October 1^st – December 9^th  2016
Sharing on Friday, December 9^th at 20.15h
Open rehearsal, work-in-progress

Can we translate our daily, mundane life, how we connect, listen and
relate to each other into a creative process through movement?
As opposed to the idea of economical optimisation, dance works with
what is in the moment.
Looking at both the mundane and the odd, fractions of everyday actions,
continual compositions of new situations arise.

Idea and direction:  Patricia Woltmann

Performers:  Astrid Hansen, Carsten Horn, Elena Mune Cobacho, J.K. Langford, Jessica Fischer,
Jorge Chamorro, Marett Klahn, Raquel Vazquez, Signe Emilie Tveskov, Simikka Hansen,
Susana-Theresa Gomez-Schnackenberg, Theresa Sigmund, Viola Conrad

Mime Centrum, Studio 2
Kunstquartier Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2
10997 Berlin
Germany

Allowing for connection: Moving through and into space

November 7^th – 10^th  2016

For Professional Dancers
In this training we learn to apply our intuitive knowledge.
A fundamental aspect is the use of breath with focus on the spine in
relation to gravity. Aiming for awareness and connection to one ́s inner
body, the class starts with the focal point of grounding, using exercises from
Klein Technique and Yoga. As movement evolves in more complex patterns,
participants explore the interplay between the qualities of time/weight/flow and
elasticity in the body.
We allow for a buoyant transmission of movement into outer space.
This class can facilitate a space for individual vision, play and collective experience.

from 10.30 – 12.00 noon

K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie I Tanzplan Hamburg
Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik
Jarrestr. 20
22303 Hamburg
Germany

Workshop

9^th October 2016

This research workshop examines the connection between dancing and writing.
We will dance and write, using what comes into mind, heart and body.
We will playfully explore the idea of “language” through movement and text.
Write your own words like a rough sketch, a single word etc. and dance it.
Search and find your own voice. Both verbal/written language and movement are
fundamental forms of expression.
Movement, the body, and text communicate in different ways, sometimes they
directly influence each other, sometimes they differ from each other.
With curiosity and humour we try out together various ways of
communication, whilst enjoying the moment of dancing.
We can discover how meaning is made and changed, from sense to non-sense
to sense..

From 10.00 – 12.30h

Kunstquartier Bethanien
Studio 2, Mime Centrum
Mariannenplatz 2
10997 Berlin
Germany