Performance. Art. Training.
Welcome to Katapult - Berlin's newest space for education, creation and exhibition in contemporary performing art. A community driven project run by a small team, assisted by a large crew of volunteers, agile and flexibly with a do it yourself mentality - offering residencies, workshops and open training for artists, creators and self-starters.
Three week programme for partner acrobatics
4-22 November, 2019
Monday to Friday
Wilhelminenhofstr 91, 12459 Berlin
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The programme provides professional instructions in the field of handbalancing, group acro, hand-to-hand, high acro balance, dynamic skills and group games. Additional to the acrobatics training there will be dance and physical theater classes to spice up our performing skills on stage. Continue reading “Partner Acrobatics, Dance & Physical Theater”
From inner thoughts to stage performance with Cox Ahlers
16-17 November, 2019
Wilhelminenhofstr 91, 12459 Berlin
This is a lab for generating new aspects of creation. The questions, how to express ourselves, how to use our technical skill to deal with a theme and how to take a stand in the actually political circumstances constantly come along in our quotidian art-work. Continue reading “Thematic Creation – Cox Ahlers”
Learn how to be funny with Peter Shub
23-24 November, 2019
Wilhelminenhofstr 91, 12459 Berlin
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Learn the key foundations of being funny.
Getting people to laugh requires genuine humor, which is definitely about more then telling jokes. Continue reading “How to be Always Funny Sometimes – Peter Shub”
Acrobatics and partnering through the lens of agility with Winston Reynolds
6-7 December, 2019
Wilhelminenhofstr 91, 12459 Berlin
There is a certain sensitivity in acrobatics behind all the larger movements. It’s a tool where the smallest adjustment can make a significant difference on the eventual physical and physiological outcome while practicing. Continue reading “Microbatics – Winston Reynolds”
Three days of clowning with Joanna Bassi
12, 19, 26, January 2020
Wilhelminenhofstr 91, 12459 Berlin
This workshop covers contemporary clowning – what is only absurd, and what is also funny and why. It also looks into classic tricks of the trade, exercises in search of comic identity, style and timing.
On the longer run we can approach how to compose an act. Continue reading “Game of Clowns – Joanna Bassi”
Work on the three human levels: brain, heart and movement with Marianna de Sanctis
1-2 February, 2020
Wilhelminenhofstr 91, 12459 Berlin
A masterclass open to jugglers and hoopers.
We will work on artistic research with objects, elements of theater on stage and clowning. Continue reading “EmoHoop – Marianna de Sanctis”
Three days of juggling in movement with Bogdan Illouz
20-22 March, 2020
Wilhelminenhofstr 91, 12459 Berlin
The purpose of this workshop is helping jugglers to have a deeper understanding of the different mechanics in action when we juggle in movement. Continue reading “Movement Mechanics – Bogdan Illouz”
Five days of movement and juggling with Benjamin Richter
30 March – 3 April, 2020
Wilhelminenhofstr 91, 12459 Berlin
If the object could move by itself, how would it move?
How does this object – my body – want to move?
How can my body communicate with the other objects?
How can this dialogue create choreography and instant composition? Continue reading “Movement Consciousness and the Language of Objects – Benjamin Richter”
