5 Days Intensive Aerial hoop workshop with Jennifer Cohen
When: from 06.10.2025 to 10.10.2025
Times: 11:00-16:00
Where: Katapult, Wilhelminenhofstraße 91, 12459 Berlin (Studio 2)
Teacher: Jennifer Cohen
Jennifer Cohen is a contemporary circus artist, choreographer, and poetic performer. Her work explores the human experience through movement, blending aerial technique with dance, physical theater, and presence.
In this workshop, Jennifer shares her unique approach to aerial hoop—where breath, balance, and awareness meet dynamic, expressive movement. By breaking down tricks into their core mechanics, she invites participants to connect more deeply with their body’s shifting center, and to move with greater clarity, control, and freedom.
Her physical language draws from contemporary dance (release, contact, classical), kung fu, and soft acrobatics, offering a rich playground for exploration. With years of international stage experience—including performances with Cirque du Soleil and Cirque Plume—Jennifer brings both artistry and deep care for injury prevention and sustainable practice.
This is an invitation to dive into aerial work as an expressive, embodied, and empowering journey.
Who is it for?
Aerial Artists, and especially aerial hoop artists – who wish to develop their artistic tools, technique and personal expression.
Required Level: intermediate +
Daily Program
Root to Flight: From grounded awareness to aerial expression
Aerial warm‑Up & Conditioning
We Start each day with a body-awakening warm-up tailored to the day’s focus. Whether on the ground or on the hoop, we’ll use breathwork, stabilizing exercises, and injury-prevention drills to prepare your system for fluid and sustainable aerial work
Dynamic-Effortless Technique
Explore swing mechanics, drop variations, and fluid transitions. Using micro-progressions, we’ll investigate how less effort and more precision can unlock flow and freedom.
Balance & Centering
We will Discover the ever‑shifting balance‑centers of your body on the hoop—and learn to “read” and adjust them in real time.
Rolls & Spins
From lion rolls to elbow and back rolls, we’ll break down the mechanics of momentum. You’ll explore different entries and exits, then expand them into expressive movement phrases.
Transitions & Connections
Drawing from Jennifer’s personal repertoire and improvisation tasks, this section focuses on crafting smooth, expressive links between tricks. Develop a language that is uniquely your own.
Afternoon Session
Creative Movement Lab
Each day ends in a guided improvisation session—a space to experiment, play, and create. Use spiral pathways, rhythmic structures, and breath-led sequences to weave technical elements into personal expression.
Costs:
Early bird: 400€
Regular price: 500€
