OCN Repertoire & Tools

The workshops offer insights into the company’s daily working practice and provide excerpts from the repertoire.
Helge Letonja, the artistic director and in-house choreographer of Of Curious Nature, applies his choreographic methods rooted in somatic bodywork. By exploring the body systems – bones, muscles, ligaments, fascia and breath – and combining these with various academic dance techniques, he develops expressive movement tools for the choreographic process from a deep inner connection. These tools are continuously developed and expanded with the dancers of Of Curious Nature.

The tools create an inner connection to your own movement and thus generate a convincing, authentic expression of movement for you as a dancer.

Letonja’s dance language is rich in emotional depth and balances between sensitive introspection and dynamic energy. Here, the body is the vessel of a contemporary dance language characterized by presence with volume and weight in space.  The choreographic tools – impulse, fixation, lines and curves as well as movements outside the orbit – serve as building blocks for an unique and impressive movement language.

As part of the workshops, you will learn choreographic sequences from the company’s multi-layered repertoire and immerse yourself in OCN’s universe of movement. Based on the choreography “Préludes”, the connection between dynamics, music and movement will be explored using the movement tools “Reach”, Dimensions and Ligaments. Songs of Love and Bones” is about multifaceted, emotional expression in body language in preparation for solo works. With “Un-zeit” we focus on extreme and expressive movement using the tools “Out of Orbit” and “Fragmentation” as examples.

“A Late Summer Nights Dream” combines collective and ritualized elements with the tools ‘Fixation’ and “Cupping” in a rave-like setting and focuses on movement in group choreographies.

Date

02 July 2025 | 11:30 – 6:00 pm (Workshop)
_{Schwankhalle Bremen (Neuer Saal & Alter Saal)}

03 July 2025 | 11:30 – 6:00 pm (Workshop)
_{Zentrum für Kunst (Großer Saal)}