For this workshop, Sarah and Isaiah will pass on various tools that enables the participants to approach dance through improvisation methods, contact work and research into different bodily states. Their choreographic research revolves around a play on consequences, working on chain reactions, with one movement leading to another, placing the body in different “situations” that will lead the performer to deploy its own creativity and search for solutions inherent to each body. Through improvisations, participants will explore notions of weight, resistance, rebound, release, suspension, driving points, isolation, and a seesaw between a global body and a dissociated body.

About artists
In 2022, Sarah Baltzinger and Isaiah Wilson began co-directing several projects, including the duet MEGASTRUCTURE. In June 2023, they won a number of awards during the famous RIDCC (Rotterdam International Duet Choreographic Competition). The two artists won the XL Production Award, which led them to create a production for Scapino Ballet Rotterdam in February 2025 called GOATS, with an international tour of 30 performances. In addition, they won four partner awards with Nederlands Dans Theater, Skånes Dansteater, Sally Dansgezelschap Maastricht, MAAS Theater En Dans. They have worked with Nederlands Dans Theater through workshops, laboratories and first projects of creation from 2024 onwards. The same year, they became Aerowaves Twenty24 artists with MEGASTRUCTURE and performed at Spring Forward Festival.

Credits

Concept, choreography & performance: Sarah Baltzinger & Isaiah Wilson

Producers and support: TROIS C-L | Maison pour la danse, TIPPERARY INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL, FONDATION INDÉPENDANCE – BIL, L’Arsenal, Cité Musicale-Metz, Ministère de la Culture du Luxembourg, DRAC Grand Est, Ville de Metz, Département de la Moselle, RIDCC 2023, AEROWAVES 2024

Artists presented in the framework of Aerowaves, co-funded by the European Union, Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg, the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia.