DANCEmotion | body ･ mind ･ heart
DANCEmotion makes space for time, attention and depth.
A continuous dance and movement practice for those who want to understand movement from within.
Rooted in release-based technique, somatic research and artistic exploration, it is a space to develop technique, awareness and individual movement through curiosity and continuous practice.
Rather than trying to cover more and more material, we sometimes stay with a question a little longer.
Autumn term · September–December 2026
Vienna · Registration open
Trial days: tues, wedn, Sept 22 & 23 2026
mondays starting -> infos coming soon
A practice of curiosity
I teach by sharing a practice – and the questions that continue to fascinate me within it.
What happens when we don’t impose movement on the body, but create the conditions from which movement can emerge? How can we recognize habitual patterns, discover other possibilities, and move with greater clarity, ease and freedom?
One question has accompanied my teaching from its beginnings:
Why should my body work differently in ballet than in contemporary dance, when it is always the same body?
This curiosity still shapes the way I teach today. Rather than offering fixed answers or pushing towards a predetermined form, I share impulses, questions and anatomical information. We observe, explore, try things out and notice what changes.
You are the expert on your own body. What you discover emerges through your own perception and movement.
The studio is a space where you can be curious – where you can try, question, make mistakes, not know, and find your own way into movement.
How we work
The work is precise, technical and consistent, while leaving room for individual experience and exploration.
Release principles, Klein Technique™, anatomical and somatic approaches, ballet, improvisation and artistic movement research inform the practice. Rather than adding muscular effort, we look for support in skeletal structure, gravity and internal connections.
We work with attention and differentiation: noticing where effort is necessary and where it isn’t; how one part of the body relates to another; how movement travels through the whole body; and how organization can create both stability and freedom.
Sometimes, doing less allows us to be more fully present in movement.
Mobility can emerge without trying to become more flexible. Technique can become more reliable without adding more force. By listening more closely, habitual patterns become recognizable – and other possibilities become available.
Technique, in this sense, is not about imposing a form from the outside. It grows from understanding, perception and physical experience.
What changes?
With continuous practice, changes often reach beyond individual exercises.
Participants describe feeling more grounded and organized, moving with less unnecessary effort, and developing greater trust in their own bodies.
Words I hear again and again:
grounded ･ clear ･ present
ease ･ stability ･ mobility
less effort ･ more trust
precision ･ freedom ･ curiosity
confidence ･ joy
moving from within
finding your own movement
Movement Practice – schedule
The classes are different aspects of one continuous practice.
Each has its own focus, but the principles connect them. Grounding and awareness inform dancing; release principles enter ballet; technical research opens possibilities for improvisation and artistic exploration.
Grounding
Connection, support and the relationship between body, gravity and ground, inspired by Klein Technique™principles.
MONDAY 9.00-10.30, @das Margareten
Release Ballet (int.)
Ballet explored through release principles, anatomical understanding and efficient organization – working with the same body, not a different set of rules.
TUES 9.30-11.00, @Studio Move on
Dancing / Movement Research
Dance technique, set material and improvisation / embodied geology as a space for physical and artistic research.
TUES 11.00-12.30, @Studio Move on
Awareness by Gravity / Movement Principles
A slower and more detailed investigation of gravity, skeletal connections, movement patterns and physical organization, inspired by Klein Technique™principles.
WED, 9.30-11.00, @Studio Move on
Release Ballet (basic)
Basics of Ballet explored through release principles, anatomical understanding and efficient organization – working with the same body, not a different set of rules.
WED, 11.15-12.45, @Studio Move on
+ planned: Grounding online
THURS, 9.30-11.00 (whatsApp)
The practice develops through continuity. Individual classes can offer an entry point, but their connection allows questions and discoveries to travel from one form into another – and to become embodied over time.
* Every body welcome! *
A continuous practice throughout the year
DANCEmotion is conceived as an ongoing annual practice. To make participation manageable and flexible, registration is offered term by term.
Autumn Term 2026
sept. 28 – December 16
Location:
Mon: das Margareten, Margaretenstraße 166, 1050 Wien
Tues/Wed: Tanzstudio Move on, Neubaugasse 12-14, 1070 Wien
Prices:
Preis/Klasse bei Teilnahme an mindestens 2 Klassen Di/Mi für den gesamten Block (15,- pro Einheit):
Preis/Klasse bei Teilnahme an einer Klasse Di oder Mi für den gesamten Block (17,- pro Einheit):
Einzeln: 20,-
Schnuppern: 15,-
Profipreis auf Anfrage
MO, 9.00 grounding Bezahlung läuft über das Margareten!
Infos: Andrea Nagl, andrea_nagl@gmx.at
movement principles: grounding (Mo, 9.00 das Margareten): effiziente Ausrichtung des Skeletts, Spannung der äußeren Muskulatur lösen, Verbindungen zwischen den Knochen, einfache und präzise Bewegungsabläufe am Boden und im Stand, repatterning. Die Praxis ist ruhig, fokussiert und tiefgreifend. Gleichgewicht zwischen Stabilität und Beweglichkeit, zentrierende Wirkung auf Körper und Geist (body, mind, heart).
movement principles: grounding basiert auf den Prinzipien von Klein Technique™ und schöpft aus über zwanzig Jahren somatischer Forschung und Lehrtätigkeit von Andrea Nagl.
Release Ballett (Di): eine einfache Ballettklasse auf Basis von Release und Klein Technique™ Prinzipien. Erdung, Loslassen überflüssiger Spannung, stressfreier Zugang. Wir arbeiten am Alignment durch Nachspüren und Körperbewusstsein anstatt durch Nachahmen von Formen. Ballett als Werkzeug, weniger als ästhetischer Selbstzweck.
Background dieser Praxis war mein eigener ewiger Struggle mit Ballett. In langjähriger Forschung in Praxis und Unterricht habe ich einen Weg gefunden, wie ich somatische Zugänge integrieren kann.
Contemporary (Di): Leicht fortgeschritten/Grundkenntnisse. Ausgehend von somatischen Übungen und Körperbewusstsein, floorwork – Bodenphrase, kurze Sequenzen im Stand. Spielerisches Lernen, verschiedene Körperqualitäten, anatomische und imaginative Vorstellungsbilder, in den Körper kommen, Flow finden.
Awareness by Gravity – grounding (Mi, 9.30): tiefgreifende Praxis, einfache, langsame, genaue Bewegungsabläufe am Boden und im Stand. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Prinzipien aus Klein Technique™: Arbeit auf Ebene der Knochen, überflüssige Muskelspannung der äußeren Muskulatur loslassen und so Tiefenmuskeln reaktivieren. Forschen besonders an einer klareren, effizienten Ausrichtung des Beckens und unserem Grounding durch die Beine.
Kraft und Entspannung, Aktivität und Ruhe werden gleichermaßen gefördert. Mein persönlicher Zugang legt besonders Wert auf einen „releaseden“ und bewegten Zugang.
Abschluss mit Zertifikat.
STAY CONNECTED
-> more Infos: „Unterricht„
Unser erster Flyer (oben)
Image Video DANCEmotion koop. FH St. Pölten / Markus Wintersberger, 2017 (rechts)
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PROJEKTE (Auswahl):
° f0ss1l.c0de – Performance im Rahmen des Lucid Dreams STONEAGE. Festival für digitale Kunst, Bühne im Hof St. Pölten, 23.5.2025
° Lucid Dreams STONEAGE – PREVIEW Prototype HAPPENING – Performance und Research in der FH St. Pölten, 5.12.2024 Fotos auf Instagram
Teaser der Performance
° Fungal Flux – Performance im Rahmen des Lucid Dreams [digital fungi] – Festival für Experimentelle Medien, Bühne im Hof St. Pölten, 25.5.2024 Fotos auf Instagram , Website Lucid Dreams
° Site specific Workshop & Performance concrete . body . matters am Donaukanal Wien mit Christa Stöffelbauer, Mai 2023
° Kooperation DANCEmotion mit FH St. Pölten!
Projekttage 14./15.12.2022
Workshops, Research, Performance: DANCEmotion und Studierende Experimentelle Medien / FH St. Pölten / Markus Wintersberger (grünes Foto oben). -> Foto-Einblick in die Workshops und Experimente…
° DANCEmotion goes Aspern – We built this city: Performance Projekt / Research / Performative Intervention in der Seestadt Aspern – Fotos auf unserer Facebook Seite und auf flickr: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 oder schaut euch den blog Eintrag an!
° Weihnachtsshowing 2017 – Fotos auf der DANCEmotion Facebook Seite!
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