Continuous course in German language. For details see German version.

Sunday 12 – 14 h, once a month, facilitator: Tayfun Guttstadt
Welcome to our monthly meeting for makam-based improvisation!
Once a month on Sunday, we will meet at noon to play and improvise together in a given makam or two for two full hours. The improvisation will be lead by Tayfun Guttstadt on the Ney. Theoretical aspects will be worked on, too, but the focus is on playing together and feel the mood of the respective makam. Typical forms of oriental music will also be introduced, everything by playing and feeling.

All instruments including voice and all levels welcome.  

Dates until June 2020:
23.2. | 29.3. (postponed from 15.03.!)| 19.4. | 17.5. | 14.6.20

Cancelled on March 29 and April 19 due to Corona Pandemic

FELDENKRAIS is a method with which we can optimize our action processes. It is used in dance, instrumental teaching, acting and singing to free the play from unnecessary tensions, to organize movements more efficiently and thus improve performance.

It is learning through movement and learning through experience. In gentle, coordinated movement experiments we explore and harmonize the movement.

After we have tuned the instrument “body”, we use the lightness and the changed kinesthetic feeling in the body to go new, surprising ways of improvisation – with or without instrument, vocally or dancing.

The workshop explores the various ways of sound production in close relation to the physical aspect of the musicians movement.

The participants are centred in the process of discovery. Through open physical and sound improvisation exercises we will touch upon different practices always with the conscious understanding of our main goal – finding ways to express our own individual sense, finding our own voice and perceiving the outcome by intuitively reacting to the momentum. By being present we raise our awareness of the natural force leading the process of finding new relation between sound and movement. At the end of the workshop we will have an open performance with all participants. The workshop is suitable for musicians, actors, dancers and other performing artists.