Open Training is led by Marlene Bonnesen, Søren Linding Urup, Kitt Johnson, Max Wallmeier, Signe Errboe and Tora Balslev Substitutes: Mireia Serra, Anika K. Barkan and Sebastian Kahr Rasmussen
Esther Wrobel
Dancer and choreographer, trained at MASPA in Israel. Teaches acrobatics and vertical dancing among other subjects. Resident in Copenhagen since 2003. As a dancer, she has worked with KCDC (ISL), Carlotte Ikeda/Ariadone Dance Company (FR) and Kitt Johnson X-act (DK) among others. Also works as a freelance choreographer.
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Max Wallmeier
Max is educated in dance performance at DOCH in Stockholm and has worked with dance and choreography in a number of different contexts, for example Weld Company in Stockholm. He is drawn to the unraveling potential of slowness and values the grounding of dance in somatic experience.
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Kitt Johnson
Choreographer and dancer with a background in elite athletics, Contemporary Dance, Butoh and German Expressionist Theatre. She has created a long series of solo and ensemble works as artistic director of the company X-act (est. 1992). X-act tours nationally and internationally on a regular basis. Open Training is the basis of Kitt´s artistic work. www.kittjohnson.dk
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Sebastian Kahr Rasmussen
Sebastian has a degree in dance and choreography from DDSKS since 2015. Through his practice he explores dance as a ritualized space, that allows for processes related to healing; culturally, physiology, psychology, etc. The teaching situation is interesting because it allows for a space, where everyone can participate in investigating the potentials of dance. On a daily basis Sebastian studies medicine at Copenhagen University.
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Mireia Serra
Newly graduated Psychomotricist, as well as a trained dancer and actress with a background in Body Weather technique, theatre, Modern Dance, Authentic Movement and Anatomie pour le Mouvement among other things. Since 1998, she has created a number of own works, collaborated with other artists and taught. Furthermore, she works with language and body awareness for bilingual children and their parents.
Søren Linding Urup
Søren is a contemporary dancer with a background in gymnastics and sports dance. He is educated at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance and has an MFA in Dance and Participation from The Danish National School of Performing Arts. Since 2009, he has worked in Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Spain. He mainly works with creating and performing dance performances for children and young people. He investigates cross-disciplinary encounters between sound and movement and appreciates a playful and musical approach to dance and Open Training.
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Tora Balslev
Tora Balslev is a dancer and performing artist. She studied at School of Stage Arts (Cantabile2) and Statens Scenekunstskole Odsherred. Tora is artistic director of Daily Fiction. In her works, she draws upon meditative techniques, letting a space between listening and imagining emerge and create an extended presence.
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