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"​Dance and Poetry"

​Movement as poem, language as choreography

​The spring term invites you to play with words…

How does a poem sound in the body?  How does a word move?
What happens when a poem begins to breathe?
When movement speaks and words dance?

A word falls into the body.
A movement finds language.

We listen to what emerges when poem and gesture touch.
Writing becomes movement.
Dancing becomes voice.

​The course opens a space for quiet experimentation, for rhythm, for the in-between.

We follow impulses from body, breath, and text – without a goal, without the constraints of form.

Invitation
For all who want to

  • ​feel words in their bodies,
  • perceive nuances of movement,
  • and give space to the unspoken.

​No prior knowledge required

Poem
​If we truly delighted in you, O Lord,
we could not resist the urge to dance.
To dance well,
one doesn't need to know where the dance leads.
One only needs to follow it,
be attuned to it, be weightless.
And above all: one must not stiffen,
but be completely one with you – and, vibrantly pulsing,
resonate with the beat of the orchestra,
which you transmit to us.
We have so often forgotten the music of your Spirit,
we forget that it is monotonous and boring
only for gloomy souls,
​who sit like wallflowers on the sidelines
of the joyful ball of your love.
Teach us to put on the circumstances of our humanity each day like a ball gown.
Grant that we may live our existence
not like a game of chess, where everything is calculated,
not like a theorem, which we ponder with agony over,
but like a feast without end,
where we encounter you again and again,
like a ball, like a dance,
in the arms of your grace,
to the music of all-embracing love.

Made

​​ On-Site Sessions: (19.15-21.45h)
​21.10 / 04.11 / 18.11 / 02.12 / 16.12.2025

​​Online Zoom Sessions: (19.15-20.30h)​
​​28.11 / 11.11 / 25.11 / 09.12.2025

​Group Therapy

8 Sessions | 320 CHF

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