conFUSION Dance & Poetry Lab with nelody
OPEN LEVEL
combine free writing & dance in a creative exploration
What happens when words start to move? And movement starts to speak?
conFUSION dance & poetry lab —a unique lab where free writing and improvised dance meet. Through playful and accessible exercises, we’ll explore how written language can inspire movement—and how movement, in turn, can shape our words.
what to expect
creative tasks combining free writing and improvised dance, guided by nelody
tools to explore the connection between body language and written language
space to develop and share your ideas in a supportive environment
discover your own movement language and creative voice
who is it for?
OPEN LEVEL – no previous experience required!
Whether you're a dancer, a writer, or completely new to both—everyone is welcome.
You can write in any language.
Please note: The workshop will be led primarily in English and German.
questions?
Feel free to contact nelody directly via instagram or email: confusionconcept@gmail.com
ABOUT NELODY:
nelody (she/her), a Berlin-based freelance dance artist originally from Finland, explores and researches the interconnections in various dance cultures and styles since 2014.
With her artistic research and dance philosophy, conFUSION concept, she experiments the unexpected fusion of dance styles and the "in-between-spaces" of diverse dance cultures. nelody is professionally trained in multiple dance styles and is endlessly fascinated by the diversity of different dance cultures and art forms. Her curiosity towards intercultural and interdisciplinary arts inspires her to continue observing the social and cultural influences which dance carries, and the contexts in which dance emerges. Her experimental dance style is strongly influenced by hip hop and its culture, contemporary dance, waving and other illusionary dance forms.
As a dancer, nelody has worked in multiple dance productions and shows, i.e in Staatstheater Nuremberg, with Sathis Hettithantri, Heidi Weiss, Flying Steps and more.
Since 2019 she also works as a choreographer, mostly in film and stage works, and also directs and conceptualises her own works and events. She has for example worked as choreographer in a dance film project for female empowerment in Iran with a singer-songwriter MENTRIX, with Yaman Okur, the Flying Steps and more. nelody collaborates internationally and locally with artists from diverse disciplines, especially with other dancers and performers, filmmakers and musicians performers. Her work is intercultural, interdisciplinary, intercultural and interactive.
Next to her artistic work, nelody teaches her conFUSION concept in social projects (i.e. Junge Deutsche Oper, sPERANTO worldwide, TanzZeit, etc) and in dance education programs and universities, and actively continues to connect human beings through dance.
nelody creates and facilitates spaces to foster the “cross-genre-discourse” within dance communities, within the dance scene, in order to allow dancers and the diverse dance communities to connect, experiment and learn with and from each other.
She hosts events to revive of the social, spiritual and anthropologic contexts of dance and to sustainably raise awareness and encourage both artists and the art lovers into interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange.