Skinner Releasing Technique in Berlin

8-12 December 2025, 10:00-14:00 Studio A, Radialsystem, Berlin
info and registration: Sasha Waltz & Guests

Full description on the web page with link above, but here some words:

This workshop is aimed to share and practice mainly Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT). There may be moments throughout the whole workshop where we can experience directly how principles and practices in SRT (technique) support improvising and making dances together in the moment (live choreography).

Embodied listening, inner spaces, presence, dynamic stillness, softening and allowing are some of the essential areas of practice in Skinner Releasing (other than release), that support action into newness. Softening supports the releasing of strength through efficiency and responsiveness. Allowing encourages listening. This way we can become more available. In the technical work and in creating dances, directing and allowing are side by side, as are stillness and action, receptivity and fierceness. Joan Skinner said: “Letting go is a discipline”. It is a continuous practicing. Giving something up, in order to give in.

you do not have to be a fire

for

every mountain blocking you

you could be a water

and

soft river your way to freedom

too.

-options

nayyirah waheed, in salt