5-Day Intensive Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus at the Frei Art Festival 2025 in Freiburg, Germany.

Where: Studio Pro Arte, Frei Art Festival, Freiburg, Germany

When: 15. – 19. Sept 2025

This workshop explores the physical language of Ultima Vez through floorwork, improvisation, and elements from the company’s repertoire. Participants will work with dynamic movement, developing both physical precision and instinctive responsiveness. The improvisation focuses on shifting qualities, presence, and character work, with particular attention to emotional expressiveness and transformation. The goal is to combine technique with performative depth and to provide an intense, grounded, and expressive approach to movement.

Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Duration: 5 days

About:
Ultima Vez is the dance company of Belgian choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, and photographer Wim Vandekeybus, who founded it in the mid-1980s. His debut piece, What the Body Does Not Remember (1987), attracted international attention and received the prestigious Bessie Award for groundbreaking artistic work. His second piece, Les porteuses de mauvaises nouvelles (1989), also won this award. Over the past decades, Vandekeybus has given important impetus to the development of contemporary dance with his distinctive, energetic style – both in Belgium and worldwide.

The teacher/dancer: Paola Taddeo

Paola Taddeo is a freelance dance artist based in Brussels. She has worked closely with Ultima Vez in the productions Infamous Offspring, Void, and Traces. Through these experiences, she developed a deep connection with the company’s physically intense and emotionally charged movement language.

Her dance background combines contemporary dance, floorwork, hip-hop, dance theater, and gymnastics.

The intensive is part of the Frei Art Festival 2025 program @ Studio Pro Arte in Freiburg.

Find your place in intensives and workshops with Ultima Vez, Thusnelda Mercy, Rubberlegz, Edward Clug and NDT, Alleyne Dance, Kalli Tarasidou, Rakesh Sukesh, Victor Rottier, and others.

How to register:
Book your spot at www.freiartfestival.com
Find all Intensives, Workshops, Performances on the website.

Costs for participants:
Prices for Intensives, Workshops see www.freiartfestival.com

Contact details:
Get in touch with the team: info@freiartfestival.com and www.freiartfestival.com

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