Rainer Behr

02-03.05.2025

Intensive Workshop with Rainer Behr – Dance Technique and Creativity

The FREI ART FESTIVAL - Spring Edition, in cooperation with the German Professional Association for Dance Education, is organizing intensive workshops for dance educators and dance professionals. Rainer Behr, choreographer and dancer with the Pina Bausch Dance Theater Wuppertal, focuses on dance technique as the foundation of creative work.

Rainer Behr develops techniques for developing body awareness and expanding technical precision in dance. Through targeted improvisation techniques, technical elements are explored dynamically and playfully, variations and combinations are developed, and established movement patterns are consciously disrupted. Another focus is on constructive feedback methods that promote both technical and creative development. In intensive movement sequences, the workshop combines precision with creative freedom and invites participants to merge technique and expression into a personal, vibrant unity. It is aimed at dancers and those interested in movement who want to deepen their technique while expanding their creative freedom.

Details:

Body awareness and technical training

Improvisation techniques with dynamic and individual research into one's own dance styles

Connecting technique and expression in dance

Feedback methods to promote technical and creative development

Development of repertoire and variations

Dates: May 1–3, 2025
Units: 3 hours per day
Target group: Dance educators and dance professionals

About Rainer Behr:

Rainer Behr, born in 1964 in Neustadt an der Waldnaab, studied dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts after training as a gymnastics teacher. After initial engagements at the Folkwang Dance Studio, he worked with renowned choreographers and became a permanent member of the Pina Bausch Dance Theater Wuppertal in 1995.

Since 1989, he has created his own choreographies, including award-winning works and pieces for the Folkwang Dance Studio and the Wuppertal Dance Theater. He worked as a guest choreographer in Bielefeld and developed works for various theaters, including the Braunschweig State Theater and the Osnabrück Theater.

In recent years, he has increasingly devoted himself to international projects, including the piece VONA with Ukrainian dancers in 2023 and the guest choreography When Wormwood Blooms at the Les Kurbas Theater in Lviv in 2024.