AUGUST 17 - 18
THE ZONE
_Workshop_ (6 Hrs)
By applying for this workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to work closely with Leila Marie Patzies, Professional Contemporary Dance Certification Program (JSR company-PCDCP 2025).
LEILA MARIE PATZIES -The zone
AUGUST 17 - 18
THE ZONE
_Workshop_ (6 Hrs)
ZONE OF THE UNKNOWN
Zone of the Unknown invites participants to explore movement beyond form, diving into deep physicality through improvisation, instant composition and skeletal awareness. The workshop focuses on dancing from the body's internal architecture, cultivating efficiency, sensitivity, and presence while opening pathways toward visceral and embodied movement.
Through guided improvisation, participants will investigate the interplay of presence and absence within shared movement practice. How does our perception of space shift when elements are layered, removed, or transformed? How do our understandings of boundaries, agency, and freedom evolve in an increasingly fragmented world? These questions become entry points into exploring uncertainty through instinctive, intuitive, and embodied decision-making.
Participants will engage in inventive movement tasks designed to sharpen spontaneity, adaptability, and precision. Individual movement research is woven together with collective improvisation, creating opportunities to navigate the relationship between self and group, structure and freedom. The workshop also explores the tension between optical two-dimensionality and tangible three-dimensionality through shifting perspectives, spatial awareness, and embodied response.
Rooted in somatic research, contemporary dance, and collaborative practice, Leila's approach emphasizes curiosity, playfulness, and horizontal learning. Participants are encouraged to develop agency within their own creative process, fostering an environment of experimentation, exchange, and discovery. The workshop culminates in an intuitive and organic approach to composition, where movement emerges from attentive listening, imagination, and embodied experience.
Leila Marie Patzies is a Berlin-based dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She trained at Iwanson International in Munich and continued her studies with Varium in Barcelona and CobosMika Company Seeds in Girona. In autumn 2026, she will begin her Master’s degree in Choreography at Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH).
Her artistic practice is rooted in improvisation, somatic research, and interdisciplinary collaboration. During the Professional Contemporary Dance Certification Program (PCDCP), she trained in 2025 and 2026 with Judith Sánchez Ruíz, whose work has been a significant influence on her artistic development.
Leila has presented her choreographic work (A Space InBetween, A Religious Mating, Why Death Was Just Death) internationally and performed Portrait of an Anti-Hero by Judith Sánchez Ruíz on multiple occasions since 2025. She is also a certified yoga teacher (550+ hours), integrating TCM and fascia-based approaches into both her artistic and pedagogical practice.
€ 150