TRANSMISSION
NADINE
GERSPACHER
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Nadine Gerspacher’s workshops delve into contemporary dance, blending movement tasks and scenarios to connect participants and explore the dynamics of body language. She creates a welcoming environment that encourages students to push their boundaries and engage deeply with their physicality. The class features exercises that enhance body awareness, focusing on breath, joint articulation, muscle tone, and stability to build physical strength. Students participate in technical exercises, including floor work, games, and intricate phrase compositions, designed to activate and ground their center for optimal movement freedom. Partner work, guided improvisations, and theatrical tasks infuse playfulness and creativity, while Nadine’s unique physicality, characterized by powerful yet detailed movements, offers a journey through contrasting textures and unexpected surprises.
ABOUT CREATION
Nadine Gerspacher’s dance theatre pieces are inspired by the essence of “everyday life”. As a choreographer, she crafts imaginative characters that inhabit worlds of absurdity, poetry, and raw physicality. Her work is distinguished by moments of grotesque humor, vulnerability, and transformation, exploring the human experience through relationships, emotions, and existential quests. Nadine’s collaborative process fosters spontaneity and individuality among her artists, ensuring that each creation is a fusion of personal and collective essences.
She takes pleasure in getting to know each dancer, tailoring unique roles to deepen their character work. Her goal is to foster a vibrant environment for creative exploration, emphasizing exchange, openness, and diversity. Nadine’s choreography is rooted in the timeless themes of contemporary dance.
Nadine has shared her practice at numerous esteemed venues and festivals worldwide, including Freezone Barcelona, Circuit-est Montréal, Institut del Teatre Barcelona, Akram Khan Company, and many others. Her international teaching engagements reflect her commitment to nurturing creativity and innovation in contemporary dance.
Nadine shared her practice at the following places:
Freezone Barcelona / Circuit-est Montréal / Institut del teatre Barcelona / Akram Khan Company / Institute of the Arts Sites / Area Barcelona / ArtEZ University of the Arts Arnhem / Iwanson international Munich / Gärtnerplatz Theater Company / B12 Berlin Workshop Festival / Toula Limnaios Berlin / Varium Barcelona / Stage St. Cugat / Dansat Barcelona / Centre chorégraphique Calabash Lyon / Centre chorégraphique James Carles Toulouse / Tremplin danse Voiron / amplitude danse Toulouse / Freiart Festival Freiburg / Arteleku San Sebastián / Festival El Revés Costa Rica / Connatural Guatemala / Tanz in Olten / Tanzfestival Winterthur / Tanzwerk Zürich / Tanzbüro Basel / Profitraining Freiburg / La Nave Ibiza / Six Senses Ibiza / Stadttheater Amberg / Stadttheater Freiburg / Roxy Ulm / Nexo Festival Freiburg / Festival Tanec Valmez / Dampfzentrale Bern / Johannes Wieland Kompanie Kassel / Recoil Stockholm / Labormanifest Freiburg / Ballettschule Fock Nützel Munich / Tanznetz Freiburg / Studio Pro Arte Freiburg / Andreas Lauk Saarlouis / Oriol Matorell Barcelona / Conservartorio Burgos / Festival FMR Arles / Festival Prisma Panama / Colab Bordeaux / La semaine de la danse Bordeaux / la Caldera Barcelona / Apdc Barcelona / Roca Umbert Granollers / Espace danse Motagny / Le marchepie Lausanne / Teatro Victoria Tenerife / Tanzfestival Bielefeld / Tanzfestival Menorca / Descalzina Madrid / Trois S L Luxemburg / Salon Camargo Buenos Aires / Kompanie The Edge Nantes / Teatro Villanova / Teatro Reus / Espai Fisic San Juan Despi / Tanzetage Frankfurt / Danse Aspet France / Tanzherbst Kempten / Pole 164 Marseille / Johannes Wieland Kompanie Kassel / Recoil Stockholm / Labormanifest Freiburg / Ballettschule Fock Nützel Munich / Tanznetz Freiburg / Studio Pro Arte Freiburg / Andreas Lauk Saarlouis / Oriol Matorell Barcelona / Conservartorio Burgos / Festival FMR Arles / Festival Prisma Panamá / Collab Bordeaux / Produktionszentrum Stuttgart / La semaine de la danse Bordeaux / la Caldera Barcelona / Apdc Barcelona / Roca Umbert Granollers / Espace danse Motagny / Le Marchepie Lausanne / Teatro Victoria Tenerife / Tanzfestival Bielefeld / Tanzfestival Menorca / Descalzina Madrid / Trois C-L Luxembourg / Salon Camargo Buenos Aires / Company The Edge Nantes / Teatro Villanova / Teatro Reus / Espai Físic San Juan Despi / Die Tanzetage Frankfurt / 3A Danse Aspet France / Tanzherbst Kempten / Pole 164 Marseille / Profitraining Münster / CON Bamberg / TanzXchange Münster / CON Bamberg / Aerowaves Sofía
CREATIONS IN COLLABORATION WITH FREEBODIES
Il profumo del proibito
(*The Scent of the Forbidden*) is a work created by Nadine Gerspacher in collaboration with the dancers of the young company Freebodies and Ombline Huvelle. The piece transports the audience to a speakeasy, inspired by the atmosphere of the 1930s Prohibition era, where an absurd rule dictates that eating spaghetti is forbidden. Through this unusual premise, the work explores the human desire for the forbidden—the urge to crave, consume, and celebrate what is denied to us. With a narrative that blends humor, poetry, and a powerful physical language, Il profumo del proibito presents an ironic yet profound reflection on the contradictions and peculiarities of our nature. The piece is a celebration of the absurd, where dance becomes a poetic vehicle to explore longing, restrictions, and our ability to laugh at our own rules. Video filmed by Nicolas Clausen during the performance Uprising from the young company freeebodiesat the theatre l ´ Estruch Centro de Creacio in Sabadell.
LAS OTRAS VIUDAS
“Las otras viudas”, the story of the internal revolution of 11 women trying to accept their personal loss in order to find the courage to accept and eventually let go. Vulnerability, humour and the poetry that characterises Nadine Gerspachers work come together in a narrative way in order to shape the opportunity for self-celebration. The short film is amazingly captured by Nicolas Clausen.
LA BODA
Idea /Concept & Choreography: Nadine Gerspacher Performers: Iwanson graduated students 2016 Munich . Music: Casta Diva de Maria Callas
