Teacher

Britta Lieberknecht has been teaching since 1981 and her rich, ever-growing background is listed here. Dance with gravity, dance and voice, voice and movement, dance performance, contact improvisation, dance with objects, Trisha Brown Repertory Profitraining/Workshops, the Feldenkrais Method and Dance your Anatomy have been her teaching forms so far.

1973-79

  • Classical dance training in Düsseldorf
  • Workshops in modern dance and jazz dance at the Centre de Danse Rosella Hightower Cannes, Dance Centre London and in Copenhagen

1980

  • Amsterdam Theatre School: Opleiding Moderne Dans, one year of training

1981

  • Clown with Roy Bosier, Rome
  • Commedia dell’Arte with Ferruchio Soleri
  • Performs street theatre in Italy

1981-84

  • Berlin, Method Acting – Strasberg method with Walter Lott
  • Acting studies with Grotowski in Wroclaw (PL) and at the Roy Hart Theatre (F)
  • Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and her team
  • Breathing, speech and voice training according to Schlaffhorst-Andersen
  • Singing, voice and movement with composer Vladimir Rodzianko
  • Member of the theatre group Ratibor Theatre
  • Dance project with Sara Shelton-Mann SF in Freiburg (bewegungs-art)

1982

  • Invents and teaches Dance and Voice

1984-86

  • NYC training at the Merce Cunningham School, studies with the Trisha Brown Dance Company and Viola Faber
  • Contact Improvisation, release work, dance therapy with Nancy Stark Smith and other instructors from Movement Research (NYC) and Naropa Institute (Boulder)
  • Releasework according to Alan Wayne with Tamar Rogoff
  • Choreography workshops with Robert Ellis Dunn and Trisha Brown
  • Jazz singing with Jeanne Lee, Voice through the Body with Lisa Sokolov

1986-89

  • teaches Dance and Voice and her form of postmodern dance Dance with Gravity in D and CH, e.g. at: Tanzfabrik Berlin, Kreativhaus Münster, bewegungs-art Freiburg, Jutta-Klamt-Schule Aarau and in her own studio in Bremen both ongoing and intensive courses and projects

1987-89

  • Teacher for dance and performance at the freiraum theaterschule Bremen

since 1992

  • lives in Cologne, teaches in her own studio in Cologne and at the above-mentioned centres

1996

  • Trained as a physiotherapist and Pilates Polestar Rehabilitation Trainer

1999-2003

  • Working as a physiotherapist with a half-time job parallel to dance

2007, 2009

  • Repertory workshops at the Trisha Brown Dance Company

2007-2016

  • teaching professional dance training and Trisha Brown’s Set and Reset phrase

2010, 2015

  • Workshops at P.A.R.T.S. Brussels in Rosa’s repertoire

2019

  • certified teacher of the Feldenkrais Method, Feldenkrais Center Chava Shelhav
  • starts to develop Dance your Anatomy

2019-22

  • teaches Dance your Anatomy and Dance and Voice at TanzFaktur Köln

2024

  • Guest teacher at the German Sport University Cologne for the M.A. Dance with Dance your Anatomy

Since completing her training as a Feldenkrais teacher, Britta Lieberknecht has been developing DyA for amateurs, advanced practitioners and professionals. She integrates her experience as a physiotherapist, Feldenkrais teacher, BMC studies and her lifelong exploration of dance.

From sensed anatomy to function to dance.

The aim is the differentiation and development of movement and the completion of the body image and self-image. The result is freer and better-guided movement and access to our own rich potential.
We resolve unclear or blind spots in the body and body image. Areas that we feel little or as a block take shape and support our dance. They also have an emotional and energetic side that we use creatively.

With the help of 3D projections and explanations, we feel the living structure and get to know its function with small movements. With precise guidance, we experience how it supports movement through space and how it interacts with the entire movement system. In doing so, we integrate it into our balance and our sensory orientation. Playfully improvising, we use it as a source of dance and creativity.

There are several consecutive teaching units for each body part, which can also be practised and taught individually.

Moshé Feldenkrais was an engineer and physicist who explored the connections between human movement, behaviour, feeling and thinking in an ingenious way. He helped many well-known (and unknown!) personalities of his time to improve or resolve movement restrictions and to find themselves in the process. His method helps the body to find its best possible organisation.

A movement is explored in a light and playful way with different unfamiliar variations. Learning means trying things out and gaining experience, not forcing something on the movement system.

With mindfulness and sensitivity, we perform movement patterns while lying, sitting, standing and walking that promote our movement, self-awareness and creativity. We differentiate areas of our body that previously seemed to be absent or immobile and discover how our nervous system can learn without straining.

www.feldenkrais-bergisch-gladbach.de