“It’s an honour to be able to go back to Berlin to teach, it has been a while.

As time passes we change and the world changes and we change again with the world. We grow, we adapt.

For the ones who know me and have already studied with me it’s a pleasure to be with you again in studio, for the new ones a warm welcome.

In this intensive we will have space to discuss a lot about what is this dream space we create in fusion, what bodies access this information and from where we come and to where we can go. It’s a work that requires deep responsibility and, at the same time, a lot of research, imagination and speculative capacity. We will work from what each one of you brings and, at the same time, trying to undress pre conceived ideas and together find new roads to walk.

Fusion is not an exact science. It work on layers of subjectivity, artistry, politics, technique, ownership, ancestry, future, migrations, belonging, intellectuality and so much more. It’s not comfortable and it lays on conversations of power systems, privilege and reparation. At the same time it is a fertile ground of expression and creation, that is available to everybody.

For this group what I ask is availability to discuss our own space and place. To dive deep in the body and mind, knowing that the crossroads, doubts and mistakes are spaces of profound growth. And I never discard pleasure, sensitivity and intuition.

My tools come from my studies since 20 years ago in Raqs Sharki and fusions of bellydance, and a continuous belonging in street, clubbing and ballroom dance cultures. I studied architecture and I’m a contemporary dance choreographer deeply engaged in creating spaces for my communities. I engage in practices and studies of astrology, tarot, yoga and Vedanta, weaving meanings and futures of speculative possibilities.

Welcome.”

Piny