Morning Practice
Over the course of her artistic career, dancer and performer Leonie Wahl has developed a training programme that has proven efficient for herself. It serves as a physical and mental preparation for a day of rehearsal, for performances and to functionally maintain physical fitness.
It’s a training that contrasts with her powerful and dynamic work – a counterbalance, as it were. Because only by experiencing and maintaining inner calm are we able to release energy and intense emotions and can coordinate complex physical processes.
One part of the training consists of passive stretching exercises and slow movements with a focus on controlling breathing, increasing body awareness, activating the body’s meridians and deep musculature. Another part combines exercises for building up strength to strengthen the musculature and also includes elements of yoga. The final part comprises units of free movement.
The idea is to experience the whole range of movements: from total relaxation to the point of utmost readiness for physical action.
born in Switzerland and raised in Italy, lives and works as a dancer and choreographer in Vienna. She studied dance at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts and at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie. She was a member of consequence with Tanz Company Gervasi from 2001 to 2015. During that time, she danced in all productions and was invited to perform at various international festivals.
As a dancer she has collaborated with Leine & Roebana, Milli Bitterli, Jan Jakubal, Saskia Hölbling and directors Ernst Kurt Weigel, Hans Peter Horner and Michael Scheidl, among others. In 2012, she founded her own company, orgAnic reVolt, developing the productions Within Waste and Void – the latter in collaboration with visual artist Robert Fleischanderl. She has created parts of the programmes Motion Scores and Sonette for the ProArt company.
This training runs from 14 May till 25 June 2018.