Maxime
Cozic
Maxime (he/him) is a dancer originally from the south of France, currently based in Brussels. He began hip-hop dance at the age of 8, before exploring other styles such as modern jazz, ballet, and contemporary dance. In 2015, after a year of training at Rêvolution in Bordeaux, led by Antony Égéa, he was hired by Laura Scozzi: this first professional opportunity quickly led him to work with French choreographers such as Mourad Merzouki, Fouad Boussouf, and Mickaël Lemer, as well as Étienne Rochefort, Dominique Rebaud, and Yann Lheureux. He's now mainly working in the Brussels-based companies Dame de Pic/Karine Ponties ("Soute à bagages" - creation 2024), and Loraine Dambermont ("T'façon on est en 2012" - creation 2025).
hybrid floorwork
26.06 / 9h30-11h
27.06 / 9h30-11h
This workshop is about adapting certain breakdancing techniques into principles applicable to contemporary floorwork. Footwork, handstands, freezes and acrobatics will be explored through improvisation, practical exercises in pure technique and choreographic sequences to connect everything together. Emphasis will be placed on thorough understanding of the various tools, enabling participants independently use them in their future training. The goal is to impart a sufficiently fundamental technical foundation to provide a solid base from which each participant can develop a precise approach.
emerson
damian
vergel
Emerson (he/him), is a colombian performer, creator, and facilitator, graduated from the Dance Program at Academia Superior de Artes de Bogotá (ASAB) and from the MA in Physical Theatre at Accademia Dimitri in Switzerland. His artistic practice engages with Theatre, clown, traditional Colombian dance, Salsa and improvisation to explore physicality as a poetic and political active territory.
the other body
26.06 / 11h15-13h15
27.06 / 11h15-13h15
By exploring micro-laboratories that combine physical theatre, traditional dance, corporeal mime and improvisation, this workshop focuses on approaching your own movement, the space and the others to compose energetically coherent structures in real time. Through this practice, each participant will be encouraged to interact, sense, observe and embody different physical states, while engaging attention, intuition and action.
deva
schubert
&
chihiro araki
Deva Schubert is a Berlin-based choreographer and dancer whose work centers on the exploration of the voice. Combining dance, installation, and digital media, her pieces have been presented internationally, including at Haus der Kunst Munich, Kunsthalle Zürich, and Sophiensäle Berlin. Her award-winning work Glitch Choir (ImPulsTanz Young Choreographers’ Award 2024) continues to tour in diverse formats and variations. In 2025, she presented her first solo exhibition, Silent Spills, at Kunstraum Niederösterreich in Vienna.
Chihiro Araki (she/her) is a performance artist based in Berlin. After training at The Tokyo Ballet School and earning BA from Rambert School in London, she has danced with Carte Blanche and Johannes Wieland Company, as well as for Alban Richard, Jenny Beyer, Helena Waldmann, Meg Stuart, Lina Gómez, Sergiu Matis, Jule Flierl, Ixchel Mendoza Hernández, Deva Schubert, Chiara Bartl-Salvi, Hanako Hayakawa and musical artist Pan Daijing.
sonic fractures
26.06 / 14h30-17h30
This workshop explores how collective voice and dissonance can open new ways of being together and create space for the unheard. Drawing on the performance practice of Glitch Choir, participants engage with disruption and dissonance as creative tools for body and voice.The workshop begins with a warm-up activating body and voice before moving into its core practices: dissonant singing and the lamento song. Through techniques such as overtone singing, yodeling, polyphonic dissonance, and exploring the mouth as a resonance space, the voice is approached as a physical, spatial, and collective phenomenon.How does the voice move the body, and how does the body shape the voice? How do shifts between harmony and dissonance affect the space we share together?
*Deva and Chihiro will be performing their piece ‘Glitch Choir’ on the evening of 27 June. For this performance, they are looking for volunteers to take part, in line with the workshop’s themes. Are you interested? Let us know by email or during the workshop.
lysanne
van
berlo
Lysanne van Berlo (she/her) is a Dutch dancer, teacher, and choreographer based in Belgium. She began her movement journey with taekwondo, started dancing through hip hop dance, and later completed a Contemporary Urban education in the Netherlands. She has worked with multiple hip hop and theatre companies in the Netherlands before moving to Brussels and joining the Anton Lachky Dance Company. In addition to her work as a professional dancer, Lysanne created her own movement approach called the Musiquality Method: a practice that connects music and movement through hip hop–based physical qualities, dynamics, and emotional expression. She has been teaching the method internationally for several years.
musiquality method
26.06 / 16h45-18h45
The Musiquality Method is a movement approach that explores how to connect music and movement in creative ways. It uses various movement qualities and dynamics to evoke emotions and sensations in the body, offering a fresh approach to movement.
Lysanne uses techniques from hip hop, such as waving, bouncing, and isolations. You will explore different energies and tensions in the body, finding a balance between effort and release.
During the workshop, Lysanne will teach a choreography she created using the Musiquality Method, working with musical layers, the body’s specific movements, and emotions.
Blanca
lo verde
Blanca Lo Verde (she/her) works as freelance in dance, performance, physical theatre and vocal expression fields.
After studying and graduating from SEAD in 2021 with Erna Omarsdottir’s solo IBM 1401-a user’s manual, she worked with Paul Blackman and Jan Lauwers (NeedCompany) at the Salzburg Festspiele and with Natiscalzi DT (Italy) on various projects. Since 2023, she has collaborated with Cie 111 - Aurélien Bory in the performance INVISIBILI.
In 2024, she created her solo piece Per-sona in Anghiari Dance Hub residency, which toured to various festivals in Italy and Brussels.
In 2025, Blanca attended the program MALAGOLA at the Malagola international centre for vocal studies in Ravenna, directed by Ermanna Montanari and Enrico Pitozzi.
She currently lives in Brussels where she continues her research as an author and performer, sharing Voicing Motion practice and collaborating with various artists, including Lucile Ducron, Irene Occhiato and Carla Piris Lasaga.
voicing motion
27.06/ 14h30-16h30
01.07 / 14h30-16h30
Voicing Motion is a research practice on creative movement and voice.
It explores various relations between physicality and sonority of the body.
Within the practice, the voice is a concrete and dynamic element that finds its source in the engagement of a present body.
Starting from breathing and physical awakening of body and voice, we will dive into tasks and guided improvisations to explore technical and creative connections between the two.
Some of the elements proposed are: creation of text and its deconstruction, exploration of imaginative states arising from physical awareness, rhythmical and musical tools, character building and more.
The practice focuses on the body-voice as a source for material imagination to arise: the physicality informs the sound and vice versa in a playground of individual and collective body materials.
Which power has voice as a communicative tool between bodies? And how important is it today to dive into personal voice in order to coexist and build listening with others’ ones?
The practice is open to whoever is interested in expanding creative work and/or has experience in physical practices (movement, dance, theatre, performance, singing).
Klau
Diaz Munoz
Klau (she/they) is a queer dancer from Cuba, trained at the National Academy of Dance in Havana, bringing the joy of salsa to a space without gender roles or partner requirements, just music, movement, and connection.
queer salsa club
| 27.06 / | 16h45-18h45 |
| 28.06 / 16h30-18h30 |
This workshop promotes a space without gender roles or partner requirements, just music, movement, and connection. Everyone is welcome, whether you come solo, with partners, or with your polycule.
We will explore Cuban Son foundations, couple connection, hand positioning, clave rhythm, turns, and fun partner figures like Enchufla, Guapea, Dile que No, Setenta, and Enchufla Complicado.
A beautiful queer dance space full of movement, laughter, and community.
hoek
collective
Dancers & choreographers Dunya Narli, Elise Ludinard, Théo Marion-Wuillemin & Victoria Kennett gathered in 2020 and co-created the HOEK Collective. They have been practising and crafting tools for navigating instant composition & improvisation. In the past years, they performed and taught in various places across Europe (Belgium, France, Germany, Turkey). They are also very involved in the alternative brussels performing arts scene, being part of WEi Studio.
Their research is slow and ongoing, unwilling to conform to the institutionalisation of dance. An ongoing question that drives HOEK is, how to co-create in a collective? What remains at the core is practising the art of improvisation through the moving body.
scoring the
unknown
| 28.06 / 10h-13h |
The workshop will move through games of action and reaction, intuitive responses, and physical conversations between bodies. Together, we will explore group dynamics that shape, investigate, coexist, listen, and create instant strategies through dancing.
HOEK offers tools to navigate the in-between—between doing and sensing, performing and observing. Poetry, voice, and imagery become catalysts or anchors for shared improvisation.
You don’t need to “know” what’s next—just stay curious.
After lunch, the practice can continue into a more open form through a dance jam with live music, where the tools and experiences of the workshop can expand and transform collectively. Open to all movers.
goffart84
Goffart 84 is an experimental music collective centered on improvisation and sound research as a sensorial experience.
This formation navigates between synthesizers, machines, voices, and various wind and string instruments. Their work seeks a dialogue between balance and chaos, the group creates immersive soundscapes drifting through progressive, atmospheric, noisy, and trance-like territories.
With dance embedded in its history and practice, Goffart 84 approaches sound as a physical experience. Regularly accompanying movement jams, the collective brings together dancers and musicians in a shared space for experimentation. As a fluid collective, its human composition shifts according to each context and performance format that regularly involves Louis Simon, Donald Beteille, Bastien Courdavault.
jam with live music
| 28.06 / 14h15-16h15 |
The jam will be guided and have tools and propositions to create composition and interaction.
The live music played by Goffart 84, builds immersive, noisy landscapes through the layering of cello, bass guitar, clarinette, voice, and synthesizer. It moves between raw improvisation and structured passages, creating shifting sonic scenes that feel both expansive and intimate.
julia farber
Julia Farber (she/her) is a performer, choreographer, researcher, and anthropologist born in Mexico and based in Brussels. Active across both the European and Latin American artistic scenes, she continuously builds bridges between cultures, practices, and ways of thinking. Deeply rooted in her Mexican heritage, Julia believes in the transformative power of exchange and in the magic that arises when borders are crossed and different perspectives meet.
She co-organizes Top Floor Festival since its beginning.
Alongside her role at Top Floor, she develops her own artistic and anthropological research through performances and choreographic works in Europe and Mexico, and is the creator of MalaCostumbre a creative research laboratory.
poner el cuerpo
| 29.06 / | 10h-13h |
Poner el cuerpo is a spatial-bodily practice and a space for reflection in action, recognizing the body as a primary tool and territory for the sensitive, the political, and the poetic. Body confronts censorship and violence, while simultaneously invoking celebration, joy, resistance, and sacredness.
The world is presented to us in itself, what does placing our body would mean, through dance, movement, and relation.
This broad practice will focus this class on working together on the following questions: How do we access an available body? What affects us, and how do we affect ? We will explore techniques for improvisation, working with intensity and contrast, rhythm, and temporality.
We´ll go through dynamics and exercises that open us to play and explore, encouraging to delve into our own repertoire and activate our imagination.
VICTORIA KENNETT
Victoria Kennett (she/her) is a french & english dancer, improviser choreographer, mouvement director & teacher, based in Brussels since 2020. In the past years she developped her improvisational and instant composition tools through the research with HOEK Collective, whom she co-created; and also by herself, alongside with teaching. She collaborated with various companies and artists in (mainly) Europe in the past years: Cie Thor, Roméo Castelluci & Cindy Van Acker, Cie Théo MW, Patrick Servius, Artur Bienkowski, The Polish Dance Theater, Cie La Colombe Enragée & various cabaret companies. She is also a co-founder & co-organizer of Top Floor Festival & a member of WEi Studio.
In the past years she developped her choreographic work with her solo “mosaïque”, a piece for Company J “Rehearsing Spring”, and several collaborations with singers, and directors for live performance but also for camera.
She has been researching around slow motion since 2024, and recently collaborating with film director Cécilia Goodman.
SLOW MOTION STUDY
| 29.06 / | 14h15-16h15 |
a frame to slow down and investigate what is moving slow. tuning into our sensorial bodies, we will visit slowness through improvisation. you can expect physical tasks and images that will support the journey of this lab such as the transfer of weight giving rise to a specific physicality, the relationship to space and to others, gazes, balances, shared tensions, voluntary inhibition, the emergence of emotions in slowed-down movement, collective listening, dissociation of body parts, physical architecture, image work.
in a society that values speed, productivity, and immediate response, slowing down and improvising become acts of resistance.
her wish is to create a space for support, presence, and transformation, where we can dance, listen, try-out, speak, exchange, write, and hold that space for one another