Costume has long been an important part of my dance: it changes me and my movements. Often they are expansive, large costumes, with lots of fabric to wrap around. In this way I give the audience the opportunity to read the dance without bias, leaving my own body out of it.
My memorial dance is suitable for commemorating a special person. With an individual choreography and a selected performance I give the memories a form.
Learning with the body how individual parts can be moved and how the connections can be felt. Stretching, strengthening and stabilising, giving the breath more space. Feel how breathing moves the body. Strong, lively and flexible. Through relaxation to tension to energy.
There is a time when speechlessness reigns. Here dance can be a language without words that finds its way to the heart. In a conversation with the relatives, a framework for a dance during or after the funeral service is created together. You can choose from a wide range of music.
“with being driven forward,
the time races
and sometimes it
just stands still.
traces are left behind,
sometimes broad and often
also tremendously loud.”
Early on after my training, my studio approached me. Here I could retreat and try out, explore, experiment and rehearse undisturbed as much as I wanted.
Helga Seewann
Bodywork
Dance
Studio:
089/272 49 06
Isabellastraße 13
80798 Munich
post[at]helgaseewann.de
With her own projects, she has been working as a performer and choreographer on and off stage since 1984. She taught at drama schools for many years and still teaches in her own studio in Munich.
From ballet, modern, flamenco, mime corporel and butho, Helga Seewann found her own form of contemporary expressive dance.
Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR, aid programm DIS-TANZEN by the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland
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