Dance acrobatics

In a playful and sweat-inducing way, we strengthen body and mind, become supple and flexible, learn and refine acrobatic skills and bring them into flow, dancing together through all levels of space – sometimes as a duet, sometimes as a group animal.

Course content and objectives

• make your hands your feet / experience the world as a trampoline.
• the ground, your friend / the air, your partner / upside-down, your trump card
• Awaken body intelligence / sharpen sensitivity / connected in musicality
• strong & soft / clear & sensitive / pleasurable contact
• fly and be flown / land and be landed

Clothing: Comfortable sportswear. In the winter months we recommend long training clothes for before and after the course.

Laura Vogel

Laura Vogel, born in Berlin, lives and works as a choreographer, performer and movement teacher in Zurich. Trained at the École Nationale des Arts du Cirque in France, further training in contemporary dance and dance therapy and studied human medicine in Berlin.

In addition to her own pieces with the production platform Gesellschaft für zeitgeniessenden Tanz, she has danced for various companies, taught movement at the Zurich University of the Arts and creates choreographies for dance, theater and new circus. www.gfzgt.ch

General information

• Course information: The course takes place once a week (except during school vacations and public holidays) and lasts 90 minutes.
• Start of the course: August 19 (from the end of the 2024 school summer vacation)
• Course duration: 19 lessons until February 3 (until the start of the 2025 sports vacations)
• Course-free dates Monday: 2.9. (festival week at Zirkusquartier) / 9.9. (Knabenschiessen) / 7.10. 14.10.(fall vacations) / 23.12. 30.12. (Christmas vacation)
• Entry: It is always possible to join the course during the current session if there is free space. Just book online.
• New bookers: The first lesson from the date of booking is always a trial lesson and costs CHF 20, after which a final decision can be made on the booking. Registration or de-registration for the whole session must be confirmed by email within three days of the trial lesson. (kontakt@zirkusquartier.ch) The course is then considered booked.
• Trial lesson: See the point on new visitors.
• Individual lessons cannot be booked, only the whole session from the start date. The invoice will be adjusted accordingly.
• Discounts: LEGI & KULTURLEGI. For children’s courses, we also accept LEGI and KULTURLEGI from parents. We give a 5 franc discount per lesson on the second course booked.
• Course confirmations will be sent on request.