Adult

Adult workshops

Armenian letters are dancing here; visual design of Nesil Kalenderoğlu

Dance with Armenian Alphabet

Dance with the Armenian Alphabet is an embodied movement workshop inviting adults to explore language, memory, and cultural identity through the body.

In this practice, the Armenian alphabet becomes more than a writing system—it unfolds as form, rhythm, vibration, and gesture. Each letter is approached as a living historic structure that can be sensed, moved, and reimagined. Through guided improvisation, somatic exploration, and creative composition, participants engage with the shapes, sounds, and symbolic resonances of the letters.

The workshop opens a space to investigate how language lives in the body—how it is shaped by time, space, and personal experience. It offers a gentle yet profound approach to reconnecting with cultural roots, or encountering a language for the first time through embodied awareness; while inviting them to an embodied journey though Armenian letters, words and sentenes

Depending on the context, the workshop may support:

  • Embodied language learning and sensory engagement with the Armenian alphabet
  • Exploration of cultural memory, identity, and belonging
  • Creative expression through movement, voice, and writing
  • Reflective and artistic research processes

Rooted in somatic practices and improvisation, the sessions prioritise process over outcome, inviting participants to move beyond cognitive understanding into lived, felt experience.

Who is it for?

Open to all adults—no prior dance or Armenian language experience is required. Depending on the context and needs isessions available for non-dancers /communities / dancers and stage proffesionals alike.

Collage of Lerna where she is dancing inbetween images of words, worlds, ecologies, histories in a multilayered way

Multi Layered Movement Expressions

Multi-Layered Movement Expressions is a creative dance workshop exploring the body as a site where personal histories, cultural narratives, and ecological relations intersect.

Grounded in somatic practices, improvisation, and ecological ways of knowing, the workshop invites participants into a non-judgmental and fluid space for movement exploration. Here, sensing, thinking, feeling, and imagining are equally valued, allowing each participant to move from their own embodied experience.

The practice gently challenges dominant, hierarchical, and product-driven approaches to dance, opening instead a relational and process-oriented approach. Participants are encouraged to explore how memory, place, identity, and environment shape the way they move and perceive.

Rather than focusing on fixed techniques or performance outcomes, this workshop approaches dance as a space for inquiry, expression, and connection.


What participants can experience and develop:

  • Connection between movement, ecology, and lived experience
  • Deeper body awareness and embodied listening
  • Tools for improvisation and creative movement-making
  • Increased sensitivity to space, environment, and relational dynamics
  • Exploration of personal and collective narratives through movement
  • Confidence in expressing without judgment or predefined forms

Who is it for?

Depending on the context and needs isessions available for non-dancers /communities / dancers and stage proffesionals alike.
No previous movement experience is needed.