Kerstin Evert | Patricia Carolin Mai

EMPOWERING DANCE – SOFT SKILLS IN DANCE EDUCATION

Dancing empowers - but what triggers this feeling? Is it the pure physical movement or is there more to it when we meet regularly, train together, develop choreographies or guide others to dance? What skills, what knowledge is inherent in contemporary dance practices, but also dance practitioners themselves are not always aware of? What skills do dance practitioners implicitly deepen when dancing together?

The European project Empowering Dance - Developing Soft Skills, co-financed by the EU funding program Erasmus+, has set out to explore this question for the first time in contemporary dance and to investigate the connection between the development of soft skills and dance.

The workshop reveals implicit forms of knowledge and enables a reflective approach to and practical application of soft skills in one's own dance mediating practice.

Open to interested dancers, mediators, dance educators and teachers.

Registration until June 7 at: tanzplan2@kampnagel.de

Kerstin Evert

Patricia Carolin Mai

Patricia Carolin Mai is a dancer, choreographer and artistic director of MAI:COMPANY. She studied dance at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp and performance studies at the University of Hamburg. Since 2015, she has been producing dance pieces at Kampnagel and K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg, which have been performed internationally in countries including Belgium, France, Italy, Israel and Korea. Her artistic work in intergenerational and participatory contexts explores movement as a somatic and empowering practice and examines bodies in extreme states. Since 2019, she has been conducting research on soft skills in dance education as part of the EU project ‘Empowering Dance’ and works as a lecturer and mentor both in Germany and abroad. In 2025, she founded MAI:COMPANY – Hamburg’s first cross-generational dance company. From 2026 to 2028, she is deepening her work on community, participation and physical diversity with MAI:COMPANY as part of the City-State-Federal project ‘An Artistic Practice of Expansion’.

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