Clarissa Sacchelli | Lo Höckner | Venetsiana Kalampaliki
DISCOVER CONTEMPORARY DANCE
This practical dance course introduces participants to the basics of contemporary dance and gives them the opportunity to get to know the current K3 choreographers in residence, Gloria Höckner (Hamburg), Clarissa Sacchelli (São Paulo) and Venetsiana Kalampaliki (Athens), who will be showing new pieces in Hamburg during this upcoming season. Each choreographer will host one class and explain and demonstrate individual physical and practical aspects of their work as well as outline the topics that they are artistically focusing on
Partly in English
Open to all interested | No previous knowledge required
Registration ONLY possible via VHS Hamburg:
www.vhs-hamburg.de
Clarissa Sacchelli
is an artist working in and on dance. She has been developing her projects moving between choreographic pieces, performances, publications and educational activities, whilst also working in collaboration with other artists. Her practice has been informed by the experience of living and working predominantly in the Latin-American context. She holds an MA in Dance from Trinity Laban (UK) and a postgraduate diploma in Semiotics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (BR).
During her residency at K3, Clarissa proposes to explore the concept of care as a speculative choreographic practice. She is interested in what happens to the body and to dance when we pay attention to the question of how to care. Searching for bodies that defy gravity, neither vertical nor horizontal, that are leaning themselves to others in a vulnerable position. She will investigate how a practice based on being out of one’s own axis is capable of bringing people and other beings together in an interdependent relation.
(Status: 2021)
Lo Höckner
(they/them) is a choreographer, somatic practitioner, and activist. Originally from Vienna, Lo has lived and worked in Hamburg and now Berlin. After experiencing burnout while working as a full-time freelance choreographer, Lo began training in Somatic Experiencing® and Pantarei, and turned increasingly toward activism, trauma resolution work, and embodied change. They are searching for ways to counter isolation and political paralysis by building support systems and relations that are empowering and transformative.
Out of this, they initiated the Embodied Social Justice Learning Circle — a bi-weekly gathering in Berlin to practice and learn together. Their work focuses on the connection between the body and social/systemic change, and on countering the experience of disempowerment.
They work in 1:1 sessions, facilitate workshops, practice as a cross-media artist, are engaged in environmental activism and are passionately training in the martial art form Muay Thai. Lo studied Performance Studies and Theatre, Film and Media Science in Hamburg, Vienna and Lyon.
(Status: 2026)
Venetsiana Kalampaliki
works in the performing arts field as a dancer and choreographer based between Hamburg and Athens. She is a graduate of the Greek National School of Dance, the University of Athens, and the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her interdisciplinary work combines text, voice, and movement, focusing on the body in sociopolitical contexts of accessibility and inclusion. Her works have been presented at festivals such as Holland Dance Festival and Onassis Stegi. She collaborates with Rimini Protokoll, Jenny Beyer, Antje Velsinger, Anna Konjetzky, Lenio Kaklea and Iris Karayan amongst others.
In 2021–22, she was a resident choreographer at K3 – centre for choreography and attended international residency programmes in Chile and South Korea. She coordinates K3’s Professional Training programme and is involved in the European project Dance Well.
(Status: 2025)