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    Students, autumn semester 2022

    • Andrei Cozlac
    • Arman Grigoryan
    • Viviane Hummel
    • Victor Mendes

    Andrei Cozlac

    Dance is expression 

    I want a freedom of choice

    A continuous freedom of movement 

    A feeling of letting go

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    I want to feel alive

    I need to be free

    Independence is a dream

    If that could even be 

    โ€ฆ

    In the end

    Just one thing I am sure of

    Love is everything I need

    Love is all there is 

    Photo: Portrait of Andrei Cozlac

      Arman Grigoryan

      Wish for understanding, go deeper to discover.

      Not everything comes easy, overcoming is not a must.

      Seek balance and you can find beauty in chaos.

      To push the limits โ€“ what are the limits?

      Does aiming for perfection come with obsession?

      No cramping in, no closing in, what is unique is that we all are.
      No cramping in, no closing in, unless thatโ€™s the place where you are at your best.

      I dare myself: why not?

      Photo: Portrait of Arman Grigoryan

        Viviane Hummel

        Wake up.

        Every appearance you perceive with your mind
        is your individual truth.
        Donโ€™t judge. Just perceive and accept. 
        Everybody has a different history and therefore a different opinion.

        Letโ€™s be kind to each other. 
        You never know what somebody is going through in their own world. 
        Especially in dance this is of major importance, 
        because we work closely with our own individual body and mind.

        May we always keep this understanding in our heart. 

        Photo: Portrait of Viviane Hummel

          Victor Mendes

          Step 1: You are in the place you trust and itโ€™s okay to doubt it from time to time. Remember where/who you are.

          Step 2: Pull everything out of your family, friends, teachers, students, even the person you bumped into this morning by accident. We all have a story to tell.

          Step 3: Experiment everything, every movement. Your body knows when to stop and it will tell you.

          Step 4: Be self disciplined. That is when it makes you feel good about what you are doing.

          Step 5: Acknowledge your beliefs. Everything is wrong and everything is a mistake. There is no win and no fail, there is only create/make.

          Step 6: As a great philosopher once said; You want a hot body? You want a Bugatti? You want a Maserati? YOU BETTER WORK, B*TCH!

          No but seriously, work for yourself, it feels good.

          Step 7: In creations do not use your creativity and judgement at the same time. It comes from different parts of your brain. These are different processes.

          Step 8: Go have a beer at the end of the week. It is lighter than you think.

          Step 9: Break all the rules, especially your own. You just need to know for yourself when it is time to say NO.

          Step 10: Take a breath, love, appropriate. You do belong here.


          I can not expect anything but I hope we can dance.

          Victor

          Photo: Portrait of Victor Mendes