Welcome to the  PONDEROSA TANZLAND FESTIVAL XXL 2009.

Starting Now! June 29-July3. Intensive Week for Improvisation and Performance   There will be a mixture of Laban and Action theater work taught by Sten Rudstrom together with finish artist  Satu Pallokangas. Lisa Schmidt/Lani Nahele is teaching a 4 hour class on Release Technique and Body Mind Centering. Kathleen Hermesdorf is with us again leading a multimedia performance & practice a 10 hour! over the top-intensive experience with her brilliant sound & video crew, Albert Matthias, Laurant Lavole and Yoann Trellu. You are invited to come to our Fourth of July party with performances from K.hermesdorf & Crew , Jessy Tuddenham and Stephanie Maher. Please call  to register.

The next upcoming event is the Retreat-Week from June 6 -12 with classes still open and for all levels, followed by the ponderosa contact jam on the weekend 17-19 of July

July 13- 17 we  have an incredible intensive week with Meg Stuart, Witek Jurewicz, Keith Hennessy and Ray Chung  BUT we are totally full! you are welcome to join us for the ending festivites on July 18-19. COME WITH A TENT! (the house is also full)

Artist in residence: Copenhagen artisic director, Pipaluk Supernova of Half Machine is to join the Pondi Team in developing NORTH WATER a joint production/collaboration of art, music events, building and theater to take place during the Ponderosa TanzLand festival 2009. Half machine has invoked incredible mass productions on water, from building submarines, water ballets with canoes, rowboats, robotic water displays and amazing choreographies on land and into the surrounding waters of Copenhagen and now Stolzenhagen! Performance is July 9th.

For the school vacations, we invite families to come visit our 2 week long family retreat with classes for the children and adults. Relaxing is also possible, as well  adventurous canoe and donkey tours in the National park!

We look forward to your visit and just be prepared to want to stay longer. All the best

Stephanie Maher, Uli Kaiser & the Pondi Team 

Ponderosa Events XXL Program 2009

TanzLand Festival 2009
July 5-10 Retreat & Training Week A mix of 6 classes/day to choose from♥
July 10-12 Ponderosa Annual Contact Jam
July 10-12 Contact Workshop, Eszter Gal (int/adv)
July 10-12 Contact Workshop, Pondi Team (beginners)
July 13-19 Intensives for Improvisation and Performance block 2
  K. Hennessy, M.Stuart, R. Chung, W.Jurewicz,
July 18-19 Performance Marathon Weekend

Yoga and Somatics
August 10-16 Ashtanga Yoga Workshop, Andrea Lutz & Anthony Kearney
August 21-22 Feldenkrais & Improvisation, K.Münker
September 10-13 Shiatsu-Principles, led by Shiatsu-Mitte

More workshops
August 16-22 Milkgarden - Embodied Theorie Workshop, Jess Curtis
September 2-5 Contact & Alignment, Stephanie Maher

Family Retreat
July 22-26 Kids creative movement, K.Wickenhäuser
July 25-26 Kids donkey tour
July 27-31 Kids Theater workshop, S.Henke
July 23-31 Intergenerational Project, A.Dowling & K.Horrigan
                      

♥Retreat & Training Week with Frank Willens, Johanna Chemnitz, Howard Katz,
Katja Münker, Jeremy Wade, Mamen Parez, Patrick Slepica, Kay Grothusen,
Pipaluk Supernova, Kollektiv LaborGras Renate Graziadei und Arthur Stäldi
and other special guests.