WITH: Tove Sahlin, Peter Pleyer, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Stephanie Maher, Maria Francesca Scaroni, Abby Crain, Joy Mariama Smith, Jen Polins, Yoshiko chuma, Benoit Lachambre, Nancy Stark Smith & Mike Vargas, Andrew Morrish, Bruno Caverna, Frank willens, Meg Stuart, Olive Bieringa, Otto ramstad, Eckhard Mueller, Dani Schwarz, Mark Tompkins, Nina Martin, Andrea Kaiz, Karen Nelson, Diane Torr & more.

The ponderosa classes and workshops provide an educational container for liminal people questioning their identity as artists and gives the professional another way to retreat or hone ones skills as dance artists. Most of the workshops have some kind of base and or understanding in the art and teaching of improvisation, contact improvisation and somatics. The workshops and classes are grounded in the body and it's discourses. The teachers or facilitators share their practice or theoretical concerns around embodiment. All takes place in Gut-Stolzenhagen, a reoccupied farm and cooperatively run project in germanys smallest national park "Unteres Odertal". Our local village and surroundings hold some of the most beautiful ruins and all around stunning scenery.