Dance artist, teacher, mentor & healing practitioner - Skinner Releasing Technique™

I am an independent dance artist, teacher, mentor and healing practitioner based in Amsterdam, active in the field of performance and theatre for 30 years.

In my work I seek to develop the moving body as a vessel for our aliveness, humanness and interconnectivity through which we can engage our collaborative intelligence and build shared ground and understanding.

I create dance performances and performative installations collaborating with dancers, musicians, visual artists and light designers from all over the world.

I give classes and workshops in Dancing & Making , Skinner Releasing Technique™ and my movement practice in natural environments.

As a qualified healing practitioner, I offer healing sessions using the Intelligenz des Lebens® Heilweisen and the Divine Plan Healing.

If my work resonates with you and you feel an attraction to collaborate, join my classes or work individually with me, book a performance, host a workshop or receive a healing session please send me an email. I’m always happy to discuss what I can bring to you.

Upcoming Events & News

Dances of Aliveness and Presence – Skinner Releasing Technique

2024-01-02 - 2024-01-05 // Berlin

Workshop

During these 4 morning classes we will engage with the basic principles of Skinner Releasing as a way to access the intuitive and poetic body in motion.
The duration of 3-hours gives extra time and space to get fully immersed in one's dancing, rooted in aliveness and presence.

Skinner Releasing Technique & Improvisation

2024-01-08 - 2024-01-12 // Kassel

Workshop

This 5-day workshop comprises 5 classes Skinner Releasing and investigates how the foundational releasing principles can inspire the entry into improvising and making dances. It is designed for dancers, performers and movement-lovers with an interest in moving in relationship to his/her own imagination

An introduction into Skinner Releasing Technique

2024-03-09 - 2024-03-10 // Bern

Workshop

Offering the first 3 classes of the Introductory Level of the Skinner Releasing Technique this workshop is especially for those who are new to SRT and would like to experience it.
For people who are already familiar with SRT it is an opportunity to return to the basics and deepen their practice. Be welcome!

Skinner Releasing Technique

2024-03-16 - 2024-03-17 // Leiden

Workshop

Offering a first introduction into the Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) this workshop is especially for those who are new to SRT and would like to experience it. For people who are already familiar with SRT it is an opportunity to return to the basics and deepen their practice. Be welcome!

At 2000-2700m altitude

News August 2023

This August I had the privilege of being high up in the mountains of the canton Grisons for several weeks, hiking 5-8 hours a day at 2000-2700m altitude through nature.
Probably no better opportunity to return after a little while to my outdoor practice in this breathtakingly beautiful and wild environment.

SRT Summer Intensive in Bern

News July 2023

It is with great pleasure that I look back on the 5-day Summer Intensive SRT - Opening into New Territories, that took place 24 - 28 July 2023 at Akar Studio in Bern. It was a honor to work at the probably oldest studio for contemporary dance in town, where artistic work has been created and dance history has been written for over 5 decades.

Crow, Knife and Letters

News January 2023

With a shared passion for making and performing dances by composing them instantly we, dance artists Alkistis Theophilou, Marianthi Michailidou and Bettina Neuhaus have been working together in the studio in January in Amsterdam to share our artistic practice and carry it forward.

Tending Decay

News November 2022

After having waited since 2020 for the opportunity to meet finally in person we, Canadian dance artist Susanna Hood and I are thrilled to meet finally in person in Berlin from 22 to 29 November and work on a first version of TENDING DECAY, an interactive installation inspired by the pandemic experience and exploring caring for the other in absence.

A visit to earth, air and trees

News November 2022

Together with a wonderful group of participants I spent this late autumn 2 days in the large nature reserve of the Oberwald in Karlsruhe. A breathtaking eco-system with a unique biodiversity of trees such as Pedunculate oaks and hornbeams, shrubs, fungi, animals and insects of all kinds: An unforgettable visit to our ancestors, that came to earth millions of years before us.

Launch of the website alongthelines.net

News September 2022

We, Eva Karczag and Bettina Neuhaus have just launched alongthelines.net , the bilingual digital version of our lecture performance Along the Lines , which we have been presenting and continuously developing in various contexts and formats since 2015.

Residency at REZI.DANCE

News August 2022

This summer we, Bettina Neuhaus, Roberta Legros and sound artist Matthieu Legros were offered a residency at REZI.DANCE in Komařice (CZ) to continue our working process for the performance THE PAGE. We are grateful for being offered this brilliant and inspiring place to dive into creation. What a great time we had!

Looking back on 5 rehearsal days in Brno

News May 2022

For The Page, a performance of poetic writing in dance, sound and words by Roberta Legros Stepankova and Bettina Neuhaus in collaboration with sound artist Matthieu Legros.

Looking back on Becoming the Dancing

News April 2022

Looking back on Becoming the Dancing on 3 &4 April 2022, the very first workshop Skinner Releasing Technique™ & Instant Composition that I’ve been teaching in Brno/CZ, generously organized by Roberta Legros Stepankova.