Workshop: Choreo-Constellating

About the Workshop

The workshop is led by Liv Schellander & Alexandra Wingate.
The workshop will be held in English. German will be used as needed.

Cost

• Participation in the workshop is free of charge.

Who can join?

• There is no age restriction.
• The workshop is open to professional artists from all disciplines – no prior experience in the performing arts is required.

Registration
The number of participants is limited. Therefore, we kindly ask you to register via the form (see below).

Schedule

• Sat, Sept 26 & 27, 2025 | 10:00–17:00 | WUK Saal
  The workshop is designed as a two-part program. Please register only if you can commit to attending both days.
• from 9:30 – Soft Get In
  10:00–17:00 – Workshop including a lunch break
  17:00–18:00 – Open end / open space for winding down

Content

Animalarium Dance Collective – Choreo-Constellating: Embodied Storytelling and Collective Meaning Making 

Welcome to a two-day long workshop hosted by Animalarium Dance Collective

In this workshop, Animalarium Dance Collective will share their improvisation practice Choreo-Constellating. Participants will explore themes related to their upcoming creation, Constellation #4 Shows for Futures, being developed on-site in Vienna in collaboration with WUK performing arts.

The workshop is for professional artists, but no previous performing arts experience is needed. We use voice, movement, gestures, and language. We will explore how to create a collective dramaturgy/story in the moment. The two days will consist of guided explorations, performing in small groups, as well as witnessing each other and reflecting together.

The workshop is facilitated by Liv Schellander and Alexandra Wingate.

Choreo-Constellating is a practice for artistic expression, research, and collaboration. Developed by Liv Schellander and Animalarium, this unique method integrates sensory work, embodied perception, movement, voice, language, and improvisation. Developed within the framework of contemporary choreography and somatic and systemic inquiry, it serves as a practice for collective meaning making through embodied storytelling, offering a dynamic way to map relationships, histories, and speculative futures through the body.

The practice invites a multisensory presence, fostering an interdependent awareness that contrasts with the isolating tendencies of contemporary culture. It offers a space where collective experience can be digested through movement and shared experiencing — something dance has historically provided across cultures.

Liv Schellander and Alexandra Wingate are artists working in dance and performance. Liv, based in Vienna, enjoys collaborating with other artists in long-term processes. She develops her artistic practice, Choreo-Constellating, together with Alexandra for their project Animalarium’s Constellations. Liv and Alexandra share a history and focus on improvisation and founded the Animalarium Dance Collective together with Lena Kimming. Alexandra, based on the Swedish northwest coast, works closely with dancers to create pieces that explore cultural ideas and symbols. Both artists are passionate about bringing new perspectives and creative processes to their work.

About 

Animalarium Dance Collectives’ recent project Animalariums’ Constellations is an artistic concept to enact some of our times’ burning issues – Extinction, Countdowns and Future Dreaming – in an embodied and collective way. The project tours Norway, Sweden and Austria as part of Perform Europe 2025, collaborating with Elle Sofe Company, Ställbergs gruva and WUK Performing Arts Vienna. 

Support

This workshop is happening with the support of Perform Europe as part of the project Animalariums' Constellations.

Perform Europe, supported by the European Union, is a funding scheme for the European performing arts sector. It facilitates international networking and supports inclusive, diverse, and eco-friendly touring projects across the 40 Creative Europe countries. Perform Europe emphasises practices rooted in sustainability and inclusivity, aiming to transform the performing arts sector and ensure a balanced distribution across the continent.

Perform Europe is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and implemented by a consortium of six organisations: IETM – International network for contemporary performing arts, European Festivals Association (EFA), Circostrada, European Dance Development Network, Pearle * - Live Performance Europe and IDEA Consult.