Skinner Releasing Technique — November sessions at PiP Studios 🌿
During November at PiP Studios (Berlin), we’ll explore the Skinner Releasing Technique as a way to soften, tune perception, and open new pathways for movement and presence.
These weekend sessions offer time and space to slow down, to listen, and to move from inner images — guided by touch, alignment principles, and imagination. The classes are open to both newcomers and experienced movers who wish to (re)discover the foundations of SRT or deepen their practice.
Skinner Releasing Technique is a poetic and experiential approach to dance and embodiment. It uses guided imagery and tactile exercises to illuminate the relationship between release and flow in movement. Through letting go and awakening the imagination, we allow movement to arise with ease surprising us with its power and clarity. It nurtures awareness, sensitivity, and freedom in motion.
This practice invites softness, attention, and transformation, opening subtle layers of perception that unfold in the dialogue between body and imagination, stillness and movement.
Classes 1–2: 8–9 November
Classes 3–4–5: 20–21–22 November
PiP Studios, Berlin
2 weekends — 180 € | 1st weekend — 80 € | 2nd weekend — 100 €
Folow-up
5,6,7,13,14 December (Classes 6-10)
10, 11, 23, 24, 25 January (Classes 10-15)
Each module comprises 5 classes (spread to two weekends)
Friday : 18:00-21:00
Saturday : 10:30-13:30
Sunday : 10:30-13:30Place : PIP Studio / Flutgraben, Kreuzberg, Berlin
Places are limited and confirmed upon availability
The workshop language is English
Please remember that you can join with prior experience of the preceding classes of the repertoire
Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) is a somatic practice and a pedagogical approach to movement developed in the late 1960s in the United States by dancer and educator Joan Skinner. At the crossroads of dance, improvisation, and guided imagery, SRT invites the release of unnecessary tension and the discovery of new ways of moving with ease, awareness, and creativity. It supports a shift from constrained voluntary control toward a state where movement arises almost on its own—often with more clarity, power, and subtlety.
FACILITATOR: AYŞE ORHON
A dancer and choreographer based in Berlin. She graduated from Artez (HKA) in 2001 and completed a Master’s degree in choreography in Amsterdam (AHK) in 2013. As a performer, she has danced with Aydın Teker, Emmanuelle Huynh, DD Dorvillier, Eszter Salamon, Deborah Hay, Hermann Heisig, Jule Flierl, among others. As a choreographer and dancer, she collaborates with choreographers in Berlin (including Litó Walkey, Christina Ciupke, and Begüm Erciyas). As a creator, Orhon has presented her work in various festivals across Europe. She is a certified Pilates trainer (Stott/Merrithew), Shiatsu practitioner (European Shiatsu Institute, Berlin), and certified in Skinner Releasing Technique™. Moving between the somatic and the artistic—between the kinesthetic and the aesthetic— she brings together technical knowledge, hands-on experience and artistic curiosity.
Please remember that you can join to any module only if you have done the preceding classes of the repertoire at least once (for 2nd module 2 Classes 1-5, for 3rd module Classes 1-10).
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ADDITIONAL INFOS
Come with your comfy clothes to move in and out of the floor
Wear layers and/or come with a small blanket to lie on
Bring your material to write and draw (different paper&colors) for the end of each session
The classes start on time, you are welcomed to be in the space before
Remember bringing your water bottle
There is no recording/photographing/witnessing of the SRT Classes, creating a space for free discovery.
Photos: ©Robin Beumier, ©Ayşe Orhon