Residency - Cielaroque: BODYCHAPTERS - workshop 9.5.2026.
During May, Austrian company CieLAROQUE, led by choreographer Helene Weinzierl, will be in residence at the Mediterranean Dance Center developing the project BODYCHAPTERS. The artistic research explores the relationship between vulnerability and strength, belonging, transformation, and the presence of the body through different choreographic formats. As part of the residency, a workshop open to the local community and everyone interested in movement and shared experience will take place.
Workshop: May 9 at 10:00
Mediterranean Dance Center, Svetvinčenat
WORKSHOP - Exploring Relations
In this workshop for community members, amateurs, and professionals, movement becomes a way of meeting ourselves, each other, and the space we share. Starting from simple everyday gestures, participants will explore ways of connecting and moving together through mirroring, touch, and weight sharing. Step by step, individual movement grows into a collective experience. The workshop is open to everyone and no previous dance experience is required.
Date: May 9
Time: 10:00 – 11:30
Location: Mediterranean Dance Center, Svetvinčenat
Workshop language: English
Price: 15 EUR
Registration: rezervacije@mediteranskiplesnicentar.hr
The number of participants is limited.
ABOUT WORKSHOP LEADER
Luan de Lima is a professional dancer based in Vienna whose work focuses on movement as a form of communication, relationship, and community building. As a freelance performer, he works internationally and performs at festivals and projects across Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Since 2014, he has continuously collaborated with choreographer Helene Weinzierl and the company CieLAROQUE, and since 2025 he has also worked as her artistic assistant. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with numerous international choreographers and companies, including Willi Dorner, Anton Lachky Dance Company, Mirjam Sögner, and others.
Alongside his work as a performer, he develops his own artistic projects and collaborations. He studied at SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) and completed the BODHI PROJECT postgraduate programme in Salzburg. He is currently enrolled in the master’s programme
Movement Research and Analysis at Anton Bruckner University in Linz.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
SHIVER is a choreographic self-dialogue exploring the poetic force of fragility, asserting itself and transforming within a field of tension between vulnerability and strength. NOT YET, a solo created and performed by Luan de Lima, reflects on the cost of belonging and what remains of a person who refuses to disappear within the need for acceptance. HOW TO HOLD AS WALKING BECOMES SOMETHING ELSE develops a space of resonance where transformation itself becomes a choreographic principle — a continuous reordering of what has been and what can become.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
CieLAROQUE was founded in 1995 by choreographer Helene Weinzierl and is today considered one of the most internationally present companies within the Austrian dance scene. Since its beginnings, the company has developed a distinctive artistic language at the intersection of
contemporary dance and performance, often engaging with current social and political issues. Their productions are characterised by physical precision, high performance quality, and an opening of traditional stage formats towards interaction and new ways of encountering audiences. The company has received numerous national and international awards for its work.