Gitta Barthel | Patricia Carolin Mai

DANCE IN SCHOOL - SOFT SKILLS IN DANCE

This training series for teachers focuses on the connection between dance practice and the development of soft skills. Playful approaches from the online guidebook Soft Skills in Dance form the basis. Perception and design exercises introduce creative processes and are supplemented with tasks to raise awareness of soft skills. Which social and communicative skills do students develop while dancing? How do they practise the ability to adapt and concentrate, consideration or the appreciation of differences in group improvisations? Which soft skills are helpful for teachers to direct attention and reflect?

Participants learn about dance and choreographic working methods and expand their knowledge of the importance of soft skills in artistic processes in a school context.

Especially for teachers who already work with dance and movement in a school context | The training series can only be attended in sequence. | One ticket is valid for the entire training series and must be shown at the first appointment

Gitta Barthel

works across the fields of art, art outreach and academic research and teaches contemporary dance and choreography at various universities and training centres. As the result of her long relationship as a research associate with the Institute for Movement Research/Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg, she is currently writing her doctorate on Choreografische Praxis. Vermittlung in Tanzkunst und Kultureller Bildung (Choreographic Practice. Communication in Dance and Cultural Education.)

www.gittabarthel.de

Patricia Carolin Mai

Patricia Carolin Mai is a dancer, choreographer and artistic director of MAI:COMPANY. She studied dance at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp and performance studies at the University of Hamburg. Since 2015, she has been producing dance pieces at Kampnagel and K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg, which have been performed internationally in countries including Belgium, France, Italy, Israel and Korea. Her artistic work in intergenerational and participatory contexts explores movement as a somatic and empowering practice and examines bodies in extreme states. Since 2019, she has been conducting research on soft skills in dance education as part of the EU project ‘Empowering Dance’ and works as a lecturer and mentor both in Germany and abroad. In 2025, she founded MAI:COMPANY – Hamburg’s first cross-generational dance company. From 2026 to 2028, she is deepening her work on community, participation and physical diversity with MAI:COMPANY as part of the City-State-Federal project ‘An Artistic Practice of Expansion’.

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http://www.patricia-carolin-mai.de/