Patricia Carolin Mai

ALL ON STAGE - INSIGHTS INTO COMMUNITY DANCE PROJECTS

Patricia Carolin Mai's dance productions stand for intergenerational and, where possible, intercontextual collaborations with people from the city who are interested in movement. Since 2018, the choreographer has been using her production resources to explore the accessibility of dance through rehearsal and performance processes. In May 2025, Patricia Carolin Mai founded the Mai:Company, taking an important step in stabilising the work she began over seven years ago with and for people from the city. In the VHS course All On Stage, Patricia Carolin Mai presents movement approaches and principles from her dance productions and tries them out with the participants. What dance and communication potential lies in the transitions from one physical state to the next - in the fleeting and transformative moment of the in-between? How do I make decisions individually and as part of a group? How do I relate to other bodies and space? Whether sitting, lying or standing, slow or fast, with the whole body or parts of it - all on stage!

photo credit: Paul Rutrecht

Please wear comfortable clothing | open to all, with or without dance experience | for (dance) facilitators and (dance) teachers

Registration ONLY possible via VHS Hamburg: www.vhs-hamburg.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/