open LAB
Behind the WOW!
Jonas
Frey
WHEN | September 20-21, 2025
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Saturday 20|09|2025 → Workshop 14.00 - 17.00
Open studio / Q & A 17.30 - 18.30 -
Sunday 21|09|2025 → Workshop 11.00 - 14.00
Deadline for applications: 15.09.25
WHERE | La Cap, Via Capacciola 178, Sinalunga (Siena-Tuscany) - IT
Accommodation available on site at Agriturismo Podere La Capacciola
Behind the WOW!
From Movement Vocabulary to Choreographic Voice
Workshop with Jonas Frey
In Behind the WOW!, we dig into the deeper layers of movement by exploring foundational concepts from Breaking and Popping — not just as techniques, but as starting points for choreographic thinking. This workshop invites participants to look beyond form and virtuosity to ask:
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How can movement carry meaning?
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What are the compositional potentials within street styles?
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How can we transition from a battle or community context to performance work without losing authenticity?
Drawing from his own artistic practice — rooted between street and club styles and contemporary choreography — Jonas Frey will share tools for movement deconstruction, translation, and motif development, helping dancers expand their vocabulary while deepening their expressive and conceptual range.
Whether you're a mover grounded in freestyle traditions or looking to integrate urban influences into your choreographic process, Behind the WOW! offers a space to question, play, and create.
ABOUT
Jonas Frey is a Germany-based choreographer, dancer, and dance educator with roots in Hip Hop and breaking. After studying at ArtEZ School of Dance and completing an MA in Choreography at Codarts/Fontys, he creates works at the intersection of club- and streetdance and contemporary choreography.
His practice is shaped by co-creation, encouraging all collaborators to become co-authors in the process. Jonas’ works are presented in his home base of Mannheim as well as nationally and internationally. Together with Julie Pécard, he directs the Junior Company at EinTanzHaus and co-directs Mpower Urban, a platform for choreographic development in club- and streetstyles. From 2025–26 he will be a resident artist at Theater Freiburg within the Reseau Grand Luxe.
Jonas Frey will be author in residence at La Cap from September 14 to September 27 2025, in order to work on his solo "Copieweg".
Registration
Offered within the Sharing with the Residents series, the Lab is open and donation based. Places are limited to a maximum of 12 participants. To register please fill the form and upload your resume (max 15Mb).
The seminar will be led in English. Places are limited to a maximum of 12 participants.
Deadline for applications is 15.09.25 (applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, we encourage you not to wait until the last day to apply).
Accepted participants will be informed by email.
To register please fill in the form below.
Contact: lacap.info@gmail.com
Limited accommodations available on-site (Agriturismo Podere La Capacciola) in double or single rooms located in two apartments at 40 euros per night per person. The apartments are equipped with kitchen, and participants will be able to organize their meals independently.
Registration Form
The seminar is limited to a maximum of 12 participants. To register, fill out the form and you will receive a confirmation via email.
The Sharing open labs series
are a series of workshops and collective practices led by the resident artists at La Cap. Open and donation based, these labs are designed to foster exchange between artists, participants, and the local community — creating space for experimentation, dialogue, and mutual learning..
La Cap, provides participants the opportunity both to reside on-site and have access to the studio space, allowing these gatherings to foster cross-disciplinary exchange and nurture practices in dialogue and co-habitation with the residents.
n. 1: Movement practice | OPEN LAB with Lisa Hofmann
n. 2: Behind the WOW! | OPEN LAB with Jonas Frey