17, 18, 19 NOV. 2025
For Beaux-Arts-Paris students, Emmanuelle Huynh class
This workshop includes the first three classes of the introductory cycle of this progressive pedagogy of Joan Skinner, founder of Skinner Releasing Technique.
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 teacher (Stott/Merrithew, 2004), Shiatsu practitioner (European Shiatsu Institute, Berlin, 2022), and certified in Skinner Releasing Technique™ (Skinner Releasing Institute, 2024). Her practice moves between the somatic and the artistic—in other words, between the kinesthetic and the aesthetic.
PRACTICAL 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
There is no recording/photographing/witnessing of the SRT Classes, creating a space for free discovery
The classes start on time, you are welcomed to be in the space before
Remember bringing your water
*The workshop will be held in English, in its original language.