A full-day retreat program awaits you with up to 20 hours of offerings: in nature and indoors, with you alone, with music, together and in a group. There are also up to eight hours of social dancing. This program is worth €280.

Feeling good allowed!

All offers this weekend are primarily one thing: offers. We invite you to try everything. If your body needs something else, seek it out and do it. It can be other movements or, for example, creating the frame you need on the edge of the dancefloor, outside or in your room. This weekend is for you, not against you.

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Dance check in

Get out of everyday life and into relaxation! Here you can arrive at your home and get to know the group and the retreat team through dance.

Social dancing

Every evening there is a small social dance. Here you can indulge in the blues solo or as a couple. The social dance has a fixed end every day. This way we can all find time for a restful sleep and you don't have to worry about missing out on anything.

Relax solo

The two-person dance can be quite exhilarating, so that there is no peace in the body immediately afterwards. At the end of each day, we offer you the opportunity to get in touch and calm down with you alone before you go to sleep.

Early/Later Bird

Here you can start the day with mindful physical exercises before breakfast. Weather permitting, Early and Later Bird will take place outside.

Blues intense

Are you new to the blues or would you like to brush up on what you already know? Then you are right here. This class focuses intensively on the African-American aesthetics of the blues that define this dance.

More details to follow.

Just you and the music

At the start of the day, three hours are primarily about you. Arrive, feel, become permeable: In a range of offers, indoor and outdoor, you can intensively experience your body and your needs through music.

Musicality, flexibility and creativity are given a range of opportunities to learn, develop and play. We offer you enough breaks and time out.

More details to follow.

Together together

After you have been able to fully immerse yourself in your body and the music over the morning, you will come into contact here together. We dance the different facets of the blues with African-American dance principles such as improvisation and intuition.

Don't worry if this is new territory for you: you will receive invitations and the appropriate impulses to get yourself here.

A special focus is on the connection between two bodies: Pleasant dancing together is like a good, non-verbal conversation. In a variety of exercises we practice and experience this intensive connection, physical communication and the skills necessary for it. Here, too, breaks and time-outs are integrated as needed.

More details to follow.

Fancy Social Dance

On the last evening, you are cordially invited to dress up - whatever that means to you. Here we can feel beautiful and express it in a suitable outfit. Let's make the last evening a very special one.

You can choose between different accommodations:

Double room with private bathroom

Bring towels and bedding: €190

Single room with shared bathroom

With its own wash basin. Bring towels and bedding: €150

Double room with shared bathroom

With its own wash basin. Bring towels and bedding: €120

Triple room with shared bathroom

With its own wash basin. Bring towels and bedding: €100

Important:

It is not possible to book a double or triple room for yourself. If you want to be sure who you are in the room with, book a single room or register with friends.

The high-quality vegan and vegetarian full board is included. There are 2x breakfast, 1x brunch, 2x lunch and 3x dinner. You get drinks all day long and can serve yourself at the tea and snack bar (fruit and pastries). The meal package is worth €120.

Important:

Please note that the event is drug-free. This also applies to alcohol.

There are fixed prices for the program and meals and various options for accommodation. The total cost is €500 - €590, with Early Bird 450 - 540 €.

You can save with Bring a friend and for financial emergencies, TanzBildung offers prices based on a solidarity principle.

Payment by instalments is also possible with a deposit of €150. Please get in touch.

Bring a friend

Book together with friends and save money. If you register as a couple you save 20 euros per person.

Solidarity principle

There are situations in life in which financial options are severely limited. Attending a healing retreat can be an important respite during such times, but can be beyond the budget.

Are you in a comfortable financial situation and would you like to support others?

Then pay a small or large sponsorship amount (20 or 40 or 60 €) in addition to your chosen package.

If you're on a tight budget, you can request a small or large discount (€20 or €40 or €60 less from your chosen package).

Important:

For each reduced solo spot, a supporter spot is required. This is the only way to secure a place at a reduced price.

Friederike Reif

Since 1998, Friederike Reif (38) has explored around 20 couple dances - from the world dance programme to other Latin and Afro-American dances and contemporary couple dances. Her great love is the blues and related dances. 

In her first professional career, Friederike worked for 10 years as a social pedagogue in cultural youth and adult education. 

Since 2020, she has devoted herself to working with couple dance.

As the founder of TanzBildung, she offers mindful and joyful approaches to couple dance with 17 years of experience as a couple dance instructor in modern dance didactics.

As a qualified dance and movement teacher and intercultural trainer, she integrates cultural and physical learning into her classes out of conviction.

She will soon be completing her Master's degree in Dance Studies at the University of Music and Dance.

Friederike's research includes the history of couple dance from 1900 to 1940 as well as the further development of couple dance as an inclusive, intercultural and social practice.

Sandra Klümpen

Sanni (39) has been dancing her whole life through various dance styles from ballet, contemporary, couple dance, hip hop to improvisation and expressive dance. 

As a dance/movement teacher and nature/wilderness educator, she combines two of her passions. Perceiving (inner and outer) nature as a mirror and using it to express the body is a major focus for her. 

During her studies in cultural education, she took part in an intergenerational dance theatre ensemble that illustrates "expression with the body through dance".

In addition to her affinity for dance, she works freelance on the topics of femininity and healing the womb. She also uses tools from the field of dance and movement to help relax the pelvis. 

Sanni's workshops invite you to try out new things and switch off your head, get more in touch with your body and give expression to your feelings.

Sarah 

Sarah (45) has been a passionate dancer since childhood. She has learnt a whole range of dances, from belly dancing to standard dances and Lindy Hop. In the end, African-American blues dances completely captured her heart and her dancing legs. It felt like coming home, because she grew up with blues and soul music. Blues dancing has been her focus ever since. 

Sarah has danced her way through countless international festivals and workshop formats and has been teaching in Cologne since 2018. In 2019, she continued her professionalisation at the Blues Teacher Training of the international blues greats Adamo and Vicci.

Sarah prepares her teaching content meticulously and places particular emphasis on the connection to the African-American roots of the blues.

In her classes she invites you to discover and curiously explore your own body and your own expression of dance.

Adress:

Tagungshaus Op de Hardt

Hardter Str. 9, 57632 Kescheid

By Car:

From the direction of Cologne / Düsseldorf:

A3 slip road Bad Honnef / Linz

towards Asbach > Flammersfeld > Kescheid/Püscheid > Hardt

From the direction of Frankfurt:

A3 slip road Neuwied / Altenkirchen

towards Flammersfeld > Kescheid/Püscheid > Hardt

We try to find you rides with each other.

With public transport:

By train: Altenkirchen train station (bus station and taxi in front of the train station)

By bus: Flammersfeld bus station

We can pick up up to three people from Eitorf train station (40 minutes from Cologne) or Altenkirchen.

By registering, you agree to the event regulations.

House rules of the seminar house

Street shoes are not allowed in the house. Please bring slippers.

Please bring your own bed linen (covers and sheets) to cover and towels; these are not

included in the daily rate (exception: double room booking with bathroom)

The house is a non-smoking house.

Pets are not allowed in the house.

Drumming and loud music are only permitted in the group room and only with the windows and doors closed. Basically not outdoors.

Fires are not permitted on the premises.

Code of Conduct, Data Protection Policy and General Provisions