Winter Warming Berlin 2026

14 – 16 December 2026, 10am–6pm at Dock 11 EDEN, Berlin

Countertechnique Founder Anouk van Dijk returns to Berlin 14 – 16 December!

This three-day intensive Countertechnique workshop offers fresh fuel for the season ahead. How to add longevity to your dance career? How to keep things interesting for yourself? In this workshop, we look at how to keep a positive and creative work ethic in dance, even in challenging circumstances.

Each day begins with a 2-hour Countertechnique class, followed by a Practical Tools session introducing a new tool daily. After lunch, we'll bring these tools into creation and performance, exploring how specific tools and tasks can support us beyond the class format — in rehearsal, on stage, and in daily life. Winter Warming is designed for professional dance artists and senior dance students seeking inspiration to contribute to the creative process, and keep dancing interesting while fostering a healthy, joyful work ethic. Be prepared to work proactively, think creatively, and perform at a high physical level.

DATES

Monday 14 – Wednesday 16 December 2026
All days: 10:00 – 18:00 (incl. 1-hr lunch break)
Participants must be able to attend the entire period.

PROGRAM FEES

Full price: €375 (incl. 19% BTW). Early-bird price: €350 (use coupon EARLYBIRD25 before 1 November). Limited availability. Participation on a first-come, first-serve basis.

HOW TO REGISTER

Please register your personal details here: https://form.jotform.com/262685421436359. Registration will remain open until all spots have been filled.

LOCATION

Winter Warming Berlin will be held at Dock 11 EDEN, studio 300, Breite Strasse 43, 13187 Berlin, Germany.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Read the full Terms & Conditions, including the complete cancellation policy, here: https://www.jotform.com/app/262682795821368.

WINTER WARMING 2026 FACULTY

Anouk van Dijk

Anouk van Dijk is a choreographer, artistic director and the creator of the movement system, Countertechnique. From 2012 - 2019, she was the Artistic Director of renowned contemporary dance company Chunky Move in Melbourne, Australia. Currently Anouk van Dijk works internationally as a freelance choreographer and is the Artistic Director of Countertechnique.

Anouk van Dijk spent the first ten years of her career as a lead soloist for Rotterdam Dance Company and Amanda Miller’s Pretty Ugly Dance Company. From early on, she was attracted to choreography and from the late nineties committed herself exclusively to the conception, creation and performance of her own work. In 1999, Van Dijk founded her own company, anoukvandijk dc, dedicated to creating work that sought to provide an insight into the many facets of the human experience through the lens of contemporary dance.

During her tenure of Artistic Director of Chunky Move in Melbourne, Australia, she created several large scale productions, amongst others An Act of Now (2012), Complexity of Belonging (2014, with Falk Richter), Depth of Field (2015), Rule of Thirds (2016), Common Ground (2018). In recent years, she created amongst other Distant Matter for Staatsballet Berlin, followed by the multi-disciplinairy show TOUCH with writer/director Falk Richter at the Münchner Kammerspiele in Germany, and a Out of the Blue for Skånes Dansteater / Malmö Opera in Sweden, a large-scale work on music from Bach to Björk with the Malmö Opera Orchestra and Children's Choir. This year, Anouk has been created works for the Hessische Staatsballett, Theater Münster, and the cross-disciplinary collaboration with writer/director Falk Richter, A Perfect Sky, for SchauSpielhaus Hamburg.

In her career Anouk van Dijk has created more than thirty full-length works that toured the world’s leading festivals and venues including Adelaide Festival, Sydney Opera House, Schaubuehne Berlin, Dance Triennale Tokyo, American Dance Festival, Theater der Welt (Hamburg), SPRING International Performing Arts Festival and Festival d'Avignon.

Ina Schwarte Ortega

Ina Schwarte Ortega is assisting for Winter Warming Berlin. Born in Germany, Ina is currently based in Berlin and has been studying Countertechnique since 2019, both through workshops and at her university. After graduation, she completed four consecutive OBOC intensives in Amsterdam (2022–2025) and successfully completed the Countertechnique Teacher Training program in 2025.

Ina grew up dancing at Ballettschule Heidi Sievert and performing in the vibrant Münster dance community at Theater Münster, Theater im Pumpenhaus and LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur. She graduated from ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem in 2022, and has since relocated from the Netherlands to Berlin, where she works as a freelance dance pedagogue and artist. She has worked with all kinds of communities, including professional, amateur and community-based projects, and made lasting memories working with disabled and able-bodied people in collaboration with Introdans. She has performed in works by Keelan Whitmore for Tanzfestival Münster and 'Let's elevate' by Anne Suurendonk, and has performed at Delft Fringe Festival. Ina currently works between Arnhem, Münster and Berlin, teaching at motion*s Tanz- und Bewegungsstudio Berlin, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Marameo e.V. Berlin, TanzXchange Münster and ArtEZ University, among others.