- Space in Motion
Playful Explorations with the UNFOLD® Method
In each 1.5-hour session, participants explore the body through gentle mobilisation and movement sequences that support well-coordinated, healthy physicality — in dance and in daily life — sharpening self-awareness, reconnecting with their own physicality, and taking time to explore anatomy through embodied experience.
Working with UNFOLD®’s Movement Mapping Principles, the group builds a clear understanding of its own posture and a shared vocabulary for refining movement. Through offered movement sequences and improvised material, participants awaken their own playfulness and joy and get in touch with an endless source of creativity.
For whom?
The work brings the physical and emotional richness of the moving body to everyone — dancers and non-dancers alike, actors and performers included.
About the UNFOLD® method:
The UNFOLD® method was founded in 2019 by Valentina Bordenave, a dancer, choreographer, and a certified Alexander Technique teacher with over 30 years of experience as a dance and movement teacher. Her work rests on three pillars: dismantling unwanted habitual patterns, nurturing a sustainable creative practice, and cultivating a healthy, aware relationship to body and mind.
UNFOLD® draws on the Alexander Technique as one of its foundations, while also weaving in Valentina’s own background in dance and movement — a springboard toward greater balance, coordination, and connection with the present moment. Through a psychophysical dialogue with one’s own support and movement systems, body-mind connectivity improves, and postural and movement habits begin to change. At this new level of alertness and mechanical efficiency, one’s relationship to lightness, gravity, space, time, and creativity is redefined.
Please book directly via mariaconst3@gmail.com
Ausführliche Seminarinformationen
Seminarleiter*innen
Maria Constanti
mariaconst3@gmail.com
UNFOLD® Method Teacher, Expressive Arts Practitioner, Poet, Performer
Maria is a Cypriot, Berlin-based UNFOLD® Method teacher, expressive arts practitioner, poet, and performer working at the intersection of embodiment, dramaturgy, and somatic practice. She completed her UNFOLD® teacher training with the method's founder, Valentina Bordenave, in 2026. She holds an MA in Integral Movement and Performance Practice from Rose Bruford College / the Thomas Prattki Centre, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Embodied Dramaturgy from Arthaus Berlin, where she has been facilitating since 2022, offering sessions in embodied writing and embodied imagery exploration through the expressive arts. Over the past ten years, Maria has developed a parallel practice in poetry and performance, weaving the body together with poetic language and imagery. Alongside her facilitation work, she brings a playful, imaginative approach to guiding participants toward greater ease, creativity, and self-awareness.
Jean-Charles Vallet
UNFOLD® Teacher, Facilitator, Performer, Stage Actor
Jean-Charles Vallet is a French UNFOLD teacher and performer based in Berlin. After ten years working as a stage actor and performer, he became increasingly interested in questions of presence, coordination and effortless action. Initially drawn to the Alexander Technique in 2018 to improve both his stage work and resolve recurring physical issues, he discovered the UNFOLD Method in 2020. Its integration of Alexander principles with movement exploration, anatomy and creative practice deeply resonated with his own artistic research. >From 2023 to 2026, Jean-Charles trained directly with UNFOLD's creator, Valentina Bordenave, completing the method's three-year teacher training programme. Alongside his movement practice, he has taught theatre and the Meisner Technique and continues to explore approaches to performance that emerge from non-doing, playfulness and the suspension of fixed rules. His classes invite participants to cultivate greater awareness, ease and efficiency while expanding their possibilities for movement and self-expression.
Photo: Michelle Madsen
Kosten
- Discovery Session: 22€ (single session, no commitment)
- Continue afterwards (Weeks 2–6): 98€
- Complete course (6 weeks, paid upfront): 110€
Because each session builds on the previous one, we encourage participants to commit to the full journey from the start. For those who'd like to try a single session first, the first week can be taken on its own before deciding whether to continue.
Please book directly via mariaconst3@gmail.com
Anmeldeinformationen
BerlinSAB Studio 1
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor
- Full Price: 110.00 EUR
No prior training or special qualifications are needed — the sessions are accessible to beginners as well as experienced movers. As the work involves active, floor-based, and standing movement, participants should be in general good physical health. Anyone with acute injuries, recent surgery, or conditions affecting balance or joint mobility should consult their doctor before joining, and may want to speak with the facilitators beforehand.