STF 2026: TantsuRUUM // WORKSHOP: Emeka Ene ja Manon Parent (insight into “UNEARTH” by Jefta van Dinther)
Workshop takes place in two days, 8th and 9th of October at 10:00 – 15:00
The workshop is in english
Location: Eesti Tantsuagentuur (Hobujaama 12)
This workshop is designed for professionals working in the performing arts, including dancers, actors, and performance artists.
Workshop description
Emeka Ene and Manon Parent, through the prism of their experience as performers in « Unearth », propose an explorative journey of both the body and the voice. The different technical and experiential tasks they offer all reach for a state of presence and attention that is simultaneously directed inward and outward. A state where feeling one self never excludes and is even conditioned by porosity to another – and vice versa.
Though immaterial, the voice shapes and animates the material body, vibrating through flesh, shifting posture, presence, and perception. Using the looping of an album as a metaphor for our persistent desire to return, remember, and relive, we will explore singing as a practice of self-reengagement. Singing together invites both introspection and connection: an inner landscape opens even as we tune into those around us.
Through guided movement explorations, we’ll gently build toward a shared choreography of attention, empathy, and presence. Referring to some scenes from „Unearth“, we will layer activities, parameters and time and space coordinates and build choreographies framed performatively in order to find a way back to ourselves through each other.
All bodies and all voices are welcome. Bring what you need to be comfortable moving and singing. Kneepads are useful but not strictly necessary.
About artist:
Feeling that movement could be closer to the thing than words, emeka ene swapped poetry for dance, graduating from HZT Berlin in 2023. He has worked with choreographers including Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez, Joana Tischkau & Sheena McGrandles and as a guest at Schauspielhaus Zürich in 2024 and with Unusual Symptoms Bremen in 2025 and has been working with Jefta van Dinther since 2022.
Manon Parent is a classically trained violinist, composer, dancer and choreographer. Originally from Paris, she is based in Berlin since 2013 where she creates her own musical and choreographical works. She currently collaborates and tours internationally with Jefta van Dinther, Sergiu Matis, Stephanie Thiersch, Alvise Sinivia, Jean P’ark and Alma Palacios.