Public Moves: Techno Contemporary Moves
with Nicole Berndt-Caccivio

Fri 18.07., 18.45h l MQ Forecourt l Free entry

After a warm-up in silence, based on Yoga, Tai-Chi and Release exercises that, through breath, connect us with the whole body (the body is a living process), hard and pulsating techno combined with movement sequences lead us to a shared clubbing experience. Contemporary dance sequences turn into freestyle at the end of the class that is accompanied by the the sound.

Public Moves dance classes take place outdoors every day – international and local instructors share their knowledge of everything from jazz and Bollywood dance to waacking in free outdoor classes. No previous experience is necessary, and all ages and levels are welcome!

Registration begins one day before the course starts at 11:00 a.m. via the calendar or by telephone on +43.1.523 55 58-19. If a class is ‘fully booked’, there is still the possibility of securing a remaining place on site. It's worth dropping by!

Biography

Nicole Berndt-Caccivio was born in 1963 in Switzerland into an artistic family. She currently lives in Biel-Bienne (Switzerland), as well as in Berlin and at all other locations where she is artistically active.

Nicole studied classical and modern dance in Europe and at the Cunningham Studios in New York City. As a dance pioneer in the European independent scene since the 1980s, she worked intensively with Tanzfabrik Berlin (1987–88) and ch-tanztheater Zürich (1983–86), among others. With her own company, LJADA (Biel-Bienne, 1988–94), she won the first prize at the Suzanne Dellal Centre Festival in Tel Aviv in 1992, together with the Ricochet Company (UK).

She is/was a guest lecturer in contemporary dance, somatic work/performance at institutions such as MUK Vienna, the Dance Department at the Hochschule für darstellende Künste in Frankfurt a. M., ImPulsTanz Vienna, Tanzquartier Vienna, Greenwich Dance Agency London, Etage Berlin, La Faktoria in Spain, La Manufacture in Lausanne, TRY in Italy (Lucca), SLU in Louisiana, MDT in Ankara, and many others.

Nicole is part of artistic, pedagogical, solo, and performative collaborations, including with David Bloom (Berlin), Claude Hofer (Olten), Nicolas Caccivio (Bern), Beth Dillon (Bienne), Mor Dovrat (Bienne), Avalon Kollektiv (Basel), Chiara Jarrell (Basel), Annelie André (Vienna), Renae Shadler (Berlin), Anna Heinimann (Zurich), Julia B. Laperrière (Montreal/Berlin), and, since 2019, the SPHERE Collective in Berlin.

Since 2009, Nicole has been the artistic director of the wonderful project Age Company, where she develops projects together with people of advanced age. She also initiates “Golden Age Workshops,” where older individuals come together to engage and exchange on both a physical and artistic level. As a biodynamic craniosacral therapist since 2004, she explores the exchange between generations in her work, as well as the experience of aging as a performer, particularly through solo projects with Caccivio en Compagnie (Biel-Bienne) since 2020. In these works, she focuses on both physical and choreographic expertise alongside her own social visions.

Her projects Körper und Raum (2022) and Meta-Morphosen (2023) were supported by Culture Bienne | Kultur Biel and SWISSLOS Kanton Bern. In 2024 and 2025, she is a guest at the KarteNoir / Incubo project in Biel-Bienne (Switzerland) in the form of a residency and performance. With her solo project F.E.M.I.Z.I.D., she performs in the risk space of the Farelhauses (2024 and again in June 2025) in Biel, as well as in a space at the opening of the Tanzhaus Basel (2024), together with artist Chiara Jarrell.

Photo: © Spheres Collective