Public Moves: The Subtle Body – A Hatha Yoga Practice
with Esther Balfe

Wed 06.08., 17.00h l MQ Forecourt l Free entry

In this class, we will concentrate, first and foremost, on the organisation of the limbs and the body’s natural form of moving, combined with beneficial and restorative applications, promoting awareness and focus on the physical body.

Bring your own yoga mat or blanket.

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 

The English/Irish dancer and choreographer Esther Balfe graduated with a diploma from Ballet Rambert Contemporary dance program, West London in 1990. Since then, she has worked as a dancer and choreographer mainly in England, Ireland, Austria and Germany. In 1995 she co-founded the Tanztheater Wien, which later joined the Volksoper Wien in 1999 (until 2004) under Liz King as its new director. In 2005 Esther was invited to perform with Ballet Frankfurt before it changed to The Forsythe Company. Esther Balfe was a principal dancer of TFC, Frankfurt, from 2006–2012 and thereafter engaged as a guest artist until 2015, after which she took up her Professorship post at the Music and Art University of the City of Vienna in 2012. Esther has been a guest performer with Fabulous Beast/Teac Damsa and has worked in the recent years with Michael Keegan Dolan, Willi Dorner and Alexander Gottfarb. Together with her global performing schedule during this nine-year period, Esther was also engaged to give Masterclasses pertaining to the methodologies underlying the foundations of Forsythe's work. Her teaching was, invited to such institutions as the Brooklyn Academy of the Arts, New York; Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden; Theater am Turm, Frankfurt and the Melbourne Festival of the Arts, Australia.

Photos: © Dominik Mentzos & Ludwig Löckinger