Practicing Somatic Performance _ Dance of the Present

This 2-year project is for dancers who want to move from ‘being in the body’ and who want to grow beyond what seems natural. The project is an in-service training course, but above all has a research character. Seeing and being seen leads beyond the studio work into other and public spaces.
In the 4th module, space teaches us to dance

A cooperation between the Tanz- und Theaterwerkstatt in Ludwigsburg [ DE ] and SubsTanz in Trogen [ CH ].

Flyer PDF

Info and registration at TTW

BeYond- Im Tanz der Gegenwart, is an advanced training program with Wilma in Trogen 2024 – 2026 for graduates of “Tanz der Gegenwart” and for movers and dancers with similar experiences. The training course can be booked as a whole or per module

Moving BeYond is an artistic, exploratory and also spiritual examination of being in the body / being in the world. We want to move in such a way that the dance regulates us. The autonomic nervous system supports the voluntary nervous system. Sensing, feeling and humor (juice) bring us into flow. Not knowledge is validated and strengthened, embodiment of all body systems is practiced.

In Module IV we explore how dance, the encounter with forces, shapes and transforms us

Flyer PDF

Dancing to the music of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio has become a ritual for many. Every year I am delighted that so many people want to dance along. How do you dance to this music? My choreographies and impulses are invitations to listen, where dancing becomes inevitable, simply because Bach invites us to dance. We dance freely and in simple forms. A careful introduction ensures that everyone, with or without dance experience, is welcome.
Early registration is recommended.

Info and registration on the website Spielraum-Tanzdialog

Dancing to the music of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio has become a ritual for many. Every year I am delighted that so many people want to dance along. How do you dance to this music? My choreographies and impulses are invitations to listen, where dancing becomes inevitable, simply because Bach invites us to dance. We dance freely and in simple forms. A careful introduction ensures that everyone, with or without dance experience, is welcome.
Early registration is recommended.

Information and registration on the Wislikofen Provost’s website

Info is included in the flyer. On December 7, there will be special dancing to the music of J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.

Flyer TänzeTanzTage

In 2025, 5 TänzeTanzTage will take place in the Rösslisaal Trogen, where Wilma’s dances will be learned, practiced, danced and deepened:

Monday, March 31
Monday, June 2
Monday, September 8
Sunday, December 7: Christmas Oratorio
Monday, December 8

Times are: 10.30 – 16.30
The days can be booked individually. For registrations please contact Sylvia Seifert: sylvia.seifert@sunrise.ch

Flyer TänzeTanzTage 2025

Dancing to the music of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio has become a ritual for many. Every year I am delighted that so many people want to dance along. How do you dance to this music? My choreographies and impulses are invitations to listen, where dancing becomes inevitable, simply because Bach invites us to dance. We dance freely and in simple forms. A careful introduction ensures that everyone, with or without dance experience, is welcome.
Registrations will only be accepted from February.

Information and registration on the K-e-b website

Moving with Agency is an artistic, exploratory and spiritual exploration. This somatic performance project deepens being in the body and at the same time being in the world. Choreographic, creative interest, anchored in the body, connects interior and exterior spaces, one’s own and others, micro and macro spaces. Agency, the ability to act, the vocal aspects that lead to change are researched and developed.

This first module commits the body to space and explores the paradox of sensitivity and determination. Please contact Wilma if you are interested!

Film project.

I am in the process of filming my dances. If you are interested in taking part, please get in touch with me.
A possible second date is June 4 – 7

MOVING BEYOND
PRACTICING SOMATICS FOR DANCE & PERFORMANCE

In the‘Alignment’ module of the Moving BeYond project, we explore the body in space – and the space in the body.
We discover subtle, dynamic connections between the individual (bone) structures that promote stability and flexibility at the same time. Spaces in between are consciously perceived and recalibrated.

Using approaches from the Release Technique and BMC® (Body-Mind Centering®, experiential anatomy), we immerse ourselves in the experience of our own body space. Dancing together in space is built up step by step so that the sense of alignment is maintained – even when gravity, spatial forces or encounters with other bodies change the form. Lightness, flow and clarity emerge from this practice.

The two-year project is aimed at dancers and movers who want to go BeYond – that is, beyond what is taken for granted.
In this context of bonework, we explore what sustains us and what opens up when we don’t do what we think we have to do

Here you can find the flyer for the whole project. It is very possible to take individual modules!
Flyer BeYond in Cologne and Berlin

Practicing Somatic Performance _ Dance of the Present

This 2-year project is for dancers who want to move from ‘being in the body’ and who want to grow beyond what seems natural. The project is an in-service training course, but above all has a research character. Seeing and being seen leads beyond the studio work into other and public spaces.

In the 5th module we deal with the body as a liminal place. Liminal means: not a permanent place. Even for this reason, the body is a sensitive instrument for perceiving and shaping change. The endocrine, hormone- and peptide-producing glands, comparable to the chakras, regulate the transformation in our body and consciousness in sensations and expressions.

A cooperation between the Tanz- und Theaterwerkstatt in Ludwigsburg [ DE ] and SubsTanz in Trogen [ CH ].
It is very possible to attend a single module. Few places still available!

Flyer PDF

Info and registration at TTW

Practicing Somatic Performance _ Dance of the Present

This 2-year project is for dancers who want to move from ‘being in the body’ and who want to grow beyond what seems natural. The project is an in-service training course, but above all has a research character. Seeing and being seen leads beyond the studio work into other and public spaces.

In the 5th module we deal with the body as a liminal place. Liminal means: not a permanent place. Even for this reason, the body is a sensitive instrument for perceiving and shaping change. The endocrine, hormone- and peptide-producing glands, comparable to the chakras, regulate the transformation in our body and consciousness in sensations and expressions.

A cooperation between the Tanz- und Theaterwerkstatt in Ludwigsburg [ DE ] and SubsTanz in Trogen [ CH ].
It is very possible to attend a single module. Few places still available!

Flyer PDF
Info and registration at TTW

The in-service training course “Ecosomatics – sentient Being in sentient Worlds” introduces a new somatic and artistic practice that aims to deepen our relationship to all living things and strengthen our own actions in the world.

The training is spread over 5 modules in the period 2025 – 2027. This module is the third with the topic of water. This module can be taken individually or as part of the training course. We are in the process of having this March seminar recognized as educational leave.

The organization is in the hands of the Akademie am Meer on Sylt. Wilma Vesseur is the director. Collaborators are: Lore Machler (activist, young mother, BMC woman and ecologist) and Christoph Schumacher (musician and sound researcher)

Flyer for the March week in 2026

Complete flyer PDF

Information and registration on the Akademie am Meer website

MOVING BEYOND
PRACTICING SOMATICS FOR DANCE & PERFORMANCE

In the‘Alignment’ module of the Moving BeYond project, we explore the body in space – and the space in the body.
We discover subtle, dynamic connections between the individual (bone) structures that promote stability and flexibility at the same time. Spaces in between are consciously perceived and recalibrated.

Using approaches from the Release Technique and BMC® (Body-Mind Centering®, experiential anatomy), we immerse ourselves in the experience of our own body space. Dancing together in space is built up step by step so that the sense of alignment is maintained – even when gravity, spatial forces or encounters with other bodies change the form. Lightness, flow and clarity emerge from this practice.

The two-year project is aimed at dancers and movers who want to go BeYond – that is, beyond what is taken for granted.
In this context of bonework, we explore what sustains us and what opens up when we don’t do what we think we have to do

Here you can find the flyer for the whole project. It is very possible to take individual modules!
Flyer BeYond in Cologne and Berlin

For the 9th time dance and life music at the Easter Festival on Klappholttal, Sylt!

Flyer PDF
Info & registration at the Akademie am Meer

BeYond- Im Tanz der Gegenwart, is an advanced training program with Wilma in Trogen 2024 – 2026 for graduates of “Tanz der Gegenwart” and for movers and dancers with similar experiences. The training course can be booked as a whole or per module

Moving BeYond is an artistic, exploratory and also spiritual examination of being in the body / being in the world. We want to move in such a way that the dance regulates us. The autonomic nervous system supports the voluntary nervous system. Sensing, feeling and humor (juice) bring us into flow. Not knowledge is validated and strengthened, embodiment of all body systems is practiced.

In Module V we explore how the endocrine glands harmonize and energize us in dance!

Flyer PDF

2 days of dancing in the monastery!

The music that inspires our dancing these days is characterized by passion: both passion and suffering.
Passion music by J.S. Bach and the B minor Mass, Stabat Mater parts, but also music by contemporary composers, crossover and world music.

Wilma’s choreographic and somatic instructions accompany you in your own and collective dancing.

Information and registration on the Wislikofen Provost’s website

Practicing Somatic Performance _ Dance of the Present

This 2-year project is for dancers who want to move from ‘being in the body’ and who want to grow beyond what seems natural. The project is an in-service training course, but above all has a research character. Seeing and being seen leads beyond the studio work into other and public spaces.

In the 6th module we deal with the wisdom of the body: movement practice and touch work that strengthens the autonomic nervous system, which leads to release and resilience. Trust in the body allows us to create dance in the moment. When we relax the brain, allowing ourselves not to know, we are not so much practicing indifference, but surrendering to a deeper knowing.

A cooperation between the Tanz- und Theaterwerkstatt in Ludwigsburg [ DE ] and SubsTanz in Trogen [ CH ].
It is very possible to attend a single module. Few places still available!

Flyer PDF
Info and registration at TTW

Moving Agency is an artistic, exploratory and spiritual exploration. This somatic performance project deepens being in the body and at the same time being in the world. Choreographic, creative interest, anchored in the body, connects interior and exterior spaces, one’s own and others, micro and macro spaces. Agency, the ability to act, the vocal aspects that lead to change are researched and developed.

This first module commits the body to space and explores the paradox of sensitivity and determination. Please contact Wilma if you are interested!

SummerDance by the Sea _ Dance, Body-Mind Centering®, Improvisation

Body and movement explorations that lead into movement improvisation and dance provide the impetus for a relaxing, active week by the sea.
Please note: this annual week is always fully booked!

The flyer PDF from 2024, only the dates change:-)

Information and registration on the Akademie am Meer website

Expected date for a summer week in Trogen. Info will follow:-)

In 2024, vzw Tessura was founded by Eva Maes, Christian Meier, Tamara Milla Vigo and Wilma Vesseur. In the summer of 2025, Tessura launched the Somatic Movement Education Program licensed by the School for Body-Mind Centering.

From July 19 – 29, 2026 Wilma teaches in the module: Muscle System

Body-Mind Centering® Program

Tessura

Practicing Somatic Performance _ Dance of the Present

This 2-year project is for dancers who want to move from ‘being in the body’ and who want to grow beyond what seems natural. The project is an in-service training course, but above all has a research character. Seeing and being seen leads beyond the studio work into other and public spaces.

In the 7th module we look at the body’s readiness. We learn ways to change the tone, gradually and ad hoc. The tone in the nervous system, but above all in the muscles. And how to find a balance with fascia and fat.

This module lasts almost a week and takes place in the Rosslisaal Trogen CH

A cooperation between the Tanz- und Theaterwerkstatt in Ludwigsburg [ DE ] and SubsTanz in Trogen [ CH ].
It is very possible to attend a single module. Few places still available!

Flyer PDF
Info and registration at TTW

MOVING BEYOND
PRACTICING SOMATICS FOR DANCE & PERFORMANCE

This week we will focus on the wisdom of the body: movement practice and touch work that strengthens the autonomic nervous system, resulting in release and resilience. Trust in the body allows us to create the dance in the moment. When we relax the brain, allowing ourselves not to know, we are not so much practicing indifference, but surrendering to a deeper knowing.
The intelligence of the body is in our attention. As well as the readiness of the body. For this we find ways to change the tone, gradually and ad hoc. The tone in the nervous system, but above all in the muscles. And how a balance can be found with fascia and fat.

The two-year project is aimed at dancers and movers who want to go BeYond – that is, beyond what is taken for granted.
In this context of bonework, we explore what sustains us and what opens up when we don’t do what we think we have to do

Here you can find the flyer for the whole project. It is very possible to take individual modules!
Flyer BeYond in Cologne and Berlin

The in-service training course “Ecosomatics – sentient Being in sentient Worlds” introduces a new somatic and artistic practice that aims to deepen our relationship to all living things and strengthen our own actions in the world.

The training is spread over 5 modules in the period 2025 – 2027. This module is the fourth with the topic Earth. This module can be taken individually or as part of the training. We are in the process of having this March seminar recognized as educational leave.

The organization is in the hands of the Akademie am Meer on Sylt. Wilma Vesseur is the director. Collaborators are: Lore Machler (activist, young mother, BMC woman and ecologist) and Christoph Schumacher (musician and sound researcher)

Flyer for the September week in 2026

Complete flyer PDF

Information and registration on the Akademie am Meer website