BeYond…is an invitation to recognize the present as an opportunity. There is so much in this time that we could, should, outgrow… BeYond everything that is no longer useful. The here and now takes us beyond who we think we are or should be. Dance and performance practice going beyond what is taken for granted.

I can’t really know what I think I know. Perhaps I do know what I think I don’t know. (Deborah Hay)

Now, over. Now, over.

In performances, I make myself available to the “what is” in order to illuminate a subjective, unique and immediate version of the moment in a tiny fragment. This is both a listening and an action. The effect of one’s own movements and those of others is an infinitely differentiated exploration. Objects, nature and place, text and music challenge the psyche and physique and tickle themes such as “merging” or rather “contrasting”.

Honesty and sensitivity allow the mind to travel wildly, ad absurdum, or into the fullness of emptiness. As a performer, I set aside the choreographed body: I don’t want to move in fixed coordinates of time and space, I want to create time and space. I move as I see, what I see is secondary. The zooming out of a moment, the recognition of a moment, the pulling out, already over. All viewers are participants.

I do not give a message as such. Meaning is found, or not, in seeing. My performances live from both presence and absence. For me, the phenomenon of absence enables the presence of the unsuspected.

Dance is the explicit and implicit movement vocabulary of the universe and as such is worthy of incessant exploration and narration.

As dancers, we explore how what exists in relation to each other is expressed in time and space: always new, never fixed, never finite. Formless and full of forms.

Dance is always unavoidably topical. Physicality is intimate. I experience the confrontation with the body and movement as a revolt and at the same time as a deep manifestation of (un)injuries and the healing power of ourselves and the earth. Dance liberates.

In dance, the cellular micro-intelligence in the body is more decisive for me than the concepts that live in the head, which are nevertheless important. In fractal dancing, the smallest thing in the body moves the whole body. The dialog with movements in nature and with movements of social and worldly realities already begins on the inside of the skin.

Release and Somatic Body Anatomy inform my dance, which I am happy to share with you: It moves in lemniscates and spirals, finds stillness in the vortex and opens a space.

Body journeys and touch bring the body-mind continuum to reorganization, healing and new expression.

Somatics trains and honors listening, inwardly and outwardly. Movement can be initiated in so many places. Body anatomy is explored and embodied. The dance of nerves is different from the dance of muscles or glands or the dance of cells.

Body-Mind Centering® is an approach developed by Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen. In addition to anatomy, in BMC® we are interested in how movement and touch create and develop the human being, especially in the first years of life and even before.

Somatic Movement lays a foundation for Ecosomatics: each individual is unique and at the same time inextricably linked to its matrix, the web of life. Its very own self-interest thus includes other living beings and the living body of the earth.

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The journal chronologically records some thoughts on the development of the performances, diary notes and texts.

Text for Rimpels & Folds, performance for the dance cycle 'Fruits of Life', Kreuzlingen November 1, 24

Gravitation.

I imagine gravity as a huge medium, a gel-like field in which I float. Gravity makes my cat purr in my arms. Gravity is added as an attraction. Gravity as the promise of the bond that my soul has entered into with the earth.

I feel that my body is in my soul and that my body is like a star in the universe that draws my soul into the earth. I am still wide and open and immeasurable around this body, and when I look outside, I see my soul in the light and in the trees and in the small space between the two windows.

I don’t have to close my eyes to feel myself as something inside.

Gravitation. The power of attraction? But what attracts whom?

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I am dying. I am dying

I am dying from the inside out.

At some point, the attraction wears off. The body shrinks. The soul expands the skin that stretches around the ever-shrinking body. It drapes itself in ripples and wrinkles, in folds and furrows. Waves everywhere and folds falling further and further.

Curious, I begin to drill my fingers into the innermost folds. In the deepest depths I surprisingly encounter dark matter, where everything lived and not yet lived is held by a secret.

After my mother died, her skin became smooth again, as if ironed, her body looked so young. When ironing, the folds are stretched into the width of the material. Loose, go.

Fold me, unfold me. Slowly this body disappears. I stand by the sea, my dance is immersion in the waves.

2026

13. - 20. June

Dancing by the sea, open dance week

Academy by the sea, Sylt [ DE ] full

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 / Info and registration Akademie am Meer

25. June

Infodag Tessura, Body-Mind Centering@

The Hague [ NL ]

Informatiedag over de modulen en programma’s die Tessura BeNeLux in Nederland en België verzorgt

Flyer

26. June

Dans, BMC®, Katsugen Undo in The Hague

The Hague [ NL ]

Anfrage / Anmeldung

Voor geïnteresseerden in Somatic Movement en Dans!

Flyer

03. - 08. July

Summer week Trogen

Trogen [ CH ]

Anfrage / Anmeldung

Summer week in Trogen [ CH ]
The space in between _ touch and movement
Everyone is welcome!

Flyer summer week 26

10. - 29. July

International Body-Mind® Centering Program Bruxelles

Brussels [ BE ]

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.

Summer module Tessura 2026:
From July 10 – 6, Wilma will be teaching the course: Fluid System
From July 19 – 29, the course: Muscle System

Body-Mind Centering® Program

Tessura

04. - 09. August

Practicing Somatic Performance _ 7th module, the Present, Available Body

Trogen [ CH ]

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.

The available body: What do we have to let go of in order to really be there?
In this 7th module, we look at the readiness of the body. We explore how changes in tone bring us into presence. The power of ‘absence’ is used.
The tone in the nervous system, but above all in the muscles, is explored. Fascia and fat bring flow and comfort.

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.

Only 1 free place left!

Flyer PDF
Info and registration at TTW

10. - 16. August

Moving Agency II

Trogen [ CH ]

Anfrage / Anmeldung

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.

This year is about ‘working’ and ‘performing’. 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.

The Moving Agency project is for dancers with a longer path in BeYond or the like.

18. - 23. August

BeYond in Cologne _ Summer week

Cologne [ DE ]

Anfrage / Anmeldung

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. Being 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 project is aimed at dancers and movers who want to go BeYond – beyond the obvious.

Here you can find the flyer for the whole project. It is very possible to take individual modules!

Flyer module summer week in Cologne

Flyer BeYond in Cologne and Berlin

(NB discount on the course costs is possible)

27. - 30. August

The new dance labyrinth

Flözlingen near Rottweil [ DE ]

Anfrage / Anmeldung

The new dance labyrinth goes beyond the 2-dimensional labyrinth designed on the floor and follows the multidimensionality in body, mind, time and space. Vortex movements, as we find them in the heart, in the bones and in the fascial system, lead into pulsation, into the dynamics of the spiral and into the plumb line of stillness.

Wilma’s choreographies, Body-Mind Centering® (embryology), Sacred Geometry

Flyer The New Dance Labyrinth26

31. August

DanceDanceDay

Rösslisaal [ CH ]

In 2026, 4 TänzeTanzTage will take place in the Rösslisaal Trogen, where Wilma’s dances will be learned, practiced, danced and deepened:

Monday, March 23
Monday, June 1
Monday, August 31
Monday, December 7

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

Flyer TänzeTanzTage 2026

04. - 07. September

International Body-Mind Centering® Program Life Nuova I

Tuscania [ I ]

From September 4 – 7, Wilma will be assisting in the ‘Senses & Perceptions’ module

SME / Start IDME program in Tuscania [ Italy ]

LifeNuova-Link

26. - 03. October

Ecosomatics _ Dance and bodywork _ EARTH

Academy by the Sea, Sylt [ DE ]

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

05. - 12. October

International Body-Mind® Centering Program The Hague [ NL ]

The Hague [ NL ]

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.

Autumn module Tessura 2026:
From October 5 – 12, Wilma will be teaching the course:
Basic Neurocellular Patterns
in The Hague

Body-Mind Centering® Program

Tessura

17. - 20. October

BeYond in Berlin

Dock 11 Eden, Berlin [ DE ]

Anfrage / Anmeldung

Practicing Somatics in BeYond
Module _ The liquid, mobile body _ sensual fluids

Here you can find the flyer for the whole project. It is very possible to take individual modules!

Flyer BeYond in Cologne and Berlin

29. - 01. November

Moving Agency III

Trogen [ CH ]

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.

This year is about ‘working’ and ‘performing’. 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.

The Moving Agency project is for dancers with a longer path in BeYond or the like.

 

12. - 15. November

Moving BeYond in contemporary dance – Integration

Trogen [ CH ]

Anfrage / Anmeldung

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 is practiced.

Module IV is dedicated to the integration of the systemic in the body-mind continuum – a dance in which inclusivity finds its expression.

Flyer PDF

20. - 22. November

Dancing on Lake Maggiore

Cannero Riviera

Info will follow soon

28. - 29. November

The Danced Christmas Oratorio

Propstei Wislikofen [ CH ]

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

04. - 06. December

The Danced Christmas Oratorio

Heiligkreuztal Monastery [ DE ]

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

07. December

DanceDanceDay

Rösslisaal [ CH ]

In 2026, 4 TänzeTanzTage will take place in the Rösslisaal Trogen, where Wilma’s dances will be learned, practiced, danced and deepened:

Monday, March 23
Monday, June 1
Monday, August 31
Monday, December 7

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

Flyer TänzeTanzTage 2026

12. - 13. December

The Danced Christmas Oratorio

Mattli, Morschach [ CH ]

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.

Info and registration Antoniushaus Mattli