During autumn break 2025, choreographer Irina Demina will collaborate with Prof. Valentina Forini, theoretical physicist at Humboldt-Universität to bring “WisTanz” to primary school children of Kolumbus Grundschule Berlin. They will co-create a workshop where the children experience within their bodies how the tiniest particles and the largest celestial bodies move, why gravity is so important, and what it feels like when ‘everything is connected with everything’.

The aim of the project is to connect scientific thinking with artistic forms of expression, especially movement and dance. Through this approach, the project seeks to foster curiosity, creativity, bodily awareness, and cooperative work.

The choreographer and artistic researcher Irina Demina (SCARBOD Lab) developed this project as part of her commission as Dance Artist in Residence at ZfK. The project is supported by the team for Public Engagement and Knowledge Exchange with Society at the Centre for Cultural Techniques.

Current events within Irina Demina’s residency:

30 September – ‘Folk Dance and AI. Rethinking traditions’: Performative encounter as workshop contribution to the 4th Symposium of the Oxford Berlin Research Partnership: Innovation – pathways to societal impact.

24–25 October – Moveshops ‘Be river, my friend’ as part of the conference ‘Fluid Interdisciplinarities’.

9 November –  ‘Berlin Science Week’: ‘Choreographies of Knowledge: Practices of Togetherness beyond now’ together with Manisha Biswas (HU, winner of the ‘Dance Your PhD’ competition).