Embodied Practices: Variations on Tenderness
Pol Pi & Nitsan Margaliot
Dance Workshop
© Phil Dera
Nitsan Margaliot © Promo
Pol Pi and Nitsan Margaliot share common approaches, interests, and a shared work ethic: they work to bring intuition into the studio through somatic practices, they share a passion for working with archives and memory, and they embrace vulnerability as a space to connect with audiences. In this first collaboration, their dialogue will weave around the notion of tenderness.
What can this notion teach us about the ways we inhabit the world and our own bodies, about our human relationships, and our connections with living beings? What ethics can guide us in embracing the poetics of tenderness? Through what they call the methodology of variation (in the musical sense, where a theme is repeated in modified forms), they will craft a performative dialogue based on the gradual transformation of choreographic materials emerging from this tenderness-territory –gestures, movements, or situations that are either new or drawn from archives.
Visitor Information
The workshops are aimed at professional dancers of all ages, with and without disabilities.
Language: English
Duration: 3 hours
Number of participants: max 24
Cast
With
Pol Pi
Nitsan Margaliot
Cast
With
Pol Pi
Nitsan Margaliot
Biographies
Pol Pi defines himself as a dance artist and, with his company NO DRAMA, has toured in various countries such as France, Brazil, Spain, Belgium, the United States, Croatia, Romania, Switzerland and Germany. He graduated in Classical Music from Universidade de Campinas (Brazil) and attended the masters in choreography exerce in Montpellier, having also a background in physical theatre, butoh and Brazilian traditional dances. He is trained in self-induced cognitive trance (TranceScience Institute) and regularly teaches in medical and social contexts, to amateurs, in the queer scene and in dance and visual arts schools (Villa Arson, CNDC Angers, PARTS, Ecole d'Art Avignon, Beaux-Arts de Limoges, master exerce, Extension Toulouse, Extended Contemporary Dance Amsterdam, Camping CND). Pol is interested in approaching the ethics and politics of care in the artistic realm and in artistic creation as a form of care. For the winter semester 2025/2026, he will teach at the Freie Universität Berlin as part of the Valeska Gert Professorship.
Nitsan Margaliot is a choreographer, performer and curator based in Berlin, engaged with relationality through queer, personal and uncanny archives. He holds an MFA in dance from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His work has been presented at The 5th Floor Tokyo, 14StreetY NYC, Archiv der Avantgarden – Egidio Marzona, Radialsystem, Berliner Festspiele, Sammlung Hoffmann, and Frankfurt LAB. In 2020 he initiated Touching Margins, an alter-archive, with Sasha Portyannikova and Anna Chwialkowska; later, he founded The Choreographic Institute with Tamar Sonn and Sarah Holcman. From 2022-24, he co-curated the ACROSS Festival, alongside several exhibitions at Galerie Wedding. In 2025, he created 'BACK TO YOU', a full-length piece for Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern Dance Company. In 2025-26 he will be a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris with the support of Bureau du théâtre et de la danse, Institut français Deutschland. Nitsan has been an artist-in-residence at institutions such as Tanzhaus Zürich, HELLERAU, and tanzhaus nrw.
Biographies
Pol Pi defines himself as a dance artist and, with his company NO DRAMA, has toured in various countries such as France, Brazil, Spain, Belgium, the United States, Croatia, Romania, Switzerland and Germany. He graduated in Classical Music from Universidade de Campinas (Brazil) and attended the masters in choreography exerce in Montpellier, having also a background in physical theatre, butoh and Brazilian traditional dances. He is trained in self-induced cognitive trance (TranceScience Institute) and regularly teaches in medical and social contexts, to amateurs, in the queer scene and in dance and visual arts schools (Villa Arson, CNDC Angers, PARTS, Ecole d'Art Avignon, Beaux-Arts de Limoges, master exerce, Extension Toulouse, Extended Contemporary Dance Amsterdam, Camping CND). Pol is interested in approaching the ethics and politics of care in the artistic realm and in artistic creation as a form of care. For the winter semester 2025/2026, he will teach at the Freie Universität Berlin as part of the Valeska Gert Professorship.
Nitsan Margaliot is a choreographer, performer and curator based in Berlin, engaged with relationality through queer, personal and uncanny archives. He holds an MFA in dance from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His work has been presented at The 5th Floor Tokyo, 14StreetY NYC, Archiv der Avantgarden – Egidio Marzona, Radialsystem, Berliner Festspiele, Sammlung Hoffmann, and Frankfurt LAB. In 2020 he initiated Touching Margins, an alter-archive, with Sasha Portyannikova and Anna Chwialkowska; later, he founded The Choreographic Institute with Tamar Sonn and Sarah Holcman. From 2022-24, he co-curated the ACROSS Festival, alongside several exhibitions at Galerie Wedding. In 2025, he created 'BACK TO YOU', a full-length piece for Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern Dance Company. In 2025-26 he will be a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris with the support of Bureau du théâtre et de la danse, Institut français Deutschland. Nitsan has been an artist-in-residence at institutions such as Tanzhaus Zürich, HELLERAU, and tanzhaus nrw.
Visitor Information
The workshops are aimed at professional dancers of all ages, with and without disabilities.
Language: English
Duration: 3 hours
Number of participants: max 24
Credits
"Embodied Practices Extended" is part of the programme series "Conjunctions – Acts of Being in Relation". "Conjunctions" is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion as part of its cross-disciplinary funding programme. With support from the Radial Foundation.
Media partnerships Radialsystem: tip Berlin, The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz. die tageszeitung
Credits
"Embodied Practices Extended" is part of the programme series "Conjunctions – Acts of Being in Relation". "Conjunctions" is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion as part of its cross-disciplinary funding programme. With support from the Radial Foundation.
Media partnerships Radialsystem: tip Berlin, The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz. die tageszeitung
Pol Pi and Nitsan Margaliot share common approaches, interests, and a shared work ethic: they work to bring intuition into the studio through somatic practices, they share a passion for working with archives and memory, and they embrace vulnerability as a space to connect with audiences. In this first collaboration, their dialogue will weave around the notion of tenderness.
What can this notion teach us about the ways we inhabit the world and our own bodies, about our human relationships, and our connections with living beings? What ethics can guide us in embracing the poetics of tenderness? Through what they call the methodology of variation (in the musical sense, where a theme is repeated in modified forms), they will craft a performative dialogue based on the gradual transformation of choreographic materials emerging from this tenderness-territory –gestures, movements, or situations that are either new or drawn from archives.
Cast
With
Pol Pi
Nitsan Margaliot
Biographies
Pol Pi defines himself as a dance artist and, with his company NO DRAMA, has toured in various countries such as France, Brazil, Spain, Belgium, the United States, Croatia, Romania, Switzerland and Germany. He graduated in Classical Music from Universidade de Campinas (Brazil) and attended the masters in choreography exerce in Montpellier, having also a background in physical theatre, butoh and Brazilian traditional dances. He is trained in self-induced cognitive trance (TranceScience Institute) and regularly teaches in medical and social contexts, to amateurs, in the queer scene and in dance and visual arts schools (Villa Arson, CNDC Angers, PARTS, Ecole d'Art Avignon, Beaux-Arts de Limoges, master exerce, Extension Toulouse, Extended Contemporary Dance Amsterdam, Camping CND). Pol is interested in approaching the ethics and politics of care in the artistic realm and in artistic creation as a form of care. For the winter semester 2025/2026, he will teach at the Freie Universität Berlin as part of the Valeska Gert Professorship.
Nitsan Margaliot is a choreographer, performer and curator based in Berlin, engaged with relationality through queer, personal and uncanny archives. He holds an MFA in dance from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His work has been presented at The 5th Floor Tokyo, 14StreetY NYC, Archiv der Avantgarden – Egidio Marzona, Radialsystem, Berliner Festspiele, Sammlung Hoffmann, and Frankfurt LAB. In 2020 he initiated Touching Margins, an alter-archive, with Sasha Portyannikova and Anna Chwialkowska; later, he founded The Choreographic Institute with Tamar Sonn and Sarah Holcman. From 2022-24, he co-curated the ACROSS Festival, alongside several exhibitions at Galerie Wedding. In 2025, he created 'BACK TO YOU', a full-length piece for Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern Dance Company. In 2025-26 he will be a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris with the support of Bureau du théâtre et de la danse, Institut français Deutschland. Nitsan has been an artist-in-residence at institutions such as Tanzhaus Zürich, HELLERAU, and tanzhaus nrw.
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