Stressed Out and Burning On – TANZTAGE BERLIN 2025
Stressed Out and Burning On
Duration: 7 h, including 60 min intermission
This one-day workshop with Luísa Saraiva is all about tackling the mental health challenges related to burnout in the dance field. The workshop offers a supportive space to explore, understand, and manage anxiety and emotional exhaustion. We know the dance world can be incredibly demanding: from constantly fluctuating work, unpredictable conditions, and the pressure to keep up financially and creatively. It’s common to feel drained and disconnected from your goals, especially when these feelings pile up over time. This day-long workshop will focus on deepening self-awareness and developing practical tools for emotional resilience.
What to expect:
- Physical Practice: exercises to activate and stimulate the vagus nerve, which plays a crucial role in stress reduction and emotional regulation. Through movement and breathwork, we will engage in practices designed to help balance the nervous system.
- Individual Exploration: you’ll have time to explore what burnout and emotional fatigue mean to you personally. With some guided questions, we’ll dig into what might be causing stress and how it affects your life.
- Group Work on Real Issues: we’ll come together as a group to talk about real issues you’re facing and address challenges brought forward by the participants. Together, we’ll discuss practical ways to increase awareness, release tension, and build resilience in the face of work-related stress.
This workshop focuses on building peer-to-peer support within the dance community, sharing experiences, and discovering practical strategies and tools to strengthen resilience in the face of a challenging, unstable and often dysfunctional work environment.
Please bring a mat and wear comfortable clothing.
10:00–17:00, including 60 minutes intermission
The information on accessibility is still in progress and will be updated as soon as possible. If any questions remain unanswered until then, please feel free to contact the communication department at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change by the day of the event. Therefore, if you find out after you have purchased your ticket that the performance is no longer accessible to you, you can contact us for a ticket return at ticketing@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 45 until 5 business days after the event (Monday through Friday between 10am and 6pm).
Early boarding
If, for artistic reasons, the door to the auditorium does not open until very shortly before the performance begins, there is the option of early boarding.
Tickets
- Reservations can be made via the ticket telephone at 030 283 52 66, Monday to Friday from 4pm-6pm
- Via the online ticket shop
- At the box office
You can also find more information about accessibility at the house here.
Luísa Saraiva is a choreographer and performer based between Berlin and Porto. She has a Master’s degree in Psychology from the University of Porto and a Bachelor’s degree in Dance from the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. From 2010 to 2017, she was an associate researcher at the Psychology Center of the University of Porto, studying identity development and individuation processes in emerging adults. Between 2012 and 2015, she worked at the International Office of Folkwang University, providing counseling and guidance, and served as a student representative in the University Parliament and the Equal Opportunities Office. In recent years, she has been teaching workshops and holding panels on mental health awareness for the dance community in collaboration with organizations such as Tanzkongress, Tanzbüro Berlin, Sophiensæle, K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg and Alkantara Festival.
The 34th Tanztage Berlin is a production of Sophiensæle. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. With the kind support of Tanzfabrik Berlin e.V., Theaterhaus Berlin and Uferstudios GmbH. Media partners: Berlin Art Link, Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.