This series of workshops explores movement as a form of meditation by training attention through the body, space, relational awareness, and endurance. Participants are guided through slow floor-to-standing warm-ups, spatial orientation exercises, group navigation tasks, and sustained hip articulation practices. The figure 8 and hip whine function as movement pathways rather than stylistic goals, supporting inquiry into effort, fatigue, persistence, and decision-making over time. Breath is integrated throughout as a pathway for orienting attention and regulating endurance. The workshop emphasizes clarity, choice, and duration, making it accessible to participants with varied movement backgrounds.
Djibril’s visit to New Zealand has been made possible by the Goethe-Institute New Zealand, in partnership with Footnote New Zealand Dance and Lōemis.
Intended Participants
The workshop is open to movers and dancers of different backgrounds. Previous movement experience is helpful but not required. Participants are encouraged to work at a self-determined pace and level of intensity.
Course Length
Each session is designed to function as a standalone workshop. We encourage you to participate in at least 2 workshops to get the most out of the experience. You can go to all six, or any number that works around your schedule (one is fine too!)
About Djibril Sall
Djibril Sall is a queer Senegalese performer, choreographer, and writer whose work sits at the intersection of racialized migration, belonging, and in-betweenness. Born in Dakar and raised in a working-class family in the Deep South of the United States, his practice is shaped by movement across classed, racialized, and geopolitical borders. Drawing from his own migration history, he asks how trauma might become a departure point for pleasure, disclosure, letting go, and open-hearted connection.
Based in Berlin, Djibril works across dance, performance, and embodied research. His choreographic work has been presented at Sophiensaele, Tanz im August, Tanznacht, SAVVY Contemporary, and Ballhaus Ost, and he has been invited to perform in works shown at radialsystem (Berlin), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), and DARK MOFO (Australia). His most recent work, DJAM LEELII, premiered at Sophiensaele in November 2025.
Workshop Info
Tuesday 2nd June, 10-11.30am
Thursday, 4th June, 6-7.30pm
Saturday, 6th June, 11am-12.30pm
Tuesday, 9th June, 10-11.30am
Thursday, 11th June, 6-7.30pm
Saturday, 13th June, 11am-12.30pm
Footnote Dance Studios
Level 1, 60 Dixon Street Te Aro
Studio only accessible via stairs
$10 per workshop
We encourage you to participate in at least 2 workshops to get the most out of the experience.