13./14.12. & 24./25.01. & 07./08.03. & 06./07.06 jeweils 11 - 18:00
The Movement Lab: Practices in Presence, Embodiment & Improvisation
Weekend Intensive Series
Dates: December 13 & 14, 2025 ; January 24 & 25; March 7 & 8; June 6 & 7, 2026
Time: 11:00 – 18:00 | Location: Actor’s Space Berlin
Fee: 250€/weekend | 800€/full series
Limited spaces – register at mail@studio-ab.de
This workshop series is grounded in somatic practices and the Viewpoints technique*, offering a non-judgmental space for creative exploration and the discovery of a new movement vocabulary. The work emphasizes arriving fully in your body, letting go of existing codes and habitual patterns, and creating space for expression to emerge. Sessions can be playful, meditative, surreal, cathartic, and grounding — a space to experiment and expand your creative range.
Whether you work on stage, in front of a camera, or in a professional context where presence and communication matter, this workshop cultivates tools to bring your body, mind, and sense of spontaneity fully into play. It offers a supportive environment for accessing deeper mind-body-emotion integration.
What you will gain:
Weekend Themes:
Participants may register for single weekends or the full series at a discounted price. The workshops are open to all, regardless of prior training or professional background.
about your teacher:
Lori Baldwin is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist, performer, writer and director who bridges juxtaposing ideas and contexts to unlock new perspectives. Based in Berlin, she designs immersive performances and experiences that challenge perceptions, provoke critical thinking, and invite meaningful audience engagement.
She has performed on stages large and small across Europe and the US. In 2021, she was a winner of the Fonds DAKU #TakeAction grant, and, together with Aaron Reeder, she co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in,Death’s Cabaret, which premiered at Theatre im Delphi. Most recently, her performance work with The NEKRA Project has been showcased at TEDxBerlin, House of Beautiful Business, and Cambridge Innovation Center Berlin.
Originally from the USA, Baldwin trained in the Viewpoints Technique during her undergraduate B.A. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2013, she earned a M.A. in International Performance Research from the University of Warwick and the University of Amsterdam. She completed further training in somatic contemporary dance with Zeroplusz Studio in Budapest in 2017 and completed the year-long Meisner and Camera Acting course at Actor’s Space Berlin in 2021.
She has taught performance and movement workshops at the Junges Deutsches Theater and CODE University in Berlin, the Hungarian Fine Arts University in Budapest, and at independent performance venues in Amsterdam, Prague, and Brighton.
*The Viewpoints Technique, as developed by Anne Bogart and Tina Landau, is a system that allows us to name the elements of space and time that constitute a performance, a scene, or an improvisation in an accessible way. By shifting our focus, we start to perceive and name what is already there. This experiential process provides us with tools to then produce work that makes conscious use of their constitutive elements.
“Lori comes to each session prepared, but remains fully attuned to the moment - able to pivot, respond, and draw out what’s most alive and authentic.”
“Through working with Lori, I’ve reconnected with my body. She has the ability to create a space where one can meet themselves and others honestly, humanely, and ultimately healing. It is incredible.”
“Each session is somehow like a break from the world and a deeper, more real way of engaging with it at the same time.”
