Virginie Roy
“Your Move”
August 4 – 8, 2026
9.30 – 11.30 H
Muffathalle Studios
Zellstraße 4
Studio D
Advanced Plus
In German & English
What’s your next move? This workshop invites you to dive deeper into your dance practice, to develop physically, artistically, and mindfully, and to refine your technique.
Dancing means being in motion, allowing yourself to move – a state of being in motion. It connects you with yourself and with others. Building on this foundation, we explore how technical skill can not only be refined but also creatively expanded and reimagined. Through improvisation, learned movement material, and dancing together to music – alone, in pairs, and in groups – you’ll discover new physical possibilities. You’ll sharpen your anatomical awareness, develop movement qualities, and experience dance as a living artistic process.
The inspiration for this course comes from contemporary dance, somatic approaches, somatic psychology, and choreographic practices. We work standing up and on the floor – precisely, exploratively, and with a joy for movement and connection. You take the next step!
Virginie Roy from France studied dance at CNSMD Lyon and dance pedagogy at CND in Lyon. She completed her master´s degree in clinical psychology and her diploma in art therapy at the University of Paris 8. Furthermore, Virginie Roy earned a postgraduate diploma in clinical and health psychology from the University of Vienna. She has worked as a dancer/performer and/or assistant choreographer with Christine Gaigg, Daghda Dance Company, Doris Uhlich, Laurence Levasseur, Noé Soulier, Sabine Glenz, Saskia Hölbling, Yvann Alexandre, as well as with the directors Andrea Breth, Philippe Arlaud and Philipp Harnoncourt, among others. She combines these experiences in her professional practice as a clinical health psychologist and sport psychologist, as a dancer/performer, as a professor of contemporary dance in the faculty of performing arts at the Music and Art University, and lecturer on movement and psychology at Sigmund Freud University, both in Vienna.
Her research, publications, and collaborations are motivated by the idea of movement in physical and psychic spaces, in the fields of contemporary dance, architecture, and the artistic diversity practice.