Mariana Hilgert

2-Day Workshop July 2025

Dance More Than You Talk 

A workshop for you to experience the feeling of dance and reconnect with your body’s natural source of joy.
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Dance More Than You Talk is a 2-day workshop that will inspire in you the feeling of dance and help you connect with your body through simple, playful and powerful dance impulses.

I believe you don’t need to know to learn specific steps or big moves in order to dance. Most of all, you need to understand and localize your dance in your body. And in your history.

Dancing lies way beyond a specific discipline, choreography or videos on YouTube. Your dance belongs to your life. 

Dancing is a practice of movement that is as old as this world, and also just as old as you. 

In this workshop you will acquire the ability to dance by understanding simple movement principles. Through rhythmical games, mapping your body, explore your layers (emotional, physical, story-telling ones) and the group magic, you will get out of these 2 days feeling like you danced more than you talked. 

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Read what previous participants said about my workshops!
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- Jenna

Mariana’s teaching style is warm and attentive. She makes every effort to get to know her students, to understand what works for them and what doesn’t, and how she can better support their movement journey. Even through the Zoom screen, I felt that connection with her!

- Jenna

- Lana

The workshops with you are still deeply resonating with me. I feel like I’ve learned an incredible amount in your workshops — about my body’s limits, but even more about its possibilities. And not only that: the space you created invited intimate and trusting encounters and formed connections that will last. I’m quite sure of that. I want to express a huge thank you for all of it.

- Lana

- Zoe

I hadn’t known what to expect before I joined the festival and I mainly intended to improve my lindyhop skills and learn many new moves. But when I joined your first workshop on Saturday morning, I immediately realized there is so much more to dance than that!! Your classes made me feel the freedom to dance and move in ways that felt good for my body, mind, and heart, without worrying about how it looked. It made me dance the way I would if I would be alone in my living room, while at the same time creating very close connections with everyone else in the room. It was a really special feeling that I carried throughout the festival and also tried to carry into my everyday life once I returned home.

- Zoe

- Jenna

Mariana’s teaching style is warm and attentive. She makes every effort to get to know her students, to understand what works for them and what doesn’t, and how she can better support their movement journey. Even through the Zoom screen, I felt that connection with her!

- Jenna

- Lana

The workshops with you are still deeply resonating with me. I feel like I’ve learned an incredible amount in your workshops — about my body’s limits, but even more about its possibilities. And not only that: the space you created invited intimate and trusting encounters and formed connections that will last. I’m quite sure of that. I want to express a huge thank you for all of it.

- Lana

- Zoe

I hadn’t known what to expect before I joined the festival and I mainly intended to improve my lindyhop skills and learn many new moves. But when I joined your first workshop on Saturday morning, I immediately realized there is so much more to dance than that!! Your classes made me feel the freedom to dance and move in ways that felt good for my body, mind, and heart, without worrying about how it looked. It made me dance the way I would if I would be alone in my living room, while at the same time creating very close connections with everyone else in the room. It was a really special feeling that I carried throughout the festival and also tried to carry into my everyday life once I returned home.

- Zoe

- Jenna

Mariana’s teaching style is warm and attentive. She makes every effort to get to know her students, to understand what works for them and what doesn’t, and how she can better support their movement journey. Even through the Zoom screen, I felt that connection with her!

- Jenna

- Lana

The workshops with you are still deeply resonating with me. I feel like I’ve learned an incredible amount in your workshops — about my body’s limits, but even more about its possibilities. And not only that: the space you created invited intimate and trusting encounters and formed connections that will last. I’m quite sure of that. I want to express a huge thank you for all of it.

- Lana

- Zoe

I hadn’t known what to expect before I joined the festival and I mainly intended to improve my lindyhop skills and learn many new moves. But when I joined your first workshop on Saturday morning, I immediately realized there is so much more to dance than that!! Your classes made me feel the freedom to dance and move in ways that felt good for my body, mind, and heart, without worrying about how it looked. It made me dance the way I would if I would be alone in my living room, while at the same time creating very close connections with everyone else in the room. It was a really special feeling that I carried throughout the festival and also tried to carry into my everyday life once I returned home.

- Zoe

Is this you?

  • You overthink as a default and feel a lot in your head throughout the day.
  • You long to dance (maybe you used to love it), but as a grown up you feel awkward, blocked, or disconnected.
  • You crave more aliveness, more spontaneity and expression, but don’t know where to begin.
  • You don’t want a technical dance class, or a performative space. You want to feel more like yourself.

Ready to dance? 

Join us in Berlin from 5th to 6th July here!
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✨ What You’ll Experience

In this 2-day workshop, you will:

  • Learn how to start dancing with ease, led by curiosity instead of self-judgment.
  • Discover simple prompts that awaken rhythm, presence, and the joy of having fun with your own body.
  • Explore Mariana’s signature tools, including Shameless Arms, Minimum Adorable Rhythm, Small Dance, Dancing with the Invisible, and more.
  • Be part of a kind and playful group that celebrates curiosity, clarity, and exploration.
  • Leave the workshop with a set of practical tools you can apply daily, and share with friends or students.

🎁 Bonus Gifts for Participants

  • Free access to the full Dance More Than You Talk 30-day program
  • A curated playlist to keep you dancing after the workshop
  • A PDF with all prompts from the workshop 

💶 Investment

350€
Payment in installments available. Also, if money is an issue, please reach out via [email protected] .

180€
For Coaching and The Creative Body students. Please write to me for the discount code. 

📅 Schedule

Saturday & Sunday, July 5–6
10:00–16:00 (including a 75-minute lunch break)

📍 Location

Tanzbasis
Eldenaer Str. 44, 10247 Berlin

Let's dance more than talking!

Meet us in Berlin from 5th to 6th July!
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