lee meir

Teaching

Teaching is, for me, a creative act in itself—an exchange that challenges my thinking and keeps my artistic work in motion and in dialogue with others. At the heart of my teaching is a desire to make creativity accessible, inclusive, and reflective. I regularly lead workshops for professionals and non-professionals alike—including families and children—drawing from my choreographic method shifting mediums as well as my expanded work with costumes and materials. These workshops vary in focus, combining movement, voice, costumes, and objects, and are sometimes developed in collaboration with other teachers. I encourage participants to embrace the messiness of artistic processes while cultivating clarity of intention and precision in their own artistic voice. Spontaneity, intuition, and play are highly encouraged—but always in conversation with deeper questions around art-making, context, perception, and presence.

A bit about shifting mediums: shifting mediums is a choreographic approach I’ve developed through years of solo and ensemble work. It explores how rhythm and motion travel across different vessels—bodies, voices, objects, costumes, and space—blurring boundaries between human and non-human, initiator and receiver, body and material. The method is rooted in rhythm-based patterns that shift fluidly across performers and materials, creating a state of heightened awareness and interdependence. Movements don’t “belong” to a single body—they travel intuitively, forming a network of exchange. This practice cultivates a form of shared presence and choreography-as-coexistence: a way to rehearse how we share time, space, and attention.

A bit about the costume workshop:  One of the main workshop formats I offer is the costume workshop, which focuses on the choreographic and sensory potential of garments and textiles. Clothes carry layered meanings—they protect, conceal, evoke memory, signal identity, and shape perception. On stage, they guide how we are seen and how we see. In the workshop, participants engage with textiles and garments in a tactile, playful, and open-ended way. We throw clothes onto our bodies and into space—and let them throw back possibilities for movement, character, and composition. Grounded in shifting mediums, this process becomes a space for both intuitive discovery and thoughtful reflection, asking how materials move us and shape our gestures, presence, and perception.

Below is a selection of photos from various workshops.

From 'playful & pragmatic: the costume workshop', Impulstanz Vienna 2024, photos by Almud Krejza.

From 'Carriers of Chaos & Harmony: Rhythmic Identities & Coexistance', with Alessio Castellacci, Tanzfabrik Berlin 2025, photos by Lee Méir.

From Raumlabor, initiated by Vladimir Miller, HZT-Berlin 2025, photos by Lee Méir.

From 'crafting creatures crafting', PACT Zollverein 2025, Photos by Dirk Rose and Lee Méir.

From 'playful & pragmatic: the costume workshop', Kelim Choreographic Center Bat-Yam, 2023, photo by Lee Méir.

From 'playful & pragmatic: the costume workshop', HZT-Berlin 2022, photos by Lee Méir.