Elke and Kira teach a variety of workshops and courses for dancers and non-dancers, actors, visual artists, theatre-makers, college students, graduate students, adults with learning and developmental disabilities and all other sorts of lovely people.
Selected workshops:
Notafe's International Dance School, Estonia, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2024, 2025
Young Notafe's International Dance School, Estonia, 2025
Summer Academy Paris, France, 2015, 2017, 2024, 2025
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 2025
Safe Harbors of the Hudson, Newburgh, NY, 2025
NYC Kings County Hospital Center - Partial Hospitalization Program, Brooklyn, NY, 2019-2020
East End Special Players, adults with learning and developmental disabilities, 2017
Site de pratiques théâtrales Lavauzelle, Lavauzelle, France 2016
Jespy House, adults with learning and developmental disabilities, New Jersey, 2015-2016
Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2015
Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 2014
"Action, Scene, and Voice: 21st-Century Dialogues with Edward Gordon Craig" Conference, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 2013
Dance New Amsterdam, New York, NY, 2012
Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Neuss, Germany, 2012, 2015
Department of Drama, New York University, New York, NY, 2010
The Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY, 2006, 2007, 2016
Theatre of Yugen, San Francisco, CA, 2008
Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 2000-2003, 2006-2008
Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, 2009
Hippocampe, Centre d’Etude du Mouvement, Paris, France, 2003-2004
La Montade, Aurillac, France, 2005
Son of Semele Ensemble, Los Angeles, California, 2006
Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan, 2004
Kangetsukyo Studio, Kyoto, Japan, 2004
Elke working with the East End Special Players; photo by Kira Alker