Lake Studios Berlin

* This event is free, but let us know you are coming by reserving your spot at the links above!

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W O R K S H O P : 11 -13H
B A T T L E : 18H

We launch this year’s festival with a free two-hour dance workshop. Merging breaking, experimental, and contemporary styles, MR. KRISS gets us moving and battle-ready.

LAKE then hosts the evening in collaboration with OPEN YOUR MIND: Dancers, bring your technical skills, your thoughtful gestures, your abstract states, and your brave hearts! We will mix styles, music and surprise prompts in a spirit of dance celebration. Winner takes home a residency at LAKE Studios Berlin. Dive in!

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Artist Bios

MR KRISS
Kristián “Mr. Kriss” Mensa is a Prague-based dancer, choreographer, actor and visual artist known for merging breaking with experimental and contemporary styles.
With over 18 years of experience, he has worked with artists such as Kylie Minogue, Hania Rani, and Ai Weiwei and collaborated with platforms and brands including Cercle, Louis Vuitton, WWF, Greenpeace, and Adidas Originals. His multidisciplinary work spans dance, illustration, and animation, seamlessly blending elegance, creativity, and visual poetry.
He is the organiser of KoresponDance Battle, the only experimental dance battle of its kind in the Czech Republic, and regularly hosts dance workshops worldwide, helping people connect more deeply to their bodies through movement.
Featured in the documentary Mr. Kriss (2021) by Adolf Zika, he has been recognized by Forbes’ “30 Under 30” and awarded a Silver Medal from the Czech Senate for “youthful determination and inspiration.”

WEB: mrkriss.com

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OPEN YOUR MIND
Open Your Mind (OYM), originally founded 2013 Moscow, Russia, is an experimental dance platform, celebrating creativity in movement all around the world. True to any art form, OYM is always developing and expanding. Our events currently occur in the Netherlands, Russia, Germany, the U.K., Japan, and France.

WEB: openyourmind.dance

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