Contemporary Flow

with Yasmin Mahmoud

Classes

START DATE: 7th November 2026

Class Description

This class serves as an invitation for participants to develop a toolbox of movement qualities that travel between contrasting states: explosive power and quiet tenderness, precision and surrender, wildness and care, control and abandon. We will allow ourselves permission to move as we truly are, meeting our inner beasts with the same openness we meet our gentleness. Through imagery informed instruction, rooted in gut instinct and imagination, we will move fluidly through a series of exercises that aim to strengthen our technique, and expand our availability, while building upon our most raw version of ourselves, unlocking movement that is both true to us and rich in quality.

Following warmup, we will move onto material that not only utilises this toolbox, but serves as a platform to delve deeper into exploration and discovery. Becoming a passenger to our movement, and our movement a passenger to the music, we will dig deep to uncover the material’s textures, sensations, contradictions, and emotional landscape. We will investigate how to inhabit the material fully, allowing the movement to surprise us, carry us, and become a reflection of who we are in that moment.

Biography:

Yasmin Lindberg Mahmoud (she/her) was born in the US. She previously danced for LeeSaar the Company under the direction of Lee Sher & Saar Harari, Ate9 Dance Company under the direction of Danielle Agami, Batsheva Ensemble under the direction of Ohad Naharin, and GöteborgsOperans Danskompani under the direction of Katrin Hall. Her practice has taken significant influence from working with a diverse span of renowned choreographers across her performance career, including Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal, Maxine Doyle, Alan Lucien Øyen, Roy Assaf, Lea Ved, Shahar Binyamini, Tom Weinberger, Danielle Agami, Lee Sher & Saar Harari, Guy Shomroni & Yaniv Abraham, Christine Gouzelis & Paul Blackman, and Honji Wang & Sebastian Ramirez, amongst many others.

Alongside her performance career, she has taught a wide range of classes and workshops internationally, meeting students from a variety of movement backgrounds, spanning from professional company classes to open classes for absolute beginners. After teaching Gaga, Ohad Naharin’s movement language, for many years, she has moved on to exploring her own practice, offering classes in Ballet, Contemporary, Improvisation, and Creative Practice across London. Throughout her teaching career, she has had the pleasure to teach at institutions including GöteborgsOperans Danskompani in Gothenburg, Ate9 Dance Company in Los Angeles, Addo Platform in Vancouver, Suzanne Dellal Centre in Tel Aviv, Miami Dance Collective and In Motion Dance Center in Miami, and across London at Rambert Dance Company, Bodies in Action, Kingston University, Danceworks, City Academy, Tripspace, and Chisenhale Dance Space, amongst others. She is delighted to join Danceworks with her passion to move, and excitement to share all that she carries with her.