marameo Berlin e.V. is a non-profit registered sports association in Berlin offering contemporary dance training, ballet, contact improvisation, workshops, and festivals for children, teens, adults, and professional dancers across all experience levels.
Marameo Berlin e.V. is a non-profit registered sports club in Berlin that promotes contemporary dance forms across generations. The organization operates as a dance studio offering daily professional training, workshops, festivals, and experimental formats. Classes serve children, young people, adults, laypeople, and professional dancers, with programming primarily aimed at members.
The studio teaches multiple dance styles including ballet, contemporary dance, contact improvisation, hip-hop, and Gaga. Ballet classes draw on Vaganova, R.A.D., and Cecchetti methods. Children’s and teens’ classes include contemporary dance, hip-hop, urban contemporary, dance acrobatics, and inclusive dance. Adult offerings include fascia work, breath and movement, modern contemporary techniques, and vinyasa flow. Professional dancer training requires a diploma, though weekend sessions are open to advanced-level movers and dance students.
The organization hosts a Contact Improvisation Festival each July and monthly studio evenings for works-in-progress and performance showings. A summer program runs from July through August with courses, workshops, and performance projects across skill levels. The marameo Junior Company provides performance opportunities for children aged 10-13. The studio maintains two spaces: a large studio with sprung floor and a smaller studio with laminate flooring.
marameo Berlin e.V. is a non-profit registered sports association and dance studio focused on contemporary dance forms, movement, workshops, festivals, and experimental formats. The organization aims to provide intergenerational promotion of contemporary dance and operates primarily as a membership-based sports club. It serves as a hub for dance training and artistic development, offering programs for children, young people, adults, laypeople, and professional dancers. The organization emphasizes values of passion, joy, community, and professionalism, with an approach shaped by dance as radical presence and the belief that dance can forge deep connections and open barrier-free spaces.
The organization is located at Wallstraße 32, 10179 Berlin, Germany. It is accessible by public transport via U2 Märkisches Museum, U8 Heinrich-Heine-Straße, and buses 248, 347, and 142 to Haltestelle Märkisches Museum.
The organization offers ballet classes, contemporary dance, contact improvisation, Gaga classes, fascia work, breath and movement, modern contemporary techniques, hip-hop, dance acrobatics, inclusive dance, vinyasa flow, daily professional dancer training, workshops, festivals, contact improvisation jams, studio evenings for works-in-progress and performance showings, and summer programs with courses and performance projects across many dance styles.
The program is mainly aimed at members of the sports association, though trial classes are available for non-members. The organization welcomes children, young people, adults, laypeople, professional dancers, dance pedagogues, movers, performers, and dance students who want to become part of the community.
The organization caters for children, teens, and adults across all experience levels including beginners, beginners with experience, intermediate, advanced, and open levels. Professional dancer training is available for professional dancers and dance pedagogues with diplomas, while weekend training sessions are open to movers, performers, dance students, and non-professional dancers at advanced levels.
The organization offers daily professional training for dancers, dancer training programs in ballet and contemporary dance, networking opportunities, highly efficient training at an international level, and artistic growth. Professional dancer training requires a graduation certificate or diploma, and the organization provides a central hub for professional development.
Ballet classes draw on Vaganova, R.A.D., and Cecchetti methods emphasizing placement and line. Contact improvisation training uses structured scores, focused repetition, and attention to body mechanics. Contemporary dance classes incorporate ballet, release technique, floor work, and various modern techniques. Hip-hop classes focus on musicality, dynamics, movement qualities, expression, choreography, and freestyle. Children’s contemporary dance introduces basic forms playfully with focus on musicality, coordination, flexibility, spatial awareness, and concentration.
The organization offers studio evenings one Saturday per month as a stage for works-in-progress, finished pieces, and performance project showings. It hosts festivals including a Contact Improvisation Festival with workshops, classes, and jams. The organization provides a platform for social exchange through projects and performances.
Contact the organization by email at post(at)marameo.de or by phone at 030–28 23 455. Office hours are Monday to Friday, 10:00–20:00. Additional staff contacts include britta(at)marameo.de and melissa(at)marameo.de.