The purpose of Klein Technique™

is education, not on the superficial level of mimicking form, but on a profoundly deep level of understanding the full use of the body as an integral whole to maximize full function of each individuals unique movement potential.

Klein Technique™ is a process through which the body is analyzed and understood to improve and to further movement potential. It is a movement education and re-education, that can be an underpinning for all movement styles, improvisations, athletics, and for the general health of the body in everyday movement. Klein Technique™ works at the level of the bones, to align the bones using the muscles of deep postural support: the psoas, the hamstrings, the external rotators, and the pelvic floor. We don't work to exercise these muscles but rather to wake them up, to become conscious of their role in the support and movement of the body. We work for the body to become elastic, responsive, and open to choices and expression. When the bones are aligned we become connected, we become powerful and we become strong. The body becomes efficient and alive, and injuries often heal.


Klein Technique™ has been taught for more than thirty years in numerous countries. Among the hundreds of Klein Technique™ students are the most well known members of the dance community including Trisha Brown, Stephen Petronio, Bebe Miller, Wally Cardona, Jeremy Nelson, Sasha Waltz and members of their companies.

Hanna Hegenscheidt was introduced to Klein Technique™ during her studies at the Laban-Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies in New York in 1992. Since then she studied with Susan Klein and Barbara Mahler at the Susan Klein School of Movement and Dance, where she began teaching in 1998. In 2000 she became a Certified Teacher of Klein Technique™. Since moving to Berlin in 2004 she has been teaching at Sasha Waltz & Guests, Studio LaborGras, Tanzfabrik, HZT Berlin, Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, HfM Cologne, FU Berlin, among others. In April 2011 she open her own space, studio 142 where she teaches daily morning classes in Klein Technique™.