Contemporary
Monday · 18:30 · 90 min/Open level/with Anneke Vogt
The week opens low and slow: weight through the feet, one long phrase built over ninety minutes, no mirror until the last ten.
3 places left
Maxvorstadt · München
Contemporary, heels and jazz in groups of eight
One room on Türkenstraße with a herringbone floor, heavy drapes and a single tall window. Eight places in every class. When the eighth is taken the class closes — and we do not keep a waiting list.
Eight people. One floor. Your teacher.
The rule of eight
Eight dots. That is the entire booking system.
Under every class on this site there are eight dots. Each one is a place. They fill as people take them, and when the eighth fills the class is closed — no overflow, no standby, no list you sit on hoping somebody cancels.
We built the studio around the number rather than the other way round. Eight bodies fit on this floor with enough space to travel; eight names fit in a teacher's head; eight people can all be corrected inside ninety minutes. Nine cannot.
It also means we lose money on the ninth person, every single week, on purpose. That is the deal. You are paying for the empty parquet as much as for the class.
Why there is no waiting list
A waiting list turns a closed class into a lottery and a teacher into an administrator. It also quietly encourages us to over-book. We would rather you looked at eight dots, saw the truth, and came on Thursday instead.
This week on the Monday contemporary floor
5/8
3 places left- Taken
- Free
Places update as they go · Monday
This week
Four of the twelve
The full schedule runs Monday to Saturday. Here is what has places on it right now.
Heels
Wednesday · 19:00 · 90 min/Advanced/with Tomás Ferreira
Fast material, full-length combinations, and enough repetitions that the choreography stops being counted and starts being danced.
1 place left
Contemporary
Saturday · 10:00 · 120 min/Long form/with Anneke Vogt
Two hours with a break in the middle. Anneke builds a full phrase and then takes it apart again, which is where the learning lives.
Closed at eight
No waiting list. The class simply closes.
Jazz
Thursday · 18:30 · 90 min/Repertoire/with Ruth Landauer
One piece of set repertoire per month, learned properly. You leave in April with something you can actually perform.
5 places left
The room
A bookbinder's workshop with a good floor
Velour is one room, not a facility. Sprung herringbone parquet laid in 1974 and refinished twice since, a wall of plaster we deliberately never mirrored end to end, and drapes heavy enough to take the room down to almost nothing when the material asks for it.
There is one changing room, one shower, a kettle and a bench. There is no juice bar, no app, no membership tier above yours. What there is, is a floor you will not want to leave and a window that does most of the lighting work between March and October.
- Sprung herringbone parquet, 96 m²
- One north-facing window, four metres tall
- Analogue desk, no ceiling speakers
- Eight people, three teachers, twelve classes a week
Who teaches
The same three people, every week
No guest rota, no cover teachers, no rotating cast. Anneke, Tomás and Ruth teach every class on the schedule between them.
Anneke Vogt
Contemporary, floorwork, founder
Founded Velour in 2016 after eleven years in company work. Teaches contemporary as a physical practice, not a look.
Tomás Ferreira
Heels, jazz technique
Came to Munich from Lisbon in 2019. Teaches heels as technique — ankles, balance and line — with no performance of glamour.
Ruth Landauer
Jazz, repertoire
Thirty years of jazz, half of them teaching. Runs the repertoire class and the Saturday first-steps class with the same care.
What it costs
Five prices. That is the whole list.
No joining fee, no contract longer than a month, and no price that only appears once you are on the phone.
- Membership
- Every class on the schedule, one month at a time.€189a month
- Five private sessions
- Sixty minutes each, one teacher, the whole floor.€650for five
- Drop-in for a member's guest
- Members may bring one guest into any class that still has a dot free.€38a class
- Duo private
- Two of you, one teacher. Popular before weddings and auditions.€140an hour
- Corporate evening
- The closed floor for up to eight people, three hours, one teacher.€1,200an evening
Members
What eight people on a floor is actually like
I spent two years in a studio with forty people in the room and never once got a correction. Anneke fixed my shoulder in the third minute of my first class here.
The dots are the honest thing. I have been shut out of Wednesday twice and both times I was annoyed and then relieved that nobody had oversold the room.
I came to Ruth's Saturday class at forty-six having never danced. Nobody made anything of it. I now go twice a week.
Tomás teaches heels like a technique class, which is exactly what I wanted and could not find anywhere else in München.
Come and look at it
Ask us anything, or ask for the corporate evening
One of the three of us answers this, usually the same day. If you would rather stand in the room before you decide, say so and we will tell you when it is empty.
Where it is
Türkenstraße 8780799 München
+49 89 20074188
rooms@velour-dance.de
Second courtyard, first floor. Ring the bell marked Velour. U3 and U6 to Universität, four minutes on foot.
When the room is open
- Monday to Thursday
- 17:30 – 22:00
- Friday
- 17:30 – 22:00
- Saturday
- 09:30 – 17:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Office hours are the same as class hours — there is nobody at a desk during the day.
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