Parkour with Flamur Shabanaj

This workshop is all about parkour. You will learn the fundamental techniques: moving efficiently over obstacles, jumping from one element to another and landing safely, rolling and turning on different surfaces, and much more. Beyond the basics, you will discover how to apply these skills—to face and overcome challenges with confidence, express your creativity through movement, and develop a sense of flow.

Parkour is about seeing and using your environment in an efficient and creative way—and this is exactly what you will explore in the workshop.

The workshop is open to anyone interested in movement, and to those who want to spend a summer week exploring their body, practicing hands-on skills, and learning a new—or familiar—movement language.

Flamur Shabanaj is a movement enthusiast and instructor. For the past 10 years, he has been dedicated to parkour in practical, pedagogical, cultural, and organizational aspects.

In addition to his own practice, Flamur has taught parkour in various settings: as a primary school teacher, as a parkour instructor in an association, and as a J+S parkour expert. He is also co-author of the J+S parkour manual.

In the cultural field, Flamur is part of the parkour dance collective InQdrt, with which several performances have been created and presented since 2019. For this work, the collective received the June Johnson Newcomer Prize from the Swiss Federal Office of Culture in 2022.

Recently, Flamur Shabanaj has contributed to organizing parkour jams and competitions and has been actively involved in the Swiss Parkour Tour, a series of events held across Switzerland over several months.